New Charges Exchanged by UAHC
and New York's Temple Emanu-El

Jewish Editors to Hold Convention in Israel Despite Wa rnings

NEW YORK (JTA)—The dispute a split one. He announced that he
between the Union of American and other opponents of the with-
Hebrew Congregations• the central drawal planned to seek a reversal.
association of Reform congrega- Dr. Mark, who himself has pub-
tions and Temple Emanu-EI of licly criticized the American role
New York, the largest Reform in Vietnam, said in his message
congregation in the world—which that he upheld the right of Rabbi
Withdrew from the UAIIC last Eisendrath "to express his views
month— was widened last week- on Vietnam or any other subject—
end by an exchange of charges including his intemperate attack
between them. on President Johnson in a recent
The UAHC made its charges in issue of American Judaism" the
a letter from President Irving ' official publication of the UAHC,
Kane of Kansas City, which was "Provided he makes it crystal
sent to all member congregations. clear that he is speaking for him-
The letter charged that the tong- self and not for the Reform Jews
regation had opposed "many dyna. of America."
rule and important programs" in
Dr. Mark expressed the hope
the past 25 years, including a reso- that the dispute would be settled
lution "joining with the rest of the "behind closed doors" and said the
Jewish community in supporting congregation members would get
the establishment of a Jewish con- an explanatory letter from the
mon•ealth in Palestine.•• , board of trustees.
In disclosing the withdrawal.
That letter, signed by Bachrach,
Emanu - EI president Alfred Bach- was received the next day by cong-
rach charged that UAIIC president regation members. The letter reit-
Maurice Eisendrath, a leading foe crated the charge that Dr. Eisen-
among American Reform rabbis of drath "implies" he spoke for all
the United States involvement in Reform Jews in his public state-
Vietnam, had sought to act as . ments and that the UAHC "is man-
spokesman for American Reform • aged without any recognition of, or
Jewry, which Emanu - El opposed. E regard to. the views of constituent
The congregation's senior rab- congregations."
bi, Dr. Julius Mark, deplored
public airing of "a family dis-
pute." He took that position in a
message in the temple's weekly
bulletin to the 3,200 family mem-
bers of the congregation. Dr.
Mark declared there were "good
and sufficient reasons" for the
vote by the congregation board
of trustees last April :25 to with.
draw.
However. soon after the vote
made public. Louis Broido, a form
er New York city Coin In isspilwr
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and trustee. said the vote had 1 , e, o:
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editor and publisher of the South-
ern Israelite and president of the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 26, 1967-15
American Jewish Press Associa- '
tion, said Wednesday that the as- ,
sociation will go ahead with plans
for its annual convention to open
Friday in Israel in spite of United
States government warnings to
Americans to avoid travel in the
Middle East because of the current
crisis in that area.
Rosenberg told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that some 50 edi-
tors and publishers would be on
hand for the opening of the con-
vention. Fifteen of the members
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of the association, he said, have
Arranged by Topics
already arrived in Israel, among
them Philip Slomovitz, editor of
In a Modern Translation
Detroit's Jewish News.
Rosenberg declared in a state-
BY RABBI
ment that the association's conven-
JOSHUA
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tion "in Israel at this time in his-
tory is of the greatest importance
in the development of the ongoing
history of that nation." He said it
was also "an example of the vital-
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Hungarian Jews in NY
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NEW YoRK
The re-
sults of a study of .lewish
garian refugees settled in \'c.‘ •
York in 1957, showed that th•:: •
have made a remarkahle adjust '
ment in the 10 years since the,
arrived after fleeing across the

Hungarian border during the Bum

garian revolution. The study w a
reported here Slay 17 at the an-
nual meet ing of the New York
Association for New American:.
by Philip Soski-. executive dire: -
tor,
The 200 families. representing
568 individuals, included in the
detailed survey. w ere picked al
random from the agency's 1957

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fast to become self-supporting and
that 40 of the 200 family heads
had set up business establishments
which today prok ide employment
for 200 persons
Nearly three-quarters of the
Hungarians were completely self-
supporting in less than four
months, and 41 per cent of these
were established in less than
months. Only '; per cent required
aid by the end of the year. and
these were cases invoking seri-
ous illness or widows with small
children,
Although few of the newcomers-
spoke English. all were literate
in one or more languages The
study. shows that almost all the
adults attended evening English
language classes here. and 39 went
on with their education. 15 of them
in post-graduate work. A m o ii g
these were 'eight physicians . who
Were given loans by \YANA to
prepare themselves for taking
state license examinations.
Starting salaries for most of the
lamilies after they arrived in the
United States were from 540 to ,
$100 a week. Today. 41 per cent
of the group have incomes over
$9,000 a year. including It in T
he
over $ 9 0.000 a year bracketj he

the association would *study the the greatest tragedy in civiliza-
current situation and observe how I tion's history are now reacting to
people who already have survived almost a similar threat.

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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
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