Julian Freeman Elected President;
Session Approves X473,000 Budget

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Julian Freeman of Indian-
apolis was unanimously elected
president of the council for 1951.
Milton Kahn of Boston was
elected secretary, and Sylvan
Gotshal of New York, treasurer.
The session approved a budget
of $473,000 for the Council for
the coming'year. Speakers at the
closing session included Israel
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett;

JULIAN FREEMAN

Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Euro-
pean director of JDC, and Stan-
ley C. Meyers, outgoing president
of the Council.
Agree Not to Press Plans
For Centralized Campaigns
The CJFWF, at the opening
session, made it clear that the
blueprint for a community-
sponsored national campaign
organization — against which
some American Zionist leaders
have expressed opposition—was
not to be voted upon at the cur-
rent Assembly.
The delegates were told that
the Council's proposal for the
creation of a Central Israel
Fund, which would unify all
fund-raising campaigns for Is-
rael, will not be implemented un-
less the Jewish Agency and the
Zionist groups in the United
States agree.
This announcement was made
by Julian Freeman, chairman of
the committee on unified fund-
raising, who said that the recent
announcement of a four-point
program to aid Israel by raising
one billion dollars in three years
through philanthropy, bonds,
private investment and govern-
ment loans, called for clarifica-
tion of a number of basic points.
Mr. Freeman informed t h e
delegates that the proposal for
the creation of a Central Israel
Fund to embrace all Of the
fund-raising for Israel has been
put before the Jewish Agency:.
The Jewish Agency and Zion-
ist groups had registered op-
position to the fund, he contin-
ued, on the grounds that unifi-
cation of all campaigns for Is-
rael would result. in less funds
for Israel than are now being
raised. .
Concerning the blueprint. for
a community-sponsored nation-,
al campaign -organization, Mr.
Freeman pointed out that as a
result of repeated crises in the
United Jewish Appeal in 1941,
1945, and 1948, the communities,
through the General Assembly,
had decided that it was neces-
sary to have such a plan in
readiness if an emergency
should arise in the future.
Mr. Freeman reported t h e
terms of the agreement reach-
ed between the JDC and the
UPA for the renewal of the UJA
for 1951, provide: After deduc-
tion of administrative expense
and grants to the United Service
for New Americans, on the first
$55,000,000, thereafter, 33 per-
cent goes to JDC and 67 percent
to UPA of all funds in excess of
the $55,000,000, 12 1/2 percent will
go to JDC and 87 1/2 percent to
UPA, The Jewish Agency has
taken over the responsibility for
financing -transportation to Is-
rael, and the JDC has taken over
complete responsibility for fin-
ancing the Malben program in
Israel.
Mr. Freeman called on the as-
sembled leaders to give their
maximum support to the UJA.
Asserts Economic Situation
Hurts Morale of People
Harold Glasser, director of the
Council's Institute on Overseas
Studies, addressing the Assem-
bly, urged American Jewry to
do its utmost to alleviate Israel's
"severe economic crisis." He also
urged the creation of a Central
Israel budget to apportion funds
on the basis of "priority and ur-
gency."

Mr. Glasser, who recently re-
turned from a six-month study
of economic conditions in Israel,
said that Israel's present econo-
mic crisis has slowly been gath-
ering weight and has daily been
putting increased pressure upon
the people living in the country.
"The most serious aspect iS the
slumping morale of the people.
They have had 18 months of
self-imposed austerity, shortages,
inadequate supplies."
Although Israel has the "full
potentiality of being a modern
nation with a decent standard
of living and a high culture,"
Mr. Glasser said, at present the
country has "limited resources
which are inadequate to its
needs," and that the American
Jewish community has not been
supplying "adequate funds" for
the tasks of absorption and eco-
nomic upbuilding. In the light
of these facts, he added, efforts
must be made to increase pro-
ductivity, the amount of fin-
ancial resources, and heighten
the effectiveness of available
resources.
"There has been insufficient
attention on the part of organ-
izations, there has been insuf-
ficient study of the ways and
means in which programs can
be coordinated so that the sum
total of the American effort to
assist Israel will be made effec-
tive," Mr. Glasser declared.
"It seems obvious that there
must be some increase in the
effectiveness with which funds
are expended if there were some
central point at which programs
were discussed, were coordinat-
ed; where some planning of
changes and improvements were
attempted. It would be even
more effective, if, at this central
planning point, whether it be in
Israel or in the U.S., some rec-
ommendations were made as to
the relative importance and rel-
ative priorities of the various
organizations in obtaining funds
in the U.S.. for programs in Is-
rael," he pointed out.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of the American section of
the Jewish Agency, expressed
disagreement with Mr, Glasser's
observations that funds in Is-
rael are being expended with in-
sufficient effectiveness. The Is-
rael Government, he said, will
accept opinion of American
Jewish experts, but will never
allow American Jews to inter-
•fere with internal affairs of the
Jewish state, he asserted.
The attitude of the Jewish
Agency with regard to • the
proposals . advanced by the
Council concerning coordina-
tion of fund raising for Israel
and transmission of welfare
fund allocations directly to
Israel was outlined in a writ-
ten statement submitted by
the Agency for the informa-
tion. of the '700 Jewish corn-
munity leaders attending the
A s s e m b l y. The statement,
signed,., by Dr: Goldmann,
chairman'.. of the. American
section of the Agency, made
it clear that the transmission
of welfare fund allocations di-
rectly to Israel "is inadvisable
for legal and technical rea-
sons and also because of vari-
ous financial obligations un-
dertaken by the Agency, the

THE JEWISH NEWS— 9

Friday, December 8, 1950

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"Brigadoon," the melodic tri-
bute to Scotland, comes to the
stage of the Shubert Theater
for two weeks beginning Mon-
day evening. It brings to De-
troit a show
that has been a
top hit since its
first bow int..
Philadelphia in
1947. F r o
Phila
"Brigadoon
went to N e w
York and
turned into one Miss Early
of the greatest musical successes
of the decade. It ran for 580
performances at t h e Ziegfeld
Theater. The cast includes De-
troiter Elizabeth Early.

UPA and the Zionist funds in
the United States and in other
countries which are based on
the income of these agencies
here in the United States."
The statement emphasized
that not only is the Agency
aware of the necessity to reduce
the expenditures, of various
Zionist funds in this country,
but steps had been taken to
make sharp reductions even
prior to the meeting with the
Council. "Obviously, the pres-
sure of inadequate funds for our
programs in "Israel provides the
greatest incentive for us to car-
ry out our operations in the
most economical manner possi-
ble," the statement said. "Radi-
cal changes can be undertaken
only by the World Zionist Con-
gress, but the Jewish Agency is
continuing to make efforts to
reduce the local expenditures as
far as possible."
Reiterating the opposition of
the Jewish Agency to the pro-
posal for the creation of a Cen-
tral Israel Fund and Budget, the
statement pointed out that ap-
proximately 75 percent of the
funds collected by the Hadassah
and the Histadrut in the United
States are raised outside of the
welfare funds. With regard to
other independent Israel cam-
paigns in this country, the
Agency has created a special
committee which checks multi-
ple fund-raising drives and
which is cooperating closely
with the CJFWF. "We will try
to increase the authority and
the control exercised by this
committee on all independent
Israel campaigns," the state-
ment pledged.

LZOA to Observe Hanukah Tonight

This Friday evening all by Leah Kovin, with Hilda
branches of the Labor Zionist j Shoob at the piano. A Sholem
Organiation will have a joint Aleichim reading will be given
Hanukah Oneg Shabbat at the by Marilyn Golde, an original
operetta by members of Branch
Labor Zionist Institute.
Sidney Shevitz, chairman of 10. Refreshments will be served,
the Council of LZOA announces and Hanukah songs will be fea-
that plans for the program in- tuned. All members are urged
elude participation from all
branches of the organization. to bring their friends to this
M. Ginsburg will conduct the affair.
lighting of the candles with the
The Sister Kenny Center in
chairman of each branch light-
Pontiac is able to treat as many
ing a candle.
The singing will be conducted as 600 Polio patients in a year.

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