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...demanding that Mayor John Lindsay call off a scheduled dinner for the King. Candidates in this week's primary elections quickly denounced the hawk-beaked desert monarch. Nearly every major Jewish organization pronounced itself outraged. Protested Dore Schary, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League: "We believe it unseemly for New Yorkers to say that he is welcome. The city's tribute should be reserved for those who come to us in friendship...
Ending Hostility. Strongest advocates of Jewish-Christian cooperation are Jewish service agencies in the U.S., such as B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee, which discreetly but effectively lobbied in Rome for passage of Vatican II's condemnation of antiSemitism. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the A.J.C., for example, believes that neither side is ready yet to talk theology, but sees no reason for Jews to fear that the dialogue with Christianity will involve a disguised attempt at conversion. On the contrary, he argues, it represents a "chance to change a relationship which has lasted...
Columnist Harry Golden once jokingly suggested that Jewish leaders gather in Jerusalem to issue a declaration exonerating Christians from their crimes against Judaism. More seriously, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League feels that Jews must indeed be prepared to recognize that neither all Christians nor Christianity itself is responsible for the anti-Semitism of the past. He also warns that a condition of true dialogue is for Christians to forsake their "patronizing attitude" that the Jews are "a fossilized people who now must wander through time awaiting that moment...
...weeks ago, B'nai B'rith's Manhattan-based Anti-Defamation League charged that the Coca-Cola Co., in denying a franchise to a Tel Aviv bottler, was kowtowing to the Arab nations' boycott against foreign firms that do business with Israel. After all, noted the league, Coke has plants in 18 Arab states that might be closed down if the Tel Aviv franchise were granted...
...Judaism on U.S. culture is so prevalent that "it is a popular pastime to probe the world through Jewish lenses," typically in a musical like Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. For proof of Jew ish vitality throughout the world, he cited B'nai B'rith's 26% gain in operating finances since the last convention, and the presence of its educational Hillel Foundation on 253 campuses, with 268 more schools already in line applying for programs...