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Dr. Nahum Goltimann Appeal's for End
te Zionist Movement Party Framework
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JERUSALEM — Dr. Nahum situation is both simple and
Goldmann, president of the natural." He described this as
World Zionist Organization, ap- the need to "continue our de-
pealed again Tuesday for an mands which are not for any
end to the party framework of privileges for the Jewish min-
the Zionist movement which he ority but for the same rights
said was "hindering the ful- given other Soviet minorities
and additionally to voice the
filment of the Zionist task."
Speaking at the World Zionist demand originating in our
Actions Committee meeting, he people's special situation to
said that unless the Zionist enable unification of families."
parties "agree to a new • ar-
Moshe Sharett, chairman of
rangement whereby they relin- the Jewish Agency Executive,
quish monopoly on the move- told the Zionist Actions Commit-
ment there are no prospects for tee that nothing could counteract
the movement's rejuvenation." assimilation of Jews more effec-
He asserted that the parties tively than Zionism and a strong
were "deliberating" the Zionist Zionist movement was a vital
movement and called on the necessity for Israel.
Actions Committee to set up
He said there was a rising
Machinery "to deal during the - wave of assimilation particu-
coming years with various pro- larlv among the young genera-
posals for far reaching changes tion which he said was much
in the movement's/ structure." . evident in western Europe, in
Yaacov Tzur, chairman of the North and South America and
Actions Committee, the su- among a Jewry participation in
preme body of the World Zion- the movement, presumably a
ist Movement between Zionist reference to Soviet Jews.
congresses, told the delegates
"We are witnessing an up-
that the Jewish people in Israel rooting of Jewish conscious-
and .outside of it "may be guilty ness, a fusion with strange cul-
of having come to take too tures and an emptying of Jew-
much for granted the solidarity ish life of all contents," he
between them."
asserted. On the other hand, he
He read a message from added, there was a freshening
Prime Minister Ben Gurion in manifestation of an awakening
which the Premier expressed of national consciousness from
the hope that the meeting the roots of destruction and sal-
would "succeed in fortifying vation "the horrors of the holo-
the unity of the Jewish peo- caust and the splendor of inde-
ple and also, if it is per- pendence."
missable, to express the hope
Here and there, he said,
—which may or May not be
"a Jewish spark is kindled"
fulfilled—that you will try
and there was an urge for the
to explain to all calling thein-
content of Jewish life in a
selves Zionists that Zionism
new reality. These manifesta-
means returning to Zion."
tions, he added, -constituted
Goldmann said one of the a challenge to the Zionist
critical problems of the Zionist movement.
movement was to increase im-
He said that while the Jewish
migration from the free coun- religion alone could not with-
tries. He added that otherwise, stand the onslaught of assimila-
unless the Soviet Union opened tion without religion, "it is im-
its gates for Jewish migration, possible to solve this problem"
there would be no more im- and hence the need for Zionism
migration to Israel in a few which presents "a complete na-
years.
tional front, an integral con-
Discussing cooperation be- cept of contemporary Jewry, a
tween Israel and the Zionist nurturing of cultural values
movement, Goldmann said that and national morals, education
it was satisfactory as far as for revival of the Hebrew
routine problems were con- language and at the central of
cerned but that there was a it all is the State of Israel as a
feeling that the -State of Israel prototype of a full Jewish life
did not regard the Zionist of human and social and na-
movement as a historical move- tional creativeness."
ment in organizing the Jewish
He reported that the Jewish
people and that it was not es- Agency's educational depart-
sential for Israel to bind the ments, b o th general and re-
Jewish people with their new
ligious, were "flooded" with de-
national center in Israel.
mands for teachers, principals
He said that there were and other teaching needs far
two other essential tasks for
above its ability to supply and
the Zionist movement to per-
even far above the ability of
form. One was to ensure
the - State of Israel to meet.
Jewish and Hebrew education
He said the trial facing . the
and the other to organize the
Jewish people as a fighting Zionist movement was its abil-
force to defend its right to ity to meet the demands facing
create its culture ensuring it. He listed these as including
the Jewish future and linking organizational, strengthening
the people with the State of aid to Israel, a direct role in
Israel as partners in the up- efforts to raise the means for
building and consolidation of continuation of immigration to
Israel by ov ers e as Zionists
the state.
He argued that the organiza- through visits, a united Zionist
tion of the Jewish people as front in communities for train-
a combatant creative force was ing people for leadership, Jew-
becoming weakened particularly ish education with emphasis -on
for the lack of a representative Hebrew, special activities among
organization and the "growing Jewish youth and, most impor-
organizational chaos" and the tant of all, personal Aliyah.
Mrs. Rose Halprin, chair-
failure of American Jewry to
realize that it must function man of the American Section
within the framework of the of the Jewish Agency, told
the delegates that American
world Jewish organizations.
He stressed the "diminishing Jews, as a whole were very
impact" of the Zionist move- close to Israel but "paradox-
ment in the United States and ically," as the Zionist move-
he urged reform of the move- ment grew weaker, there was
"a wider acceptance of the
ment's - internal structure.
Elaborating on eralier re- Zionist approach." She de-
marks about the problem of scribed *this as the Zionist
Soviet Jewry and Soviet Pre- doctrine of cultural interplay
mier Khrushch.ev's letter to of the importance of the
British philosopher Bertrand study of Hebrew and Bible,
Russell, GoldMann •.said that in of the need for deepening the
analyzing that letter -"we must content of Jewish education
note with deep regret that one and of granting Israel "a cen-
cannot notice any change in tral position" in that educa-
the attitude of the Soviet. gov- tion.
"One may bemoan the fact
ernment to the Jewish prob-
that the movement is weaker
ler ns."
He added, "Our task in the or rejoice that its ideas are
ever more widely acceptable,"
she declared, "but to suggest
that the movement cannot wage
a new ideological offensive is
to place before it a challenge
it cannot meet." She contend-
ed that what the Zionist move-
ment could attempt to show to-
day was that "to rally around
Israelis is one mitzvah, and that
the second mitzvah calls for
dedication to the task_ in the
communities outside of Israel
which will assure a meaningful
revival."
Describing what she believed
to be the "consensus" of Ameri-
can Zionists on Aliyah, she said
that while immigration was rec-
ognized as a major pillar in
Zionism "one cannot expect a
mass Aliyah" from the UNI
States. She said: "We believe
also that any negative approach,
any attempt to create fear or
uncertainty, will not enhance
Aliyah by one iota."
She reported that in the
youth field the Zionist move-
ment in the UNI States had
helped to revitalize the stu-
dent bodies on the campus,
helped to strengthen various
junior organizations and had
achieved a "good measure"
of cooperatiou with non-Zion-
ist youth.
She cited the increase in the
Jewish day scho ol movement
from 193 schools with 30,000
pupils 10 y e ar s ago to 275
schools with 54,000 ,pupils now,
and said that it was Zionism
which gave a substantial im-
petus to that growth.
Zvi Laurie, a member of the
Executive, reported on develop-
ments since the last meeting
of the Actions Committee, cit-
ing the near panic exodus of
Algerian Jews and the reper-
cussions among Latin American
Jewish communities to political
developments. He urged that
wider autonomy be granted to
territorial federations to cope
with local pr oblems and to
bring new f or c es outside of
party affiliations into leader-
ship and communal activities.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann's pro-
posal before the World Zionist
Actions Committee to abolish
the Zionist p a r t y framework
was opposed by other Zionist
leaders Wednesday.
"The Zionist parties are the
product of a historical crystal-
lization and cannot merely be
swept off the map," said
Sharett. "They have a mission
to fulfill. Remove the parties
and the mission will not be
fulfilled."
He admitted, however, that
if the parties intended to meet
their goals, "old leadership"
had to start making way for the
young generation. Mrs. Rose
yo ung generation. Mrs. Hal-
prin noted that Hadassah, of
which she is a former presi-
dent, and the Halprin-Goldstein
faction of the World General
Zionist-movement both were op-
posed to aspects of the Zionist
party system. However, she
added that stand was "a far
cry from so yi n g that there
should be no organizations
along philosophical and ideo-
logical lines."
Citing Goldmann's ferquent-
ly reiterated contention that
American Jewish life at best
was "organized chaos," she re-
torted that the American Jew-
ish community had "no desire
to set .up monolithic groups
with great control at the top."
She added the opinion that
the Zionist movement had to
take its position as a movement
in the American local Jewish
community, "something we have
never done."
A plenary meeting of the Jew-
ish Agency executive approved a
374,000,000-pound — about $125,-
000,000 — budget for the 1963-
64 period. The budget draft was
presented by Treasurer Aryeh
Pincus,
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Boris Smolar's
Between You
... and Me
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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Communal Currents
The two-way bridge between the Jewish communities in the
United States and Israel is now being expanded through efforts
undertaken by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds . .. The Council, the central advisory body of the organized
American Jewish communities, has made its aim to develop an
understanding between American Jewry and Israel beyond the
narrow dimensions of fund-raising or of benefactors and benefi-
ciaries . • Its leaders, visiting Israel, have established that Isra-
leis are eager to learn more about American Jewish life and
American Jewish community organizations than they really know
. . . They also came to the conclusion that Americans—even those
who have been visiting Israel—have only a superficial picture of
limited aspects of life in Israel . . . CJFWF is developing a pro-
gram with the Israel Consulate in New York for members of the
Consulate staff, when visiting communities to make addresses, to
spend additional time in each city and get acquainted with Jewish
communal activities' there.
Israel Reaction
The Prime Minister's Office in Israel displays great interest
in the CJFWF arrangements and has sent one of its high officials
on a pilot visit to the United States to test the progress of the
program in Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis . . .
Another Israeli official—a members of the American desk of Is-
rael's Foreign Ministry—visited Montreal, Erie, Rochester, Cleve-
land and Colombus . . . In each community they worked out with
the respective Jewish federation an agenda which included attend-
ance at board meetings, visits to community agencies and insti-
tutions to observe their work, leadership development programs,
campaign meetings, budget and allocations sessions and to plan-
ning committees . . . They also included visits to synagogues and
Jewishs schools, meetings with Jewish students at Hillel Founda-
tions, discussions with Jewish faculty members at universities and
seminars with Federation and functional agency staffs . . . These
visits were not "tourist bridges!'; they were experiences of great
importance to the Israelis . • . They revealed to them the limited
picture which Israelis, even government officials, have of what is
going on in Jewish life in America, and how American Jews are
organized.
Hebrew Corner
Atom Research
Scholars from 17 different countries
are now at the Weizmann Institute
in Rehovot, studying together with
Israeli colleagues the problems of the
use of atomic power for medical pur-
poses. Actually, this is the first atomic
course in the Middle East, this, al-
though the majority of the partici-
pants are from Europe and Latin
America.
The head • of the International
Atomic Energy Organization who
came to Israel said:
"I am happy that it is the small
countries like Israel, that are the pio-
neers in atomic research for peace
purposes.. Who knows, maybe from
this country which is the cradle of
the prophets, will come the invention
that will make it possible for us to
turn the atom into a great blessing
for all mankind."
The Israeli research work is only
at the beginning. The financial means
are, of course, small. However, this
does not lower the spirit of the schol-
ars at work.
Two young Israelis, Dr. Michael
Enbar and Dr. Isaac Mor, received a
short time ago, from the World
Agency for Atomic Power, contracts
with bonuses of $13,000 each, on the
basis of the good results of their own
work. Now, owing to the contracts
and prizes, they are able to continue
their research work with interna-
tional help.
In the year 1963, atomic research
in Israel will also be devoted to the
sphere of agriculture—the most im-
portant to new states.
Translation of Hebrew column.
Published by Ivrith Olamith.
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