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Boris Smolar's
ZOA Executive Hears Plea for U.S.-USSR Efforts
NEW YORK—Jacques Torczy-
ner, president of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, urged co-
operation between the United
States and the Soviet Union in
the United Nations to bring about
peace and disarmament in the
Middle East.
Taking note of the observance
last Sunday of the 20th aniver-
sary of the United Nations, Tor-
czyner said the observance of this
momentous occasion "has been
marred by the overwhelming de-
feat a few days ago of an amend-
ment submitted by the United
States and Brazil specifically con-
demning anti-Semitism as part of
a draft UN Convention on the Eli-
mination of Racial Discrimina-
tion."
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Torczyner anounced that the
ZOA will undertake a nationwide
survey among the younger gen-
eration in the American Jewish
community "for the purpose of
ascertaining the extent of their
consciousness as Jews and their
attachment to the State of Israel."
Herman L. Weisman of New
York, chairman of he Council,
termed as "dangerous" the U.S.
State Department's unchanged pol-
icy of sending costly armaments
into the Middle East." He further
asserted that "the United States
appears to share the view of Soviet
Russia that it is necessary to play
ball with Nasser."
Weisman here reinforced a call
by the ZOA president to alert its
members and friends throughout
the country and the American
public to the dangerous "threat to
world peace presented by the
Communist-Arab alliance."
SCANDINAVIA AND ISRAEL: Traveling in Scandinavia, one is
impressed with the deep feeling of friendship for Israel prevailing in
enmark, Sweden and Norway . . . In Norway, you see ships being built
for Israel at the dockyards there . . . In Sweden, you see the Jaffa
_aoranges on most fruit stands — an indication of Israel-Swedish trade
relations . . . In Denmark, you learn that no less than 2,000 Danish
youths, non-Jews, have this year visited Israel, paying their own fares
and working in kibbutzim there during the summer months . . . They
were so fascinated with life in Israel that they came back the best
propagandists for the Jewish state . . . Some of them learned to speak
a little Hebrew, and most of them enjoy doing Israeli dances . . .
• • •
Together with hundreds of other non-Jewish youths who had visited
Torczyner spoke last week-
Israel in previous years during their vacations, they are now forming
end before several hundred
in Copenhagen a club of . "ex-kibbutzniks" to the delight of Harry Zionist leaders from all parts of
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Levin, Israel's Ambassador to Denmark ... There are also Jewish youths
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in Copenhagen who visited Israel this year and in the previous years day meeting of the national
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during the summer vacation months . . . They too came back home
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full of enthusiasms for Israel . . . However, their number is small
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This is because there are not many youngsters among the 1,800 Jewish
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THE 'ALIYAH' ISSUE: The most remarkable thing in Scandinavia Israel's foreign minister, and Mario
— especially in Denmark — is that the Jewish community leaders are Gomez Calvo, foreign minister of
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strongly opposed to Jewish emigration to Israel . . . This includes Dr. Costa Rica.
Marcus Melchior, chief rabbi of Denmark, who has two sons living in
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Israel . . . Their argument is that emigration to Israel undermines framework in which Israeli and
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strongly corroding the Jewish community . . . They claim that any Jew specific projects. Israel has aided
who feels Jewish enough to wish to emigrate to Israel is leaving an Costa Rica in such diverse fields as
empty place in the Jewish community in Denmark, or Sweden, or irrigation and civil aviation.
Norway when he moves to Israel . . . Aliyah, they insist, saps the
strength of Jewish life in the Scandinavian countries without adding
anything to Israel . . . They cite that fact when the president of the
small group of Zionist women organized in the WIZO in Copenhagen
left for Israel, it was difficult to find another active woman suf-
ficiently interested to take her place .. . So also was the case with the
correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Copenhagen who
played an important role in Jewish communal affairs . . . A Danish-
born Jew, he chose to move with his family to Israel, thereby reducing
the number of Jews active in Copenhagen's Jewish communal life . . .
Similar was the case of a noted Danish-Jewish journalist who was
influential among readers of the general press, but left for Israel be-
cause of his strong Jewish inclinations . . . In Israel, the Copenhagen
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Jewish leaders point out, neither of these three Danish-barn Jews play
any role . . . They are there just ordinary citizens, contributing nothing
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special to the country . . . In Denmark they were among the pillars
on whom Judaism was built; they left, and there are no others to take
their places in the small and Jewishly-weak community . . . This
delicate "tug of war" for manpower between Israel and the Jewish
leaders in the Scandinavian countries found its public expression recently
mity Among Nations
when Chief Rabbi Melchior, of Copenhagen, a modern Orthodox Jew,
openly criticized David Ben-Gurion for insisting on "Aliyah" from
Scandinavia by saying that no Jew can live Jewishly unless he lives
in Israel . . . The Chief Rabbi of Denmark took strong issue with Ben-
Gurion and was the first Jewish leader in any country to challenge
oyalty to Our Cultural Heritage
Ben-Gurion's view ... In this he has the backing of the other communal
leaders in Scandinavia who wants to see Jewish life in their countries
strengthened, and not weakened by emigration to Israel ... In fact, they
would like that Israel should send them manpower—rabbis and teachers
which they need very badly—rather than to stimulate their most Jewish-
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conscious men and women to move to Israel.
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'ISRAELIS' IN SCANDINAVIA: There is much warmth and under-
landing for Israel in the Scandinavian countries among the non-Jew-
ish population, but not much respect for Israelis who come to these
coutries from Israel as laborers . . . There is a shortage of labor in
Denmark and in Sweden — even non-skilled labor — and anyone can
find work there .. . Thus, numerous Israelis employed as non-skilled
workers can be seen on the streets of Copenhagen and in Stockholm
. . . They present no pretty picture and .do no credit to the image
of Israel among non-Jews in these cities . . . Disheveled and unshaved,
they roam the main streets, and are drawing attention by their not
entirely civilized behavior . . . Almost all of them are Jewish youths
from North African countries who left Israel to seek their fortune
in the Scandinavian countries as Israeli citizens, but there are also
"sabras" among them . . . The Jewish community in Copenhagen is
embarrassed by them. and the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen does
not know how to reach them because they evade registration with the
Embassy . . . In the "Hotel Royal" in Copenhagen, where I stayed,
there were also several Israeli girls working as chamber maids . . .
They were "sabras" and one of them, who cleaned my room, admitted
that in Israel she would never have worked as a chambermaid . . .
"But," she said, "we are young people; we want to see the world, and
here in Copenhagen work is easy, wages are high and the opportunity
to take a jump to one or the other country presents itself whenever
we have saved up enough money to do so!" . . . She spoke English
well, wore a Mogen David around her neck — that is why I noticed
that she was Jewish — and had been in the hotel service for about two
years . . . Will she return to Israel? . . . She probably will, because
there are not enough young men in Copenhagen willing to marry
foreign girls . . . But the Israeli boys, whose behavior is not too
praiseworthy, and who have a weakness for Danish blondes, do find
girls in Copenhagen whom they marry . . . And — according to the
complaints of the local Jewish leaders — it makes no difference to
them whether these girls are Jewish or non-Jewish, as long as they
are blondes . . . One wonders why these Israeli boys and girls are not
discouraged in Israel from seeking their fortune abroad at the expense
of Israel's reputation among friendly nations.
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