ZOA Head Jacques Torczyner Foresees Reappraisal
of Efforts Among Youth Resulting from Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jacques
Torczyner, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, asserted
Sunday that the "resurgence of
anti-Semitism in many parts of
the world, in-
cluding the Unit-
ed States, will
impel a reap-
praisal by Jewish
leadership of
their program to
combat assimila-
tion among Jew-
ish communi-
ties."
"With massive
anti - Semitism
Torczyner
again rearing its
ugly head amidst political and
social upheavals in various coun-
tries," he said, "the danger of
assimilation and cultural disinte-
gration which still looms large on
the Jewish horizon, is gradually
taking a secondary place in the
fight against bigotry."
Torczyner spoke before several
hundred Zionist leaders from all
parts of the country at the open-
ing of a two-day session of the
ZOA national executive commit-
tee, the ruling .body of the organi-
zation between conventions. Her-
man L. Weisman, chairman of the
national executive committee, pre-
sided over the sessions, which were
also addressed by Brig. Gen. Yosef
Geva, military attache of the Is-
rael Embassy in Washington; Jo-
seph W. Greenleaf, chairman of
the convention committee; and
Paul Safro, acting chairman of the
national finance committee.
Torczyner said that "social up-
heavals in a number of Latin
American countries and racial
conflicts in the United States
have escalated anti-Jewish prej-
udices and have intensified anti-
Semitism even among wide cir-
cles of Negroes here." He fur-
ther asserted that the "so-called
white backlash in the South, in
the Midwest, and currently in
Chicago, mostly led and insti-
Orthodox Jews Urge NYC
Use Funds for Day School
NEW YORK (JTA)—The New
York City Board of Education was
urged Monday to allocate funds
immediately to help pupils in the
city's Hebrew day schools, as pro-
vided by the Federal Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of
1965.
While the legislation provides
funds for remedial and enrichment
programs for both public and non-
public school children, the board
has not yet passed on the alloca-
tions to parochial school children
in New York. Such grants are
opposed by some Jewish and non-
Jewish groups.
In a joint statement, Rabbi
Pesach J. Levovitz, president of
the Rabbinical Council of Ameri-
ca, and Moses I. Feuerstein, presi-
dent of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America,
said that delay in granting the
funds "may make it impossible
to implement the program for the
coming year."
Both Orthodox Jewish leaders
stressed that their groups are
"traditionally opposed" to federal
aid and involvement in religious
schools. But they maintained that
the present law "is in full con-
sonance with the separation of
church and state."
Chicago Service Gets
Grant From Government
CHICAGO (JTA) — A federal
grant of $117,950 for the Jewish
Vocational Service here was ap-
proved by the Vocational Rehabili-
tation Administration of the U. S.
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
The grant will cover a three-
year period beginning in 1966 and
will be used for improvement of
the business procedures of the JVS
Sheltered Workshop program, it
was announced by Dr. William
Gellman, executive director of
JVS.
gated by extreme rightist forces,
have opened the doors to such
anti-Semitic elements as the Ku
Klux Klan and the American
Nazi Party, whose leaders have
addressed rallies in Chicago and
elsewhere attended by thousands
of white residents." He also
cited the recent outbreaks of
swastika daubings of synagogues
in New Jersey, Long Island,
Florida, California and many
other states.
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Semitism in the years since the Due Off Press Oct. 10
end of World War II, with the
partial acceptance of Jews in cer-
tain social and economic spheres,"
he continued, "has hastened the
voluntary process of assimilation,
particularly among Jewish youth.
This was particularly the case in
Latin America and West European
communities, and in the United
States. On the other hand, in So-
viet Russia the Jewish community
is subjected to forced assimilation
The Zionist leader voiced con- through cultural discrimination."
fidence that the "alliance of bla-
Addressing himself further to
tant anti-Semitic elements with the the problem of Jewish youth
anti-Negro forces will open the which, he said, "Zionism must
eyes of those Negroes who them- solve," the speaker urged that
selves harbor anti-Semitic preju-
"every young Jew must be made
dices." He further said that the conscious of the reality of the
current re-emergence of the anti- Jewish world today even if it
Semitic elements is "also awaken- means changes in the concepts
ing Jewish youth to the realization of the older Zionist generation?'
of their close affinity with the
Aryeh Even, executive director
Jewish people." "Our youth,"
Torczyner asserted, "is beginning of the Young Zionists department
to learn the lesson of history that, of the ZOA, reported to the session
rather than trying to escape from on the seven-week stay of the
Jewish identity, they can best largest American teen-age group
carry on the battle against bigotry in the summer camp at Kfar Sil-
and prejudice by standing up as ver, the agricultural high school
Jews, imbued with a consciousness in Israel maintained by the ZOA.
The group, which recently re-
of their Jewish heritage."
"The decline of organized anti- turned to this country, was com-
prised of 100 Jewish high school
students from all parts of the
Young People Asked
United States and Canada. A high-
light of the summer camp pro-
to Press for Changes
gram, he reported, was the par-
ticipation of the American teen-
in Their Community
agers in a dialogue between
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—Amer-
American and Israeli youth held
ican Jewish youth was urged to at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv and
accept its "adult roles" and to aimed at bringing about closer ties
"exert pressure for changes" in between the Jewish youth of both
policies and programs affecting the countries. -
future of the American Jewish
Greenleaf, as chairman of the
community.
convention - committee, reported.
Addressing the national conven- more than 1,200 delegates repre-
tion of the Student Zionist Organi- senting 600 chapters throughout
zation which opened Monday. at the country will attend the four-
Camp Galil, Ottsville, near here, day sessions of the 69th annual
Dr. Judah J. Shapiro, former sec- convention of the ZOA to be held
retary of the National Foundation Oct. 20-23, at the Hotel Statler-
for Jewish Culture, said that, while Hilton in New York.
students at American campuses
have been demonstrating increas-
ing acceptance of their adult roles
in most social and political affairs,
"no comparable role is yet discern-
ible in Jewish communal affairs.''
Only in the Jewish community, Dr.
Shapiro declared, "do students still
conduct themselves as children,
regarding themselves as 'youth
movements' of adult organiza-
tions."
WATCH F OB
ANNOUNCEMENT
r
West German journalist Bernd
Naumann gives an account of the
Auschwitz trial in the book "Ausch-
witz: A Report on the Proceedings
Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka
and Others Before the Court at
Frankfurt."
To be published by Praeger Oct.
10, the book also has a report on
the concentration camp itself, the
events leading up to the indict-
ment and the background of the
defendants.
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