Important Role for Youth in U.S. Jewry

Excerpt From "Youth, College Students and Faculty" Resolution Adopted by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds

Young Jews should have a role in shaping the future of the Jewish community. Such a role should
be assured by giving them the opportunity for participation in the decision-making processes of Jewish. commu-
nities—that is, on survey, planning, budgeting and fund-raising committees. Youth should sit as active, full-
voting members of committees in their local communities, even if it involves amending existing by-laws to
allow for increased student participation. This community participation will enable youth to (1) become more
aware of and knowledgeable in the responsibilities and procedures of local Jewish federations and agency
boards, (2) contribute to the work of these committees and thus (3) to participate creatively in the federation
movement locally and nationally.

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Editorial
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November 20, 1970

Impending Danger for USSR Jews
Feared in Leningrad 'Show Trial'

Gottschalk Named
Ues President

DR. ALFRED GOTTSCHALK
At its meeting in Cincinnati on Nov. 12,
the board of governors of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion elected
Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, dean of its Cali-
fornia school, to become president on July
1, 1972. Dr. Nelson Glueck, head of the
institution since 1948, will retire as presi-
dent in 1972 to assume then the office of
chancellor.
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
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Reports from London that a "show trial" scheduled to start in Leningrad today accusing 31 Jews of
hijacking and intended to intimidate other Jews from seeking emigration from Russia to Israel has stirred
worldwide protests and has aroused Jewish communities in this country, in England, Canada and France to ask for
protection for the Jews in the Soviet Union, for their right to emigrate and for an end to persecutions.
Documents revealing the plot aimed at Soviet Jews who are indicating displeasure with conditions in the
USSR and their demands for the right to emigrate, as well as proof of plans for the plot involved in the projected
trial based on what are beaieved to be trumped-up charges were released in London by the Institute of Jewish
Affairs of the World Jewish Congress.
A JTA report from London states that, according to Dr. Stephen J. Roth, director of the WJC Research
Institute, and Jack Miller, its senior officer, the documents were received from travelers returning from the Soviet
Union. They indicate that the charges against the accused Leningrad Jews are completely false and are based on
evidence manufactured by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, Dr. Roth said. The documents also include copies of
"Exodus," an underground publication of the Jewish protest movement in Russia.
The defendants, two of them women, were arrested at Smolny Airport in Leningrad on June 15. All are
between 21 and 31 years of age.
The released documents contain biographical data on them but do not mention non-Jews arrested at the
airport at the same time. The documents say that arrests occurred at 8 a.m., yet less than an hour later on the
same day, KGB agents had visited some 40 Jews in their homes, offices and at resorts as far away as Odessa and
carried out searches which yielded articles on Jewish or Israeli subjects.
The eight Jews who were then arrested turned out to be active members of the Jewish protest movement.
According to Dr. Roth, the documents make it clear that they were the targets bf an official plot. One copy of
"Exodus" contained a letter from Victor Boguslaysky to R. A. Rudenko, the Soviet prosecuting attorney,
charging a conspiracy against the Leningrad Jews and demanding their immediate release. Another letter in
"Exodus" signed by Gregory Vertlib and Hillel Shure, compared the forthcoming Leningrad trial with the Beilis
ritual murder trial of the Czarist era, the Dreyfus trial in France and the Doctors' Plot of the Stalin era.
The American Jewish Congress has charged that a "notorious anti-Semite" — S. Ye. Soloviov, chief city
prosecutor of Leningrad—was preparing the case against 31 Jews arrested in four Soviet cities for a show triaL
In a new message over its "hot line" for Soviet Jewry—a telephone recording device installed earlier this
month—the Congress said the 31 Jewish "political prisoners" were being held on "trumped-up charges of planning
to hijack a Russian airplane." They are residents of Riga, Leningrad, Tbilisi and Kishinev.
Soloviov, the message asserted, served as a judge in Leningrad's criminal court in 1961 and presided over two
trials involving Jews. In one, he sentenced a group to death for alleged economic crimes; in the other, synagogue
leaders—including an 84-year-old man—were sentenced to long prison terms "because they sought to establish

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Council of Federations Tackles U.S., World Problems

Detroiters' Role at
General Assembly

Max M. Fisher was re elected
president of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds,
and Hyman Safran was re-elected
one of the vice presidents.
Mandell I.. Berman is a member
of the CJFWF board as chairman
of the education committee.
Judge Theodore Levin continues
on the board until 1972.
Detroiters who participated in
sessions of the CJFWF general as-
sembly in Kansas City included:
Safran, who was chairman of
the resolutions committee.
Mrs. N. Brewer Broder, who
spoke on volunteer training.
George M. Zeltzer, who was one
of the chairmen of the Large City
Budgeting Conference sessions.
Philip Slomovita, who partici-
pated in discussions of Jewish
newspapers values.
Joel Tauber, who summarized
discussion on leadership develop-
ment.
Michael Pelavin of Flint, who
reported on small communities.

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Max Fisher Be-Elected CJFWF President

By Jewish News Special Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Serious concern over the fate of Jews in Russia, dedication to efforts
to assure the security of Israel and emphasis on the involvement of youth in communal planning
marked the deliberations and conclusions reached in the five-day sessions of the 39th general
assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds held here at the Muehlebach
Hotel Nov. 11-15.
With Max M. Fisher, the re-elected president, and noted leaders from all parts of the country
directing the many study conferences, decisions arrived at covered practically every aspect of
Jewish needs and human challenges facing Jewry and mankind.
Fisher's presidential analyses covered the various areas under deliberation by the assembly
which has been considered for many years as one of the most vital Jewish media for communal
planning in behalf of Jewry at home and abroad. He took a strong stand in support of Jewish
educational efforts for the admission of youth into the organized communal administrative fields,
and he advanced increased efforts in behalf of Israel, in the fight on poverty and in obviating
any dangers that may stem from black anti-Semitism.
Assembly decisions embodied in a set of resolutions that were adopted under the guidance
of Hyman Safran of Detroit took into consideration—

The need for a doubling of activities for the United Jewish Appeal and the Israel Bond
Drive, in Israel's defense;
Emphasizing the importance of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency for Israel and assur-
ing cooperation to the European Council of Jewish Community Services;
Urging increased U. S. assistance to Israel and pleading for binding agreements to attain
a Middle East peace;
Advocating all possible efforts "to achieve immediate relief of the plight of Soviet Jewry";
Federal assistance to provide increased social, health and legal services to help bring the
needy to self-support;
Active involvement of Jewish youth "to help shape an enriched Judaism" and greater com-
,
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Youth Asks Faith,
Attains Its Goal

There were many innovations at
the 29th general assembly.

All elements in Jewish life were
there. Meals were kosher, and
there was no such thing as disre-
spect for the devout.

At the conclusion of the conven-
tion banquet on Saturday, the youth
who had given such a good ac-
count of themselves as pleaders
for participation in the ranks of
Jewish communal structure-build-
ers, indicated that they would ask
for the right to recite the birkat
hamazon in accordance with Jew-
ish traditions. Four youths came
up to establish that precedent.
It was at this point that the
evening's guest speaker, Elie Wie-
sel, volunteered to lead in the
birkat hamazon. An avowed hasid,
he recited the benshen with such
deep feelings, in tones that so
charmed the 1,500 in attendance,
that it proved to be among the
highlights of the assembly.

