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On January 15, 1966 the Synagogue Council of America (SCA), the coordinating agency for six organizations representing 3.5 million Orthodox, Conservative and Reform synagogue affiliated Jews, issued a plea to President Johnson to resist pressures to escalate the war in Vietnam even if his peace offensive should fail. “The appeal to President Johnson marked the first time that the entire Jewish religious community took a position on an international issue going beyond immediate Jewish concern,” reported the major source of the Anglo-Jewish media, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).1
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Thomas B. Morgan, “The Vanishing American Jew,” Look (May 5, 1964), 64;
and Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews in America (New York: 1989), 347.
Arthur Goldberg, LBJ-OH, Tape 1, 1–2; and William Sloane Coffin, Once to Everyman (New York: 1977), 207.
Hertzberg, 348; and Nathaniel Weyl, The Jew in American Politics (New Rochelle: 1968), 167–8.
American Jewish Yearbook 1965, 311; Sam Welles, “The Jewish Elan,” Fortune (Feb. 1960), 137; and Hertzberg, The Jews in America 379.
Jewish Exponent July 1 and Nov. 3, 1966; Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics (New York: 1974), 9–10; and JTA May 25, 1964, Nov. 4, 1965.
Richard Flack, “Social and Cultural Meanings of Student Revolt,” Social Problems (March 1968), 348;
and Yitzhak Sharav, “Emdot Yehudiyot Leumat Interesim Yehudiyim,” Molad (June 1967), 609.
Ibid.; U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, the 88th Cong., 1st Sess., 12, 1 Aug., 1963; and I. E. Kenen, Israel’s Defense Line (Buffalo: 1981), 109–10.
The Jewish Exponent March 8, 1966; Coffin, 258; NYT, Feb. 19, 1967; JTA April 7, 1967; and Ronald W. Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: 1975), 624–7.
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Klinghoffer, J.A. (1999). On the Front Line of the Peace Movement. In: Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27502-1_4
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