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THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, Oc tobe r 2, 1959 —
Federation's 50-Year Progress in Many Fields
Outlined in President Fisher's 5720 Message
with the respect and sensitivity upon the cooperation of ever
required by the nature of a greater numbers of groups and
voluntary e f f or t dependent individuals.
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prestige and effectiveness be- jectives of these services, Fed-
By MAX M. FISHER
cause we have responded to eration, as a. voluntary associa-
President, Jewish Welfare
the needs and interests of our tion, has been continuously
Federation
people and because an even eager to maintain a high level
The sentiment of our tradi-
larger circle of organizations of community harmony. This
tional New Year's greeting,
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and individuals has recog- often requires the resolution
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"May you be inscribed for a
of problems with groups and
nized
their
importance.
good year," stimulates the
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Our founders recognized individuals who sometimes see
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sense of kinship among us as
their position threatened by
Jews. It reflects our warm
the development of activities
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feeling toward each other as
of a broad communal char-
individuals and as members of
acter. We have tried to deal
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a community. It is more than
successfully with such prob-
a casual nicety expressed in
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lems and have found a reward-
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passing. It is a wish that the
ing response in understanding
new year will be one of greater
and devotion to the idea of
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fulfillment for each of us and
community in many quarters.
for all of us together. More
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Our real objectives lie in
than a mere wish, it implies a
two
areas:
to
provide
a
maxi-
commitment to continue to
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mum of health, welfare, educa-
strive for a better life for our
tional
and
cultural
services
for
neighbors and for our people
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ourselves and our people; and
generally.
to build community unity in
We know it takes more than
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behalf of these growing serv-
wishing to make a better life.
ices.
Making the wish come true
We have come a long way
for our community means or-
MAX M. FISHER
since the early demonstration
ganization, planning, work, gen-
erosity, statesmanship, self-sac- that it would be better to do of cooperation in 1899. As we
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rifice, devotion. The founders
cooperatively what unrelated face the new year we resolve
of the early United Jewish organizations were doing to continue to move forward
Charities understood this 60
separately. One of their first
years ago. Successive genera- major projects was the crea-
tions built.on their understand- tion of the Hannah Schloss
ing to make possible the well- Building, a place where Jews
organized Jewish Welfare Fed- could play, learn and social-
eration which serves as an in- ize with each other. It is of
strument of a better life for interest to mention that Jus-
all of us today.
tice Henry M. Butzel, then a
From the beginning, our young lawyer, headed the
basic objective was to bring campaign to raise the money
about a closer association of for the building.
members of the Jewish com-
We've gone on as a com-
munity. The instruments of co- munity to build more services
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education; a home for the aged
with a lifetime guarantee.
which reflects our respect for
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older
people;
a
hospital
which
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for the construction of 5,000
ity Center which is bustling
housing units was approved by
the Cabinet. The plan is in- with activity.
All this, and much more, has
tended to facilitate the clear-
ance of maabarot (transit been achieved while we met
our responsibilities in many di-
camps) throughout the coun-
rections; in care for the young
try.
The new project, construc- and the old; in strengthening
tion of which is due to start civil rights; in welcoming ref-
immediately, is in addition to ugees to our midst; in extend-
20,000 units already nearing ing the hand of helpfulness
completion. The Cabinet also and friendship to our people
voted to increase the budget in all parts of the world; and
of the Ministry of Social Wel- as the instrument for provid-
fare to enable higher grants ing a new life for hundreds of
thousands in Israel.
for needy families.
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'Israel Socialism
Pains Khrushchev
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)
—The question of Moscow's
unfriendly attitude toward
Israel was raised with So-
viet Premier Khrushchev
by Walter Reuther, presi-
dent of the United Auto
Workers, during the dinner
meeting held here by seven
vice-presidents of the AFL-
CIO with Khrushchev.
Reuther told the Soviet
Premier: "We think that
the country in the free
world nearest to democratic
socialism is Israel. Yet the
Russian attitude toward Is-
rael has been most un-
friendly."
Premier Khrushchev re-
plied that the Soviet gov-
ernment "has no instrument
that could measure the so-
cialism in Israel." He there-
by tossed his head almost
disdainfully.
Reuther, pursuing the
question, continued: "You
have not been there. I have
been there, and I have seen
how the Histadrut, the mag-
nificent Israeli labor move-
ment, which owns 60 per-
cent of the production, sup-
ports the nation and aids
its progress." Khrushchev
preferred not to continue
the conversation on this
ciihieet.
Rockefeller, Wagner
Attend Temple Opening
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A week-
long dedication of a new
$1,500,000 temple was begun by
the Reform congregation
Shaaray Tefila, once known as
the West End Synagogue. Gov-
ernor Nelson Rockefeller and
Mayor Robert Wagner partici-
pated in the opening service.
The congregation, which is
more than 100 years old, was
founded as an Orthodox group,
but in 1879 it voted to abandon
Orthodoxy in favor of Reform
Judaism. During the last nine
months that the new temple
was under construction, the con-
gregation conducted its worship
in a Unitarian church.
Name Law Professor
to Canadian UN Team
OTTAWA, (JTA)—The Min-
istry for External Affairs has
announced the appointment of
Prof. Maxwell Cohen of the law
faculty of McGill University as
a member of the Canadian dele-
gation to the United States.
Prof. Cohen, 49, is a native
of Winnipeg. He was admitted
to the bar in 1939, and has
served as a counsel in legisla-
tive investigations and as a con-
sultant. to the UN Technical
Assistance Administration. He
has been active in Jewish Zion-
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