Record initial Gifts of $4,212, 649
Mark Allied Campaign Opening

$5,000,000 Total Assured ;
Seek 13,00'0 Contributors

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An enthusiastic gathering of nearly 300 volunteers
acclaimed the report made at the official opening dinner-
meeting of the Allied Jewish Campaign, at the Jewish
Center, Tuesday evening, that a total of 84,212,649 had
been subscribed in pre-campaign efforts. This represents
91 per cent of the amount raised in 1964.
It gives assurance, William Avrunin, Jewish Welfare
Federation executive director, and Irwin Green and Sol
-------/Eisenberg, campaign co-chairmen, stated, that the sum

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of $5,000,000, aimed at as a minimum goal, will be ex-
ceeded by the time the drive ends on May 12.

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April 9, 1965

UN Commission Approves
'Religious Rights' Proposal
Despite USSR's Opposition

Participants in the program included Max M. Fisher,
national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, major
beneficiary of the Detroit campaign; Hyman Safran, pres-
ident of the Federation, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, who gave
the invocation, and heads of campaign divisions who sub-
mitted reports on the progress made by their workers.
Miss Joan Fontaine, noted actress, gave a dramatic read-
ing.

In his opening address, Safran evaluated the campaign ob-
jectives and expressed pride in Detroit's record in philanthropic
efforts, aid to Israel and the advancement of cultural programs.
Irwin Green, confident of the drive's success in exceeding
the set goal, admonished his fellow-workers that 13,000 more
contributors must be reached before the end of the drive and
urged: "Let's make the 1965 campaign a success story."
Sol Eisenberg, who presided during most of the program,
said he was confident that the sum of S5,250,000 will be secured
during the final five weeks of solicitations.

GENEVA (JTA)—Against the opposition of the three Communist members and one
of the Arabs on the body, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights decided
overwhelmingly to include in the draft convention on elimination of all religious
intolerance a clause proposed by Israel, making it mandatory on all governments to
guarantee the right of all religious communities to "write, print and publish religious
books and texts." Without naming the Soviet Union, the clause was clearly aimed at the
USSR, where those rights "to write, print and publish" are denied to Jews.
Associate Justice Haim Cohn of the Israeli Supreme Court, who is a delegate to the
commission, proposed that clause as an amendment to one of the articles of the projected
religious freedoms convention. The draft convention was debated by the commission for
a week. The Soviet Union, Ukrainian, Polish and Iraqi delegates on the commission
argued against the Cohn motion. When it came to a vote, 18 delegates of the 22-member
commission voted in favor of the Israeli motion; the USSR and Iraq voted against it,
while Poland and the Ukraine abstained.

Avrunin, in an appeal for unstinted efforts to assure the
drive's complete success, declared that the drive's objective is
to assure that "every Jew should have a full opportunity to live
in dignity and to raise his children to a life of self-respect and
fulfillment as Jews wherever they may want to live."

With Jack Lefton calling for reports, those detailing their
divisions' activities included Mrs. I. Jerome Hauser, Abe Lapides,
Harold S. Norman, Alfred Deutsch, David Schachter, Alfred W.
Keats, Barry Yaker, Milton Lucow, Harvey Willens and Malcolm
Lowenstein. The latter reported that the mechanical division
already has oversubscribed last year's subscriptions, securing an
increase over 1964 of 24 per cent. The runner-up, also nearing
last year's income with only half of the prospects contacted, is
the arts and crafts division.
Miss Fontaine's reading, "The Children of Israel," showing
"3,000 years of concern for the saving of the lives of Jewish
ehildren," called attention to the tragedies that were experienced
during the holocaust and to the glories that were restored for
the children by the State of Israel. Commencing with the reading
of Exodus 2:1 and concluding with the 127th Psalm and Nehemiah
9:23, Miss Fontaine's talk represented a composition of many
voices. She read from a letter by Henrietta Szold on the work
of Youth Aliyah, in 1938, a selection from Gerda Klein's ex-
periences when she was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and other
similar experiences. "These are the youngsters we have helped—
and there still are many to be helped," she declared.

In another debate on one of the clauses proposed for the religious freedom instrument, Morris
B. Abram and Sir Samuel Hoare, respectively the United States and British delegates, obtained
Communist agreement to a clause that would state clearly that no state may subject any religion or belief
to governmental control. All three of the Communist delegations — the USSR, Poland and Ukraine —
agreed with that point of view after Abram told the commission he did not believe that any state has
"superior judgment" in the field of religion.

A strong appeal for the adoption of the convention for the elimination of religious intolerance was
made by Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, director of international affairs for the World Jewish Congress, who
addressed the commission as the representative of a non-governmental organization with consultative
status. Dr. Perlzweig, omitting direct mention of the USSR, insisted that the planned convention pro-
vide "unequivocally" for such religious rights as the right to preach one's religion, obtain materials for
the observance of dietary and other ritual practices, maintain a national organization representing a
religious faith, and participate in the religion's international organizations. All of these rights are at
present denied to Jewry in the USSR.

(Morris Abram, on Monday, called on the Soviet Union, in behalf of the U.S. delegation to make
available material in its archives to assist in the prosecution of Nazi criminals. Detailed story of this
portion of the UN debate on Page 5).

Happy Passover Assured for Needy

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In the week preceding Passover, world Jewry can feel reunited by com-

Allied Drive

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mon religious ties and by kinship that draws all communities together. Detroit's
current Allied Jewish Campaign is one of the unifying forces, and the hand of
friendship that goes forth from this community extends to Jews in far-off lands
through the causes we assist. Through the United Jewish Appeal, major bene-
ficiary from our campaign, the Joint Distribution Committee extends help
to an aged resident in Morocco, shown on the extreme left, who is introduced
here as he finds serenity in prayer. A tragic consequence of the emigration

of Jews from Morocco is that those who are left behind, destitute and alone,

are the old people.
The JDC provides food and medical care for them and supports a home
for the infirm and two housing units for well aged. UJA-supported JDC institu-

Lions in Iran care for those shown in the other two photos. The center

shows a little girl tasting a sample of a cracker that is not square but is a
nevertheless. JDC funds, contributed in some measure by the Detroit

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matzo
Allied
Jewish Campaign, assure special grants to Iranian families to enable them
to buy matzoth for Passover. Also in Iran is the recipient of a gift from the

United States shown on the extreme right.
The JDC distributed to needy in Iran nearly half a million pounds
of Food-for-Peace supplies donated by the U.S. government. These supplies,
which included milk, flour, oil, beans and wheat, supplemented JDC's feeding
program, which provides food for 8,500 Jews a month, some of them in
school canteens.

