Some 40 people, including Conservative rabbis and Jewish community leaders, gathered across from the United Nations at the Isaiah Wall today to mark the end of a three-day weekend of seminars, workshops, prayer and cluster congregation services designed to focus attention and dramatize the American Jewish Community’s concern with the “drift of U.S. policy in the Middle East away from Israel and toward the “moderate” Arab countries.
Co-sponsored by the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, with the New York Metropolitan Regions of the United Synagogue of America and the Rabbinical Assembly, the “Weekend of Reflection on American Middle East Policy” covered such issues as the rise of anti-Semitic innuendos which surfaced during the recent debate over the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, the Reagan Administration’s continued efforts to sell sophisticated weaponry to Jordan, and the “general lack of sensitivity to Israel’s security needs and national priorities.”
New York City Council President Carol Beilamy and Comptroller Harrison Golden addressed the gathering. New York Mayor Edward Koch and New York Senators Alfonse D’Amato (R.) and Daniel Moynihon (D.) sent letters expressing their solidarity with the theme of the weekend’s activities.
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