(Continued from Page 1) "Israel became a reality be- campaign efforts, he said: "We cause the people decided there have learned through the years was going to be a State to solve that we cannot relax until every the problem of Jewish suffering prospect is reached and until and to end homelessness once every effort is made to achieve and for all," he declared. our goal." He described how the gates to In a brief address, Max M. Israel were kept open, the pour- Fisher, president of the Federa- ing in of tens of thousands of tion, spoke of the three-fold pur- survivors from. Nazism who were poses of the Federation — com- rescued from displaced persons munity planning, determination camps, the doubling of Israel's on how the income derived from population in a few years. Em- campaign is to be distributed phasizing the partnership in this and fund-raising. A fourth pur- effort with world Jews, he said: "We turned to our brothers pose, he said, is "to dramatize that we are kinsmen working to- for help as a shared responsi- gether as a cohesive and united bility. We have gone a long way. community." He said: "The Fed- Israel is a vigorous, dynamic eration belongs to everyone, and state, accepted by the nations of everyone belongs to the Federa- the world as - a model. Israel is tion." confident we can go on doing the Thanking Gershenson for his job, but it is a sober confidence, untiring efforts, Fisher as well not a complacent one." Referring to the tensions as other program participants, joined in thanking Gershenson's that continue in the Middle co-chairman, Al Borman, and the East, he said "We don't want it that way, but if we have to other to campaign leaders. accept it we will and will con- Reports on campaign activi- tinue building and creating." ties were given by Max Shaye, "We take seriously the threats Al Taubman, Mrs. Harold Rob- inson, Nathan Rubinstein, Is- to Israel's security, but we are rael Kolodney, Louis Stern, not pessimistic," he said. - "I don't Marvin Alexander, Paul Bro- believe any Arab army can run der, Harry Aronow, Lewis S. Israel out of business, but the Grossman, Peter Copeland, Dr. price we have to pay is a tre- Abraham Becker and Irving mendous one and a growing financial burden." Goldberg. He warned that there is a In his stirring address, Am bassador Comay recalled the great military build-up in that events that led to the emergence area, that there are more Soviet of Israel as an autonomous State arms in Egypt than there ever and thestruggle that ensued. He were in Cuba. "and what we described the attempts at the United Nations to renege on the partition decision of Nov. 29, 1947, and reviewed the heroic struggle in Israel to win the war for freedom. must do is concentrate on our defense." "The job of developing our country must go on faster than ever," Comay said. "We expect our brothers to make greater demands upon themselves and then we can hope to remain se- cure. I feel confident this will be done. You are our partners in a joint enterprise. You will surely measure up and if you do then we will have the assurance that there will never again be homeless Jews in the world and there will never again be a need for an Eichmann trial." "We are writing history," Am- bassador Comay said. "We are masters in our own home, and what we make of it depends on ourselves and no one else. Since 1948 we are not helpless any more. We are out of the ghetto. We will not go down fighting— we won't go down at all. We can't do the job without you. We can do it with you and we shall do it together." Rabbi Morris Adler gave the opening prayer at the dinner. The national anthems were sung by Emma Schaver, accompanied by Lillian Zellman. There was an element of levity, with the Three Honey Bees, accompanied by Don Large at the piano, preceding each speaker's introduction with ap- propriate songs written by Mrs. Leonard Weiner. The totals, as announced, were flashed on a screen, the amounts being written in from the pro- j ector. • • In a message distributed among those attending the din- ner, Gershenson stated: "As chairman of the campaign I feel like an artist who is re- luctant to put down his brush and leave a completed painting or a cabinetmaker who keeps putting just one more coat of finish on a piece of fine furni- ture. 11111 •111 MI "I want to earnestly ask you to continue to campaign with me for the very short time it will take to bring in the last out- standing pledges. See your re- maining prospects, attend an- other division meeting — finish the job. "We have two obligations; first to the people the Campaign serves, and secondly, we must give each Jew in Detroit an op portunity to become a contribu- tor." 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U-3 eel BORENSTEIN'S BOOKS 13535 W. 7 MILE CAMPAIGN LEADERS at the closing dinner, from the left: Knows his mountains . . . 9 Conservative Rabbinical Assembly of America Discusses Proposal to Comment on Bible GREENFIELD PARK, N. Y. to ask their congregants to join (JTA)—A proposal that the'Rab- such organizations as well as to binical Assembly of America, "strive to eradicate war from central body of . Conservative human life by whatever moral and religious influence we can rabbis, sponsor a Jewish com- bring to bear." mentary on the whole of the He also called upon the re- Bible was made at the 63rd an- ligious leaders "not only to en- nual convention of the organiza- gage in wishful thinking and tion. to pray for peace but also to Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum, pro- plan for peace to transform vost of the Jewish Theological their entire pattern of life and Seminary of America, described thoght, in brief, to wage peace." such a commentary as the first Controversy marked the dis- essential in a program to restore cussion which followed his ad- education and especially t h e dress. Two physicists, Dr. Wil- educated lay leader "to their liam Davidson, chairman of the rightful position in our congre- department of physics at Hav- gations." He also called for the erford College, and Dr. Herman introduction of a new ceremony, Kahn, author of "On Thermo- Ab Mitzvah, which would require nuclear War" and director of of laymen a rededication to the the Hudson Institute, differed duty of Jewish study and observ- with each other and with Dr. ance at the age of 40. Kaplan as to the best means In his annual presidential re- for achieving peace and the port, Rabbi Theodore Friedman, proper role for religious lead- spiritual leader of Congregation ers in the struggle to avoid nu- Beth El, South Orange, N.J., clear warfare. called for a "new unity" of the Dr. Davidson , welcomed the Jewish people. This unity is of interest of the rabbis in the paramount importance today, problems of war and peace but Rabbi Friedman said, because questioned whether Dr. Kap- "the old image of the Jew and lan's recommendations of action Judaism projected and main- within • the bounds of present tained by the church over the government policy was enough centuries, seems destined to for "men of principle." He said fade." This will mean that "we such • a recommendation "en- will be called upon to participate tailed acceptance of the con- in - a religious dialogue totally cept that man's extermination unlike any that took place in the is all right under some circum- past," he said. stances." He asked how a rab- Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan binic body could accept and called: for a resolution urging support such a policy in the . members of the'- , ASSerribly to name of the preservationof join peace and human valueS." 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