THE DETR OIT JEWISH NEWS -- Fr iday, March 22, 1963 -- 32 .....41W1.00MmoAM16.11.M000.041MWOOROOMMOVMMOMM&0401.1.0.11MGAMOI.OUPO.MWOMMO . 04 Dr. Nahum Goltimann Appeal's for End te Zionist Movement Party Framework • 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, ■ 0 01110.00. 0 OUW 040* 0 Boris Smolar's Between You ... and Me (Copyright, 1963, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) 1 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. • - 4- 17:01)17 17 -. 01 . nninlit7ryrjr. ,rz`14 4 17? 'iroV1`? ir ypti rm - 1;1 47 L 2z..;. 17? 'PL ? rr7?'- xisn-r nipio.rj rj9 1? 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