Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Olympic Games
Adopted by the CCAR at the 87th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
1976
WHEREAS the Olympic Games will be held shortly in Montreal, and
WHEREAS the last Olympic Games were so tragically marred by the murder of eleven Israelis
by an act of terrorism that incensed the world, and
WHEREAS numerous requests have been made for the inclusion in the forthcoming Olympic
Games of an appropriate service of memorial to the fallen Israeli athletes who were
killed down in Munich,
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we appeal to the Olympic Games committee that such a
memorial service be included in the official program of the Olympic Games to serve
not only as an appropriate tribute to the fallen sportsmen but also as a means of
reawakening the conscience of the world so that future acts of terrorism may never occur to
cast a dark shadow on an event which is based on the foundations of fairness, concern
for life and the development of a more peaceful community