Leading Rabbi Sees Weakening of Jewish Life in Smal WASHINGTON, D.C. — The evaluate their leadership crit- growing hostility of young Jews ically," he said. "Is the test for who belong to the New Left, the congregational leadership that rising rate of in- of knowledge, sincerity and ap- termarriage, an plication of Jewish religious ig norance of teaching to home, business and cwish heritage social life? Is the synagogue ex- and the weaken- ercised about problems of social ing of Jewish life concern? Are the values of in very small peace, social justice and racial communi- amity taught from the pulpit ties -were de- and in the classroom? Is there scribed as prin a renewed emphasis upon the cipal concerns of individual and his questions of American Jewry ultimate concern? Does youth by Dr. Judah Na- find a place in the synagogue dich, rabbi of the and its leadership?" Park Avenue Dr. Herman D. ° Stein, provost of Synagogue in Case Western Reserve University New York City. in Cleveland and chairman of that M orton L. city's commission on crisis in wel- Mandel, Cleves- , fare, cited resistance to change as Mandel land industrialist one of the necessities of signifi- and civic leader, was elected pres- cant change. ident of the National Jewish Wel- Dr. Stein, the keynote_ speaker, fare Board (JWB) at its 1970 na- said that "if there is significant tional biennial convention last change being introduced in any weekend. He succeeds Louis Stern social institution, the change will Sou t h Orange, N.J. who was be rnet with significant opposition. named honorary preside nt. If nobody objects, and the change Dr. Nadich told delegates to the is easy, the chances are that noth- JWB convention that "Today there ing very important has happened." are few families which do not have At another session, the dele- at least one mixed marriage some- gates were told that national Jew- where in the extended family. ish organizations are more con Mixed marriages almost always cerned with "prestige and spheres mean not only the loss to the Jew- of influence" than with building- a ish people of the Jewish person Jewish community. involved but of all , the generations Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, which follow from that union." editor of the Jewish Spectator, Dr. Nadich, who was person- told the 1,000 delegates: "The al adviser on Jewish affairs to national scope of Jewish organ- Gen e r al Eisenhower during izations continue to duplicate World War II, said, "Jews are and compete today as they have lost through ignorance. The par- done for decades. These organ- adox is that the generation of izations have contributed little, if American Jews most educated anything, to the enhancement of generally is most ignorant Jew Jewish values." ishly. Jewish students at univer- She paid tribute to local groups sities constitute the highest per- such as the hundreds of Jewish centage of any ethnic group — day schools as an example of or- between 75 percent and 80 per- ganizations which "have taken the cent. But only about half have initiative to act and to sacrifice." received any kind of Jewish ed- She said most of these are ignored ucation and of that number half by fund-raising groups when the have received only a minimal money is being passed out. form." The Jewish Welfare Board The speaker said, "Some young passed a resolution condemning Jews who belong to the New Left the State Department for its cur- see Israel as an aggressor against rent Middle East policy, which it the Arabs. Some even identified said "plays into the hands of the themselves with the terrorist Al USSR by offering concessions that Fatah. They label all Jews who advance Soviet designs in the Mid- support Israel as a reactionary dle East at Israel's expense." establishment to be overthrown. The delegates called for "essen- Their ne.nbers are not to be exag- tial military and economic aid" to gerated, but that there should be Israel, "standing firm against Sov- any at all is amazing and disturb- iet pressures" and "using Ameri- ing." can influence not to draft the The situation in very small Jew- terms of a settlement but. to bring ish communities is "cause for both sides to the conference table." alarm," Dr. Nadich said. "There The convention passed another are makeshift facilities for relig- ious education or none at all. Rab- bis and qualified teachers are un- available. Young Jews leave for larger cities. Those who remain are' frequently swallowed up by the majority population among whom they reside." More and better Jewish educa- tion is part of the answer, the speaker asserted. "Jewish all-day schools, whose purpose is to blend the best of American and world culture with the best in Jewish culture, provide the hope for Jew ish education for at least, the leadership of the future Jewish community," he said. "Leaders of American syna- gogues should be prepared to resolution urging Jewish centers and YM-YWHA's to "cooperate fully" with the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry's program to "ease the plight of Soviet Jews. It also called on the White House to recommend "peace and progress" as the 25th anniversary theme of the Unted Natons. relations for the JW B, was hon- ored for more than 30 years' serv- ice to the organization. Adolph Rosenberg of the Southern Israelite made the presentation. Milton J. Miller of Detroit was elected to the board of directors of the JWB at the closing session. Itzhak Rabin, Israel's ambassa- dor to the United States, told the delegates that no matter what set- backs Israel may face, "Israel will be strong and the people of Israel Will continue to fight until peace is achieved." He asserted that Israel was asking nothing from its allies —no troops, no promises, no guar- antee—but the right to buy weap- ons to defend itself. The ambassa- dor's declaration was made last Friday, almost 24 hours before President Nixon's press confer- ence in which he hinted that the United States would not sell jets to Israel at this time. Rabin stated that Israel "can take a setback but it will not re- duce our fighting spirit, our be- lief, our determination to go on until peace is achieved." Rabin said that "Prospects for peace are very limited for the foreseeable future" because the Soviet Union was trying to keep things stirred up so that it would have reason to be in the Middle East. He said also that there will be no war "as long as we have the means by which to defend our- selves." Israel possesses that cap- ability today, he noted, "but un- less it gets more weapons, the arms balance in the Middle East will be loaded in favor of the Arabs in two or three years." The JWB voted to streamline it- self in order to help meet existing and emerging needs of Jewish in- dividuals and groups and Jewish communities more effectively. The groups which the study found needed to be served more effectively are teenagers, college students and other young adults, the general adult Jewish popula- tion, the "newly emerging" senior citizen, and those who could bene- fit from the services of Jewish centers but who do not avail them- selves of the services at the pres- ent time. 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