B. G. R. Says:
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-33
Friday, April 16, 1954
NC_RAC Needs a New Name
this is the last. desperate attemp
to bring our scattered and corn
peting forces together. I woul d
An American Jewish Press Feature
American Jewish communal ac- prefer to be more hopeful an d
The National Community Re- tivities, beginning with the rest in the. belief that the long
lations Advisory Council repre- Board of American Israelites, in sought-after aim would ulti
sents one of several efforts to 1859.
mately be achieved without grea t
thoroughly unify and coordinate
I would not like to think that strain and difficulty. My chie f
misgiving is engehdered by th e
thought that the NCRAC S
somehow not entering suffic
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iently into the consciousness o f
the American Jewish public; the
reading and thinking public.
For one thing, the NCRAC
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needs a new name. It needs a
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simpler and more comprehen-
sible cognomen that will read-
ily give the gist of the purposes
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of the organization. The full
name is too long and initials are
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confusing. My own suggestion
would be The National Commun-
ity Council. but perhaps t h e
whole matter ought to be left
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open for suggestions from the
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public and that, in itself. would
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arouse more interest in the or-
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In addition to a simpler and
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NCRAC should resort to• other
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meats of arousing public opin-
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ion in behalf of the coordina-
tion of Jewish affairs, the eli-
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mination of duplication and
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competition and ultimately the
waste that is involved in a num-
ber of organizations carrying on
the same activities.
For one thing, I have previous-
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ly suggested that the meeting
of an Executive Committee of
the NCRAC and of its Evaluat-
ing Committee, which is to judge
on the merits of different activ-
ities, should be open to the pub-
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lic with all interested communal
leaders and workers being en-
abled to attend the sessions of
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these bodies. These meetings
would then take on the charac-
ter of all common councils or
town hall meeting in which per
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Established 1890
I have suggested this plan in
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of the NCRAC and also
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to Bernard H. Trager, the new
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e day also be my friend. I am sure
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both of these gentlemen are
now cogitating the proposal and
that they, meanwhile, have writ-
ten to Mr. Isiah M. Minkoff, the
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Executive Director of the
NCRAC, so as to get his reaction
before they answer me.
In old-time Jewish tradition,
thereWas a custom of changing
the name of a child critically ill,
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in the belief that a new name
would transform the fate of the
ufferer. The NCRAC, even if it
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s .a victim of indifference, is not
b y any means suffering from
a ny severe illness Just the same,
a new and intelligible name may,
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1 ike a blood transfusion add new
1 ife and vigor.
—Bernard G. Richards
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offee beans. An Israeli scien-
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