Merger of All Zionist Groups, With ZOA
as Nucleus, Urged by Dr. Nahum Goldmann
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr . old," Dr. Neumann said. "To
Max Bressler, of Chicago, and
Nahum Goldmann, president of achieve this role means enter- Rabbi Max Nussbaum, of Holly-
the World Zionist Congress, ing into a partnership with wood, ZOA president and na-
called up all Zionist organiza- other ideological groups to pro- tional executive council chair-
tions in the United States to vide the basis for effective unity man, respectively, charged that
merge into one overall united in action."
the United States Department
Zionist movement. He urged
The executive council also of State has openly embarked
this step at the closing session
voted to affiliate with the on a "massive program of ap-
of the Zionist Organization of American section of the peasing the Arab states at the
America's governing body, the World Jewish Congress.
expense of Israel." Bressler
national executive council, as
cited as evidence the initiate
an essential step to restoring
taken by the State Department.
the Zionist movement in the Appeal to Natives
in concert with Great Britain
United States to its former posi-
and West Germany, to grant the
tion of eminence as an action of Bobrujsk, Russia
United Arab Republic a loan of
body and molder of American
At a convention of natives of $500 million, and the leadership
Jewish public opinion.
Bobrujsk, Russia, held in Israel taken by this Government to
As a first step, Dr. Goldmann recently, a committee was set up assure the adoption last month
called for the amalgamation of under the chairmanship of Kad- by the United Nations Security
America and the American dish Luz, Speaker of the Fifth Council of a resolution which
Zionist Council, the co-ordinat- Israel Knesset, to perpetuate the sharply condemned Israel as
ing body of all Zionist groups memory of the Jewish commun- the aggressor in its recent
in this country. Of the nine ity of Bobrujsk by the publica- brush with Syria.
Zionist groups represented in tion of a "Bobrujsk Memorial
Recalling President Ken-
the Council, the ZOA is the Volume."
The book is to include the his- nedy's pre-election promises to
largest, representing some 60
work for an equitable solution
per cent of the Zionists in the tory of this Jewish community of the Arab-Israel problem. Dr.
from its inception, articles on its
United States.
Nussbaum declared that "not
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, a institutions, its cultural, spiritual only have the promises to use
former president of the ZOA, and economic life. its outstand- the good offices of the White
and a member of the Jewish ing leaders and on many of its House to bring about a perma-
Agency executive, expressed the personalities who have gained nent peace between Israel and
view that the ZOA, itself, be fame in the Jewish and general her neighbors not been fulfilled.
expanded to become the overall world.
It was decided to appeal to but there has occurred a sudden
body of American Zionism,
change in policy from 'pro-
embracing all sections and natives of Bobrujsk and district, Israel' to what our State De-
wherever they be to supply
groupings.
partment calls 'even-handed-
Dr. Goldmann announced material for the compilation of ness," and now to its last stages
the volume, such as documents,
he would present his proposal
of being openly pro-Arab.
for action at the ZOA national memoirs, photographs, etc., and
Bressler and Rabbi Nussbaum
convention in Washington, to send contributions for the
scheduled for June 28 publication of the book to Kad- urged President Kennedy to
dish
Luz,
Speaker
of
the
Knesset,
overhaul the State Department's
through July 1.
Jerusalem, Israel.
present Middle East policy.
"Until the State of Israel is secure,
politically and economically," he
said, "the American Zionist move-
ment has the vital responsibility of
mobilizing the support of the Jewish
communities in the United States on
behalf of Israel, and in maintaining,
in Jewish philanthropy, the present
urgent priority for all overseas Jew-
ish needs. The economic consolida-
tion of the State of Israel, and its
security is a far greater task than
was its creation. The first was just
the beginning of the road upon
which world Jewry must march, not
the end. "
"While from a historical and spiri-
tual point of view," Dr. Goldmann
continued, "we realize that the Jew-
ish people must stand or fall with
Israel, we must always remain aware
of the fact that the future of Jewish
life everywhere will be determined
most by the actions that the six
million Jews of the United States—
a nation that is the largest and
take on behalf of Jews everywhere.
"Therefore, the test of Zionism
in the United States lies in its abil-
ity to lead American Jewry. Zion-
ism, must therefore, become the
leading force in American Jewish
life, just as we were before and at
the time the State of Israel was
established.
In 1948 the Zionist movement.
American Jews by Its gallant fight,
both in the nation and in the United
Nations, to secure the establishment
of the State of Israel, this move-
ment was the pre-eminent one
among Jewish organizations, and
the one strong unifying Jewish force
in the United States.
"Today we have lost that position,
and we won't regain it without
unity. In total the separate Zionist
organizations represent a large num-
ber of American Jews. But, because
their structures, as well as that of
the ZOA, are obsolete and outmoded
organizationally, Zionist influence
and communal strength has been
dissipated."
• The plan Dr. Goldmann
offered would have the Zionist
Organization of America serve
as the nucleus of the new united
Zionist organization, with the
leadership of all nine Zionist
groups serving in the executive
body.
,Calling this new line of de-
parture "a step of historical
impbrtance to Zionism's future
in the United States, and the
world over." Dr. Goldmann de-
clared: "If the ZOA possesses
the true Zionist patriotism that
will enable it to make this sac-
rifice, it would truly open the
way to a united Zionist move-
ment, and thus assure a new
future for American Zionism."
Dr. Neumann urged a major
adjustment of existing Zionist
forms of organization through
unification, but with the ZOA
retaining its role as the central
component. "I am convinced it
is possible, and desirable to ex-
pand the Zionist Organization
of America to make room for
all, while preserving our great
tradition and our historic role
as the central force in Ameri-
can Zionism, and to provide
leadership and direction of
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