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Definite plans have been made to conclude the 1958 Allied Jewish
Campaign on April 30 . . . at a dinner of volunteer workers at
Hotel Statler, with Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive vice-president
of the Israel Bond Organization, as guest speaker . . . This calls for
renewed efforts for the drive . . Every effort must be made to
reach the campaign goal by April 30. . . Do YOUR share NOW!
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`Undemocratic' Action Charged to
Census Bureau on Reli ious Issue
The new statistics which the United States Census Bureau recently released.
do not treat all religious groups of the country equally, charges Dr. H. S. Linfield,
executive secretary of the Jewish Statistical Bureau, in his report to the National
Council for Statistics of Jews. Only six groups are given, namely: Baptists, Luth-
erans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics and Jews. The Bureau did not publish
the number of persons and the socio-economic characteristics of such important
religious groups as Episcopalians, Mormons, and others. "Indeed, only the Jewish
group," states Dr. Linfield, "of all the religious minorities, was indicated by name
and separate statistics published."
For the first time in the history of the United States, Dr. Linfield adds, fed-
eral census agents early in 1957, in a nationwide sample survey, asked Americans
to state their religious preference. The answers to this question, correlated with
other questions, gave the Census Bureau the means to publish social and economic
statistics of the religious groups, by sex, age, etc., in the manner of the separate
statistics of Negroes and the other raci al groups. But the Census Bureau chose
to publish this type of census data only of Jews and five other religious groups.
But even in the case of the six religious groups which it enumerated by name,
- the Census Bureau did not put all of them on the same level. Instead, Dr. Linfield
stresses, the Census Bureau chose for publication certain statistical data, such as
urban and rural distribution, for Jews and one or two more, but not for the other
religious groups.
"Our aim," writes Dr. Linfield, `.`is to point out that the Census - Bureau has
adopted a procedure or method for the publication of its new statistics which is
undemocratic."
Indeed, if the Federal Census Bureau is to continue with its new statistics,
Dr..Linfield concludes, "any and all American religious groups may be separately
enumerated at any time; separate social and economic statistics released of one
or some of them by name; and indeed some statistical data revealed of one or
some groups over against other statistical data of other groups — all of these,
when, if, and as the Census Bureau chooses to do. The liberties of all religious
groups of the country are affected."
The National Council for Statistics of Jews is composed of delegates ap-
pointed by the national federations of Jewish congregations and the national
associations of rabbis, namely:- Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rab
binical Assembly of America, Rabbinical Alliance of America, Rabbinical Council
of America, Union of Orthodox Rabbis of United States and Canada; Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America, thiited Synagogue of America. -
This Is Israel
On the State's
Approaching Tenth. Anniversary
One week from today, Israel will be ten years old . . . Here is a brief pictorial account
of the young State's activities . . . Its modernity, coupled with traditional observances, empha-
sizes the uniqueness and the genius of its people . •.• . In the upper photo, Israel youth are
shown in the open-air, over-the-counter stores, adopting to their tastes the Italian pizza pie,
the Pizza sign hailing them in Hebrew and English . . . The second photo shows young sheep-
herders working swiftly and with confidence as they tie the legs of sheep with ropes prior to
actual shearing during the Hag Hagez—the shearing festival—outside of Jerusalem. A f ter
shearing their 6,000 sheep, the settlers celebrate with songs and dances . . . In the third photo
is the evidence of the program of free education for all in Israel- -for Jews, Christians and Mos-
lems. One of the first acts of the Israeli government when it came to power ten years ago was
to pass a law for compulsory free primary education. Ten years later, school attendance has
nearly quadrupled, with Jewish and Arab children working and studying together in in a n y
schools • . The lowest photo shows that, at times, carts displace tractors. Some of the new
Polish immigrants are so used to driving carts that they feel uncomfortable in trucks and trac-
tors. So the Israel government supplies them with their favorite transportation mode—carts--
with the added touch of fat, rubber wheels, however, to make the ride over muddy streets more
comfortable. Photo shows Mrs. Frieda Kornstein, 4'7, who shares her cart with her neighbor.
Photos courtesy American Committee for Israel's Tenth Anniversary Celebration-.