2 Orthodox Groups Refuse to Attend Interfaith Conference in Boston
N EW YORK (JTA)—The Union ticipation of the SCA in similar' those favoring
Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations conferences hereafter, Since each
of America and the RabbiniCal of the six constituent agencies has
Council of America announced I a veto, the board's decision means
Sunday in separate statements that the SCA cannot participate
that the two Orthodox organiza- in such gatherings after the May 7
Lions will not participate in the conference. Rabbi Pesach Levovitz,
Interreligious Conference in Boston president of the Rabbinical Coun-
ay 7 of which the Synagogue cil, said that his organization was
Council of America is one of three asking that the May 7 conference
co-sponsors. The other two spon- be postponed and that the request
sors are the National Council of for postponement was not accepted.
Churches and the National Confer-
ence of Catholic Bishops.
The SCA is made up of the six
major congregational and rabbini-
cal associations of Orthodox, Con-
servative and Reform Judaism.
The two Orthodox groups have
been under. constantcriticism from
other Orthodox organizations for
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (JTA)
their membership in SAC. (The — T h e tremendous pressures
Ford Foundation has given a grant within the Catholic church stem-
of S36,500 to the Synagogue Coun- ming from the impact of the Ecu-
cil of America to support the inter- menical Council may well stimu-
faith conference in Boston The late anti-Semitic reactions among
Foundation said the grant was conservative Catholics, a Judeo-
given to the SCA as the fiscal Catholic Faculty Institute was told
agent for the conference.)
this week by a Catholic clergyman.
Dr. Joseph Karasick, UOJCA '
Father Benedict J. Groeschel,
president, said that the organiza- a member of the Friars Capuchin,
tion's board of directors also had
one of three such branches consti-
decided not to authorize the par-
tuting the largest order in the
Catholic church, also said that
while this was not anticipated, it
was something to he watched by
UK I 0- mati. Warns
Ecumenism May
Cause Vlore Hate
B-G,s Attendance
at Adenauer Rites
Draws Attention
the Ecumenical ously Jewry is striving to recap-
spirit. More than 200 faculty . tore its uniqueness, its unusual
members from Catholic colleges devotion to ideals and the great
and seminaries in Westchester glory of the many years when they
County attended the event which were truly 'the people of the
was co-sponsored by the West- book'."
chester office of the Anti-Defarna-
He said that in the last 20 to 39
lion League of Bnai Brith and the years, the love of Zion, inspiration
colleges.
derived from the synagogue and
Father Groeschel told th e
devotion to his people had become
gathering that the term "con- a powerful force with the Ameri-
can Jew.
temporary Jew" is an abstract,
a title for something which does
not exist and so complicated
that the Jews do not understand
it. lie declared that it included
all kinds of Jews from the
ultra-Orthodox hassidim to the
atheist, all of whom claim Jew-
ish origin and adherence_
He spoke in response to an ad-
dress by Rabbi Arthur Gilbert.
the ADL's director of interreligious
affairs. Rabbi Gilbert reported a
notable decrease in anti-Semitism
among Americans, He declared
that Jewish youth today was more
secure than its parents, less sus-
picious of Christian neighbors and
more motivated by their o w n
Jewishness "the first such gen-
eration of :Jews in America."
Dr. Irving Agus, professor of
Jewish history at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, told the Catholic educators
that "consciously and subconsci-
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BONN (JTA) — Israel's former
Prime - Minister David Ben-Gurion
who, over many years, had many
dealings with the late Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer, attended Dr.
Adenauer's state funeral Tuesday.
With him was Felix Shinnar.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban ar-
rived a • few hours before Ben-
Gurion came in, and both were
temporary guests at the home of
ISraers Ambassador ,Asher Ben-
Nathan at the Bonn suburb of Bad
Godesburg.
Although the funeral participants
included President Johnson and
President de Gaulle, the German
press focused much attention on
the fact that Ben-Gurion had come
here for the funeral. Among the
first orficial mourners to arrive
was Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
dent of the World Jewish Congress.
He laid a wreath of white lillies
and red carnations at the foot of
the catafalque in the cabinet room
of the federal chancellor's office
here which had been occupied for
so many years by Dr. Adenauer.
Dr. II. G. Van Dam, general •
secretary of the Central Council
of Jews in Germany, issued a
statement on behalf of organ-
ized German Jewry, mourning the
passing of Dr. Adenauer.
On behalf of the council, Dr.
Van Dam stated: "Dr. Adenauer
had in his time helped the es-
tablishment of this central and
unified representative body of
German Jews, and had taken a
personal interest" in it."
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