first public appearance at the ban-
quet since his election, and was
accorded an ovation. He paid
tive director of the National Urban is next in line."
tribute to the Jewish role in the
League, warned that if the Klan,
The newly-elected mayor of civil rights struggle, and called on
White Citizens Councils, the John Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes, first the Jewish community to intensify
Birch Society and other bigot ele- Negro to head the government of its participation in the war against
ments, including the whole new a major American city, made his poverty.
class of "affluent peasants" over-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
came the Negro, "you know who 10 — Friday, November 24, 1967
Federations Adopt Strong Stand on Mid-East
CLEVELAND (JTA)—The 36th
general assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, representing more than 200
Jewish communities, called on the
United States government Sunday
to "continue to work for policies
which would bring Arabs and
Israelis face-to-face at the peace
table" for solution of the conflict
in the Middle East.
In a resolution unanimously
adopted, the assembly declared
that "until peace is achieved, and
to meet the new threat brought
about by the rearming of the
Arab states, it is crucial that
Israel be enabled to maintain its
capacity to uphold the peace and
to deter further 'aggression, and
we therefore urge the United
States government to continue to
take such steps as will help make
possible this essential deterrent."
The resolution commended the
government's position that the
Middle East "cannot return to the
intolerable conditions which pro-
voked conflicts in the past," and
said that the "makeshift measures
of the past must be replaced by
a permanent peace."
Louis J. Fox, of Baltimore,
was reelected president of the
CJFWF; and Max M. Fisher, of
Detroit, was reelected as vice-
president.
Hyman Safran, of Detroit, was
elected to the board of a three-
year term.
The assembly called on the
American Jewish community for
maximum efforts to provide the
enormous sums needed for human-
itarian and other crucial needs in
Israel and the increased vital local
and national needs at home.
Fisher, who was chairman of the
function, told the assemblage that
American Jews recognized that,
since the Six-Day War. while a
new Israel had come into being a
new American Jewish community
had also come into being and,
"while we are in a sense a new
community, we are still a com-
munity dedicated to the great
themes that have motivated us
since the 1930s."
A resolution stressed the need
for continued aid and for closer
budgetary planning by the Jewish
Agency for Israel, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committe and the United
Israel Appeal. The resolution called
for utmost cooperation with the
agencies concerned with rescue
operations for the Jews in certain
Arab countries, and called on the
United Nations to take all possible
protective measures for the sup-
. port and safety of these Jews. It
expressed gratitude to the govern-
ments and the Jewish and non-
Jewish agencies whose efforts had
enabled many of these Jews to
leave.
Another resolution appealed to
the leaders of the Soviet Union
to act upon Lennifi promises of
national self-dkermination and
religious freeddin for all groups.
This measure noted that the
Soviet regime had shown sen-
sitivity to condemnation in the
outside world of special discrimi-
nation against Soviet Jews. It
urged that the American Jewish
Conference on Soviet Jewry, the
Canadian Jewish Congress and
local Jewish community agencies
should intensify their protests
against the treatment of the
Jews in the Soviet Union.
The assembly reaffirmed its
long-standing commitment to equal
rights and equal opportunity for
all "through peaceful democratic
means." "Anti - Semitism, like
terror and violence, breeds in
ignorance, want and deprivation.
We pledge to intensity our efforts
to eliminate these conditions."
Another resolution, expressing
concern over current pressures to
undermine traditional separation
of church and state in the United
States, reaffirmed support of this
principle, described religious edu-
cation .as "a responsibility of
voluntary organizations" and
stressed the belief that govern-
ment aid to religiously controlled
schools, "whether in the form of
direct or indirect subsidies, vio-
lates this principle and would do a
grave disservice to both religious
and public education."
The assembly also took a strong
position on the war on poverty,
calling for action on the social
problems involved "by a far
greater attack, more comprehen-
sive in scope, going to the roots of
the problems." It said that "this
can be made possible by finan-
cing„ especially by the federal
government, far beyond anything
heretofore provided." The resolu-
tion on this subject called on the
federations and welfare funds to
"undertake the most earnest ac-
tion either in cooperation with
other groups or independently
when appropriate, making full use
of our special experience, knowl-
edge nad skills."
A workshop on involvement of
college -youth in Jewish com-
munal responsibilities and
services heard a plea from Dr.
Bernard Martin, chairman of the
department of religion at Case-
Western Reserve University. He
appealed to the federations to
provide funds for establishment
of professorships of Jewish
studies at American colleges and
universities. He said that Jewish
learning should be made part of
the total educational learning
experience, and that courses in
Jewish history, theology, philo-
sophy and literature would be
meaningful and useful to stu-
dents on the college level.
One of the assembly's - resolu-
tions dealt with a problem that
had been extensively discussed in
the workshop sessions, calling for
an augmented program to deal
with the critical shortage of per-
sonnel for the national agencies
and in the federations and welfare
funds.
A noted liberal Negro leader
told the assembly that the Ameri-
can Jewish community had a
special obligation in the area of
civil rights and must recognize
that the Negro is its first line of
defense. Delivering the annual
Herbert R. Abeles Memorial Ad-
dress, Whitney Young Jr., execu-
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