World Parley of Jewish Communal Service
Hears Call for Measures to Aid Israel's Poor
BY CHARLOTTE DUBIN
JERUSALEM —Broader and
swifter application of a policy
of discrimination in favor of the
disadvantaged was urged by the
president of Hebrew University in
a wide-ranging commentary con-
cluding the second International
Conference of Jewish Communal
Service here last week.
Avraham Harman, in his ad-
dress to 600 communal workers
from more than 20 countries, said
that one of the challenges facing
Israel is to achieve a balance "be-
tween two disadvantaged groups-
ithe immigrant who is disadvan-
aged and who must make adjust-
ments, and the disadvantaged
groups already in the country,
products of previous waves of im-
migration."
Urging that a new dignity be
granted to middle-level manpower
needs so necessary in Israel, Har-
man suggested that "the better
part of wisdom is to speed up
economic and social betterment."
Refuting a commonly held belief
that peace would unleash a host
of hidden social problems, Har-
man said that "If we could only
find peace, we could have a libera-
tion of physical resources and man-
power" to better deal with Israel's
considerable internal problems.
What has intensified Israel's
social planning dilemma, he ad-
ded, is the fact that external
pressures—not only security, but
sudden spurts of aliya from
countries of oppression—dictate
Israel's social responses.
Complicating the issue is the
psychological impact that no-war,
no-peace has on a people. "It's
possible, he said, "in a period of
all-out war to demand great sacri-
fice, but in a period of continued
tension, the end of which we can-
not foresee, one lives in an inter-
nal state of war."
Touching on the religious issue
in Israel, Harman called upon the
"great middle group" of observant
Jews—"the cement of Jewish life"
—to "continue to be dominant,
with the militant moderation need-
ed so desperately."
Harman was optimistic that
the Jewish people "is in a better
position to meet challenges than
ever before." He saw a resur-
gence of Jewish creativity and
said that "Never before has
there been such a degree of
search for cooperation on the
part of all creative forces of the
Jewish people of our time."
The communal service confer-
ence, whose participants hailed
from such diverse communities as
those in India, Mexico, Sweden,
Uruguay and Brazil, drew a num-
ber of Detroiters as well. They in-
cluded Albert Cohen, Harold Dubin,
Alan Kandel, Sam Lerner, Morton
Plotnick, Mrs. M. Raskin, Mrs. S.
Serwin and Benjamin Yapko. Jew-
ish Welfare Federation Executive
Vice President William Avrunin
served on the planning commit-
tee, and Kandel, Federation plan-
ning director, chaired a session
on "Jewish Community Organiza-
tion and Planning."
Besides the main plenary ses-
sions, held at the Hebrew Univer-
sity, there were workshops de-
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Writers Urge Diaspora Press
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Israeli, Communal Leadership
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Developing Countries Assisted by Hebrew University
voted to various aspects of Jewish
community work—from Jewish
centers and homes for the aged to
youth and family problems. A
number of delegates representing
Jewish youth bodies in various
countries met prior to the confer-
ence to formulate the problems
they wished to see t•cided by the
professionals.
At a `-`Youth in Crisis" workshop,
Black Panther Secretary Kohavi
Shemesh said that the failure of
existing frameworks for youth
means that children from large
families in Israel often find them-
selves "on the streets and in
criminal society, which is the only
place where they seem to feel
they belong."
JERUSALEM—The first course turer in bacteriology, has been
of a joint five-year project, during appointed the Israel coordinator
which the Hebrew University of of the program.
Jerusalem will assist the Haile
Sellassie I University in Addis
Ababa establish a microbiology
unit, recently finished with the ex-
amination of 35 students.
It has been decided to run two
courses in the coming academic
year with a total of 60 students.
This venture represents a new
concept in implementation of
scientific cooperaton with devel-
oping countries.
The Israel-Ethiopian scheme is
administered by the Hebrew Uni-
versity's Institute of Microbiology.
Dr. Jacob Aronovitch, senior lec-
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He complained that existing in-
stitutions for delinquent youth do
not have sufficient educational
content and said probation officers
are unable to communicate with
the young people they service.
Prime Minister Golda Meir, in
a special address before a packed
auditorium, admitted that Israel
has poverty and "no real equality."
She added, however, that "I'm con-
vinced that this will not be the
character of the Jewish state.'
With peace, she said, Israel will
give reality to the dream of
equality.
Mrs. Meir, stressing the need
for Jewish education, asked that
the communal workers assem-
bled put their programing em-
phasis on youth. "Only if chil-
dren are educated to feel that
they are participating in every
aspect of Jewish life will they
be totally Jewish." She added,
"You don't have to perform all
the `mitzvos' but you should
know what `mitzvos' you're not
performing."
Alluding to the efforts of Soviet
Jews to assert their Jewishness,
Mrs. Meir said, "What I really
want is for young Jews in the free
countries who don't have to strug-
gle for it to have the same in-
stinctive feeling, the consciousness
that 'I am a Jew.' "
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lieved to be the'first position paper ish journalists' association that
of its kind, calling for an upgrad- presently exists is composed sole-
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Diaspora, was adopted by a group is no similar vehicle for other
of journalists from Israel and Jew- editorial personnel of Jewish news-
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ernational Conference of Jewish ment concluded, would cooperate
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