The regional office of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League here today announced that a resolution “which sought to change the power of the Jewish Community Council of Washington from a coordinating body to a functioning body” was defeated at a meeting of representatives of 64 local Jewish groups.
The resolution, if adopted, would have given the Community Council the authority to decide whether the Council’s office or any other body would carry out the community relations program, or any part of it, the announcement said. The resolution also asked the meeting for an endorsement of an interpretation of the present constitution granting the community relations committee of the Council the power “to operate directly.”
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