Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 25 December 1942
CP-1942-001
Anti-Zionist Group Rejects American Democracy, Charge
Judge Levinthal, President of Z.O.A., in reply to published program of new council, declares that anti-Zionists are denuding Judaism
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“WASHINGTON, D. C. — An announcement of the proposed organization of an anti-Zionist group under the leadership of Dr. Louis Wolsey, of Philadelphia, is but another manifestation of the irrational prejudice against our national movement which persists among a small minority of the Reform Rabbis of this country, Judge Louis E.
Levinthal, president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared in a statement made public here today.
In a rejoinder to the announced program of the new group recently organized under the name of ‘American Council for Judaism,’ in opposition to the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, Judge Levinthal declared that ‘by their disavowal of Zionism in America these “Protestrabbiner” (counterparts of the small group of rabbis who protested against Zionism in the days of Dr.
Theodor Herzl, founder of the movement) have repudiated American democracy itself.’”
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The Zionist establishment answering Jewish anti-Zionists in the Jewish press, printed beside the community calendar of Hadassah meetings and a New Year’s Eve party at the Pythian Temple.
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"Anti-Zionist Group Rejects American Democracy, Charge," Buffalo Jewish Review, 25 December 1942, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1942-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1942-001
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