The sixth international convention of the World Council of Synagogues opened here today with the participation of 250 delegates from Conservative synagogues in 21 countries, 150 of them from the United States and Canada.
At the opening session today, the Council presented a special award in absentia to Mrs. Helen Suzman, the only woman member of the South African Parliament and an ardent foe of that country’s apartheid policy. Mrs. Suzman, who is Jewish, could not come here to receive the award personally because of her duties at home. The South African legislator was cited for her “distinguished leadership in the battle to translate the prophetic vision that ‘all men are created equal’ into a living reality.”
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