National Communal Workers Parley Here;
Told of Need for Jewish Urban Planning I ody

precedented prosperity." It urged to redress any arms imhdance
the President and Congress to jeopardizing Israel's defense by
move with dispatch to implement making compensating arms ib.

the recommendations of the Ker-
ner Report and listed an eight-
ish community to be more asser- point appeal to further this goal.
tive and less concerned about its
A resolution on the Middle East
public relations image. He pressed declared that peace could best be
for re-emphasis on institutions and achieved through direct negotia-
agencies of the Jewish community tions between Israel and the Arab
and concern with things Jewish nations who must define national
and "our links with the State of boundaries as "part of an over-all
Israel."
peace agreement. Through that ap-
He said that the question for proach lies justice for all refugees
Jews concerning the Negro strug- in the area — Arab and Jewish."
gle for equality was not whether It called upon the U.S. government
to speak out but rather what to
say. He added that for Jews to 12—Friday, June 14, 1968
suppose America would not con
tam a Jewish community that
dares to assert itself is to sell the
United States short and "to ignore
the lesson of last June."
Jewish communal agencies have
been directing their career recruit-
ing efforts to individuals too late
and to the wrong place, according
to Dr. Judah J. Shapiro of New
York City, who discussed the im-
plications of the manpower crisis
in Jewish communal service at
the concluding general session.
Whereas vocational guidance
in public schools is introduced
at an early age level "when chil-
dren and adolescents are form-
ing their vocational decisions
and aspirations," Dr. Shapiro
declared, Jewish recruitment for
communal personnel is only pur-
sued at a college level and be-
yond. The starting age for voca-
tional influence; he maintained,
should be in such institutions as
the Jewish schools, the syna-
gogue, and community centers.
Graduates of Jewish teachers'
seminaries, he added, are
"mainly ignored by recruiters
for Jewish communal ,service."
The conference approved a reso-
lution calling for "urgent action
to right the economic and social
inequities in an America of un-

liveries to Israel.
A Vietnam resolution expersed
its hopes and prayers that peace
would rtturn speedily to Viet-
nam, "enabling our armed forces
to disengage themselves from this
unhappy conflict and return to
peaceful pursuits."

The creation in the United States correct the imbalance of the over-
of a new institution, a Jewish Ur- abundance of white institutions
ban Planning Council, to help meet and the acute lack of Negro insti-
urgent demands' for social change tutions; exertion, of every effort
in a ,period of urban crisis and ra- in every way possible in instances
cial conflict, was urged Monday where integration is possible; and
by. Bertram H. Gold, executive vice development of comprehensive
:president of the American Jewish goals that would be large enough
PAY DIVIDENDS
Committee. :at. the 70th annual to unite and coalesce not only Jews,
Many people profit from experi-
meeting of the National Confer- and Negroes but also white non-
ence—converting past failure into
ence of Jewish Communal Service urbanites with black urbanites.
present successes.
in the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel.
Earlier the challenges posed to
Gold declared .' that there must the Jewish purposes of Jewish
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
be "a new Jewish communal look
agencies in the light of the pub-
at the urban ciisis in response to lic policies and trends were ex-
the dual sickness that plagues our
amined by Dr. Isaac Franck,
.nation—the sickness of the deter-
executive vice president of the
iorating city and the blind rage
Jewish Community Council of
of an oppressed minority no longer Washington, D.C.
content to live with poverty and
While social action, he pointed
prejudice."
out, may look like a new and
•• • Martha K. Selig of New York recent development in Jewish com-
City was elected president of the munities and Jewish agencies
' NCJCS. Executive director for within American society, it is.
: : community services for the New neither new nor different "from
York -Federation
the historical mainstream of Jew-
of Jewish Philan-
ish social thought and practice."
thropies ; Mrs.
A plea for a specal relationship
Selig succeeds t.
between
American Jews and Ne-
Sidney Z. Vincent
groes, based on "a common pur-
• of Cleveland, ex-
pose" of "teaching America at
. ecutive director
long last what community and
of that city's
pluralism are all about," was
Jewish Com-
made by Massachusetts Institute
munity Federa-
of Technology political scientist
• bon.
D -. Leonard J. Fein.
— The confer-
He said he was not optimistic
Mrs. Selig
ence's five affil
iated national organizations also about the capacity of America to
accomodate "the new militancy"
elected their ofice s. Heading the
National Association of Jewish of Negroes and other non-white
minorities. He added, however,
• Center Workers will be Morris
. Levin, assistant general director that if such an accomodation is
achieved, it will be because
of Chicago's Jewish Community
Americans had learned to live
Centers.
with difference and that with
Elect,A president of the Na-
such success, "We Jews will be
tional Council for Jewi:h Educa-
among its unintended beneficia-
tion was Abraham P. Gannes,
dirrcto - of the Jewish Agency's . ries." The session began with a
moment of standing - tribute by
department of Jewish education
the delegates to the memory of
• and .culture. Vice presidents in-
the assassinated Sen. Robert F.
ch/de Albert Elazar, superin-
Kennedy for whom a memorial
tendent of the United Hebrew-
service was held Sunday after-
Schools.
ft
Philip Jacobson, program co- noon.
ordinator of the National Corn-
Dr. Fein also asserted that
munit Relations Advisory Council, American Jews historically had
was re-elected p.esident of the As- felt they gained acceptance by
sociation of Jewish Community stressing they were not "different"
SEE R CALL
Relations Workers. from their neighbors, while Ne-
The National Association of Jew- groes had recently turned from a
ish Homes for the Aged chose as similar denial of group identity
president Arthur Woldman, execu- to an assertion of identity. In
NOBODY FITS IT LIKE..
tive director of the Philadelphia stressing their "non-difference" the
Charges Honored
Geriatrics Center. political scientist said, American
SECURITY
i
Burton S. Rubin, executive di-- J ews "missed an opportunity to
MICHIGAN BAN KARD
recto•- of the Worcester, Mass., force society to come to grips with
Jewish Family S e r v i c e, was real differences."
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elected president of the National
He reported that some of his
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of the Conference and its five af- uinely invoNed during the Six-Day
urged
the
Jew-
filiated national organizations dur- war last June. He
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ing the four days of the confer-
ence. A broad spectrum of topics
and issues in Jewish communal
life we e considered at workshops
and institutes.
The delegates were officially
welcomed by Hyman Safr an,
president of the Welfare Federa-
tion of Detroit.
The National Association of Jew-
: ish Family, Children's and Health
• Services and Yeshiva University's
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
sponsored the second William Pos-
ner Memorial Institute Sunday.
Speakers were Jerome D. Dia-
mond, executive director of the
the
Toronto Jewish • Family and Child
Services, and Prof. Saul Hoffstein
20th YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE OF
of the Wurzweiler School. Howard
Polsky, associate professor at the
Columbia University School of So-
THE STATE OF ISRAEL
cial Work, delivered the second
SAT., JUNE 15, 8:30 P.M.
annual Irving Canter Memorial
Lecture at a Tuesday session of
the Jewish Center Workers Asso-
ciation meeting.
In his address Gold listed five
directions for charting future Jew-
ish urban work: A concentrated
educational program within the
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Jewish community that would deal
• with Jelvish responsibilities in ur-
SHIFRA LERER
ban development; leadership in
Argentine born, and noted Latin-Amer-
JOSEPH KATZ
DAVID SIISLIIN
ican and USA actress and singer, will
creating suburban coalitions —
JUDGE NATHAN J. KAUFMAN
President
Cultural Chairman
present a program of Israeli, Hebrew
movements growing out of sub-
and Yiddish songs, accompanied by
Wayne County Circuit Court
BELLA GOLDBERG at the piano.
urbia and recognizing the interde-
MOVSAS GOLDOFTAS
GUEST SPEAKER
pendence of cities and suburbia;
Executive Secretary
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