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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
.. and Me
(Copyright, 1965, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE. The big controversy in American
Jewish life for the next 12 months will be the challenge to the organized
Zionist movement voiced at the convention of the Conservative rabbis.
It is difficult to see why rabbis should indulge in political issues,
instead of devoting themselves to the task of strengthening Judaism
which shows signs of decline . . . However, the rabbis, returning from
their convention, will bring to their communities the issue of replacing
the World Zionist Organization with a World Jewish Assembly . .
American Zionist leadership will not remain silent and will fight
the rabbis on the national and local levels . . . Each community will
thus become a battle ground between local Zionists and local Conserva-
tive rabbis . . . American Zionist leadership could, of course, take the
wind out of sails of the Conservative rabbis and win the battle even
before it develops . . . All it needs do is start reorganization of the
present structure of the Zionist movement to enable non-Zionists to
join the movement . .. A decision recognizing the need for a change
in the structure of the Zionist movement was adopted by the last
World Zionist Congress to bring into the ranks of the Zionist move-
ment all those elements in Jewry who are not members of official
Zionist groups but who want to be active for Israel and for what
Zionism stands for . . . Once such a reorganization is started, the
idea of the Conservative rabbis to replace the Zionist Organization
will lose ground . . . Conservative rabbis, ambitious as some of them
are to get the upper hand in organized Jewish life, are after all
limited in their functions to religious activities . . . At a time when
most of the 300,000 Jewish students have no interest in religion, when
intermarriage is on the increase and when traditional Jewish life is
getting weaker every year, American rabbis have heavy duties in
their own field to concentrate on . . There is no justification for
them to divert their energies into fields other than those of spiritual
guidance . . . On the other hand, the reorganization of the Zionist
party structure is considered as long overdue, especially since there
is a tendency by Conservative rabbis an_d others to undermine the
entire Zionist movement.
FACTS AND FIGURES: Philanthropic funds continue to be an
important source of income for Israel's economy, according to a study
made by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds . . .
Their importance will be even greater now that West German
reparations to Israel have ended . . . These reparation payments
brought to Israel $821,000,000 in the course of 12 years . . . There
are also restitution payments being made by West Germany to
individual victims of the Nazi regime who reside in Israel ... These
payments average about $135,000,000 a year and they will continue .. .
They constitute the largest single source of foreign currency income
for Israel . . . The United Jewish Appeal is, of course, another im-
portant source of foreign currency income for Israel . . . So are the
Israel Bond sales in this country . . . Since the establishment of Israel,
in 1948, UJA funds sent through the Jewish Agency for Israel totaled
about $800,000,000 . . . Israel Bond sales in the United States totaled
$700,000,000 . . . U. S. Government aid to Israel during that period
reached about $800,000,000 . . . The Joint Distribution Committee
spent for its work in Israel more than $150,000,000 since the estab-
lishment of the State . . . Hadassah raised about $150,000,000 during
the same period . . . There are also about a dozen of other groups
conducting campaigns in the U. S. for Israeli causes . .. As a result
of all of its income from abroad, there was a rise in foreign currency
balances in Israel of $113,000,000 in 1963 which resulted in a record
balance of $618,000,000 or $490,000,000 after deduction of short term
debt, according to S. P. Goldberg, CJFWF director of the department
of budget research . . . This was more than offset by foreign currency
liabilities, mainly loans like Export-Import Bank loan, Israel bonds,
and other long- and medium-term loans . • . Israel's own earnings in
foreign currency are largely in the form of export of goods and
services supplemented by foreign investment and private transfer of
funds . . . Data for 1964 indicate exports of about $350,000,000 in that
year, or about 44 per cent of imports.
Dutch Jews Appeal for New Trial
of Leader Convicted as Collaborator
THE HAGUE (JTA)—Hundreds
of Dutch Jews appealed to Justice
Minister No Samkalde to arrange
for a new trial of Dr. Frederick
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1948 in a sensational trial which
involved charges he collaborated
with the Nazis during the occupa-
tion of Holland.
The petitioning Jews, urging the
rehabilitation of the one-time lead-
er of the Dutch Jewish community,
based their appeal on disclosures
in recent publications dealing with
Dr. Weinreb's activities during the
Nazi occupation.
After he was convicted for six
years on charges of treason—
after dropping of charges he had
extorted money from Dutch Jews
—various organizations came to
his defense. The International
League for the Rights of Man
urged his release after he began
his six-year term. The term was
imposed by a special court of
appeals at The Hague.
Many of his supporters, includ-
ing members of the Dutch parlia-
ment, asserted that he had been
railroaded to cover up the col-
laborationist activities of some
Dutch officials.
Look not at the cask, but at what
is in it. A new cask may contain
old wine, but an old one may be
altogether empty. —the Talmud
Non-Interference
in Communities'
Affairs Advocated
GENEVA (JTA) — The World
Conference of Jewish Organizations
closed its annual meeting here with
an appeal to Jewish groups to re-
frain from "intervening in the af-
fairs of Jewish communities in
other lands" unless invited to do
so.
The COJO appeal, in a resolu-
tion, urged organizations engaged
in international affairs "to respect
the autonomy and authority" of the
representative Jewish groups in
countries who "are competent to
conduct their own affairs." The
resolution was approved in re-
sponse to a plea by representatives
of DAIA, the representative agency
of Argentine Jewry, who criticized
"the intensive actions of American
organizations without prior discus-
sion or clearance with the repre-
sentative body of Argentine Jew-
ry."
Noting that Argentine Jewry had
been troubled in recent years by
neo-Nazi movements, the COJO di-
rected its appeal to Jewish groups,
"whether members of COJO or
not." It urged them not to inter-
vene "without invitation from the
central representative body, except
where there is no representative
body or such body has been de-
prived of the freedom to speak and
act."
2 London Synagogues
Bombed; Cleric Angered
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 11, 1965-15
LONDON (JTA) — Police re-
ported that apparently one person
was responsible for the fire-bomb-
cari
ca
tures
ing of two London synagogues and
a hall adjoining a third in a week-
end attack. They found the re-
mains of one of the home-made
bombs bearing a painted swastika.
No damage was done to the .syna-
gogues.
John Cardinal Heenan, arch-
bishop of Westminster, appealed
in his sermon Sunday for racial
tolerance in Britain and through-
out the world. He warned that
"those tempted to commit the sin
of racial hatred should remem-
ber Belsen and Auschwitz," the
Nazi death camps.
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