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Committee Charges 'Central Authority'
In Statement of NCRAC Withdrawal

tion of this compromise result-
ed in- a threat of withdrawal
from the NCRAC by Anti-Defa-
mation League and American
Jewish Committee.
Dr. Eisendrath's topic will be
"The Implications of the At-
tempts to Rationalize the Jew-

No central authority can speak
in ; the name of American Jewry,
the American Jewish Committee
declared in a statement accom-
panying its official letter of
withdrawal from the National
CommUnity Relations Advisory
Council (NCRAC) after eight
years of. membership.
Attacking the action of the

ish Community Relations Activi-
ties for Jewish Communal Or-
ganizations". Scheduled to con-
duct Yom Kippur services at
Temple Beth El, he is arriving
a day ahead to address the
luncheon forum today. Reserva-
tion's may be made in the office
of the Council.

Anti-Defamation League, unani-
mously voted to withdraw from NCRAC. Stammer'?
NCRAC, the coordinating body Hits Non-Cooperation
which they helped establish
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News
eight years ago. In a public
NEW
YORK—In withdrawing
statement Frank Goldman, pres-
ident of Bnai Brith, declared from the National Community
that his agency rejected the plan Relations Advisory Council, the
adopted by NCRAC by which it American Jewish ComMittee and
would be given central control the. Anti-Defamation League of
(Happy New Year)
NCRAC Plenum in Atlantic of the entire field of community Bnai Brith reject "any coopera-
tive
process"
and
"repudiate
City, Sept. 6-8, for ignoring the relations Work in violation of
joint American Jeivish Com- the voluntary character of Jew- the basic aims and objectives of
NCRAC" in whOse formulation
mittee- Anti-Defamation ish community life.
League proposals, the Ameri-
The 'NCRAC plan, the state- they participated, Irving Kane,
can `JeWish Committee point- ment declared, would fragmen- NCR AC chairman, :declared
ed out tyat the resolution tize and dismember the Anti- Wednesday.
Mr. Kane announced that the
adopted there purporting to be Defamation League and the
a comprOmise was no compro- American Jewish Committee, the NCRAC would continue its work
mise because "it continues to two .agencies with the longest despite the withdrawal of the
advanfee the same propositions and greatest records of service two agencies. He said that "the
f o r centralizing authority in community relations w o r k, NCRAC will continue to dis-
which we had been steadfast- dismantling their effective or- charge the responsibility placed
ly rejecting."
ganizations in an experimental upon it by the Jewish commun-
ities of America. Its doors will
Pointing out that the NCRAC effort to build a new agency. '
always be open to those who
Atlantic City plan for dividing
Yudkoff Defends ADL
the work of community relations
Harry Yudkoff, local Bnai wish to join in meeting this re-
agencies was unworkable and Brith leader; in a letter to The sponsibility and who, in the dis-
impractical, the American Jew- 'Jewish News urging presentation charge of their accountability
ish Committee made it clear of both sides of the issue, makes to the whole Jewish community,
that the fundamental basis for this comment on our last week's are prepared to participate in
the joint process of planning the
its Withdrawal was its rejection editorial:
of a central authority which
"The central thesis of your coordination which is the
would purport to speak as the editorial in the issue of Sept. NCRAC."
voice of American Jewry.
19 concerning the withdrawal of
The American Jewish Com- the Bnai Brith from the NCRAC Dr. Eisendrath to Speak at
mittee charged that the reso- ,,is based upon a false premise.
Luncheon-Forum Today
lution "means that no longer
,"You accuse Bnai Brith and
Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath,
could individual American American Jewish Committee of
Jews have the determining refusing to submit to a majority president of the Union of Ameri-
voice over the policies and rule. The vote cast at the recent can Hebrew Congregations and
purposes of the organizations plenum of the NCRAC could not a member of the executive
of their choice." -
possibly reflect majority think- committee of NCRAC (National
Declaring that "the issue is ing. Of the approximately 200 Community Relations Advisory
whether each agency shall be organized Jewish communities Council) • will address a lunch-
placed in a position where it can in this country, only 27 - were eon-forum Friday, 12 noon,. at
be forced to abandon its pro- represented at 'this meeting. In Bel-:Aire, .8231 Woodward.
Rabbi Eisendrath, who is fill-
gram and forsake its responsi- addition, the cities of New York
bility to its members and be and Chicago, the principal cen- ing the pulpit at Temple Beth El
subordinated to a central au- ters of Jewish population in left vacant by the untimely
death of Dr. Benedict Glazer,
thority which shall purport...to be America, were not represented.
the single voice of American
"To have construed the deci- fot the High Holidays, was
Jewry," the American Jewish sion reached, a decision that af- present, together with Sidney
Committee asserted t h 'a t it fects the entire Jewish Commu- M. Shevitz, Community Council
"cannot compromise on this is- nity,-a democratic one, impresses president, and Boris M. ,Jaffe.,
sue of compulsion versus- volun- me 'as wishful thinking • rather Council director, at the 10th Ple-
num of NCRAC in Atlantic City.
tarism."
than a statement of fact."
Dr. Eisendrath is head of one of
The AJC statement explaitied
the agencies affiliated with the
that there has been no charge
THE JEWISH NEWS-3
NCRAC which voted for the Barr NEW YEAR FESTIVAL BOX allustratod)—Barton's continental gift assortment in a
of duplication, waste, or lack of
Friday, September 26, 1952
compromise..proposal: The adop- handsome package symbolic of the high holy days. 1 lb. (asst. milk and
coordination raised .by the Mac-
Iver Report, or in subsequent
bittersweet), $1.64. 1 lb. (parve) $1.74. 2 lb. (asst.), $3.28.
discussions, which the %Ameri-
can Jewish Committee has not
MR. and MRS. ABE NUSBAUM
SHOFAR ior the children—Amusical toy horn—plastic reproduction of the tra-
been willing to examine, weigh
ditional ► ctra's-horn filled with candy delights for the children. 4 ozs. 93c.
and resolve through satisfactory
The Management and Staif
adjustment.
"The basic -issue," the - Ameri-
ROSH HASHANAH PLAQUE--Delicious assortment of deluxe continental minia-
of the
can .Jewish Committee stated,
tures in u box with a plastic cover that is a faithful reproduction of a 19th
"rests squarely upon the philo-
century,
pewter Rosh Hashanah honey plate, now -in the Jewish Museum J.T.S.A.
sophy of Jewish life which shall
New York. 1 lb. ,(parve). $2.59. '
prevail in America—whether re-
ligious 7 and cultural diversity
among Jews shall continue to
SIMHAT TORAH BOX—Reproduction of the Scroll of the Law in blue plastic, filled
flourish, or whether this diver-
with Aleph-Bet bar, jelly cone, hard candies and chocolate novelties 79c.
silty shall be repressed."
The American Jewish C o m -
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mittee announced in its with-I
draWal statement that it would I
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9630 Jos. Canipan
continue to work "in areas of
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7541 W.: McNichols Road (West of Liver-
Mr. Scalia*
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nois) • 8385 Lyndon (at Northlawn).
organizations dedicated to the
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never ceasing fight against in-
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Famous .for Continental Chocolates and Continental Ice Cream
tolerance, injustice and inhu-
manitx—the common foes of all
mankind."
Barton's 54 stores, under original ownership management in
Extend greetings to their many friends and

wish friends and relatives

=an nmo n:th
in the traditional
oliday

give

spirit

kTONS

wonderful Continental chocolates

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Bnai Brith Out of NCRAC

' The Executive Committee of
Bnai Brith, parent body of the

customers for a year of health and happiness.

Detroit, New York; Philadelphia and Newark are closed on the
Sabbath and all Jewish Holidays. Open S4undays. Malt
orders accepted. •

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