1,000,000 Unaffiliated Jews Reported
Sinai Hospital
At Reform Judaism Campaign Dinner Given $114,300
NEW YORK, (JTA) — About aries for new residential com-
By the Fords
1,000,000 Jews in the United munities.

States are not affiliated with any
branch of Jud4ism, it was esti-
mated here by Benjamin H.
Swig, general chairman of the
Combined Campaign for Reform
Judaism, at a dinner which
marked the official opening of the
$2,396,000 drive for 1955-56.
The money will be used to
meet the annual maintenance
needs of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, -national
parent body of 520 Reform Jew-
ish congregations in the United
States and the •Hebrew Union
College-Jewish .Institute of Re-
ligion.
Expressing concern for 'isolat-
ed Jewish families residing in
small communities • throughout
the hungry for Jewish
knowledge and Jewish guidance,"
Mr. Swig declared that • larger
Jewish communities in the coun-
try - have- "a moral responsibility
to pool their material resources
in order to assure adequate
spiritual resources for the • en _ -
tire nation." He stated that a
successful Combined Campaign
this year would assure: the adop-
tion of the following five-point
program to strengthen Reform
Judaism:
1. An intensive training pro-
gram for religious school per-
sonnel to staff new Sunday and
religious schools in small, large
and intermediate communities.
2. Caravans of rabbis and lay
leaders to visit on a regular
-basis Jewish communities in
outlying areas too small to main-
tain their own rabbis. .
3. The establishment of a spe-
cial loan to . make possible - the
construction of smaller sanctu-

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4. The establishment of a spe-
cial fund to facilitate the prep-
aration and distribution of prayer
books and religious school text
books in communities lacking
these materials.
5. The establishment of labor
synagogues in industrial areas to
enable workers to study and
worship in their free hours.
The dinner, attended by 500
leaders of the Reform movement,
was in honor of Frank L. Weil,
prominent Jewish leader, • who
has been designated American
Reform Judiaism's "Man of the
Year" for 1955.
Also honored was Richard
Rodgers, distinguished 'American
composer for "his great contri-
butions to the. happiness of the
American people." Both Mr. Weil
and Mr. Rodgers are members of
Congregation Emanu-El in New
York.
Marvin J.-Silberman, chairman
of the Greater New York Com-
bined Campaign, announced that
advance gifts to the current drive
totalled $575,000, including $230,-
000 pledged by those attending
the dinner. _

JRSO Seeking
To Speed Up
German Settlemen

NEW YORK (JTA)—The suc-
cessful negotiation of bulk' set-
tlements against the G e r man
Federal. Republic and the City
of West Berlin of its claims to
heirless Jewish property, re-
mains the outstanding problem
f acing the Jewish Restitution
Successor Organization in Ger-
many, the board of directots was
informed at its eighth annual
meeting by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
chairman.
The sztecessf44tittritiation of
these settlemeiits within the corn-
ing year would speed up the
completion of the entire restitu-
tion program by the JRSO.
The JRSO, which was formed
in 1947 by a group of leading
Jewish organizations in the U.S.,
Britain, France and Germany to
press claims against Germany for
heirless Jewish assets, has suc-
cessfully settled to date the over-
whelming bulk of these claims
within. the Laender of the U.S.
one of Germany, it was reported
at the board meeting by Ben-
jamin Ferenc; JRSO director in
Germany. --
The board elected Monroe
Goldwater president for 1955-56
and extended its felicitations
upon the occasion of his 70th
birthday. Dr. Israel Goldstein
was chosen chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee.
Other officers elected include:
Edward M. M. Warburg, Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, Jacob Blaustein,
Randolph Bohrer, Frederick Bor-
chardt and *Dr. Isaac Lewin, vice
presidents; Dr. Herman Gray and
Shad Polier, co-treasurers; secre-
tary, Saul Kagan.

WASHINGTON - (JTA) — The '
Pentagon has completed its study
of the list of arms requested of
the United States by Israel and
returned the list to the State
, Sinai Hospital in Detroit
Department.
will receive $114,300 from the
The Def ens e Department's
Ford 'Foundation as a grant
evaluation of the arms list,
to improve its hospital serv-
which reportedly asked some
ices.
$50,000,000 worth of weapons,
Announcement of the grant
said that the arms requested
was forthcoming this week
were of a "defensive nature."
from the office of Dr. Julian
Many of the arms requested
Priver, executive director of
were available, and those that
the hospital.
are not available were relatively
Although Sinai received a
unimportant, the Defense De-
letter from the Foundation
partment said. .
stating the amount of the sub-
Although the arms list has
sidy, there were no further
been kept secret, both because
details available. A second
of protocol and Israel's specific
letter is expected to outline
request, it is understood that
the specific uses of the fund.
jet planes intended to offset the
The Ford Foundation grant
Soviet MIG-15's received by
to Sinai Hospital is a part of
Egypt from Czechoslavakia,a*.re
overall contributions to has-
on the list.-
pitals • and universities
Also requested are anti-tank
throughout the country. The
guns and vessels useful in de-
total of $500,000,000 makes
stroying submarines, which
this the largest charitable gift
Egypt now has on order with
in the history of philanthropy.
the Soviet bloc.
The report by the Defense De-
partmentpartment• on Israel's re-
quest completes the first phase
of "consideration" of the arms
list by the U.S. Government and
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The tra- returns the , matter to the State
ditional Hanukah torch-bearing Department.
marathon between Modiin, the
home of the Maccabees who
sparked the revolt which over-
threw the Graeco-Syrians more
than 2,000 years ago, and the
major centers of this country,
was held Sunday.
Torches were lit at Modiin
and one set of runners carried
a torch to Tel Aviv, while an-
other traveled to Jerusalem, a:
third team to Haifa and a
fourth to Rehovoth past the
grave of Chaim Weizmann and.
then on a tour of southern set-
tlements. Despite showers which
hampered the runners through-
out the day, a team of sprinters
brought their torch into Tev
Aviv late in the afternoon and
chief Rabbi, " I., Untermatr- used
it to light huge Hanukah
Candles.

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(Addressing a Jewish Natiorial
Fund dinner in San Francisco
last weekend, Sen. Estes Kefau-
ver, Democratic hopeful in the
Presidential race in 1952 arid
again in 1956,. called on the U.S.
to supply Israel with defensive
arms.

(While he expressed opposition
to an arms race in the Middle
East, he added that as long as
Egypt has obtained arms frOm
the Communist bldc, the U.S.
should arm Israel.)

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