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Anti-Semitic Terror in Miami
illizrachi University:
Plans of the Miz-
rachi Organization of America to establish the first religious
university in Israel were moved another step foward at the
31st convention at Atlantic City. Dr. HARRIS J. LEVI NE, pres-
ident of the Jewish National Fund of America (left) , trans-
fers the deed of 120 dunams (30 acres) of JNF land at Ramat
Gan, near Tel Aviv, the site for the projected university, to
Dr, PINKHOS CHURGIN, American Mizrachi president. In
the center is HENRY L. KRAUSHAR of Brooklyn, chairman of
the Bar-Ilan University building committee.
MIAMI, (AJP) —A crude dynamite bomb hurled at a Hebrew school here, coupled
with similar explosions which rocked a Negro housing project set off a wave of demands
by Jewish and Negro community leaders for increased police protection.
One element attributed the blasts to a resurgent Ku Klux Klan while others believed
a possibility existed that the blasts were Communist-inspired to incite racial hatred. The
latter was the opinion of Police Chief Walter E. Headley who said he thought the Negro
and Jewish center bombings were unrelated.
One report making the rounds here, the American Jewish Press was informed,
was that Governor Warren had been aske d to call out the State Militia and that seri-
ous thought has been given the proposal by the State's chief executive. A difference
of opinion existed among Jewish leaders whether this step was wise or necessary.
The latest blast against a Jewish center—there have been more than a half dozen
scattered anti-Jewish incidents in recent months—sent local rabbis into emergency ses-
sions. Joining in combating the attacks are members of the Ministerial Association.
Disturbed over, the alleged apathy of local police, members of a Jewish War
Veterans post announced they would organize a committee for self-protection,
"If necessary,” Lou Phillips, national JWV vice-commander, said, "we will patrol
the area and ask for permits to carry firearms."
Backing up the JWV stand, the local sheriff expressed -willingness to deputize
any recognized group to aid in maintaining law and order.
The most recent blast brought _a $1,000 offer from the Anti-Defamation League for
information leadinc, to the arrests and convictions of the dynamiters. A JWV post of-
fered an additional $300 for data.
An estimated 44 window panes at the Miami Hebrew School and Congregation were
shattered by the blast while another explosion near an unoccupied Negro apartment
project set off a near-riot quelled only by police assurances that a probe would be under-
taken. Two previous blasts aimed at the - Ne gro project caused damages estimated at
$20,000.
Two separate sharp demands for a Federal probe of the reign of terror against
Miami Jewry were sent to U. S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath late Monday by
Judge Meir Steinbrink, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
and Paul Ginsberg, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S.
Welfare Funds Press for Actin
To Prevent Duplication of Efforts,
Multiple Fund-Raising Driv-s
By Special Jewish News Correspondent at CJFWF General Assembly'
CHICAGO, Ill.—Spokesmen for the welfare funds throughout the 1 a n d, meeting
here last week-end at the 20th General Ass embly of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, demonstrated the deter mined will of Jewish leaders that activities
involving organizations should be coordinated; that overlapping should be eliminated.;
that duplication of efforts should be avoided and that all should work together for the
common good.
DPs' Champion Acclaimed
Congressman JACOB JAVITS, New York, is shown here con . -
gratulating a DP woman, in Munich, Germany, on her obtain-
ing a U. S. immigration visa, during his visit at the Munich
headquarters of HIAS where he discussed Jewish displaced
(, persons' problems with MAX NEWMAN (right) , ranking
I HIAS official in the DP areas, and EZRA GERSHAFTER, HIAS
1 Munich director, Rep. Javits addressed the DPs in Yiddish.
Ilrichat Ila-Gomel:
Pvt. JACK COHAN
of Los Angeles, survivor of the Korean combat, offers a pray-
er of thanks — Brichat Ha-Gomel — "Yea, the living shall
praise Thee, as I do this day"—at Sabbath Eve services in
Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco. Religious serv-
ices are conducted regularly at Letterman by Rabbi William
Z. Dalin, No. California area chaplain for Division of Religious.
Activities of National Jewish. Welfare Board,
These assertions of adherence to an idea for genuine unity in Jewish ranks resulted
from the discussions that were occasioned during the past few months by the report of Dr;
Robert M. Maclver who personally appeared- at the assembly session on Friday afternoon to
reaffirm his findings and to propose publicly the abandonment of duplicated activities.
In his address, which stimulated one of the most interesting discussions heard in re•,
cent years at public Jewish assemblies, Prof. Maclver, whose presentation left a lasting int- .
pression on his hearers, denied that ideological differences were bars for Jewish groups to
work together "as a common team in one cause."
Recommending the major proposal in his Report, that there should be a division of
functions among national Jewish groups in order to avoid duplications, Dr. Maclver urged long-
range planning and advocated the strengthening of the National Community Relations Ad-
visory Council as the recognized coordinating body on the national scene. He also urged the
development of local community relations agencies. His recommendations were made only four
days after the NCRAC, at the meetings in Atlantic City, accepted as "broad principles" the
ideas embodied in the Maclver Report. That decision, which provided for final action on the
Report next June, was made by the representatives of the six national organizations and 27 local
Councils including Detroit's. These agencies reserved the right either to accept or reject any or
all of the recommendations, and the next CJFINF General Assembly again will review the
Report.
It is clear, however, that there is nearly unanimous opinion in favor of the Report,
that there is a -rebellion in Jewish ranks against duplication, that there is a demand for strict
coordination of efforts in order to save time, energy and funds in handling Jewish affairs.
In his reply to questions that were addressed to him after his address, Dr. MacIver
asserted that the establishment of the state of Israel is "an 'important factor in improving Jewish
community relations in the United States." This statement was interpreted as a repudiation of
the claim of the anti-Zionist Council for Judaism that Dr. Maclver, '..)y failing to make any
references to Israel in his Report, in actuality was rejecting the Zionist idea. Dr. MacIver later
pointed out that homelessness is one of the factors that created prejudice against Jews and
added that the existence of Israel would gradually serve to weaken this prejudice and to create
a status of equality for Jews. •
Dr. Maclver was joined as a panelist by Irving Kane, Cleveland, NCRAC chairman, Ben-
jamin Ulin, Boston, chairman of the Large City Budgeting Conference, and Bernard H. Trager,
Bridgeport, chairman of the session.
"People of groups of different ideologies can and should work together as a common
team in one cause," Dr. MacIver declared. "There. is no one type of discrimination." In the
overwhelming majority of agency programs which he scrutinized, Dr. MacIver added, he
could "find nothing that suggested anything resembling a fundamental difference" in ideologies.
"Some of the organizations fear that their autonomy will suffer if they work together,"
Dr. Maclver stressed. "But the only way to make good use of autonomy is using it in a common
cause. Even if differences existed, this would represent no bar to the joining together of the
organizations."
Mr, Ulin affirmed the "urgent need for improvement" in the present operations of Jew-
ish community relations agencies. He called for quick action in drawing the specific proposals
coiled for by the AtiaxitiC City report, •
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