CJFWF Leaders on Tour Abroad to View Centers
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Fifteen
Jewish community leaders from
various sections of the United
States, representing the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, left here for a
tour of European centers and
of Israel, to confer with other
leaders and inspect health, wel-
fare and educational installa-
tions assisted by their commu-
nity campaigns in this country.
In London, first stop for the
delegation, the community lead-
ers will meet with leaders of
the Central British Fund for
Jewish Relief and Rehabilita-
tion, and other Jewish com-
munal organizations. In Paris,
the delegation will visit facili-
ties supported by American
Jewish philanthropic funds, and
confer with leaders of Fonds
Social Juif Unifi, the central
French Jewish welfare organiz-
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ference of European Communal
Services, an organization repre-
senting more, than 100 commu-
nities in 11 European countries.
The meetings have been ar-
ranged in cooperation with the
Joint Distribution Committee,
with whose leaders the delega-
tion will also confer.
Arriving in Israel on June 25
for two weeks of intensive talks
with officials and welfare lead-
ers, the American delegation
will examine developments
since the first Council study
mission in 1958.
The discussions with Israeli
leaders will include shifts in
American responsibility ror
health and welfare services in
Israel to match changing needs,
relation of American philan-
tropic funds to other forms of
aid, and changes in agricultural,
housing and educational needs.
The conversations will also in-
clude basic economic develop-
ments underlying the need for
assistance, prospects for greater
self-suppOrt through voluntary
financing in Israel, the JDC
Malben - program, and coordina-
tion of welfare services.
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Between sessions, the Ameri-
can communal leaders will visit
various installations and facili-
ties to view at first hand the
operation of welfare services
assisted by their community
campaigns. The European dis-
cussions will center around
evolving community organiza-
tions and their progress to-
wards self-support. Members of
the delegation will report their
findings at the Council's Gen-
eral Assembly in Dallas in
November.
Included in the group, which
comprises the second overseas
delegation sponsored by the
CJFWF, is Isidore Sobeloff of
Detroit.
NCRAC Plenary
Session Discusses
Activity Program
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
proposed program projecting
activity priorities in -five major
operational areas for 60 Ameri-
can Jewish organizations, for
the coming year, is being dis-
cussed by 200 delegates from
these organizations at the an-
nual plenary session of the
National Community Relations
Advisory Council, which open-
ed here Thursday. The session
will last four days.
The program, presented by
Isaiah M. Minkoff, executive
director of the NCRAC, is
purely advisory in character.
However, judgments and recom-
mendations of the NCRAC are
frequently used by the Coun-
cil's affiliates, as well as by
other Jewish organizations in
the United States, ' as guides
to programs and activities.
The kite areas covered by the
proposed program deal with: 1.
Overt anti-Semitism in the
United States;. 2. Community
relations implications of devel-
opments in the Middle East;, 3.
Inter-religious relations and
Church-State, issues; 4: Civil
Rights; and 5. The results and
effects of the Adolph Eichmann
trial.
Prominent among the topics
slated for discussion are right-
wing political and economic
movements, including the John
Birth Society; the population
explosion in the metropolitan
areas, with its implications for
equal opportunity and for inter-
racial and other intergroup re-
lations; school desegregation in
the North and in the South;
and trends in relationships
'among Catholics, Jews and Pro-
testants, including an analysis
of some of the issues on which
they are most divided.
The NCRAC has been, since
1914, the joint planning,and co-
ordinating body for Jewish
community relations in the
United States. Its member
group programs are aimed
at combating anti-Semitism and
all other forms of bigotry and
discrimination, and the pro-
motion of American principles
of equality and freedom.
Among its constituent organ-
izations are: The American
Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish War Veter-
ans of the United States, Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, Union of Orthodox Jew-
ish Congregations of America,
United Synagogue of America.
Commute Life Sentence
of Israeli Who Murdered
Ex-Hungarian Jewish Leader
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—President
Izhak Ben-Zvi commuted the life
sentence of Dan Shemer, one of
the three Israelis previously given
sentences of life imprisonment
for the assassination of Israel
Kastner, formerly a leader of the
Hungarian Jewish Community.
Ben-Zvi cut Shemer's sentence to
15 years. Two others convicted of
that murder, Zeev Eckstein and
Joseph Menkes, are serving life
sentences.
Reform Rabbis Told Civil War
Centennial Theme Is 'Alarming'
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Rabbi
Bernard J. Bamberger, presi-
dent of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis, declared
here that "the general line"
taken by the current, country-
wide observance of the centen-
nial of the Civil War "seems
nothing less than alarming."
Dr. Bamberger made the
statement during his president-
ial address at the opening ses-
sion of the CCAR's 72nd an-
nual convention here. More
than 500 Reform rabbis from
all over the United States and
Canada are attending the five-
day convention of the confer-
ence, which includes among its
members 800 rabbis represent-
ing congregations with more
than 1,000,000 worshipers.
The Civil War observance,
Rabbi Bamberger said, is "a
kind of pageant, glorifying a
romantic episode in so care-
fully balanced a way that no
one's sensibilities shall be
ruffled. The war was in vain,
the celebration is a blasphemy
and disgrace, if a century later,
the Negro's right to full equal-
ity may still be limited by pre-
judice enacted into law or
perpetuated by custom."
Dr. Bamberger, spiritual
leader of Congregation Shaaray
Tefilla, in New York, proposed
that "there ought to be one
central theme and objective of
this centennial celebrationr—the
elimination of all official, legal-
ized racial discrimination be-
fore the observance ends in
1965." He recommended that
the convention adopt -a resolu-
tion to this effect.
He also recommended that
the convention reaffirm the
CCAR's "traditional principle
that religious bodies, local and
national, have the greatest ob-
ligation to speak up on moral
issues in community and nation-
al life."
The latter recommendation
goes counter to objections
raised by some Reform congre-
gations which oppose the estab-
lishment of a Religious Action
Center in Washington, under
the auspices of Reform Juda-
ism's Commission on Social Ac-
tion. The Commission is a joint
body of the CCAR and the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, plus the latter
organization's affiliates.
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