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o Threats to Jewish Survival Are Cited at WJC Parley in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—The developed: assimilation as a re-
effect of social revolution and sult of the disappearance of anti-
the danget of assimilation pose Semitic persecution, increased
the most serious threats to Jew- political integration, and the eco-
ish survival, Dr. Nahum Gold- nomic progress of most Jewish
mann, president of the World communities. The process of
Jewish Congress, told Jewish growing indifference among the
' leaders gathered here for the young generation represented the
• WJC's first - Mexico-Central most latent danger—Dr. Gold-
American - Caribbean regional mann stated—to Jewish survival
conference.
in the Diaspora and made the
lie called for the fullest pos- question of Jewish education, of
sittle cooperation of the region's securing the Jewishness of the
communities through the World young generation the number one
Jewish Congress in order that problem in Jewish Diaspora life.
Jewry might "cope with its
To deal with all these prob-
grave problems and secure its lems,
the WJC leader said that
survival."
Jewish unity and the full co-
Goldmann addressed a public operation of all sectors of the
session of the conference in the ' Jewish people "as expressed in
Jewish Sports Club attended by the World Jewish Congress" was
representatives of ten commu- more essential today than at any
nities, as well as by about 1,000 time before. Latin American
members of the Mexican Jewish
Jewry, which Dr. Goldmann
• community. Among the com- called one of the most conscious
munities represented were
Jewish-minded parts of the
Costa Rica, the Dominican Re- and
Jewish people, had to play a
public. El Salvador, Guatemala, leading role in uniting Jewry in
.lamaica. Mexico, Nicaragua, Pan-
order that it might cope with
ama. Surinam and Venezuela.
its grave problems and secure its
The conference also heard a survival, he said.
demand, voiced by Yehuda Eb-
A • call for a halt to anti-
:ein, of New York, executive
director of the North American SeMitic practices all over the
executive, that Interpol, the In- world and a plea to the USSR .
to extend facilities to the coun-
ternational Police Organization,
try's 3,000,000 Jews for reli-
place Nazi criminals still at large
gious and cultural self-expres-
iii'411 on its wanted list
sion were made by World Jew-
Goldmann said a new vio-
lent nationalism was rampant
which did not deny equality
of rights to Jewish citizens,
but did not grant them the
right and facilities to live their
distinct Jewish lift. The most
significant example of this
trend was 3,000,000 Soviet
Jews whose position as equal
citizens was not threatened by
any kind of an official anti-
Semitism but who were, de
facto, denied the possibility to
maintain their Jewish charac-
ter and distinct life.
Jewi.sh poverty was no more
central in Jewish life, but an
ether. much graver, danger had
ish Congress leaders.
In its resolution on Soviet
Jewry, the WJC conference ex-
pressed regret "that the Jews of
the Soviet Union are still denied
the facilities for religious and
cultural self-expression, or form-
ing a coordinating body for the
conduct of communal affairs, and
of contact with Jewish communi-
ties in other countries." Deplor-
ing the closing down of houses
of worship in various parts of
the USSR, the resolution ap-
pealed to the Soviet Union "on
humanitarian grounds to enable
the reunion of families broken
up by the inhuman policy carried
out by the Fascist-Nazi rulers
during the war."
Johannesburg Honors ORT Head
JOHANNESBURG — Mayor
Dave Marais gave a civic recep-
tion here in honor of Professor
William Haber, president of the
World ORT Union, and Max
Braude, director-general of the
organization, who are currently
visiting South Africa as guests
of South African ORT and OSE.
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