Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              
Ootober 6,  1950
For Howsletter Toward  Racial and Religious Understanding
Promi Jewish Conmunity Counoil of Metropolitan Boston
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The Jewish Conmunity Council of Metropolitan Boston, swinging its program
of Pall season activities into high gear, has scheduled during Ootober and November
a number of    committee meetings and tackled several problems of recent origin.
At the first Fall meeting on September 28 of tho representatives of the
22 large Jewish organizations in Greater Boston making up t>»*t Conmunity Council, a
number of recent inoidonta involving alleged anti-Semitism were reported to tho
Civic Defenso-Public delations Committee for investigation.
The Community Council announced its endorsement of the National Crusade
for Freedom, and    its full support to Massachusetts Civil Rights Week, beginning
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Prior to the Senate vote to override President Truman's veto, the
Jewish Community Counoil, as an affiliate of the National Comnunity -delations
Advisory Council,  joined ***lth other organizations^ dedicated to the preservation
of civil liborties, in supporting Mr* Truman's opposition to the McCarran bill
dealing with subversion.      -The Community Counoil called for a law "not violative
of traditional Anerioon concepts of oivil liberties," and asked Massachusetts senators
8altonstall and l*cdge to vote against the bill.