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Flow of Funds for New Immigrants Christian Writer Sees Increase in Religious Tenets
In "Land in Search of God," through to the individual be- tions and publishing, in law
`Inadequate,' UJA Mission Is Told (Random
House), Stanley J. neath the outward conformities and business. The result

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
100-member United Jewish Ap-
peal study mission, which ar-
rived here for conferences with
Israel's political and economic
leaders and a tour of the coun-
try prior to the national annual
goal-fixing conference of the
UJA, was told bluntly that the
flow of cash from the Ameri-
can campaign and from other
sources was "inadequate" in
the face of the increased im-
migration from Romania and
elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Israeli leaders are planning on
receiving 30,000 immigrants in
the next six months.
Jewish Agency treasurer Dov
Joseph, who told the Americans
that there was not sufficient
money coming in to integrate
the expected new arrivals,
stressed that there were still
"unmet needs" with respect to
immigrants who arrived here
earlier. There is need for hous-
ing for 22,000 families-100,000
men, women and children—he
pointed out. It will cost $90,000,-
000 to take these people out of
transit camps, Dr. Joseph esti-
mated.
Ambassador A bb a Eban,
newly-elected president of the
Weizmann Institute of Science
at Rehovoth, addressing the an-
nual Weizmann memorial meet-
ing in Tel Aviv, cited the
career of Israel's first President
as an example of the linkage
of science and statesmanship
which must take place if the
world is to survive. He visual-
ized Dr. Weizmann as a proto-
type of the leader in the world
of tomorrow.
Speaking to 1,000 guests, in-
cluding members of the visiting
American UJA study mission,
Eban pointed out that the past
year had seen some "awesome
revelations" of man's power to
liberate, though not to control
the violent entergies of nature.
Mankind faces a "fearful peril,"
he said, if the current separa-
tion between the two worlds of
s cience and politics endures
much longer.
Before Eban's address, Col.
Ezer Weizmann, commander of
Israel's Air Force and a nephew
of the late President, recited
the traditional prayer for the
dead at the side of his uncle's
grave.
The UJA delegation received
a thorough orientation on Is-
rael's two main problems: im-
migration and housing. Begin-
ning a five-day tour of the
country, delegates visited the
:port of Haifa where immi-
grants first make contact with
Israel and the transit camps
where they spend weeks, months
or years before being moved
to permanent homes.
Grim canvas structures, black-
ening wooden huts and dozens

of "hard core" unemployably
ill or disabled immigrants
greeted the visitors Tuesday at
Mahne Israel Camp, which is
under the direction of Malben,
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee welfare program in this
country.
Later, the delegates met resi-
dents of David Cainp (named
for the late Col. David Mickey
Marcus), who heatedly pointed
out the disadvantages of living
in such a camp.
One exclaimed, "seven years
in such dwellings are long
enough."
The American Jewish com-
munal leaders also visited the
new Haifa Technion campus and
later went down to Haifa's dock
area to witness the arrival of
400 immigrants from East Eu-
ropean countries. The delegates
mixed with the newcomers,
many of whom related their
personal experiences.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
vice chairman, who heads the
delegation, declared, "we are
witnessing an historic moment
for every one of these 400 new
immigrants, as they pass the
threshold of their new home,
which for them is the new hope
of a new life."

Israel Committee
to Study Reasons
for Emigration

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Minis-
ter of the Interior Israel Bar
Yehuda has appointed a special
committee to study the reasons
motivating Jews to emigrate
from Israel to overseas lands.
The committee was also
charged with the task of making
recommendations for the elim-
ination of the conditions leading
to emigration.
In the ten years of Israel's
existence, a b out 63,000 Jews
emigrated legally. Several thou-
sand more, who left Israel as
tourists, have not returned to
Israel and have presumably
settled overseas.
Since almost a million immi-
grants arrived in the country
during the same period, the
emigration amounts to about
seven to eight percent, which is
regarded as much lower than
the customary figure for coun-
tries of mass immigration.
Israel does not consider the
arrival of newcomers as immi-
gration so much as a return
to the homeland, and therefore
considers the percentage of
emigration too high.
The investigating committee
will ask all applicants for emi-
gration visas to indicate the rea-
sons why they wish to leave
Israel, undertaking to keep this
information confidential.

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Rowland, Jr., makes an analy-
sis of rising religious interests
in this country.
The author, an active Man-
hattan churchman, a former
New York Times staff member,
now associate director of infor-
mation for the United Presby-
terian Church in the U.S.A.,
emphasizes that the younger
generation seeks a better
world. In a church member-
ship study, he quotes these fig-
ures, in a chart published as
an appendix:
"In 1926, the total member-
ship of all religious bodies in
the United States (including
those neither Jewish nor Chris-
tian) was reported at 54,576,-
346. In 1940 the figure was 64,-
501,594, and in 1956 it was
103,224,954. The estimated pop-
ulation in those years was 117,-
136,000 for 1926, 131,669,000
for 1940, and 167,498,000 in
1956."
Rowland points out that, in
his reference to the Nazi
atrocities and the gassing of
Jews in Buchenwald, that "any-
thing is justified in the name
of the nation." He shows the
answer, in faith, to such hor-
rors, especially for Americans
who "are 'under God,' " al-
though we are still unsure of
what it means.
"A team of Jewish socialo-
gists says that a large segment
of American Jews are going to
synagogue • for social and cul-
tural reasons," he writes in his
study in which he declares that
"Catholicism, Protestantism and
Judaism are confronted alike
by the problem of how to
reach people, how to cut

and attitudes . ."
In a resume of the status
of Judaism, in which he
deals with all branches of
the faith, he makes the ob-
servation: "The followers of
Judaism, with their minority
heritage, often place a high
value on the freedom to dis-
sent. Threaten this freedom,
and the Jew may see the
integrity of his existence
threatened. Rabbis are usu-
ally quick to recognize such
dangers, and this deeply felt
attitude is frequently found
in persons of Jewish heri-
tage who occupy central
positions in our culture —
in academies, in cominunica-

Hammarskjold to Visit
UNEF Force in Mideast

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

UNITED NATIONS — Dag
Hammarskjold, •United Nations
secretary general, is expected
in the Middle East the last
week of December when he
will visit United Nations Emer-
gency Force contingents on
duty in Gaza and at the Gulf
of Aqaba, it was reported here
Tuesday.
After a Christmas tour of
UNEF stations to build morale
of the units, he will keep his
promised meeting with Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion at the
Prime Minister's vacation home
at Sde Boker in the Negev.
UN truce supervision head-
quarters indicated that Ham-
marskjold planned visits to
Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt if
he felt such visits necessary
and if time was available.

places a brake on the trend
toward a narrower and con-
forming nationalism."
Rowland maintains that there
is a growth and spread of
Judaism that is carrying Jew-
ish observances to young Jews
in the suburbs. He states:
"Orthodox as well as Con-
servative and Reform syna-
gogues are flourishing in
some areas. Weekly Sabbath
celebrations bring religion
into the home of traditional
Jews . . . The synagogue
serves as a forum for dis-
cussing problems of religious
and communal concern."
He also refers, however, to
some tendencies towards assim-
ilation, and although he says
that it is not a problem for
a great many, "pressure to
conform pushes a person to
choose a faith, a choice that
can strain the loyalties of a
mixed marriage.
Rowland pays tribute to
Judaism: "The Judeo-Christian
tradition is the major source
of the ideals and values of our
society, and the modern relig-
ious search is a mass move-
ment toward that tradition .
Judaism would be unthinkable
without the prophets, who
were terifying nonconformists,
and Christianity would be poor
indeed without its mystics . . ."
Interesting emphasis is
placed in Rowland's study on
the trend among synagogues to
use design emblems to express
traditional ideas in the con-
struction of new buildings. He
calls it part of the decline of
the ghetto and the rise of a
new American Judaism.

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