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along denominational lines have
diminished In meaning, cape-
daily among the youth."
The AJC said it is intensifying
its depolarization programs aimed
at "defusing tensions between
blacks and whites, students and
workers, leaders and masses, gov-
ernment and citisens" in the
United States while at the same
time moving to aid the Jewish poor
and harassed Jewish merchants in
inner-city neighborhoods.
Gold explained that AJC's de-
partment of intergroup relations
and social action, under the
direction of Seymour Samet,
would concentrate its efforts
through a number of new me-
chanisms It had organized in the
last year, including its National
Project on Ethnic America and
the National Alliance for Shap-
ing Safer Cities.
The first project. under the lead-
ership of Irving M. Levine, AJC's
director of urban projects, is a pilot
attempt to work with white ethnic
groups to gain support for their
real problems and to find leaders
within the indigenous group who
will be able to create black-white
unity on issues of mutual concern.
The Alliance, headed by Harry
Fleischman, AJC's race relations
coordinator, has brought together
50 mainstream American organiza-
tions to fight crime by involving
citizens in neighborhood crime con-
trol and reducing crime as a
polarizing force by taking the issue
away from the ultra-right that calls
for repression and the ultra-left
that calls for violent confrontation.
Gold added that new efforts by
the AJC would help energize the
moderate forces in the nation to
fight political violence without hav-
ing to resort to anti-democratic re-
pression.
At the annual dinner, Philip E.
Hoffman, president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, warned
that "the New Left is a global
phenomenon, and we must deal
with it wherever we find it." He
attacked the hypocrisy of the New
Left for its "selective compas-
sions—overcome with sympathy
for the Arabs, the terrorists, the
Viet Cong. the Black Panthers,
and the Chicago Seven, but stonily
indifferent, if not heatedly inimical,
to the fate of the Jews in Israel,
in the Soviet Union, and elsewhere,
and to the problems of under-
privileged ethnic groups."
The AJC later condemned, in a
resolution, extremist elements

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within the New Left "that have in-
stituted a violent attack on the so-
cial and governmental institutions
of the nation, which are alleged
to be beyond reform through con-
stitutional means."
The AJC's assault on extremists
of the New Left was coupled with
the charge that they were foment-
ing anti-Semitism.
Hoffman and Arthur N. Green-
berg, chairman of the AJC's in-
terreligious affairs commission,
made public the results of a five-
year study on the Impact of
Vatican Council II on interreli-
gious understanding throughout
the Western world.
Despite unprecedented and im-
pressive progress, there remain a
number of crucial, unresolved
questions on Catholic-Jewish rela-
tionships in the United States,
Latin America and Western Eu-
rope, the study shows.
Hoffman pointed out that the
positive factors outweighed the
negative ones in the United States
and Western Europe, and that some
progress had been achieved in
Latin America. However, he add-
ed, a great deal more had to be
done before it could be said that
the Vatican Declaration had been
satisfactorily implemented.
Abroad, Hoffman said, the "un-
solved problems" included the
lack of any decisive or funda-
mental change in negative at-
titude as well as the persistence of
anti-Semitic organizations and pub-
lications, in Mexico and Central
America, stimulated by Arab
propaganda about supposed Israeli
atrocities against Christians in the
Holy Land.

In the United States, Hoffman
said, deficiencies included in the
commission study were an inade-
quate Catholic theology of Judaism
as a living and permanent faith
and tradition, an inadequate Jew-
ish religious or theological under-
standing of Christianity, a lack of
deeper understanding by Catholics
of the meaning of Israel to the
Jewish people and to Judaism and
the apparent emergence of certain
forms of Christian ecumenism as
an instrument for excluding Jews
from social action programs and
for weakening American pluralism.
Greenberg referred to various
positive results of the Vatican
Council Declaration, including a
number of new publications in
lroducing Catholics to Jews and
Judaism, corresponding Jewish
publications about Catholics,
Protestants, and members of
other world religions and in-
creased mass media coopera-
tion.
The outstanding achievement of
the Vatican Council Declaration,
Hoffman added, was the beginning
of a major effort leading to the
creation of a whole new Christian
culture regarding Jews, Judaism
and Israel.

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