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THE JEWISH NEWS
Conference Votes to Create
Permanent National Body
By ROBERT GAMZEY
Editor, Intermountain Jewish News, Denver . National Secretary,
American Association of English-Jewish ' Newspapers.
CHICAGO.—The American Jewish Conference voted
Monday, 1981/2 to 6, in favor of the plan advanced by Rabbi
Maurice Eisendrath, president of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations and chairman of the Conference com-
mittee on future organization, for the continuation of the
Conference, permitting retention of individual identities by
national organizations while ere- 1/4>
ating a permanent body to oper-
ate throUgh these organizations.
The Eisendrath plan survived
efforts of a minority to strengthen
it.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Frank
Goldman and Mrs. Joseph M. Welt
of Detroit—presidents of Ameri-
NEW YORK—The 24th annual
can Jewish Congress, Bnai Brith convention of the National Com-
and Council of Jewish Women- mittee for Labor Palestine here
respectively—voted as individuals was converted into a great mani-
for a permanent conference, al- festation of joy when news of the
though their organizations must UN decision on Palestine was
ratify the proposal.
flashed on the air. -
News of establishment of a Jew-
Crowds converged on the meet-
ish State, sending joyous dele- ing place, the St. Nicholas Arena,
gates into each other's arms, hours before the scheduled open-
turned the opening of the Con- ing,. and the doors were closed
ference into a happy celebration by the police after the first 5,000
and assured the creation of a per- had entered. More than 6,000
manent, democratic "voice" to co- others jammed the streets outside
ordinate U. S. Jewry's new role as the arena and took charge of their
the reservoir of strength for re- own celebration that consisted of
constitution of Judea.
the Hora and singing.
Louis Lipsky, Conference exec-
Dr. Weizmann Appears
utive chairman; Frank Goldman,
Inside the hall, a tremendous
president of Bnai Brith; Dr. Israel
Goldstein and Judge Harry Fish- ovation was given Dr. Chaim.
er addressed the opening session. Weizmann, who came to bless the
audience and recite the "sheh-
Blocs Merge in Victory
Dr. Goldstein told 3,000 dele- echeyanir" prayer.
The throng included bearded
gates and spectators at the Chi-
gago Civic Opera House Saturday sages who remembered the days
night that word of the UN 33-13 of Theodore Herzl, and young
vote broke up pre-Conference boys and girls gasping at their
caucus meetings and merged Zion- first glimpse of Dr. Weizmann,
ist and American Jewish Congress who was introduced by _Isaac
blocs, meeting in adjoining rooms, Hamlin as "the first President of
the Jewish State."
in a victory celebration.
Dr. Weizmann expressed his
A dramatic moment arrived
when the founder of the Ameri- thanks 'to the U. S. and the Soviet'
can Zionist movement, 73-year- Union for their aid and stated
old Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, arose his belief that after one or two
amid a thunderous ovation to ex- years, peace with the Arabs
press prayers of thanksgiving for would be achieved.
Moshe Shertok, arriving from
realization of a lifetime dream.
Proposing "Judea" as the name his triumphant promulgation of
of the new free, democratic, Jew- the Jewish case at Flushing Mea-
ish state, he declared "we go for- dow, was given a similar ova-
Shertok declared the UN de-
ward to give and help and coun-
sel our Jewish brothers build the cision was the second great ad-
Jewish State, but we in America vance of the Jewish cause in our
must not dominate those who generation, the first being the
have suffered and fought in Pales- Balfour Declaration.
Hike Histadrut Quota
tine to build the Jewish State."
. Sunday morning; 3,000 dele-
Elect Praesidium
The following praesidium was gates met at Hotel Commodore
elected: Dr. Wise, honorary chair- to attend to convention business.
Delegations from Canada, Bra-
man; Harry M. Ehrlich, Eisen-
drath, Frank Goldman, Dr. Gold- zil, and the U. S. were unanim-
stein, Lipsky, Irving Miller, Rab- ously for a higher national quota
bi Emanuel Rackman, Samuel for the 1948 Palestine Histadrut
Rothstein, Alex Stanton and Ba- campaign than that originally
ruch Zuckerman,
recommended by the resolutions
Frank Goldman, president of committee that had met the pre-
Bnai Brith, was then called upon vious day. The sum of $7,500,000
to pay memorial tribute to the was adopted. The 1947 Palestine
late Henry Monsky, who had, in Histadrut Campaign raised $2,-
addition to his Bnai Brith work, 731,000, according to Hamlin.
helped convene the first Ameri-
Berl Locker, member of the
can Jewish Conference.
Jewish Agency Executive and
Dr. Eisendrath, who is chairman veteran Labor Zionsit leader,
of the Conference committee on closed the convention with a Mes-
future trganiation stated:
sage that "the United Nations
"How far we may disagree con- have given us a framework with-
cerning the precise form which a in which to build the Jewish
future organizaidon of American State. It is a challenge to world
Jewry may take, there is no dis-. Jewry to execute the upbuilding
agreement among us concerning of the State, and the main bur-
the dire need for some such per- den, next to the Jews of Palestine
xnanent democratically constitut- itself, will rest with American
ed American Jewish organization. Jews. The United Nations have
`Strength Through Unity'
acted - with justice, but justice is
"The time is long overdue. We a continuing process and we hope
dare not permit the temporary, that the United NationS will keep
ad hoc American Jewish Confer- watch over the fledgling state
ence to be succeeded by the an- until it is mature and able to
archy, the Babel of competing and stand on its own."
discordant voices that have gone
The convention selected a dele-
before. Palestine and European gation, headed by Shertok, to
Jewry have appealed to us to close plant a. batch of Palestinian soil
our ranks and to provide that at the foot of the Statue of Lib-
strength which alone can come erty on Monday morning.
through the unification of Ameri-
can Jewry.
"Let us go forward to the crea- Detroit Lodge, Auxiliary
tion of that democratically con- To Hear
ADL Leader
stituted American Jewish organi-
Nissen
Gross,
director of Fact
zation which will give dignity and
effectiveness to American Israel, Finding for Bnai Brith's Anti-
and which alone will discharge Defamation League, will address
the responsibility which now, a joint meeting of the Detroit
Lodge and its Auxiliary at 8:30
more than ever, is ours."
(Of the 10 Detroit delegates p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, in the Lodge
originally elected to the Confer- Hall, 11529 Linwood.
Harold R. Nelson and Stanley
ence, only Aaron Droock, Rabbi
Leon Fram and Rabbi M. J. Wohl- Yates, ADL co-chairmen of the
gelernter attended the sessions in lodge, will preside at this portion
Chicago. Rabbi Joshua Sperka of the meeting, while the general
and Isidore Starr were alternates. program will be in charge of
There were also a number of ob- William Joelson and David B.
Kurzman.
servers from Detroit.)
Labor Palestine
Conclave in N .Y .
Hails Weizmann
Friday, December 5,
1947
`The Friedmans'
Feature Pisgah's
Program on Dec. 8
JNF Conference to Discuss
Land Purchase Needs Dec. 14
Next Monday night, Dec. 8,
Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith will
present the second of a series of
programs marking its ninetieth
anniversary.
Direct from New York follow-
ing a successful tour, "The Fried-
mans" will present The Original
Cavalcade of Jewish Music at the
Jewish Center at
8:30 p. m. There
is no admission
charge. Members
and their fam-
ilies and friends
are invited.
Rabbi Herbert
S. Eskin, presi-
dent o f Pisgah
Lodge, will
speak o n "The
Susie Friedman Significience o f
Hanukah." Alfred Bounin, re-
cording secretary, will kindle the
Hanukah Lights. At the conclu-
sion of the meeting latkes and
refreshments will be served.
Susie Michael Friedman, an
American born musician was a
piano prodigy at four.
Maurice Friedman's sonorous
baritohe voice pantomimic-acting
place him in the first rank of
American interpretive artists.
Pisgah Lodge's program com-
mittee is arranging several more
attractions for the ensuing months
in honor of its 90th Anniversary.
Rabbi Wolf Gold to Speak; 14,000,000 Dunams of Land
Must Be Bought by Jews in Territory Set Aside by
UN for Jewish State
.
Responsibilities of the Jewish Freilich, noted Czechoslovakian
people to the Yishuv of Palestine musician.
and to the efforts of the Jewish
In a statement made in Chicago
National Fund for the acquisition to a Jewish News representative
on Sunday, Mendel Fisher, execu-
tive director of the JNF of Amer-
ica, pointed out that western Pal-
estine has 27,000,000 dunams of
land and that -the Jewish state
has 16,000,000 of that total. The
present possessions in .Jewish
hands are 925,000 JNF dunams
and 850,000 privately-owned du-
nams, leaving a total of 14,000,000
yet to be redeemed. He declared
that unless a great effort is made
to secure these lands and to make
them Jewish property, it will be
most difficult to welcome the
hundreds of thousands of Jews
who must be settled in the new
RABBI WOLF GOLD
Jewish state.
of land in the new Jewish state
These issues will be outlined at
will be outlined at the city-wide the JNF conference, Irving W.
conference of the JNF Council of Sehlussel, JNF president, stated.
Detroit, to be held Sunday, Dec.
JNF Inscription Honors
14, at the Detroit-Leland Hotel.
Rabbi Wolf Gold, who was one Late Albert Feigenson
of the working committee of six
of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
Club One of the Pioneer Wo-
tine at the UN, will be the guest men's Organization and their
speaker. Sessions of the confer- friends have inscribed the name
ence will be held from 11 a. m. of Albert Feigenson-, late son of
to 1 p. m. and from 2:30 to 5 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Feigenson, in
The Guest singer at the confer- the Golden Book of the Jewish
ence will be Paul Slavensky- National Fund.
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