ed again, he said, 'Now you
have to take it.' Why?
Because the conditions have
changed. There is an
onslaught against Israel."
Rabbi Walter Wurzburger,
a respected theologian who
has been president of both
the Rabbinical Council and
the Synagogue Council,
called such dialogue "a
religious, ethical
imperative."
"We should not look upon
dialogue with the non-
Jewish religious community
simply in terms of our own
self-interest, but also in
terms of certain universal
responsibilities as people of
faith," said Wurzburger,
former editor of the Rab-
binical Council journal

Tradition.

Recalling his own personal
observations of Soloveit-
chik's respect for other
religions, Wurzburger said:
"The Rav never prohibited
talking to non-Jews on
matters of socio-ethical im-
portance."
"I plead with you," said
Wurzburger, "let us not be
so victimized by the
Holocaust and by the United
Nations" that you
"completely abandon the
universal conviction."
"I love Jews much more
than anyone else," Wurz-
burger said, "but my love for
Jews does not entail hatred
or disdain for non-Jews."
The Rabbinical Council
has been a member of the
Synagogue Council since the
umbrella group was founded
in the 1930s, according to
Rabbi Louis Bernstein, a
former Rabbinical Council
president and author of
"Challenge and Continui-
ty," a history of the Or-
thodox group.
In 1955, 11 yeshiva deans
issued a ban on participating
in "mixed groups," Berns-
tein said in a telephone in-
terview. Still, he said, "the
Rabbinical Council of
America never recognized
this ban."
But Rabbi David
Hollander, who was presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Coun-
cil at the time of the ban,
said he had been personally
instructed by Soloveitchik to
observe the 1955 ban and
avoid Synagogue Council ac-
tivities, for fear of legitimiz-
ing non-Orthodox Jewish
practice.
Soloveitchik himself is not
known to have written for-
mally on the topic since
1966. ❑

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