Conservative Delegates Urge UN
to Encourage Arab-Israel Talks
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA)-
An appeal for action to bring about
direct peace talks between Israel
and the Arab countries, and a
warning to the United Nations
against trying to force upon the
parties concerned a formula for
such talks, was approved by 3,000
delegates at the biennial convert ;
tion here of the United Synagogue
of America.
Henry N. Rapaport, of Scarsdale,
N.Y., who was elected at the clos-
ing session to a second two-year
term as president, told the resolu-
tions session that there should be
no consideration of Israeli with-
drawal from any of the occupied
Arab territories until "direct de-
liberations" were in effect between
the Arab and Israeli leaders.
In another resolution, the dele-
gates, representing Conservative
congregations throughout t h e
United States and Canada, urged
that Jews and other men of good
will join in efforts "to dramatize
and demonstrate" their concern
for the fate of Soviet Jewry,
"until our brethren in the Soviet
Union receive their full cultural
and religious rights."
The delegates said that the need
for dialogue between Jews and
Christians "has become especially
apparent as a result of the recent
Arab-Israeli conflict and the mis-
understanding" among Christians
"with respect to the Israeli posi-
tion on Jerusalem"; voiced "dis-
tress" over the fact that some con-
gregations confine Jewish educa-
tion for children to one-day-a-week
schools; and urged affiliated con-
gregations to improve salaries and
working conditions for qualified
Jewish teachers.
Christian Leader Agrees with Attack
on Church's Failure to SUpport Israel
vice president of the Synagogue
Council, noted that its statement
reflected "our astonishment and
puzzlement at the failure of the
and other youthful protest move-
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The
Rev.
response
to
a
statement
issued
by
ments. The speakers said that the
churches to speak out clearly when
rebelling Jewish youth believe that David R. Hunter, deputy general the Synagogue Council of Amer- a group of states announced pub-
parents are dishonest and fail to secretary of the National Council ica, which charged that Christian licly that they were mobilizing to
communicate with their children of Churches. said here that the leaders had been morally lax in liquidate another nation state."
and that the synagogue is totally Jewish community was "quite right their failure to condemn the Arab
divorced from the real problems in denouncing Christian Churches threats.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE A YOUNG
of their lives.
The Synagogue Council, repre-
COUPLE HAPPY AND
for silence during the threats of
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Rabbi Harold Schulweis of Oak- genocide" against Israel by the senting Conservative, Reform and
A GOOD DEED
land, Calif., estimated that 20 to Arab states prior to last June's Orthodox rabbinic and lay bodies,
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warned that such a position "in-
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Road, Royal Oak, at 13i:, Mile
San Francisco, were Jewish. Other
thought the churches were justified bility of mass murder." It called
Road, (alias Chester.)
speakers said that the figure in not urging the U.S. government "on the moral leadership of the
Your gesture would constitute a
good deed in the grand old
might be nearer 50 per cent and to do more than it did in defense Western world to help create an
tradition.
that not only members but leaders of Israel because "we and they atmosphere within which such
Of course, you must first think
in the protest movements were had to seek a proper balance in threats of war and destruction are
well of us before we deserve
your
benefaction. So phone 549-
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Woodmere, N.Y. criticized "in-
packet.
Rev. Hunter's remarks were in
Rabbi
Henry
Siegman,
executive
P.S. Tell the mothers of the
nocuous activities" of synagogues
war babies of WW H about us.
which repel Jewish youth.
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Friday, November 24, 1967-15
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf,
director of the Islamic Center of
New York. participating in an
unprecedented Moslem - Jewish
dialogue at the convention as-
serted that Moslems "fully sym-
pathized" with Jewish suffer.
ings, and expressed the hope
that his Jewish audience "will
sympathize with ours." Both he
and the other participant, Rabbi
Henry Siegman, executive vice
president of the Synagogue
Council of America, stressed the
common elements of the two
faiths.
The Jewish and Moslem leader
appeared at one of the closing ses-
sions of the convention on the
understanding that neither would
refer to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But Dr. Rauf remarked that Mos-
lems were not responsible for the
"bitter experiences and suffering"
of Jews through the ages. He ap-
pealed to the Conservative Jewish
leaders "to extend your sympathy
to all those who stiffer."
The delegates were warned by
two rabbis that Jewish youngsters
were deserting traditional Jewish
life to join the ranks of hippies
Israel's Modernity
Evidenced in New
Country Club
Special to the Jewish News
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latest fashions, the improved restau-
rant service, the availability of a
golf course in Caesarea—and the
fully equipped country club.
Tel Aviv Country Club, estab-
lished by a group of Mexican Jews,
is as modern as any American
institution of its kind.
Within walking distance of the
Mediterranean, the large swim-
ming pool offers a choice for swim-
mers and bathers.
Appended are barber and beauty
shops, a shopping area, restaurant
service and all imaginable facilities
for children as well as men and
women.
A football field, tennis courts.
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there is Mlle missing from this
attractive area.
Memberships are only $15 a
year — and tourists, by showing
their passports, are admitted for
a nominal fee.
I do, every day!
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Vice president
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