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`Total Involvement' in Meeting Needs of Poor
Urged on Jewish Centers at JWB Convention
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—Total
involvement in community pro-
gfams to alleviate the urban crisis
through helping to provide jobs,
education and better housing for
deprived Americans was urged on
Jewish community centers in a
series of resolutions adopted at
the closing sessions of the Nation-
al Jewish Welfare Board's 1968
biennial convention here Sunday.
The resolutions noted that,
through such activities, the JWB's
450 affiliated community centers
and Ys, and their 739,000 members,
would be fulfilling their "Judaic
commitments."
Also adopted were resolutions
calling for aid to Jewish merchants
who were victims of recent racial
disorders and urging Congress to
ive priority to legislation to aid
the hard-core unemployed and
needy.
On the international scene, the
convention called on the U. S. gov-
ernment to protest the anti-Jewish
campaign in Poland and protested
e Soviet Union's continued re-
pression of Jewish cultural and
religious life. The JWB saluted Is-
rael on its 20th anniversary and
gave its support to the principle
of direct Israel-Arab negotiations
to achieve a secure peace in the
Middle East.
Louis Stern of South Orange,
N. J., was re-elected to a two-year
term as president
of the JWB.
In a resolution
on the Vietnam
war, the del e-
gates urged the
government to in-
tensify efforts to
obtain a negotiat-
ed settlement and
urged it to en-
courage "full
freedom of dis=
sent" on that is-
sue. While ex-
pressing concern
Stern
about "the use of
illegal means" to register such dis-
sent, the delegates reiterated that
"free and open debate" was essen-
tial to "our democratic society."
The delegates also declared that
the war had required "diversion
of large national expenditures"
which would otherwise be avail-
able "for needed social and eco-
nomic programs."
Sanford Solender, executive
vice president of the JWB, ex-
panded Sunday on the theme of
the convention's major resolu-
tions. He told the 800 delegates
that the social responsibilities
_implicit in the values of the Jew-
ish people and in the democratic
commitments of every commu-
nity agency demanded that Jew-
ish communities and Ys contri-
tribute to the common effort to
better the lot of the Negroes and
the poor and to improve the in-
ner cities.
The Jewish center, he said, can
"give Jewishness relevance to con-
temporary social affairs" and can
make an important contribution to
solving the urban crisis because
"it has the experience and com-
petency in dealing with the transi-
tional problems of changing com-
munities."
Solender also stressed the need
for unity and joint effort by all
institutions on the American Jew-
ish scene. "Organizational prero-
gatives must take second place to
cooperative action in behalf of the
whole community interest," he said.
"The grave unsolved problems of
American Jewry demand no less
than a pooling of knowledge, skill,
organizational and even material
resources in the pursuit of solu-
tions."
Among several urgent recom-
mendations submitted to the con-
vention by the JWB's Manpower
Commission was the creation of a
national training bureau to pro-
vide qualified professional person-
nel to work with Jewish centers.
The commission also proposed the
establishment of a JWB National
Scholarship and Fellowship Foun-
dation for students preparing for
employment in Centers and Ys. It
recommended greater utilization of
women professional workers on a
part-time and full-time basis and
intensification of the Jewish orien-
tation among JCC staffs.
The Manpower Commission re-
ported a shortage of qualified
personnel to staff the 447 Jew-
ish community centers, branches
and camps across the country.
There are presently 1,400 profes-
sionals employed in these agen-
cies but approximately 200 posi-
tions remain unfilled each year
and more than 100 other posi-
tions are filled inadequately be-
cause of the shortage, the com-
mission's report said. At least
300 professional staff members
are needed now, and more will
be required to staff the 60 new
JCCs under construction or
planned, it was reported.
Bronze medallions and scrolls
symbolic of the JWB's 1968 Frank
L. Weil awards were presented to
four cultural and community lead-
ers at the banquet session. The
recipients were Solomon Litt, presi-
dent of the World Federation of
YMHAs and Jewish Community
Centers, Lazar Weiner conductor
and musical director of the Work-
men's Circle Chorus, and Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel L. Stone, both active
in JWB agencies and services.
The first Florence G. Heller
Award "for distinguished profes-
sional service" went to Miriam R.
Ephraim, New York, who served
as program director of JWB for
20 years.
According to the first findings
reported by the JWB Research Cen-
ter on the basis of a two-year study,
the five principal characteristics
of the highly Jewishly identified
individual are his religious be-
havior, the degree of his pietism,
his affilation with Jewish organiza
tions, his personal Jewish educa-
tion and his attitudes toward in-
volvement with Israel.
The findings, based on inter-
views with 568 adult Jews living in
southeastern Lake and Cook (Chi-
cago) Counties of Illinois, and 135
Jewish social workers now or pre-
viously employed by the Jewish
centers of Chicago, were made pub-
lic at the convention.
The study points out that peo-
ple who are highly identified Jew-
ishly do not confine their activities
to one major aspect of Jewishness
to the exclusion of others, but tend
to be highly involved in other
spheres.
Persons moderately identified
Jewishly relate to organized Jew-
ish life as the highly identified
do, but less so, the study said.
The moderately identified were
found to be less consistent in the
manner in which they express
their Jewishness, i. e., attend
synagogue on Rosh Hashana but
eat bread on Passover.
The least Jewishly identified
were reported to be those not at
all involved in Jewish organization-
al activities, who participate in few
if any religious events, but those
friendships are still heavily Jew-
ish.
The study was conducted by Dr.
Bernard Lazerwitz as part of a
research program at Brandeis Uni-
versity sponsored by the JWB Re-
search Center in cooperation with
the National Association of Jew-
ish Center Workers.
Women scored highest in accept-
ance of traditional Jewish beliefs
but were found to have had less
Jewish education than the men in
the study. The women among the
highly Jewishly identified group
also reported a higher degree of
Jewish organizational activity than
did the men.
On the basis of his findings, Dr.
Lazerwitz concluded that women
are becoming the most active mem-
bers of the Jewish community. but
the Jewish community is not chang-
ing rapidly enough to give official
recognition to this new role of
women.
Max Lerner, syndicated news
columnist, told delegates and visi-
tors at the banquet that "the Jew
is caught in a crossfire between
fanatical groups. On one side he is
accused of being a revolutionary
supporter of Negro insurrection.
On the other side are those who
burn his stores and force him to
close his place of business, accus-
ing him of being an exploiter of
the Negro."
"In the midst of this cross-
fire, I am certain that the Jew
will keep his cool and refuse to
surrender one jot of his basic
humanism. He will continue to
work not only for an end to the
present war but to all war," Dr.
Lerner said. "He will continue
to fight for extending to all
ethnic minorities the equal op-
portunity which he has achieved
for himself in America.
"He will insist that even his
enemies must have freedom of
speech, but he will insist equally
that a free society does not have
to grant them as a gift the nation-
wide audiences they want in the
press and on TV to spread their
murderous doctrine. Most of all he
will try to maintain the essential
human nexus without which the
life of the mind is impossible and
the quality of human life is cor-
roded."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 3, 1968-7
B G Says Israel Needs Population of Five Million
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PARIS (JTA) — Former Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion said
in an interview published here
that Israel must have 5,000,000
Jews before the end of this cen-
tury, not for security reasons but
"in order to build the civilization
we want." According to the inter-
view, published in the weekly
L'Express, Ben-Gurion said, "I
think that the Jews can develop
a civilization which will bring
new principles to humanity."
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