Group Will Study Changes In Jewish‐Christian Contacts

June 8, 1972

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A comprehensive review of developments in Jewish‐Christian relations‐since World War II will be undertaken by the Synagogue Council of America, the organization's president, Rabbi Irving Lehrman of Miami Beach, announced yesterday.

Rabbi Lehrman Who was elected to a second term at the council's annual meeting here, noted that there had been a number of major developments in the last quarter of a century, including the establishment of Israel and the convening of Vatican II, “which we nave presumed have had a fundamental impact on Christian‐Jewish relations.”

The Synagogue Council of America is the central coordinating agency for the six national synagogal and rabbinic organizations of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jewry.

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