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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—IncorPorating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOLUME XXIX—No. 9eva,.
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pi 4-Year Billion Dollar Israel
Development Plan Proposed
U.. S. Jewry's Spiritual
Development Defended
at Zionist Congress
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM = The 24th World
Zionist Congress suspended activities
Tuesday because May 1 is a holiday
in Israel, and delegates travelled in -
a body to Negev settlements to ex-
press their solidarity with Israel bor-
der settlers. During the tour delegates
also participated in the building of
fortifications around various settle-
ments in the desert.
Before debate suspended for the
day, Mrs. Judith Epstein, American
Hadassah leader, objected sharply to
assertions that American Jewry was
• failing to preserve and continue Jew-
ish spiritual development. In- a state-
ment aimed at Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann's criticism that Am eric a n
Jewry was concentrating on fund-
raising to the exclusion of Jewish
culture, Mrs. Epstein insisted that
American Jewry was experiencing a
"renaissance" and cited Jewish school
registration figures as proof.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A $1,000,060,000 four-year plan for underwriting the State of Israel's immigra-
tion program and for buttressing its economy was presented at the World Zionist Congress by Levi Eshkol,
Finance Minister of Israel and head of the Jewish Agency's settlement department.
The Zionist movement must mobilize its total resources to back this plan, otherwise, he warned, the
bringing in of large numbers of immigrants—which may becorrie necessary—could mean ruination of the
economy of Israel, endangering the security of the state and suffering for the immigrants. He expressed
hope that the Soviet bloc countries may open their doors wider for Jewish emigration and said that Israel
must be prepared for such an eventuality.
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Speaking as the Jewish Agency leader, Mr. Eshkol said to put the plan into operation would
require the United Je-v.ish Appeal to increase its current receipts by $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually
and to double receipts from the Israel bond drive. These funds would have no relation whatever to the
monies needed for security purposes at the present time, Mr. Eshkol stressed. „
The- absorption of 20,000 new families, as provided by the plan, he reported, will.require 480,000,000
pounds; the consolidation of existing settlements, 250,000,000 pounds; the housing of 30,000 to 40,000 immi-
grants outside agricultural settlements will come to another 150,000,000 pounds; afforestation and prep-
aration of soil, 40,000,000 pounds; employment and health services during the first year of the immigrants'
settlement, 50,000,000 pounds and 'a variety of other items, including settlement security measures, youth
work and organization will require another 280,000,000 . pounds.
Mr. Eshkol estimated that in the general immigration movement w i I 1 come thousands -of families
who will strike roots on their own and with some assistance from the Zionist movement. He asked that
immigration from the Western countries be aided financially to the extent needed by each family.
In a detailed analysis of where the 1,800,000,000 poundS--$1,000,000,000—would come from, Mr. Esh-
kol gave the following sums and their sources: 546,000,000 pounds f r o m German reparations; 154,000,000
pounds from grants and loans; 140,000,000 pounds from government bonds; 140,000,000 pounds from other
loans and taxes; 300,000,000 pounds from the- UJA; a like sum from the Israel bond campaign, and 220,-
000,000 from private capital. This investment when injected- into the Israel economy will permit the cut-
ting in half of the trade deficit which runs at about $300,000,000 annually. '
Mr.. Eshkol, who in his two major. duties illustrates th41-pointi; insisted that •he-'Zionist 'movement's
program must be carried out in keeping with Israel's national and economic policies: The Zionist and gov-
ernment development of the countryside and the economy are and must remain - intertwined,' he said.
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Rabbinical • Assembly Charges. Anti--Israel
Judaism Council, With 'Confusing American
People, Government' on Jewry's Sympathies
FERNDALE, N. Y.—The anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism was sharply denounced
by the Conservative rabbinate at the 56th annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of
America, which took place at Grossinger's Hotel April 23-26. In a unanimously-adopted resolu-
tion, 500 Conservative rabbis, representing every section of this country and Canada, .charged
the Council with "confusing the American public and Government as to the sympathies of the
overwhelming' majority of Jews in this country toward Israel."
The resolution called attention to the repeated assertions by religious and lay leaders
of the three branches of Judaism who have "demonstrated time and again that those who speak
for the Council for Judaism represent no significant part of American Jewish life."
The statement emphasized that "Jews outside of Israel do not owe political loyalty to that
state, are spiritually involved with its security and progress and with its existence as a demo-
)cratic ally of the United States. To deny this kinship is to belie the facts of Jewish existence
as well as to tamper with a basic tenet of the Jewish faith."
(The anti-Israel Council for Judaism, at its convention in Chicago fast week-end, termed
American Jewry's request for defensive arm s for Israel "pressure . . . committed to advancing
the cause of- foreign nationalism." The anti-Zionists, in bitter attacks on the Zionists, asked
the U. S. Government .to "conduct an examination of the relationship between the State of
Israel and certain Zionist mechanisms operating in the lives of American Jews." The anti-
Zionists' president, Clarence L. Coleman, specifically referred to the Jewish Agency, the United
Jewish Appeal and other fund-raising organizations in this country in .his attack on fund-
raising for Israel, and in his request for a government investigation. The chairman of the
Council's philanthropic fund supported him in his view, and Congressman Omar Burleson, of
Texas, gave them moral support by accusing the use of charity funds raised here for Israeli
defense expenditures.)
(In his syndicated column, "On the Record," Nathan Ziprin, editor of Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate, this week branded the Council of Judaism stand as "infamy." Many non-Jews have
joined Jewish leaders in condemning the attacks by the Council-on Israel and the Jewish relief
movements).
The Conservative rabbis reaffirmed their stand against a n y religious intrusions in public
education, urged immediate defensive arms for Israel, pledged their support- in the fight against -
segregation, and called upon the U. S. Government to take steps against Arab-supported prop-
aganda against American Jews.- The assembly elected Rabbi Aaron H. Blumenthal of Temple
Emanu-el, Mount Vernon, N. -Y., as president.
Dr. Modecai M. Kaplan, philosopher and educator, was honored on his 75th birthday.
Adult Jewish education is on the rise, Rabbi Mordecai Waxman of Temple Israel, G r e a t
Neck, N.. Y., reported to the convention.
The need to restore the "perspective of Zionism to its legitimate place in Jewish history"
was emphasized by Rabbi Hertzel Fishman of Greenwich, Conn., chairman of the Assembly's
committee on Israel and Zionism.
Rabbi Sidney Greenberg of Philadelphia, maintaining that "American Jewry is in a posi-
tion to make a vital and necessary contribution to religious life in Israel", urged the Assembly
to send its most qualified spiritual leaders to serve in Israel.
Rabbi Morris Adler, of Detroit, delivered one of the principal speeches in which he re- '
fleeted the long-standing policy of the Assembly, resisting involvement of religion and public
education.
The critical shortage of teachers in Jewish education and new developments in adult Jew-
ish education also came up for review before the delegates.
The convention renewed, for an additional three years, an arrangement whereby the as-
sembly and the faculty of the seminary will continue the National Beth Din. RabbiS from
various parts of the country reported that the new
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Dedicate Unai Brith
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Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Bnai Brith exhibit
hail and building will be held this Sunday, in Washington,
D.C., with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (upper left) and Sen.
Herbert H. Lehman (right) delivering the principal ad-
dresses. Philip M. Klutznick, national pre'sident of Bnai
Brith, will preside. The eight-story edifice, to be construct-
ed at a cost of $1,300,000 will contain historic documents,
manuscripts, paintings and sculpture to show Jewish contri-
butions .to American democracy. The building also will
house the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Memorial
Library established by the women of Bnai Brith. The cere-
mony will be part of the 21st general convention of the
organization, from May 5-9. A highlight will be a major
policy statement by "Secretary of State Dulles at the ban-
quet, Tuesday. The Detroit delegation, headed by Sidney
J. Karbel, president of District Grand Lodge No. 6, will
include Harry Yudkoff, Aaron Droock, Samuel W. Leib,
Jack Caminker, Louis E. Barden, Milton M. Weinstein, Dr.