Unity Moves Slowly

THE JEW ISH NEWS-3

Friday, October 27, 1950

Council-Federation Talks
Go On, In Spite of Snags

So we grew together,
Like a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet a union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

Shakespeare, "Midsummer
Night's Dream," Act 3, 2.

Detroit Jewry still is a long way from unity in the func-
tions of its major organizations. Discussions continue on the
question of fusing the two major community organizations—
the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Jewish Community
Council—and the representatives of the two groups will
renew negotiations next Tuesday.

But obstacles arise from time to time to defer solution, and
the Shakespearean dream of "two lovely berries moulded on one
stern" still is in the visionary stage.
Will the great ideal of brotherly love,

"Behold how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

as expressed in 43sa1m cxxxiii, 1, come true in our own midst?

•At the meeti-_- :,P of the Jewish>
Community Council on Oct. 19, Council wants war in the com-
there was a temporary setback. munity." He reaffirmed a desire
Reports submitted to the dele- for a peaceful solution of differ-
gates' assembly on progress ences through the formation of
made in securing the Federa- a democratic, unified commun-
tion's approval of a requested ity, but indicated that the basic
budget created a serious differ- philosophy of those seeking the
ence of opinion. Louis Rose,p- creation of a democratic organ-
zweig, Council treasurer and- ization is that it should not be
chairman of the budget commit- entirely supervised by a fund-
tee, gave • a chronological des-. raising agency.
cription of budget negotiations
At the Cm 19 Council meet-
which started on Jan. 26. His
report was supplemented by Dr. ing, Boris Joffe, director of the
Shmarya Kleinman, president of Council, reviewed the summer's
the Council, with additional activities. He reported on: the
comments on budgetary discus- successful effort to eliminate the
race designation from applica-
sions.
Only a few hours prior to tion cards used by the Michigan
the delegate:,' meeting, Coun- State Employment Service; the
cilond Federation representa- Human Relations Workshop at
tives had reached an amicable Wayne University under joint
agreement for a budget, and auspices of the Council, the
Julian H. Krolik chairman of Anti-Defamation League and the
the Federation executive com- University; new manifestations
mittee and a member of the of anti-Semitism, including des-
executive committee of the ecration of a synagogue, and use
Council, took exception to the of U. S. mails in an attempt to
procedure of reporting. He discredit Jewish organizations.
questioned the propriety of He also reported that more than
detailed reporting of the tor- 100 programs were arranged by
tuous road through which the the Council for its constituent
Council's requested budget had organizations and told about
radio and television programs
traveled.

,

Ile criticized the manner of
reporting which enumerated
before a large assembly mi-
nute details of discussions
which for several months were
marked by sharp differences
of opinion. He expressed the
view that such an approach
does not contribute to the ul-
timate success of negotiations
for unified action between the
two organizations and left the
delegates' meeting in what
was interpreted as an expres-
sion of protest.
Dr. Kleinman was conciliatory
in comments, made prior to Mr.

Krolik's statement, in which he
called attention to the • fact that
Council and Federation now are
on record in favor of a unified
community organization; that
"the negiotations between the
two bodies were resumed after a
10-month lapse and talks con-
tinue in an atmosphere of great-
ly improved mutual understand-
ing and mutual appreciation and
for the greater good of the Jew-
ish community." He expressed
the hope that a unified Jewish
community would arise duriag
the term of his presidency.

The • delegates' assembly
voted unanimously to approve
the statement published in
last week's Jewish News, which
previously was endorsed by the
Council's executive commit-
tee. In discussions that fol-
lowed, delegates acclaimed the
progress made by the Council
in its negotiates with Federa-
tion. Emphasis was placed by
or g a nization representatives,
some of them speaking in Yid-
dish, on the need for creating
a democratic central Jewish
communal body.

Harry Yudkoff, Louis Levine,

Leo Polk and M. Winters were

among those who called for em-
phasis on the democratic prin-
ciple of accountability of the
executive committee to the dele-
gates' assembly and asked that
negotiators should continue to
report to future assemblies on
the trend of negotiations.
Dr. Kleinman stated after the
meeting that "no one in the

Conference Maps
Settlement Plan

NEW YORK—A plan for the
"adoption" of recently estab-
lished_ agricultural settlements
in Israel by American Jewish
youth groups as part of a two-
way program designed to ce-
ment educational and cultural
relations between youth in both
countries has been mapped by
the National Jewish Youth Con-
ference, it is announced by M.
David Weiss, conference chair-
Man. The conference represents
more han 300 local and reg-
io ewish youth and young
adu t councils and national Jew-
ish youth organizations.
Basic objectives of the pro-
gram are to: 1) strengthen the
educational ties between pio-
neering youth in Israel and
Jewish youth in other countries;
2) afford organized units of
Jewish youth throughout the
world the opportunity to assume
practical responsibility towards
the upbuilding of Israel, and 3)
develop within Jewish youth an
appreciation of the dynamic re-
4tionship between Israel and
world Jewry.

Organizations Select Delegatest
To Annual .JNF Conference Np4p.a2

Nationally prominent speak-
ers will address the annual con-
ference of the Jewish National
Fund Of Detroit, at the Fort
Shelby Hotel, all day Sunday,
Nov. 12, it was announced this
week by Benjamin M. Laikin,
president of the JINIF Council.
Arthur Shutkin, former di-
rector of the JNF Council here,
who came here to assist in prep-
arations for the conference, re-
ported that many organizations
already have elected delegates
and others are planning to make
their selections this week.
Each organization is asked to
select five representatives, Mr.
Shutkin stated.
Prominent officials will join
with Jewish leaders at this con-

French President Commutes
Sentence of Former Nazi

PARIS — (J T A) — President
Vincent Auriol of France com-
muted to life imprisonment a
e a t h sentence imposed on
Pinkus Chmielnycki, one-time
supervisor at t h e Oswiecim
death camp.

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chairmanship of Rabbi Morris
Adler.
Dr. Kleinman welcomed a
number of new delegates who
attended the meeting.

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Organizations are asked to
submit the names of their se-
lected conference delegates to
the JNF Council office, 11816
Dexter, TO. 8-7384.

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