A plenary meeting of the Synagogue Council of America last night approved a resolution to seek direct consultations between the leaders of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities to ease “the growing tension in relations” between the three groups over “fundamental church-state issues.”
The proposal was one of a series offered by Rabbi Theodore L. Adams of New York in his acceptance address following his re-election as president of the Synagogue Council, in which he warned that “religious leaders who tell themselves there are virtually no tensions on the local level between Catholic Jew and Protestant” on such issues as religion in the public schools, Sunday closing laws and religious symbols on public property “are fostering an illusion which one day will blow up in their faces.”
The plenary session also endorsed Rabbi Adams’ proposal to “act vigorously upon the various proposals” for the convening of a world conference of religious leaders “to explore ways and means to mobilize the religious and moral resources of mankind for increased international cooperation.”
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