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Friday. Dgcember , 2 I I 945

Community Council's Value
Viewed at Annual institute

JEW1..SH,, NEWS

urged the Council and -member

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organizations to take steps to im-
prove this situation. The ex-
ecutive committee was criticized
for--iti" action in rejecting the
membership application of one
group in the community.

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Viennese Refugee
To Exhibit Art
In N. Y. Gallery

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Ernes-
Organized Jewish Community of Future, Topic of Substitute
Central Community Body
to Lothar, Viennese refugee who
Program at Center; Kay Urges Recognition of
In his summary Leon Kay em- spent four years at the Sosua
phasized that the Council should Settlement in Santo Domingo
Council as Central Body for Jewry Here

Discussions in which delegates had the floor throughout
the day featured the annual Jewish Community Council
. Institute last Sunday. Approximately 300 attended the after-
noon and evening sessions at the Jewish Center.
• Because of storms which interfered with transportation,
Dr. Samuel C. KOhs, director of the Bureau of War Records,

who was " scheduled to be the€ ■
guest speaker at the evening
session, was unable •to reach De- tion", stressed that the Council
includes a wide variety and large
troit in time.
The program committee sub- number of organizationS, and is
stituted a symposium on "The concerned with theneed for get-
Organized Jewish -Community of ting them all to work together
the Future" in which Lawrence for common interests.: "She list-
W. Crohn, James L Ellmann, ed some of the services and pro-
Rabbi Leon Fram, Isaac Franck, grams carried on by' the Council,
Irving W. SchlusSer and Harold such as the Community Calen-
dar, Arbitration and-Conciliation
Silver participated.
Tribunal, self-discipline, synago-
Crohn's Keynote Address
gue planning, community inter-
The afternoon session opened pretation.
with a keynote address by Mr.
In the discussion the problem
Crohn, chairman of the program of inadequate Jewish educational
committee, who expressed the programs for children and adults
view that the Council was devel- was raised. Several speakers
oping towards the kind of demo-
cratic 'Jewish community organ-
ization envisaged by its faund-
ers stating that there are still too
many people in the community
who did ••not know clearly what
the . Council's objectives and ac=
Complishments were, he urged
that the enrichment of Jewish
values, not only joint action on
Jewish difficulties, should be the
basis of. organization.
In the discussion of the work
of the-Council in the field of com-
batting anti-Semitism and devel-
oping favorable public opinion
about Jews and Judaism, inter-
est centered about the question
of the relations between . the
Community Council and national
organizations with which the
Council cooperates.
Comments From Many , •
With Harry Yudkoff,.
chairman of the Council's' Com-
munity RelatiOns Committee,
presiding, comments were made
by Jacob Pecherer, Abraham
Winter, Meyer Schneider, Mrs.
J. S. Sauls, Harry Kaminer, Eu-
gene Franzblau, . Lawrence W.
Crohn, . Leon Kay, , Mrs. Morris
Mendelson, Abraham Shusterman,
Mrs: Perensky and ;Mrs. Rose
Marshak. Questions with regard
to specific local activities' were
answered . by Mr. Yudkoff and
Mr. - Franck.
The delegates and guests greet-
ed with warmth the comment of
Mrs. Marshak, who pointed out
that since anti-Semitism has
been plaguing Jews for 2,000
.years, it was unreasonable to ex-
pect The Council to do away with
it in a few short years.
Discuss Jewish Affairs
The discussion on the subject
"Policy on Jewish Affairs", un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs.
Leonard H. Weiner, was directed
towards the questions on hay,/ the
Council acts in regard to broad
national and world problems of
Jewry. Mrs. Weiner -pointed out
that the Council constitution 'lists
as One of the CounCil.'s aims the
development of an informed and
effective public opinion on Jew-
ish affairs.
There was general agreement
that the Council had a responsi- , •
bility to give expression . to the
sentiment and will of the - Jew,-'
ish community on such isSues,-.
that the actual ,execution of poi
icy is invariably the responsibil-
ity of national Jewish bodies, and
the local community's function is
to indicate support for their pro-
grams, and to help mobilize fa-.
vorable public opinion; that
ourieil cannot, however, act
With reference' to every project
which is of interest to one or
more constituent organizations;
that . there must be some" Mex.,
Sure of public acceptance of the
project as having genreal signi-
ficance. ,
:
go Delegates hi Session .
TWentY delegates, participated
in this session, including :Louis
Levine, Isidor Sosnick, Samuel
Weisman, Mrs. Julius Ring, Iry
ing W. Schlussel and M. Gold-
oftas. Abram MeYerOWitz,. sum-
marized the discussion on -this
subject:
Mrs. Alexander W. Sanders,
who presided at the thrid ses-
sion on "COmmunity Co opera-

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be regarded by every organiza-
tion and individual as its central
community body. He maintained
that with more general accept-,
ante, the Council would be able
to function more effectively in a
variety of fields in which the
Council should be active. He
also urged several changes in the
structure of the Council's corn=
mittees.
Benjamin M. Laikin, James I.
Ellrnann and Dr. Hugo Mandel-,
baum were among the partici-
pants in this discussion.
At the evening dinner session,
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, co-
chairman of the program corn-
inittee, was toastmaster. After
the symposium, - comments were
made from the floor by Mrs.
Liam Grahm and others. Rich-
ard Kramer, who was with the
Ainerican forces which liberated
the Buchenwald concentration
camp in Germany, told of meet-

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painting the Dominican moun-
tains and people, • will exhibit in
New York as soon as arrange-
ments can be made with one of
the local galleries.

The showing will be his second
in the U. S.
Lothar, 32, studied . four years
at the ACaderny for Arts and
.CraftS in -Vienna. Ile began as
an illustrator in Vienna.'and Po-
land" and in 1938 went to Italy

ing .surviving Jews of Western
Europe:
Announcement was made that
'an • SundaY afternoon; Dec. 30,
the Community Council will spon
sCor a public. ineetine to discuss
the question of national advisory
;blidgeting for fund-raising agen-
Cies .doing work, nationally and
'overseas, at ''a meeting at Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple
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.to work for the publishing house
br Pizzoli in Milano. He went to
Switzerland where he lived in a
refugee camp and studied in the
studio of Hans Aeschbacher of
Zurich, Swiss sculptor. In De-
cember of 1940 he came to the
Sosua Settlement. In 1945, he be-
came profesSor of colOr and land-
scape at the National School of
Fine Arts in Trujillo, capital of
Santo Dothingo. -
. Lothar's work .has been seen in
several group shows, in, 1942 and
1944 at. the "Exposition ,Nacional
de Bellas Artes," Trujillo, D. R.,
and at the 55th Annual ,Ameri-
can Exhibit of the Art Institute
of Chicago. He held two one-man
shows: at the Ateneum of San
Juan in Puerto Rico,. in August,
1943, and at the Dominican "Gal-
eria Nacional de Bellas Artes"
in December, 1943. A collection
of his drawings was shown at
the museum of the Pan Ameri-
can Union in Washington in 1942.

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Mrs. Bachrach Nained
Vice-President of JWB

Frank L. Weil, president of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB), announces the
election of Mrs. Alfred R. Bach-
rach of New York as a vice-
president of the Board.

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