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Single Body to Serve Orthodox Jewry Sought
at UOJCA Parley; Aid for the Elderly Mapped

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) —
Plans for the establishment of a
single body of clergy and laymen
to serve American Orthodox Ju-
daism and a program to help el-
derly Jews in the inner cities were
announced here last weekend at
the 72nd biennial convention of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America.
The more than. 2,000 delegates
and guests attending the five-day
conclave also adopted resolutions
calling for the expansion of on-
going programs on behalf of Soviet
Jewry, increased government aid
to nonpublic schools, cultivation of
an ongoing dialogue with Jewish
youth, condemned violent tactics as
counterproductive to the intended
goal of improving the situation of
Soviet Jews, and protection of the
employment rights of Sabbath-ob-
serving Orthodox Jews.
Rabbi Joseph Karasick of New
York, re-elected president of the
UOJCA, told the
convention, that
"American 0 r-
thodox Judaism
should be repre-
sented by an ar
ticulate, unified
and united
voice."
He said that he
expected in the
near future tr
call a national Rabbi Harasick
conference of Orthodox rabbis and
lay leaders to discuss his proposal
for the establishment of a single
Orthodox agency that would end
"duplication, rivalry and wasteful
fragmentation." He said that "pre-
cious manpower" was being wast-
ed because of "the lack of coordin-
ation and efficiency."

Harold M. Jacobs, chairman of
the UOJCA, announced the ap-
pointmeut of a special commis-
sion to develop a program de-
signed to help the "thousands of
elderly a a d poverty-stricken
Jews abandoned unwittingly by
the organized Jewish commun-
ity to the slums of our major
cities."

until this time
"no national Jewish organizations
have taken up their problem."

He noted that up

Appointed to the commission
were Dr. Bernard Lander, a sociol-

ogy professor at Hunter College;
Harold H. Boxer, chairman of the
UOJCA Youth Commission; and
Nathan K. Gross, chairman of the
UOJCA joint commission for kosh-
er certification.
At a special session devoted to
the plight of Soviet Jewry, dele-
gates resolved to "convince all
segments of the world community
that the Soviet Jewry cause is one
of the great humanitarian issues
of our day." Constituent congrega-
tions and their members were urg-
ed, "to continue and expand, in
cooperation with the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jew-
ry, ongoing programs designed to
educate the world to the hardships
facing our brethren in the Soviet
Union."
The Soviet government was call-
ed on to "permit in practice to
Soviet Jews the freedom of religion
assured by the Soviet Constitution
of 1936 and the Human Rights
Covenant to which the USSR has

subscribed."
Delegates also urged the repeal
of comdintisnal provisions
"which unfairly restrict aid for
the leader program's of religious
!dash," and noted that it was
"both eonstitutkmal and equit-
able for government to share the
cost st their secular Programs."
The resolution noted that Ortho-

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dox Jewish day schools, "like other
institutions of learning, are ex-
periencing huge deficits and fac-
ing a financial crisis." Another
resolution issued by the delegates
declared that the UOJCA would
commit itself to "be in the van-
guard of an ongoing effort to se-
cure legislation and regulations
that would accord to Orthodox
Jews the right of public and priv-
ate employment free from dis-
crimination." Dr. Walter S. Wurz-
burger, associate professor of
philosophy at Yeshiva University,
urged delegates to cultivate an
"ongoing dialogue with our youth."
He warned that "blind apolo-
getics for the status quo, all-out
defense of the 'Establishment' and
hysterical flag-waving—be it of the
American or Israeli variety—will
only play into the hands of the
New Left which flourishes on the
exploitation of disenchantment
with our society."
Dr. Wurzburger expressed the
view that "the recent involvement
of young people in the decision-
making apparatus of many Jewish
communal agencies," including a
number of Jewish federations and
welfare funds, "was a most signi-
ficant step forward." He also de-
plored the "present turmoil" on
American college campuses.
Rabbi Bernard L. Berzon, presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Council of
America, the rabbinic arm of the
Union, urged the Orthodox com-
munity to "marshal all its re-
sources" in a campaign to retain
and increase the loyalties of col-
lege students to their Jewish heri-
tage. He proposed that every Or-
thodox congregation near a college
or a university set up a student
center to welcome students with
a "home away from home."

Rabbi Dr. Jacob Vainstein,
president of the Religious Coun-
cil of Jerusalem, told the union
that "Israel and diaspora Jewry
are two arms of one and the same
body whose fate is insolubly
bound together." Dr. Vainstein,
founder of the department of
Torah education of the Jewish
Agency in Israel and a member
of the world executive of the
Religious Zionist Movement,
urged Jewish families to "en-
courage their college children to
come to Israel and . to examine
the possibilities of building their
future there."

WHEN YOU

The convention approved the
creation of a commission to en-
courage leadership potential in
college-age youth—a decision made
after Lawrence A. Kobrin, a vice
president, said the Union was hypo-
critical in "encouraging young peo-
ple to idealism and communal
service and then excluding them
from decision-making posts." The
commission--believed to be a first
for a national religious organiza-
tion—will hold six-month leader-
ship classes for collegians.
Rabbi Samson It. Weiss, UOJCA
executive vice president, recom-
mended to Jewish federations and
welfare funds that they start giving
"substantial and meaningful sup-
port to Jewish education" instead
of concentrating on nursing and
family services, hospitals and old-
age homes.

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