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 * * * 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 Pewaukee, Wisconsin 20 miles west of Milwaukee. chi Tropical Indoor Swimming Pool. 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