.1•1.1••••0 ∎Q1••• 0••• ■ 44 ■ 11114.11•11F0.1 ■0■1■ .11010 411M41.11.0411•00 ■ 04 ■ 43” o... 0 MOM 0 .■ 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 I ONIY A PHONE all AWAY... ECONO-CAR RENTAL SYSTEM )1114 ,4 RENT A NEW CAR Fine Chrysler Products ... 99 per 12 hr. period. 4.99 per 24 ht. period plus pennies o mile FREE Pick-up, gas, oil, maintenance and ,insurance 1516 S. Woodward 1 BIk. No. of 10 Mile Rd. Royal Oak PHONE 542-1464 Weinreb, who was sentenced in 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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