THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S — Friday, May 10, 1963 — 8
was no need for relaxing the based on the national origin
restrictions of the present immi- system. Rep. Walter was unable
gration laws. Jewis and liberal to deliver his address because
non-Jewish organizations have of illness, but his prepared
been requesting relaxation of speech was read for him at the
various Jewish organizations in the present laws which are gathering.
this country.
Henry S. Moyer, president of
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Fund, reported on his recent
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trip to France to survey Jewish
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refugee needs there. He said
that the French government
was providing support and em-
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ployment for some 70,000 Al-
gerian repatriates, about 100,000
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of whom are Jews. He empha-
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lief organizations will be need-
ed when government allowances
will cease. "Increased help will
be needed for Jews who have
left Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt,
Rumania and several other
countries," he stressed.
Rep. Francis E. Walter (Penn-
sylvania Democrat), chairman
of the House Committee on Im-
migration and Naturalization —
author of the controversial Mc-
Carran-Walter Immigration Act
— told the conference that he
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opposed the admission of 50,000
refugees annually and that there
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Contempt for It Expressed by Rabbis in N. Y.
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — "The _ was the featured guest speak-
American Council for Judaism er, abstained from making
any references to Zionism,
is neither American nor Jewish
in spirit or in concept," the Israel or the Middle East.
The Arkansas Democrat and
New York Board of Rabbis as-
chairman of the Senate For-
serted on the basis of a "factual
study" conducted on the pro- eign Relations Committee
gram and activities of the Coun- spoke primarily against the
cil. The Board of Rabbis, largest race between the United
States and the Soviet Union
Rabbinic body in the world,
with a membership of more to land on the moon.
Sharp criticism against the
than 800 Orthodox, Conserva-
tive and Reform rabbis, reaf- Council was voiced by leading
firmed the position of the three New York rabbis from their
major national rabbinical bodies pulpits. Dr. William Berkowitz,
in America that "the American in his sermon at the Bnai Jeshu-
Council for Judaism does not run Congreation, said that "the
represent any valid interpreta- American Council for Judaism"
is neither Council, neither Juda-
tion of Judaism."
Emphasizing that "the Coun- ism, neither American." He
cil for Judaism does not speak charged the Council with ignor-
in the name of religious tra- ing the pluralism of the Amer-
dition, and that it does not ican way of life. Dr. William
speak for the religious Jewish F. Rosenblum, of Temple Israel,
community," the statement is- proposed to ignore the Council
sued by the Board of Rabbis by giving it the ''silent treat-
through its president, Dr. Israel ment." Dr. Judah Nadich, at the
Mowshowitz, said that the factu- Park Avenue Synagogue, said
al study conducted by this cen- that the Counci is false both
tral rabbinical body revealed to its religion and to America.
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that the Council for Judaism is
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American Jews." The statement dent of the organization, de-
policyholders and our Agency during this month of April.
nouncing
"Jewish
nationalism"
charged that the Council was
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ple before the bar of public
opinion," the statement said.
"It has welcomed every op-
portunity to malign and im-
pugn the integrity of Jewish
institutions, organizations and
causes; and it has consistently
distorted and caricatured the
precepts of Judaism which it
purports to teach. Worst of
all, in the most tragic era of
Jewish history it sought to
deny to Jews fleeing Hitler's
Europe a haven in Palestine,
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The American Council for
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with the usual speeches
against Israel and Zionism.
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