Cooperative Organizational ActionAimed at Advancing Jewish ValuesUrged at JWB Convention NEW YORK — Louis Stern was elected to a two-year term as rich heritage, without apprecia- tion of the contemporary rele- president of the National Jewish vancy of this heritage, and with- Welfare Board Sunday, at the out significant Jewish experi- closing session of JWB's golden ence." jubilee biennial convention which He added "the e x e c u t i v e launched the year-long celebra- heads of each of the organizations tion of the agency's 50th anniver- should convene to consider ave- sary. nues for joint activity. Out of such The tenth president of JWB, sober consultation by the distin- Stern had served as president guished professional leaders of our since January 1966 to fill a vacan- organizations can surely emerge cy created by the death of his pre- the beginnings of a shared ap- decessor, Mrs. Florence G. Hel- proach to this problem." ler. Notes of both optimism and pes- Charles Gershenson, Detroit civic leader, was elected to the simism about the future of Jewish life in America were sounded board of directors. throughout the JWB convention. In The establishment of a Confer- a symposium which opened the ence of Executives of Major Jew- convention, Dr. Gerson D. Cohen, ish Organizations was proposed by professor of history, Columbia Sanford Solender of Rye, N.Y., University, said: "We can count JWB executive vice-president. on no objective factors to guaran- The major deficiency in Am- tee the continuity of Jewish life. erican Jewish life, Solender said, If history is an index, there will is that "most American Jews be tremendous losses to the Jewish are without knowledge of their community — including men and women of great talent—through in- termarriage, self-alienation and passive and active withdrawal from the Jewish community. Those who remain will look to deeply committed leaders to provide guid- ance and purposive direction." All this adds up to the fact that for the Jewish life we envision we must provide a Jewish elite that will be able to formulate, inter- pret, and transmit the type or types of Jewish life that we want to see preserved, developed, be- queathed." Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein said that unless there will be one Jewish institution on whom the Jewish community can de- pend and from whom there can emanate a creative Jewish life, "little else that we do will mat- ter." "That institution," Rabbi Lookstein said, "is the Jewish school." LOUIS STERN LAWN SPRINKLERS JWB President Louis Stern said that there "is no real feel- ing of mutuality" among Jew- ish organizations, and there must be more "effective working relations." 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Yet, he said, "the Jewish youth today is seeking some form of self-definition and some clearly definable value sys- tem." Arthur Cantor, Broadway pro- ducer of such plays as "The Tenth Man" and "Gideon," said "Jewish values will continue to survive in the face of the assimilationist threat." Jews have to be survival- ists. This is in the nature of being Jewish." Philip M. Klutznick, former U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, in a speech read for him in his absence at the dedication of the new Milton Weill Building of the Emanu-El Midtown YM & YWHA in New York City, said: "We are engaged in a new type of adventure in the Jewish experi- ence — a conscious investment in the Jewish future. Some delight to denigrate this era as the age of the 'edifice complex.' It is really a period of thoughtful additions as well as reconstruction. It is not by accident that this is the first time when the major additions to -center facilities and expanded services are the product of joint planning by Federations and Centers. "The Jewish Community Cen- ter's promise for the future is rooted in its tradition of reaching out to all Jews of all ages, and is assured by its determination to make experience as a Jew mean- ingful." Irwin Shaw of Detroit said that "a program of adult Jewish education participated in by a majority of Jews is a 'sine qua non' for any meaningful Jewish survival in this country." He said: "Centers and YM & YWHAs must focus more attention on the Jewish aspects of their adult programming, and this, in turn, means a greater attention to our literary resources. "Unless we recognize the funda- mental role of adult Jewish educa- tion in Jewish survival, we will never give it the proper attention and support. "In the Center, as well as in the synagogue and in general Jewish education, adult education has heretofore received relatively lit- tle consideration." Declaring that "token con- cessions" made by the Soviet Union to Soviet Jewry "do not meet the expectations of world opinion, especially those of the Jewish community in America," the Jewish Welfare Board un- animously adopted a resolution voicing its support of "minimal demand to restore the right of Soviet Jewry to live as Jews." Urging its affiliated Jewish com- munity centers throughout the United States "to continue to give leadership and to cooperate with local groups in the effort to re- duce the injustice done to Soviet Jewry," JWB, which is a member of the American Jewish Confer- ence on Soviet Jewry, outlined the minimal demands on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Arthur J. Goldberg, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, ONE COAT COVERS of American society," but added a warning that this gain posed the danger of loss of Jewish identity among American Jews. Speaking at the banquet session of the convention, Sunday, he said that the dropping of such barriers was "a wonderful historical trend" THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12—Friday, May 6, 1966 for which all America should re- joice and that he believed that it would continue. Then he added the warning That "as this trend con- tinues, it brings on another prob- lem for American Jewry — one which we have faced for a long time but perhaps never on so large a scale: the danger of losing our identity as Jews, or of seeing that identity so watered down that we begin to forget who we are and whence we came." Citing the concern of many Jew- is organizations "about the sup- port and involvement of Jewish intellectuals," the Ambassador suggested that the answer was probably not for the organizations to become lesS Jewish and more secular "but, on the contrary, in their reaffirming their Jewish heritage. Perhaps the way to make the Jewish intellectual feel at should be a model and inspiration for the idealist and the reformer of tomorrow. He proposed "new forms of co- operation" in American Jewish life "to replace some of the com- peting efforts of today and to bring all of the doctrinal divisions of the Jewish community into a single national effort." While such a united approach would he hard to achieve, he asserted, "it might offer the most effective way to survey emerging needs, to set priorities, and to mobilize the necessary money and talent." New! Two savings plans from Oakland National Bank For Regular Savings home in Jewish communal life is 0:6X ) is not to de-emphasize but rather to reaffirm that which is most uni- versal in our heritage." He also declared that, if American Jewry "is a vital force, it must prove that vitality among the young people who are tomorrow's leaders. Per- haps too many of today's Jewish youth programs are aimed at mak- ing the young people grow up to be just like their parents—instead of encouraging them to find their own style and their own modes of expression." He cautioned the present Ameri- can adult Jewish generation against setting itself up as a model "for the succeeding generation." "Our real message to them," he said, "is not in our own sterling virtues, nor in our activities but in some- thing far deeper—the Jewish heri- tage, whose prophetic tradition WHEN YOU A COCKTAIL UNITED BRANDS • DETROIT, U, S. A. • 42 PROOF ANNUAL. 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