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Page Sixteen

Dr. Goldman Scans
West Coast Judaism

Plans JWV Sessions

gether secular and will not, be-
(Continued from page 6)
his, Jewish educators, Jewish cause it can not, save my chil-
social workers and teachers who dren for Judaism."
And a third declared: Fighting
of necessity have to be imported
from the older and more thickly anti-Semitism is necessary. How-
populated centers of Jewish life. ever, I have become convinced
In fact, the key problem for the that even though we Jews may
Jews of Texas, California, Ore- never destroy anti-Semitism, we
gon, Washington and British Co- can do a lot to prevent anti-
lumbia is how to get competent Semitism from destroying us.
Jewish professional leadership
"Our synagogues can provide
to come out and stay.
Of special significance to me, us and our children with the
as president of the Rabbinical necessary armor of self-respect,
Assembly of America, is the fact self-confidence and self-knowl-
that while conservative Judaism edge to prevent the poisoned
is the youngest of the major arrows of anti-Semitism from
religious alignments in America, piercing our own souls."
it has succceeded in winning
the support of most of the Jews
in the communities I visited.
Those who accept the philos- Best Wishes for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
ophy of Conservative Judaism,
as well as many not officially
committed to it, believe that this
movement has the future of
ARTHUR'S
American Jewry in its hands.

• • •

PLAN FINE BUILDINGS
THERE ARE OTHER concrete
reasons for' encouragement. I
was shown the blueprints of a
dozen and more projected Syn-
agogue buildings. They are mag-
nificent.
In Houston, Tex., two conser-
vative congregations have com-
bined into one called Beth Yesh-
urun, with a membership of 1,100
families under the lay leadership
of such men as Ben S. Hurwitz,
Leo Gaber and Joseph Weingar-
ten, and the spiritual guidance
of Rabbi William S. Maley.
The new Synagogue edifice for
this congregation is to rise on a
12-acre stretch of land in the
finest section of the fast growing
city.
In the Jewish community at
the other end of my journey—
Vancouver, British Columbia—
many Jews from the Canadian
prairie provinces have come to
make their homes. Albert Koch,
president of Congregation Beth-
Israel, and Rabbi David C. Ko-
gen showed me the architect's
drawing for a beautiful Syna-
gogue to care adequately for this
Jewish community, which in the
past six or seven years has vir-
tually doubled its Jewish popu-
lation.
Similar projects are underway
in other Jewish communities. I
think, for example, of one of the
suburbs of the rapidly expand-
ing city of Los Angeles, the
section called Westchester.
That neighborhood is a new
development for lower-middle-
class home owners. The Jews
who live there are professionals,
small business men and white
collar workers. In their desire
"to provide for their own house
also" they decided to build a
Synagogue. ,
They could not afford to en-
gage architects, contractors and
builders, so• they decided to fol-
low the old American tradition
of building their house of wor-
ship with their own hands. They
pooled their talents and energies
and they are now the designers,
the bricklayers and the carpen-
ters for their own edifice. The
most remarkable thing about
these men is that they are all
young, most of them veterans of
World War IL
• • •
ALL OFFICERS VETS
I MET MANY YOUNG men
and women in the forefront of
synagogue work. In Tacoma,
Wash., Sinai Temple is manned
entirely by a splendid corps of
young leaders. And in Congre-
gation Beth Sholom in San
Francisco all the newly elected
officers wear the veteran's pin
in their coat lapels. When I
asked these young American
.Jews why they were giving top
priority to congregational life,
one of them replied: "I have
come to feel that the Synagogue
is the gateway to Jewish living."
Another said: "The Community
Center is O.K. But it is alto-

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38 MONROB

•

RUDOLPH M. HENNICK, of
Waterbury, Conn., is the con-
vention chairman of the 1947
JWV encampment. A former
Connecticut state tommander,
and the publisher of the Nau-
gatuck News, he serves as the
personal representative of Na-
tional Commander Milton H.
Richman. The assembly is set
for Oct. 15 to 19 in St. Paul,
Minn.

Histadrut Raps
British Inaction

TEL-AVIV—(World News Ser-
vices)—The non-implementation
by the Palestine administration
of the labor conventions ratified
by the International Labor Or-
ganization of which Britain is a
member, was brought up by the
representatives of the Histra-
drut attending the conference of
the ILO recently held in Geneva.
The four conventions con-
cerned cover unemployment in-
surance (ratified by Britain in
1921), health insurance (1931)
and old age and invalid insur-
ance (1936).

The representative of the
Dutch workers stated that it way
clear from the report submitted
by the United Kingdom that
nothing had been done to imple-
ment the conventions in Pales.
tine, which had reached a con.
siderable degree of industrial de.
velopment.

Social services for a large sec
tion of the working populatior
had been provided by the work
ers themselves without assistanci
from the local administration
despite the constant representa
Lions made by the workers' or
ganizations to them to carry ou
the conventions.

New Year Greetings and Best Wishes

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