Isaac Toubin Succeeds Petegorsky
as National Director of AJ Congress
Isaac Toubin, nationally-noted
authority in Jewish communal
affairs and intergroup relations,
has been appointed executive
director of the American Jew-
ish Congress, it was announced
by Dr. Israel
Goldstein, AJ-
Congress presi-
dent. Toubin
succeeds the
late Dr. David
Pete g o rsky,
who died July
15.
During the
past 10 years,
Toubin has
been assistant
director, asso-
Toubin.
c iate director
and acting executive director of
the Congress.
Prior to his affiliation with
the AJCongress in 1056, Toubin
was associated with the National
Jewish Welfare Board, serving
in executive posts here and
overseas.
A native of New York, he is
a graduate of Yeshiva College
and the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
The AJCongress is a national
association dedicated to the
preservation and extension of
democracy and to the creative
survival of the Jewish people
throughout the world.
Founded in 1918 by Dr. Ste-
phen S. Wise, Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
Julian W. Mack and others, the
Congress now represents more
than 300,000 Jews through its
chapters and affiliated groups
around the country.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The elected William Rosenwald as sible a full-scale Arab attack
United Jewish Appeal con- UJA general chairman for a on Israel, and start hostilities
cluded its two-day annual na- third successive term. They which could spread beyond
tional conference with a deci- named Samuel Rubin chairman that country.
sion to conduct a nationwide of the $100,000,000 Emergency
"There is no use in waiting
drive for a $100,000,000 Emer-' Rescue drive and elected Sen. until large numbers of these
gency Rescue Fund over and Herbert H. Lehman honorary `volunteers' come in," Gen. Ya-
above its regular 1957 campaign. chairman of UJA. Rabbi Her- din said, "before the free world
The unprecedented decision bert A, Friedman was re-elected becomes concerned, A big fire
was taken by more than 1,200 UJA executive vice-chairman. can come from a small spark."
American Jewish communal All 1956 UJA officers were re- He pointed out that the small
number of men required for
leaders in the light of mount- elected for -the coming year.
CHARLES
Among the officers re- such tactics could slip into any
ing evidence that a minimum of
100,000 endangered Jews will elected was Joseph Holtzman, Arab state by twos or threes
WEINSTOCK Says
require assistance in the next 12 of Detroit, UJA national chair- without attracting much atten-
months in moving to Israel and man. He presided at two ses- tion.
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sions of the conference's steer-
other free countries.
Referring to Israel's recent
ing
committee.
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Sinai action, he said that Israeli
In creating the Emergency
Other Detroiters attending troops had "definitely heard
Rescue Fund, the Jewish lead-
The
NEWEST Buick
ers declared in a resolution that the two-day meeting were Mrs. Russian spoken by the operators
Abraham
Cooper,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
of
Egyptian
tanks
communicat-
"this is an hour of consummate
Yet ... BUICK for '57!
peril for hundreds of thousands Lewis B. Daniels, Mrs. Holtz- ing by radio."
of Jews overseas, and for the man, Mrs. John C. Hopp, Mrs.
He said that the clash of Is-
free and democratic people of Harry L. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. rael's troops with Egyptian
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Israel, who are threatened by Abe Kasle, Mr. and Mrs. Jack forces in the Sinai had punc-
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naked and rampant totalitarian- 0. Lefton, Mrs. Nathan Simons, tured two Middle East myths,
ism to a degree unmatched Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Sobeloff, the myth of Arab unity, and the
Near G. M. Bldg.
Miss Esther Prussian and Wil- effectiveness of Nasser's at-
since the days of Hitler."
tempt to turn Egypt into a mili-
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The delegates drew special at- liam Avrunin,
Joseph Meyerhoff, chairman tary nation. "The Egyptian of-
tention to Egypt's treatment of
29th
Year With Buick
its 50,000 Jews, asserting that of the National Campaign Cab- ficers exhibited a shockingly
inet,
reported
the
budgetary
low
morale,"
he
stated.
"Nasser daily reveals himself
as the spiritual heir of Nazism." needs of the United Israel Ap-
They scored Egypt's mass ex- peal, Joint Distribution Com-
pulsion of Jews, the fact that mittee and New York Associa-
it is now subjecting Jews to tion for New Americans.
He pointed out that in addi-
persecution, confiscation of
property and the sequestering tion to funds for the rescue pro-
of Jewish communal institutions gram, they require of American
"in the manner of the infamous Jews a sum of $105,000,000 to
meet all other needs. This is
Nuremburg Laws."
the same regular amount they
"The very right of Israel's
required in 1956.
people to exist as a free and
Rabbi Friedman sounded the
independent State," they
keynote of the closing session
charged, "has been challenged with the statement that "Ameri-
by Israel's belligerent Arab
can Jews must rescue every Jew
neighbors into whose hands
in every area of crisis that can
the Soviets have put vast
be reached." The UJA executive
quantities of the most modern
head stressed that American
weapons of war, including jet
Jews could do no less at a time
bombers, planes, tanks and
when "Israel's dangerously en-
guns."
circled people have refused to
As a result, the delegates de- forsake Jews who may be in
clared, Israel's people are "in no "greater danger than them-
position to bear any part of the selves."
huge costs of the humanitarian
"At a time when Israel's
work of rescuing, receiving and people are taking in all of
absorbing" tens of thousands of those who can get out of lands
"endangered a n d threatened of oppression," he declared,
Jews." They also noted that "American Jews must join in
Jewish refugees reaching other this inspiring work of rescue
countries will need transporta- by an unprecedented outpour-
tion, relief and welfare aid.
ing of funds."
In the light of this, the dele-
Avraham Harman, member of
gates stressed, American Jews
must act at once in providing the Jewish Agency executive in
all the funds for emergency Jerusalem, told the delegates
rescue and resettlement, as well that events and developments
as for the regular welfare and in the Middle East show "be-
rehabilitation programs of the yond all doubt the permanence
and durability of Israel," and
UJA constituent agencies.
They took special note of the that the crisis in Hungary gives
fact that "several thousand Jews sharp proof of "the persistent
are among the multitudes who need of large and growing num-
fled Hungary during the course bers of Jews for fescue."
"The Jews of Israel," he de-
of the recent violent revolt, and
No one knows the importance of saving better than the
are now in Vienna and urgently clared, "and the. free Jewish
squirrel. His survival during the winter depends on
communities
of
the
world,
have
require food, clothing and re-
it. Let YOUR nest egg be a high-earning American
made themselves the instru-
settlement aid."
ment of Jewish rescue and they
Savings account . . . readily accessible money for
Rosenwald Re-elected
emergencies, opportunities, and a richer life for you
The communal leaders re- have it in their power to insure
freedom for many thousands of
and your family. You'll find saving comes naturally
Jews in need of it.
at American Savings, where the high return provides
"New
dangers
assail
Jews
in
If you two 1k.
Come in or phone WO 5.5800
a powerful incentive to add to your account regularly.
many lands," he asserted. "It
for freer POSTAGE PAID Savo-
Come in or open an account by mail soon.
must be our major concern at
By•Moil Kit.
this time to protect the great
achievements which have 1--- en
made and to press forward with
an even greater sense of ur-
gency the historic effort of res-
cue and rehabilitation."
Warn of Soviet-Arab Attack
The delegates heard also from
UJA president Edward M. M.
Warburg, who presided; UJA
general chairman William Ros-
enwald; Morris W. Berinstein
and Dewey D. Stone, national
chairmen of the UJA, and from
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