Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, urged members of the Rabbinical Assembly at their 60th annual convention today to work for a summit meeting at which there would be “hope for a permanent peace, rather than merely a cessation of the cold war.”
Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, of Cedarhurst. L. I., pledged in his inaugural address as the Conservative rabbinical association’s new president that his administration would continue traditional Jewish support for human rights for all.
Rabbi Finkelstein said that America was “embarrassed by awareness that we do not come into the court of public opinion with clean hands” on such issues as racial quality. He said that “our religious tradition, both Jewish and Christian” seemed to Negroes “to avoid the issue, which they rightly regard as basic to their very lives.”
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