A United Church clergyman here has resigned his ministry in protest over what he termed the indifference of some of its leading members to anti-Semitism. The Rev. Donald R. Keating, 46, charged in his letter of resignation that the church leadership is guilty of silence on issues affecting Jews, and that it has failed to deal with the pro-Arab policy promulgated by the church periodical, the United Church Observer. Keating followed up his letter of resignation, which he sent to his presbytery, with an open letter to the church’s Moderator, the Right Rev. A.B. Moore, and to leaders of other Christian denominations. He has been an ordained minister for 20 years,
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