THE JEWISH NEWS
19
Friday, November 28, 1952
Held Says Local Community Groups
Can Heal or Hinder Split in. INCRAC
The emergence of the matur- seek to perpetuate their dom-
ing local Community Council ination of the' community re-
movement and a growing_ ten- lations field.
dency on the part of local com-
The position of the Jewish
munities to assume responsibil- Labor Committee, Held pointed
ity for community relations ac- out, is that it does not enter any
tivities might be considered local community unless it does
either as barriers to a ready so with the consent of the Com-
healing of the NCRAC split, or munity Council. Any commun-
as a cementing ingredient, ac- ity that is willing to accept the
cording to Adolph Held, nation- concepts of democratic proced-
al chairman of the Jewish Labor ures which must mark the com-
Committee, who addressed the munity relations. field will re-
November gathering in the ser- ceive the complete cooperation
ies of Jewish Community Coun- of his own organization, Held
cil open luncheon-forums which pledged.
have been devoted to a presen-
Held declared 'as untrue the
tation of points, of view on the contention of the national agen-
NCRAC withdrawals.
Cies that except for a hurried
Held cited the cooperative ef- conference they had had no
fort of all the national organ- chance to consider the now
izations in the matter of Ger- famous Barr compromise pro-
man reparations. In this in- posal. -In actuality, he stated,
stance, he stated, 23 organiza- prior to the NCRAC Plenum the
tions including several of the principles embodied in these
member agencies of- NCRAC proposals had been discussed at
joined together to work on the length with the leaders of the
reparations a n d restitution organizations which subse-
agreements. In the consultation quently withdrew from the
between representatives of these •NCRAC.
Announcement was also made
agencies, divisionz, of responsi-
bility were assigned and a ma- that the December luncheon-
jority vote prevailed. It was forum would feature a spokes-
within this framework that the man from the JeWish War Vet-
agencies readily combined their erans, either Jackson J. Holtz,
efforts and achieved a common past national commander, or
I Joseph Barr, author of the corn-
goal.
Held pointed out that this co- ! promise proposal. The January
operation was possible because speaker will be Dr Israel Gold-
in the German reparations sit- stein, president of the American
Congress.
uation none of the agencies was and World Jewish
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haunted by a fear of the chal-
Council of Judaism Upholds
lenge of local community coun-
cils, which obviously did not en- Action of Committee, ADL
ter into the picture. That, he
NEW YORK—The action of
asserted, distinguished the Ger- the American Jewish Commit-
man restitution problem from tee and the Anti-Defamation
problems of domestic concern. League of Bnai Brith in with-
Any other differences that Bnai drawing from the National Com-
Brith and the American Jewish munity Relations Advisory
Committee have with the Council was hailed by the Amer-
NCRAC could be readily settled, ican Council for Judaism.
Held believes, except the chal-
The statement, by Lessing J.
lenge of local community coun- Rosenwald, president of the
cils and other local organiza- American Council for Judaism,
tions.
points • out that the American
Concepts of Jewish commun- Council for Judaism had no di-
ity organization, he said, must rect organizational stake in the
be dynamic and "new ideas series of events leading from
must be tested. The recommen- the issuance of the Maclver Re-
dations of the Maclver Report port; that the Council has nev-
are new ideas and their chal- er been a member of the NCRAC
lenge cannot be ignored." Held but had been gratified to note
related that the American Jew- that the philosophical sections
ish Committee came into being of the report by Columbia Uni-
as a revolt of younger and more veftity Professor Robert M. Mac-
militant elements and as a chal- Iver had confirmed two of the
lenge to the earlier leadership Council's basic convictions,
in the field which had been pre- namely:
empted by Bnai Brith. Some of
That there neither is nor
the Committee leadership, which ought to be a 'Jewish Commun-
at the time was branded as "the ity' in the United States; that
young Turks" because it ad- outside of their religion Jews
vanced hitherto untested ideas, do not and ought not to possess
subsequently became cautious a unity in interest or objective.
and responsible leadership in
Certain organizational recom-
American Jewish life.
mendations of the Maclver Re-
As a consequence of this new port, however, seemed to the
assertion of local leadership Council to be inconsistent with
and of the emergence of respon- Dr. Maclver's philosophical un-
sible and vocal community derstanding. Their effect, the
groups, Bnai Brith and the Jew- Council declared several months
ish Committee are faced with the ago, "would be to centralize au-
necessity of adjusting them- thority and control for Jews and
selves to some new concepts in Jewish affairs, creating an au-
Jewish life, he steed. The prob- thoritarian Jewish community."
lem they face, Held declared, is
The position of the American
whether to recognize the grow- Jewish Committee and the Anti-
ing factor of local community Defamation League in opposi-
strength or whether to seek to
preserve, in the face of this
challenge, the strength they
have built in the community re-
lations field. A mass organiza-
tion such as Bnai Brith feels it
most keenly because its com-
munity relations activities are
an inducement toward attract-
ing a following. The need to
stress these activities occasion-
ally might bring the organiza-
tion into conflict with local com-
munity organizations and it is
here, Held felt, that the crux of
the problem lies.
MEET REFS AND ZEST AT
In the entire field of com-
munity relations there had
been "enough trial and too
much error" and a study of
the field was completely in or-
der, accordhig to Held. Ex-
perience has indicated that
apparently no compromise
will be acceptable to the Bnai
Brith or American • Jewish
Committee and . . therefore,
Held predicted, a struggle
within the Jewish community
is now the prospect. The
struggle, he said, will be be-
tween new forces and new-
Ideas, of which the Maclver
Report Is a symptom and the
national organizations which
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Weizmann Attends
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TEL AVIV, (JTA)
Mrs. Vera
Weizmann will attend the me-
morial meeting f her • - bus-
band, Dr. Chaim 'Weizmann. in
New York, on Dec. 17.
Replying to an invitation from
Abraham Feinberg, chairman of
the American Committee for
Weizmann. Institute of Science,
which is sponsoring the memori-
al rally, Mrs. Weizmann said:
} "The progress of science and ed-
ucation in Israel_ which was al-
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of Chaim since childhood, has
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Yaacov Dori, president of.
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