(Copyright, 1962,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

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Boston Jewry
The six-story building on 72 Franklin Street in Boston is like
a Ministry of Welfare, Health and Education. .. . In this building
there are the headquarters of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies
of Greater Boston. . . . From here comes the financial support
for the Jewish social work services, for the local Jewish hospitals,
for the Jewish educational institutions in the city. . . . Here, too,
plans are prepared and carried out for the raising of funds for
the United Jewish Appeal and for national Jewish agencies and
institutions. . . . You also find here on the same floor—side by
side—the local offices of the American Jewish Committee and
American Jewish Congress, as well as the offices of the Anti-
Defamination League and other groups. . . You have a floor here
occupied by the Bureau of Jewish Education which provides
supervision and service to the local Hebrew and Sunday schools
which are attended by 15,000 children. . . . Louis P. Smith,
president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and its execu-
tive director, Dr. Benjam B. Rosenberg, proudly point to the fact
that the history of the CJP goes back to 1895, when the first
Federation of Charities in the United States—Jewish or non-
Jewish—was formed in Boston.

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Community Pride
Who are the national leaders "contributed" by Boston to
American Jewry—leaders who are also active in Jewish com-
munal life in Boston today? . . . You are told of Dewey D. Stone,
who is president of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. and a
national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, in addition to
oeing chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute . . .
Lewis H. Weinstein, a former president of the CJP, is chairman
of the National Community Relations Advisory Council . . . .
Philip W. Lown, treasurer of the CJP, is president of the
American Association for Jewish Education. .. . Herbert Ehrman,
Bostonian Jewish leader, served as president of the American
Jewish Committee. . . _ Lawrence Laskey, another Bostonian, is
chairman of the national executive committee of the Israel Bond
Organization. . . . Norman S. Raab is chairman of the board of
, Brandeis University. . . . Benjamin Ulin was the first chairman
of the Large City Budgeting Conference of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds. . .. Milton Kahn who for years
has been a leading figure in the CJFWF and in the national
United Jewish Appeal. . . . Mrs. Carl Spector, national Hadassah
vice-president who is also vice-president of the national UJA
Women's Division. . . . Walter Bieringer, who held the post of
president of United Service for New Americans until it was
merged with the Hias . . Joseph G. Weisberg is president of
the Anglo-Jewish Press Association. . . Not to speak of such
personalities as Rabbi Joseph B. Soloweitchik, foremost Jewish
spiritual leader in the United States whom David Ben-Gurion
would like to see as Chief Rabbi of Israel.

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HARRY ABRAM

CHEVROLET

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Intellectual Quality
What makes the Boston Jewish community different from
other Jewish communities in the country? . . . The answer is:
The intellectual and cultural quality of the community leadership.
. . . This I witnessed when I attended a meeting of the executive
committee of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. . . . It is the
spirit of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis
and Boston universities that prevails among Jewish leadership
in Boston. . . . While not neglecting other Jewish needs, the
community leaders go out of their way to lay stress on the
?ducational aspects of Jewish life in their city. . . . This is also
reflected in the two English-Jewish newspapers which appear in
Boston, particularly in the Boston Jewish Advocate which has
quite a number of readers also among non-Jews. . ... President
Kennedy is one of the subscribers to that 60-year-old paper. . . .
Another paid subscriber is the Speaker of the House in Wash-
ington. Majority Leader John W. McCormack. . . . Joseph P.
Kennedy. father of the President, was listed in the 1961 report
of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies as a substantial donor.
. . . He has e9tablished a $75,000 foundation for the CJP and
indicated that he may give additional funds.

Camp Benderly to Function as
Non-Profit Hebrew High School
A new non-profit co-ed sum-
mer camp for Jewish high school
students will open July 2 as
Camp Benderly, named after the
late pioneer in Hebrew education,
Dr. Samson Benderly, to provide
continuity in studies for teen-
agers who are simultaneously at-
tending public high schools and
afternoon Hebrew classes.
Located in West Copake, N.Y.,
21/2 hours from New York. on a
350-acre site with private front-
age on a 20-acre lake. Camp
Benderly will offer all camp
activities plus a work-and-Hebrew-
study program in a traditional
Jewish atmosphere.

Freshmen admitted to the
University of Michigan last fall
, were among the first U-M stu-
ADL Plans Step-Up in Fight Against Bias
dents toa P - fees on the install -
NEW YORK, (JTA) — An I arouse community action to a
ment plan which permits them
accelerated program of activi- problem which has become so I to pay a ll f
ees at once or in two
ties to combat discrimination much a part of the scene that installments.
against American Jews was an- it is virtually a built-in part of
nounced here by the Anti- Defa- modern American living."
mation League of Bnai Brith
following the release of a sur- JNF 'Sacred Symbol'
vey by the organization covering
bias patterns in major areas of By DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
Ahad Ha'Am, in his essay on
cultural. economic and social
life during the past five years. the "Sacred and the Secular,"
defines a sacred institution as
The ADL program, as out- one capable of absorbing
lined at a press conference by changes in its content yet re-
Benjamin R. Epstein, national maining unchanged in its form,
director of the League, and like an enduring receptacle into
Arnold Forster, the organiza- which new content is poured
tion's civil rights director, will from -age to age.
concentrate on securing civil
Thus the Keren Kayemeth
rights legislation with particu- (Jewish National Fund) has
lar emphasis on the elimination served two generations of Jew-
of bias in housing and will in- ish life as an almost sacred
clude a series of pubications symbol of the attachment of
and educational activities "to tJews to Israel.

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