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[The purpose of the Digest is informative: Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does not indicate approval–Editor] “It was fitting,” writes the Newark “Star-Eagle” (Mar. 20), “that the recent gathering of 500 representative Christian and Jewish leaders at the kosher dinner in New York should adopt a message to […]

March 26, 1926
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[The purpose of the Digest is informative: Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does not indicate approval–Editor]

“It was fitting,” writes the Newark “Star-Eagle” (Mar. 20), “that the recent gathering of 500 representative Christian and Jewish leaders at the kosher dinner in New York should adopt a message to the American people reminding them that this nation was ‘founded in neither race nor creed,’ and that ‘our forefathers guaranteed to every man freedom of worship and the rights of citizenship regardless of faith of place of origin.’

“Political equality of Christian and Jew was an axiom from the birth of our republic. Religious tolerance between the creeds was not unknown among Americans in the eighteenth century. What is coming now to crown all this is a spirit of social brotherhood.”

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