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in Israel to Jerusalem Government

'Between You
... and Me'

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Soviet
government has agreed to sell its
land holdings in Israel to the Is-
rael government, it was report-
ed here in Maariv, leading eve-
ning newspaper.
The report said the Soviet
government asked $4.5 million
for the properties and that Is-
rael sugggested $3 million, with
two-thirds of the payment to be
made in citrus fruits.
The Russian move was be-
lieved to stem from the Soviet
need for foreign currency to

(Copyright, 1964
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Communal Perspectives
How will American Jewry look 20, or even 10, years from
now? . . . The immediate future of American Jewish community
was widely discussed at a conference sponsored by the National
Jewish Welfare Board, in its capacity as the national association
of Jewish Community Centers . . . The Jewish Centers are sensi-
tively aware of the fact that American Jewish life is undergoing
rapid changes . . . These changes are partly the result of certain
factors in American life in general, but are influenced primarily
by purely Jewish developments . . . There is, for instance, the
fact that the number of Jewish immigrants is now very small
while the number of American-born Jews is getting larger from
year to year . . . There is the fact that the Jewish family in
America is getting relatively smaller while intermarriage among
American Jews is constantly growing . . . There is a growing
•proportion of Jewish families in the middle or better income
classes . . . There is a student generation which drifts away from
Judaism and is becoming ex-Jewish although not interested in
any other religion . . . These and other changes have their impli-
cations for the Jewish Centers and their activities . . . They are
of concern to other Jewish communal bodies since they affect
the entire outlook for Jewish life in this country.

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Basic Conclusions
The conference participants agreed that, barring a world
catastrophe, and assuming full employment, the American Jew
will continue to be affluent and well educated . . . He has become
well accultured and he will continue to become even more so .. .
However, they noted that despite this high degree of accultura-
tion. the American Jew rarely takes the deliberate step of con-
version and thus he stops short of complete assimilation . . . This
was interpreted to mean that large numbers of Jews, while not
entirely removed from the Jewish world, live much more of their
own lives in the general non-Jewish world . .. The conference
participants established that American Jews by and large are not
religiously oriented, even when they join synagogues . . . Most
of the participants agreed that in Jewish life religion and secu-
larism were two sides of the same coin . . . They pointed out
that the American Jewish community is made up of a large num-
ber of non-religious organizations, each of which in one way or
another helps develop Jewish identification . . . The pessimistic
view on the future of the American Jewish community was
brought to the conference by the presentation of demographic
data, including the low Jewish fertility rate, the lack of Jewish
immigration, the increasing rate of intermarriage, the rising rate
of social pathology, and the greater tendency to what has been
called "multi-phased conversion" . . The picture based on this
data resulted in the inescapable conclusion by the participants
that Jewish survival in American cannot be taken for granted
and that a positive program of action is needed . . . At the same
time it became clear at the conference that, barring a homicidal
anti-Semitic American Hitler, or an all-out nuclear attack on the
major American cities where most of the Jews reside, or a whole-
sale but improbable emigration to Israel, Jews will still be around
on the American scene in substantial numbers in the year 1985.

N.Y. Jewish Hospital
Gets Million Dollars

Baron EDMOND de ROTHS-
CHILD of France, president
of the Israel Bond drive for
Europe, will be the guest of
honor at the International
Inaugural Conference for Is-
rael Bonds, meeting Feb. 21-
23 at the Fontainebleau Ho-
tel in Miami. Baron de Roths-
child is closely identified
with major development proj-
ects in Israel. The inaugural

conference will launch a cam-
paign to sell a minimum of

$85,000,000 in Israel Bonds
during 1964 as the first phase
in a new $400,000,000 Third
Development Issue to be
floated beginning March 1.

Habimah Troop
Arrives in U.S.
for 9-Week Stay

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK— Thirty-five
members of Habimah, Israel's
national theater have arrived
here for a tour of the United
States which will begin Mon-
day with a nine-week engage-
ment at The Little Theater in
New York. The group's opening
presentation will be "The
Dybbuk."
The theatrical tour of Habi-
mah in this counrty is sponsor-
ed by the America-Israel cul-
tural Foundation and The Lit-
tle Theater.
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The Israeli group will also
On Stage
participate in symposia and
For the first time in the history of American theater, Jewish meetings with Hebrew groups
performances will be given with English translations coming and theatrical circles.
over earphones . . . This will occur when the Habimah, national
Greetings of Mayor Morde-
theater of Israel, will start playing in the United States . . . Every
chai
Namir . of Tel Aviv were
theater where the Habimah will play—whether in New York or
in other American cities-will have earphones at seats providing conveyed to the Habimah
simultaneous translation from Hebrew to English . . . The Habi- troupe at a farewell gathering
attended by members of the
mah starts its performances in New York on Feb. 3, and will
press and public personalities.
remain in the United States for three months .. . During that
A spokesman for the group
period it will tour several other large cities . . . A national spon-
said "We are leaving with full
sors committee has been formed for the tour which is under the
knowledge of our responsibility
general sponsorship of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation
to bring the Hebrew word and
. . . The Habimah will present three plays—the "Dybbuk," the the Israeli theater to the United
classic drama based on an 18th century Jewish legend of Eastern States and its Jewry."
- Europe; "Children of the Shadows," a study of the effects of
Founded in Russia some 50
World War II on the lives of some Israelis; and "Each Had Six years ago, Habimah's aim was
Wings," a play about the survivors of the Nazi holocaust build- the establishment of a perma-
: ing a new life in Israel.
nent theater that would demon-
strate that the treasure of world
drama could be revealed to the
U.S., Britain Hold Mid East Talks
Jewish people through Hebrew.
The company appeared for
WASHINGTON (JTA) — of the talks was an exchange
High-level discussions between of evaluations and a coordina- the first time Sept. 2, 1913,
before the members of the
the United States and Britain tion of attitudes.
World Zionist Congress meet-
on the situation in the Middle
ing in Vienna. They perform-
East and Africa have been held Atheneum to Publish
ed in Hebrew tranlation a
in Washington this week.
famous Yiddish play, Osip
Johnson's
First
Book
A State Department spokes-
Dimov's "The Eternal Wan-
"A Time for Action," by derer."
man described the talks as
among those being held from President Lydon Baines Johnson,
The original group disbanded
time to time between the two will be published by Atheneum and reassembled five years
countries on matters of mutual Feb. 28. With an introduction later in Moscow. In the 1920s,
interest. The British delegation by Adlai Stevenson, this first Habirnah went on a world tour,
to the talks is headed by Deputy book by President Johnson con- performing "The Golem" and
Undersecretary of State Sir tains a selection of his speeches "The Dybbuk" in Europe and
Geofrey Harrison. The U.S. and writings, starting in 1953 the United States. Subsequent-
team is headed by P. Talbott, when he became leader of the ly, the majority of the actors
assistant secretary of state for Democratic minority in the Sen- migrated to Palestine and set-
S Near East and Southeast Asia, ate and going up to his first tled in Tel Aviv.
and by G. Mennen Williams, State of the Union address de-
Today, Habimah plays in two
. assistant secretary of state for livered on Jan. 8.
theaters in the center of Tel
Africa.
The volume presents the high- Aviv, one with 2,000 seats and
The talks lasted four days, lights of Lyndon Johnson's the other, for more intimate
the first two being devoted to thought on the major issues of productions, with 500.
Africa and the last two to the the time: human rights, foreign
Middle East. No specific deci- policy, education, outer space,
You can avoid criticism by
sions on particular issues were preparedness, the Negro's battle saying nothing, doing nothing,
expected, as the main purpose for equal rights and the economy. and being nothing.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A mil-
lion-dollar grant has been
awarded to the Jewish Hospital
of Brooklyn by the National
Institutes of Health, for the
activation and operation of a
"clinical research unit for meta-
bolic diseases."
Dr. Moses Spatt, hospital
president, said the funds, the
largest single grant ever made
to the institution, will go to
the department of medicine and
will extend over a four-year
period.
The grant covers the costs of
the hospitalization of patients
under study, as well as the costs
for special personnel and equip-
ment. About 15 nurses, two die-
titians and three technicians
will be assigned to the Unit.

finance wheat purchases
throughout the world.
Moscow's
agreement in
principle to the transaction
was conveyed by Soviet Am-
bassador Mikhail Bodrov to
Premier Levi Eshkol at their
meeting, whch was devoted
mainly to an explanation of
Israel's stand on the disputed
Jordan River irrigation proj-
ect, Maariv reported.
Soviet property in Israel in-
cludes the Russian compound
in Jerusalem, located in the
center of the city, and some
holdings in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Most of the land is registered
in the name of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
It was hoped here that the
transaction would pave the way
for resumption of Israeli citrus
exports to Russia which Moscow
suspended following the 1956
Sinai campaign.

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7-THE DETR OIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, January 31, 1964

Israel Bond Parley
Soviet Agrees to Sell Land Holdings
to Honor Rothschild

Boris Srnolar's