A resolution denouncing the Nazi regime in Germany and calling upon all Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in the United States to assist in curbing Nazi propaganda here was unanimously adopted Sunday by over 1,000 delegates at the third annual convention of the North East Religious Union at Temple Emanu-El, under the auspices of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The convention was attended by rabbis and laymen from eight states.
Ludwig Vogelstein, chairman of the Union of Hebrew Congregations, offered the resolutions, which was unanimously approved by a rising vote proposed by Judge Irving Lehman. Judge Lehman, who is president of Congregation Emanu-El, presided over the conference.
“Our souls are racked with horror,” the resolution said, “at the manifestations of cruelty, relentless hatred and blind arrogance of the Nazi despotism in Germany. The destruction of liberty, suppression of speech and thought, man’s inhumanity to man, call forth the indignation of all those who cherish liberty and love humanity and demand their united effort to meet this threat to civilization.
“The propaganda of the Nazi party has poisoned the minds of its followers with false doctrines of racial anti-Semitism and the Nazi regime has brought hideous wrongs and cruelest persecutions to our innocent brethren in Germany. Their suffering we share, their wrongs we feel as our own.
“We protest against the sinister attempts by the Nazi government and its agencies to spread these false and poisonous doctrines upon the soil of our own land.
“They are aimed not only against the Jewish people but against the fundamental principles of our constitution. They threaten to undermine the foundations of democratic free government all over the world.
“We pledge our unqualified support to all constructive efforts undertaken by Jewish and non-Jewish organizations to combat this monster of racial and religious bigotry wherever it raises its ugly head, and particularly we pledge ourselves to contribute liberally to the relief work inaugurated by united world Jewry and by the League of Nations for the rescue and rehabilitation of the victims of Nazi persecution inside and outside of Germany.”
Max L. Shallek, vice-chairman of the convening body; Samuel J. Falk of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Ernest Katz of Mount Neboh Congregation; Dr. Joseph J. Klein of Central Synagogue; Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of Philadelphia; Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of Central Synagogue, and Judge Lehman, were among the speakers who addressed the convention.
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