Action on All Fronts—From Unity to Aliyah—Stressed at Congress

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the task of building Jewish people-
hood.

He said the prerequisites were
insuring the Zionist movement's
integrity, undertaking a program
of unifying Jewish communities,
and unification in an international
Jewish community of nationally
organized Jewish communities
which express the Zionist philos
ophy. He also stressed the need to
improve Israel's absorption facil-
ities for immigrants from western
countries.
Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum, a
leader of the. Religious Zionists of
America, cited a reference by Dr.
Goldmann in his address to the
opening session to the vital role
which the Jewish religion could
and should have in protecting
Jewry . from assimilation. Rabbi
Birshblum said that just as it was
insufficient to "preach aliyah" and
remain in countries other than
Israel, it was also insufficient to
praise religion "without drawing
the obvious conclusions."
The role of the Zionist movement
in the establishment- of Israel was
lauded by President Johnson in a
letter addressed to a fellow-Texan
who is a delegate to the Congress
with the request that the letter
should be read to the Congress.
The president said in his letter,
addressed to Jim Novy, that Con-
gress delegates "can view with
pride the manner in which Israel
has assumed a place .among the
most imitated nations of the world.
In Africa and Latin America,
particularly, the example of Israel
is guiding other, in some instances,
even newer nations, to doctrines of
individual freedom, human dignity
and democracy."
A report on the activities of
the Jewish Agency since the last
World Zionist Congress was
delivered by Aryeh L. Pincus,
treasurer. The report was to
have been delivered by Sharett
as chairman of the Agency.
Pincus reported that during the
last four years, the Jewish
Agency spent a total of S30,000,-
000 on education in countries out-
side of Israel.
Calling for an increase in the
Agency's education role, Pincus
said that Diaspora Jewry must
make a greater effort in this field
since • Israel could not supply all
the teachers required. If the Zion-
ist movement failed to live up to
the challenges ahead,• he declared,
history would record that the
movement "had not realized its
finest hour which is still ahead."
Warning that insufficient means
to pursue vigorously the work of
integration served as a cause of
unrest imperiling the basic struc-
ture of Israeli • democracy. Pincus
stressed that 70 per cent of the
housing for new immigrants was
provided at the expense of the
Israeli taxpayer.
He emphasized that this burden
could not be increased, and called
on world Jewry to indrease its
efforts to ensure practical neces-
sities required in this field.
Reporting that since 1960 the
number of immigrants from the
West and from South America
total4d 22,000, Pincus said that
neither Israel nor the Jewish
Agency could offer Western im-
migrants facilities to compete with
such developed countries as the
United States or Britain.
"The attraction for such im-
migration can only be the result
of Zionist education and a spiritual
dedication compensating for the
lack of amenities," he asserted.
Dr. Israel Goldstein told the
delegates that while seeking to
expand the movement we must
lay down criteria for the admis-
.

sion of new groups; "we cannot
be a catchall for all Jewish
groups but must remain an all-
Zionist organization." The best
criteria, he said, are those taid
down in the Jerusalem Program.
"The education of youth and
Zionist orientation are unique re-
sponsibilities of the Zionist Organ-
ization," he declared. "It is in
these areas we find the most com-
prehensive deficiencies."
He stressed • that immigration
from the United States should be-
come the number one priority of
the Zionist program. He noted that
the attitude of the Israel govern-
ment toward the Zionist movement
was affected by. "the degree of our
readiness to carry the authentic
Zionist banner.,"
Jacob Tzur, chairman of the
Zionist General Council, said in his
address that the Zionist movement
must create the basis for Western
immigration by deepening the iden-
tification of Diaspora Jews with
Israel. Asserting that this required
the adaptation of all Zionist doc-
trines to the modern problems of
the 1960's, Mr. Tzur said that this
must be done without diluting the
Zionist content of the movement.
M. Agranat, chairman of the
Congress Court, submitted a report
expressing the view that the
shekel-based system of elections
to the Congress was outdated and
no longer reflected conditions in
the various countries sending dele-
gates. -
He also said that the court felt
it was incompetent to rule on
objections raised against the sys:
tern of drawing up lists according
to a general agreement, on
grounds that it was undemocratic.
Sir Barnett Janner of Britain
told the Congress that Western
immigration to Israel was not
properly organized at the Israeli
end. He urged establishment of a
permanent coordinationg commit-
tee of the Jewish Agency and the
government for that purpose.
M. Stern of the Israel General
Zionist movement urged the Zion-
ist movement to take the initiative
in organizing Jewish groups in
other countries. All speakers at the
session stressed the importance of
Jewish education and means 'of
improving it.
Michael Kuper of Johannesburg,
the first youth delegate to address
the Congress, asserted that Zionist
politics was "destroying" the
youth movement. He said the fact
that Zionist youth movements in-
eluded only a "small fraction" of
Jewish youth was due "in large
measure" to the introduction of
Israel's internal political quarrels
into the Zionist structure in other
countries. He added that the "con-
servatism" of the Zionist move-
ment "repelled" Jewish youth.

attending the World Zionist Con- founder of the Tarbuth F o undation, of Hebrew education in the United
was guest of honor here at a din- States. Guests at the dinner in-
gress. He was 67.
Born in Knoxville, Mr. Winick ner given by the Zionist Organiza- eluded ZOA delegates to the World
was active in the Zionist move- tion of America on the occasion Zionist Congress, members of the
Liberal Party, and veterans of the
ment since his early youth. He was of his 70th birthday.
Among those who addressed the American regiment of the Jewish
also active in communal and civic
affairs and played a leading part gathering was former Prime Min- Battalion of the First World War in
in the efforts for the United Jewish ister David Ben-Gurion who hailed which G 0 0 d m a n served as a
Appeal and Israel Bonds. He was Goodman's activities in the field volunteer.
admitted to the bar in 1918.
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