[1] The conference, a parliamentary-style political body, included 500 delegates collectively representing 2.25 million Jews in the United States.
Labor Zionist leader Judah Pilch observed that the conference was a new form of "Jewish self-government" in America, an American version of Vaad Leumi.
Silver's followers characterized the contrast between the two as "Aggressive Zionism" versus "the Politics of the Green Light [from the White House].
"[5] In December 1943, the American Jewish Conference launched a public attack against Hillel Kook and the “Bergson Group” in an attempt to reduce support for the Irgun and Revisionist Zionism in the US and their agenda to more actively rescue European Jews.
[citation needed] Philip Morris Klutznick, the newly elected president of B’nai B’rith in the early 1950s, remembers the difficulties of getting any consensus in the "majority rule” American Jewish Conference.