Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Bishop Trifa
Adopted by the CCAR at the 88th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
or subsequent to that Convention in 1977
For three decades Bishop Trifa, a known Nazi oppressor and murderer of Jews, has been
seated on the Board of the National Council of Churches. After many years of protests,
recently culminating in demonstrations by Jewish youth and forceful representations by the Synagogue Council of America, the NCC “suspended” Trifa, awaiting the withdrawal
of his Board membership by his own constituency, claiming that its constitution did
not allow it to expel him from the NCC Board.
After many months Trifa’s Orthodox Church has taken no action to withdraw his Board
membership and thus the obscenity persists.
Now that the National Council of Churches has amended its Constitution to allow his
expulsion from its Board, we call upon the National Council of Churches to expel
this notorious criminal from its midst.
We additionally call on the Department of Immigration and Naturalization urging it
to continue its current prosecution of the Trifa case.