Interfaith Cooperation


Resolution Adopted by the CCAR

INTERFAITH COOPERATION

Digests of resolutions adopted by the

Central Conference of American Rabbis

between 1889 and 1974

1. We approve the findings of the Interfaith Conference on Unemployment and

commend

the work of Rev. James J. Myers, Monsignor John A. Ryan and Rabbi Edward 1.

Israel;

we approve their recommendation that a government-called conference be

initiated

to consider America’s number one economic problem–unemployment. (1940, p.

103)

2. We urge favorable action by Congress on the Interfaith Statement on

Democracy in

Defense Industries which provides for a Commission, representative of

government,

labor, business, agriculture and consumer groups to be established as a

national

Commission on Unemployment and Post-War Economic Adjustment. (1941, p.

138)

3. See Refugees (Jewish), Sec. 2 (1945).

4. See Freedom of Thought, Sec. 5 (1954).

5. See Segregation, Sec. 2 (1956).