The Jewish delegations to the conference were split along different ideological lines.
Upon passing the Jewish delegation, he acknowledged the Torah Scrolls by rising and bowing down at their sight.
That city was the site of a meeting between the Pope and a Jewish delegation during the pontiff's second American trip in 1987.
From 1946 to 1947 he also headed the Palestinian Jewish delegation sent to purchase arms in the United States.
The Jewish delegation expressed its dismay and concern over the moral problems raised for the Jewish people by the audience.
The Jewish delegation in turn committed itself to adapt its own structures as appropriate.
In 1971, Rabbi Hertzberg was chairman of the first Jewish delegation to meet formally on the issue with the Vatican.
This is known according to a letter he sent from Lublin by courier to the Jewish delegation in İstanbul on 6 January 1944.
The members of the American Jewish delegation emerged from their talks with the Palestinian chairman convinced that a real shift in policy and tactics had occurred.
He also chaired the Jewish delegation in the 11th Bilateral Commission meeting in March 2012.