Fisher Outlines Federation Goals at Assembly
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mitment to Jewish activities by
the youth;
Federations' cooperation in ex-
tending all efforts for Jewish
educational programs;
Continuation of black-Jewish
dialogue to develop mutual un-
derstanding, making available
Jewish communal services for
job placements, assistance in the
battle against poverty.
from Russia, how he and other
young Jews were mobilizing in de-
fiance of Russian opposition to
leave the USSR and to settle in
Israel.
Wiesel pointed to these and other
reports to lay emphasis on his own
outlines of what he had experi-
enced in Russia and to plead for
action in partnership with the de-
fiant Russian Jews who are not
really as described in his book,
"The Jews of Silence," but who
are acting and who are pointing a
finger at other Jewries as being
the people of silence in a critical
time."
Wiesel's warnings included his
comments that youth may be seek-
ing to punish their parents for what
had happened, and he criticized
educators for failing to teach the
with the faith that holds them to-
gether. He pointed to his own works
—that he draws not upon the non-
Jewish classics but upon Torah
and the Midrash and the Hasidic
lore—and as he emphasized it he
quoted from those sources and
showed his pride in his heritage.
In his stirring and evaluative ad-
dress. Fisher reviewed the commit-
ments and goals of the Council of
Federations and laid stress on
youth activities, Jewish education,
trends and changes in welfare aid
and overseas responsibilities.
Commitment to the people of Is-
rael was rated as the major goal
for action by American Jewry, and lessons of the Holocaust to the
Fisher urged strongly the raising children.
of the vast additional sums asked
He turned to the youth to assure
this year for UJA and Israel
Bonds.
He called for action to find
"answers to hate" in his con-
demnation of the emergence of
black anti-Semitism and he em-
phasized that "responsible black
leaders want no part of any anti-
Semitism—they speak against it,
and they fight it."
He pointed out that American
Jews were in the forefront of equal
rights efforts, describing it as
"something we can say with
pride," and he added that "the
struggle to secure equal oppor-
tunity and equal treatment con-
tinues."
There was strong emphasis on
the need tp involve youth in com-
munal affairs and on the urgency
of priority for education in Fish-
er's address.
Young leadership award winners
who were honored at an assembly
session included Mrs. Maxwell H.
Lapides and Joel D. Tauber of
Detroit and Dr. William Bernard
of Flint.
There were many noted speak-
ers representing Israel. Euro-
pean and American Jewish corn.
munities, and every area that is
of concern to organized Jewry
was under consideration. There
were reports of new attainments
in European countries and indi-
cations of distressing develop-
ments in Latin America which
may force a new wave of emi-
gration into Israel.
Elie Wiesel. whose newest book.
"One Generation After." has just
been published by Random House,
delivered one of the most stirring
and challenging addresses. In a
sense it was an indictment of
American Jewry for silence during
the Hitler era, and he appealed
for prompt action in defense of
the Jews of Russia.
His appeal also was for youth,
for a proper share in communal
administration for them, with a
warning that if they are lost so
also will be their financial aid to
the Jewish causes.
He admonished his audience in
an address that was filled with
parables from the Mishna and
Hasidic lore not to place emphasis
on money.
Recalling the imposition by the
Nazis of a billion-mark penalty on
German Jewry in 1939, after the
Kristallnacht tragedy, Wiesel chal-
lenged his audience to remember
that lesson, to know that a billion
marks a decade earlier could have
opened doors of rescue in Pales-
tine and elsewhere to the dispos-
sessed German Jews. He warned
that a lesson should be learned
from it in this era.
He especially pleaded the
cause of Russian Jewry, sug-
gesting a mass demonstration by
all American Jews on Simhat
Torah, by closing all businesses
and in mass assemblies to dem-
onstrate Jewish solidarity with
Soviet Jewry.
A night earlier, from 10 p.m.
Friday to.1 a.m. Saturday, at a ses-
sion of NCRAC, there were warn-
ings of the threatened Leningrad
trial, and a Russian Jew, the young
"Mordekhai," who would not give
his last name, described how ur-
gent is the need for emigration
them that even in the camps, in
the forests where the partisans—
all youngsters—fought—there was
no despair.
Wiesel, whose "The Jews of
Silence" opened as a play in Tel
Aviv this week, asked for solidarity
with Israel, with Jewish traditions,
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CJFWF executive vice president,
told of the major responsibili-
ties of American Jewry—to Is-
rael, in defense of Russian
Jewry in its current crisis, and
ous countries, to Latin American
Jewry in his current crisis, and
he declared: "We are moving
ahead in this new period of our
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