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CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
Thursday, September 7, 1950
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
AJC Calls forjDemocratic
Communal Organization
of race, color, religion, ancestry, ' This is the philosophy of the
or national origin.
American Jewish Congress, All
When the American Jewish A mer i can Jews w ho su bscribe to
Congress was founded 32 years
these views regarding totalitari-
ago, the world suffered from a
tyranny of oppressive monarchies, anism, Jewish life in America
but since then a more ominous and the relationship to Israel are
threat to free men and to-Jewry invited to join the ranks of the
has emerged in the shape of to- American Jewish Congress.
talitarian regimes.
Totalitarianism is as contrary NON-JEWS ENTER ISRAEL
By MRS. SAMUEL GREEN
to Jewish tradition as it is to TEL AVIV — (ZOA) — In the
President, Michigan Council, American Jewish Congress
American concepts. No totalitari- course of the first five months
HEN THE AMERICAN Jewish Congress came into being 32 years ago, the world sit an regimes. 1 of 1950, 6180 crossings of Israel
uation and .the status of Jewry were quite different -from-- what they -are- today. Th e • „Totalitarianism. is as contrary- frontiers - wore -- made .by - non-
Jewish state was at that time still a distant goal. The Jewish population in Eastern and to Jewish tradition as it is to 1 Jews, according to a report by
Central Europe, numbering some 10,000,000 maintained a vigorous and widely ramified com- American concepts. No totalitari- I the Mlnistery of Immigration.
artist can countenance non-con- I _ __ _
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munity life which was distinguished by its creative cultural contributions.
fortuity to dogma.
It was giving spiritual suste 1'
The Jewish faith has never Greetings . . .
nance to the growing Jewish which the American Jewish Con-
been dogmatic and cannot flou•-
community in America.
gress had always maintained.
ish in the climate of totalitarian-
Through the immigrant gener- Both the physical safety of the
ism.
ations the seeds of this rich Jew- Jewish communities dispersed in
ish heritage were transplanted in many lands as well as the spirit-
THE AMERICAN Jewish Con-
- American soil and gave promise ual needs for Jewish survival re-
gress opposes totalitarianism in
of fruitful groWth, I quire the close association of
any guise whether of the right or
In the course of the last three Jews throughout the world.
of the left and since the essence of
decades, particularly in the re-
Therefore, we join in demo-
both the American ideal and the
cent 10 to 15 years, changes have cratic association with the World
Jewish tradition is the sacred-
taken place in the life of the Jewish Congress in affirming the
ness of the individual, we can
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Jewish people.
unity of Jewish people every-
pursue these objectives only
through the free democratic pro-
Of shattering import is the de- where and to help protect their
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cess.
struction of over 6,000,000 Jews civil, religious and economic
and the virtual extinction of rights.
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Jewish communal and cultural
The building of a vigorous
HAPPY
NEW
YEAR
life in Eastern Europe.
Jewish zommunity in America
Jews in the Soviet Union and cannot be based exclusively on
its satellite states are isolated philanthropy and the fight against
from their fellow Jews through- I anti-Semitism. Jewish life can-
out the world. On the othor hand, not thrive on relief campaigns.
the miracle of Zion has come to charity drives, or defense activi-
pass. ties.
MRS. SAMUEL GREEN
At the same time American . These are necessary tasks but
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Jewry, because of its size and in-
in- j they will not give meaning and
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bility for maintaining the unbrok-1 To preserve the Jewish way of through the elimination of all
en chain of Jewish continuity and life, the communal resources of forms of political, social, and eco]-
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group survival.
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Best Wishes . .
ope its own resources and create scholarship.
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NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO ALL
its own forms of Jewish living.
TIIE
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OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS
FROM THE VERY first day of gress dedicates itself to the as-
its existence the American Jew- ' surance and extension of the _ fun-
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tine and throughout its history
the ideal of a Jewish state has
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