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Bnai Brith Approves 3 Pct. Cut
in Budget-1st Time in Decades
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Bnai Brith Board of Governors ap-
proved a 19'71 budget of $16,700,000
—a 3 per cent drop from last
year's record $17,250,000.
It was the first time in several
decades that the organization had
decreased its budget. The 1971
budget, however, equals last year's
actual expenditures, there having
been a 7.5 per cent midyear scis-
soring of some programs and ad-
ministrative activities because of
the economic recession, cost infla-
tion and emergency campaigns for
the United Jewish Appeal and Is-
rael Bonds.
Of the 1971 budget, 41 per cent
—or $6,850,000—was allotted for
the organization's three special
youth programs—the Bnai Brith
Youth Organizations, the Bnai
Brith Vocational Service and the
Hillel clubs.
The 1970 budget allotted 43 per
cent—or $7,420,000—for the youth
programs, but because of the mid-
year cuts only around $6,850,000
was actually spent.
Bnai Brith President William A.
Wexler explained that "The cut-
back enzbled us to squeeze through
the past year without a deficit."
and was "a prudent approach to
current uncertainties and to avoid
deficit financing."
It means, he added "holding the
line for awhile, notwithstanding the
needs and pressures for expanded
programming, until, in accord with
our long-range prospects, the fin-
ancial picture improves."
In another move, the board
launched a drive to raise $1,000,-
000 from 200 major contributors
for a fund in honor of Dr. Wexler,
who will leave the presidency at
year's end.
The Bnai Brith board, reacting
to the Jewish Defense League's
pledge to "follow, question and
harass" Soviet personnel in New
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ing this a "morally reprehensible
and politically self-defeating"
decision that "endangers the
cause of Soviet Jewry."
Such "lunatic-fringe action of an
unrepresentative, notoriety-seeking
group" will give the Kremlin a
"pretext for its own misdemean-
ors," the board charged.
It called again for "peaceful dis-
sent" to the Soviet policies of
"discrimination and repression"
against the country's Jews.
The Jewish leaders also called
on President Nixon and Congress to
"consider" approving a Lend-
Lease aid program between the
United States and Israel—a pro-
posal advanced several weeks ago
by former Ambassador W. Averell
Harriman—and urged United Na-
tions mediator Gunnar V. Jarring
to hell effect an extension of the
Middle East truce.
The board received a study, pre-
pared by Joshua Rothenberg of
Brandeis University, that concludes
that Soviet Jews were better off
in the days of the Czars than they
are today.
Rothenberg, a specialist in East
European Jewish affairs, said So-
viet Jews in Czarist days had
"four fundamental freedoms of re-
ligious activity"—the freedom to
worship in a synagogue, practice
religious rites, foster religious edu-
cation and publish religious ma-
terial. Those conditions no longer
exist, he observed.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Members
of the Bnai Brith Young Adults
throughout the world will soon be
taking part in an educational cam-
paign to combat venereal disease,
a menace which, health experts
report, has now reached "epidem-
ic" proportions among young peo-
ple.
Stuart Slutzman and Murry Por-
itsky, both of Brooklyn, BBYA's
international president and pro-
gram vice president, respectively,
called upon their members to fos-
ter lectures and displays and to
distribute literature in an intensi-
fied effort to "turn back the dan-
gerous tide."
In announcing the drive, the
youth leaders pointed out that stat-
istics reveal venereal disease at-
tacks a young adult every two
minutes.
"More than 300,000 people under
the age of 20 were infected last
year in the United States," they
said.
Mrs. Maynard Kale' and Paul plan a victory celebration for cam-
Bnai Brith Youth Services Paign workers in February.
Appeal chairmen for the Bnai
Brith Women's Council and the PalmachVolunteer
Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith
Council, announce that the 1970-71 at Einstein Israel
appeal has reached 75 per cent of
Bond Fete Jan. 21'
its $250,000 goal.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Charlupski
They expressed optimism that
the goal will be reached by the will host a leadership reception
on behalf of Albert Einstein Lodge
end of the campaign Jan. 31.
The 50 Bnai Brith lodges and and Chapter Bnai Brith at their
chapters in the Detroit area are home, 23750 Riverview, Southfield,
contacting more than 13,000 Bnai 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Ira Feinberg, first American vol-
Brith members to ask for their
financial support to the many Bnai unteer to join the Palmach in the
Brith agencies and philanthropies.
Beneficiaries include the Bnai
Brith Youth Organization, Hillel
Foundation, Anti - Defamation
League, Leo M. Levi Hospital, Na-
tional Jewish Hospital, Bellefaire,
Bnai Brith Women's Children's
Home in Israel and the Bnai Brith
Vocational Service.
Lodge and chapter presidents and
services appeal chairmen have
planned a dinner-meeting for 6:30
p.m. Tuesday at Cong. Bnai David
to review campaign progress. They
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Feinberg, a lecturer, world trav-
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dialects. During the Israel War of
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times and has conferred with top
leaders of the government and the
military.
He recently returned from a fact-
finding tour during which he vis-
ited many of the industrial and
agricultural projects which re-
ceived Israel Bond allocations.
The leadership reception is being
held in advance of the annual
Einstein Israel Bond dinner dance,
scheduled for Feb. 6, at Shaarey
Zedek, with Jan and Lillian Bart
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Rdbbi Po l ish' Suggests Ref - ci'im
Create American Type of Shtetl
SEATTLE (JTA) — American
Reform Judaism was called upon
to sponsor and develop small, un-
conventional, experimental religi-
ous circles, to be called hugim or
havurot, (circle of fellowship) to
attract young and adult Jews, es-
pecially those currently rejecting
formal, religious life.
Rabbi David Polish, vice presi-
dent of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, told laymen and
rabbis at the biennial convention
of the Northwest Region of the Un-
ion of American Hebrew Congre-
gations, that "our religious move-
ment (Reform) should encourage
the creation of new types of
groups to be known as hugim or
havurot and help them to come
into existence by providing funds,
leadership and consultation but
permitting them a spirit of com-
plete freedom and growth."
He also suggested that the Re-
form movement create and de-
velop an American version of
the shtetl, and added: "We
should find a number of Jewish
families willing to establish
themselves as a self-contained
community, living in their own
area, who will create their own
educational and religious pro-
grams and live a full Jewish
life." _..
Rabbi Polish expressed the be-
lief that both the hugim and
shtetl communities would include
Jews • of • common interests and
ideologies who would cope with the-
concerns confronting Jewish life.
These experimental groups would
revive the interest of Jewish youth
in Judaism, confront social con-
cerns, develop worship patterns to
suit their needs, study Torah, Bible
and other related Jewish subjects.
The Reform rabbi told the gather-
ing that he considered such experi-
mentation "essential for the future
of Jewish life in America." He
added that if Reform Judaism is
to continue to merit the label "pro-
gressive," then "we should eagerly
seek such opportunities for dem-
onstrating the establishment's open-
ness to new structures in Jewish
life."
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