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PHILADELPHIA "(JTA).' --- Th e
Baal Brith voted to convene -1 now --
tionit conference of Jewish organ-
izations to:deal:with: the problems
of Jetvish.:potir, :_drug• addiction,
, among .Jevrish-youth and the break
dowit:,* :: -Jewish,;, faintly life .

Tint,„,vote- :totlevied a report on -
the condition. Of the Jewish family
by Rabbi • Isatte natal, director
of the contmission on a synagogue
relatitiair 'Of New - York's Federa-
-tionaf'‘Ireish Philanthropies and
a eantiiitant to the 500,000-mem-
ber
Daeid
Bluinberg of Knox-
ville was elected 19th president
Blumberg, 60, an insurance execu-
tive, --hits-been active in the organ-
ization for 32 years; serving as an
international vice, president for
the past six years.
Rabbi Trainin addressed 1,200
delegates attending a five-day gath-
ering here to mark the 128th an-
niversary of the national Jewish
service organization.
He _predicted that the Ameri-
can Jewish community was lace- •
ly to lose more members through
intermarriage and assimilation
DAVID M. BLUMBERG
than aheady_ have been lost
through pogroms and the Holo-
ligious-labor coalition to revive. the
caust.
of the civil rights campaigns
The Bnal Itrith's Committee on spirit
of a decade ago "to resist the
Jewish Family cbserved in an- mood
of sullen weariness that has
other report that "25 years- ago crept into
American society.• Also
statistics :showed, less divorce and needed, he
is a renewed
intermarriage among Jews than Jewish-Black _said,
dialogue to close the
among- non-Jews, _ but not so to- gap between the two groups that
day:: Jews are the greatest con- was created when the black re-
' fermers. They reflect thhe major- volution "turned inward and imp
ity tehatior patterns and are rap- aratist" and caused "harshness
idly catching up on divorce rates, and penalty to many Jews."
alcoholism and other social IDs.' -
The convention adopted resolu-
Recommending a nationwide
meeting to consider ways of pre- tions on urban problems, includ-
ing
a call for stricter gun control
serving theJewish family, the
laws, and an American military
h
committee said the entire JeWis
assistance
to IsraeL
community should be alerted to
Among its final actions, the con-
the threat to Jewish survival
by what it called "the vention, in a resolution, called
dissolutio" of Jewish family life. upon the Administration to "disen-
Drug addiction among Jewish gage and halt hostilities in Indo-
youth and almost 1,000,000 elderly china now and to use every means
Jews Plying in poverty and fear in to bring all American servicemen
urban a - lums were cited ,.as prob- home at once."
In other resolutions, the Bnai
lents. demanding immediate atten-
tion, -on, it national scale by the Brith convention charged that Am-
bassador
Yaakov Malik of the
Anterleata.
Jewish community.
_
Soviet Union had voiced "malicious
Mrs. Lily Edelman, Bnal slure agaist the Jewish people"
Ilnith's national program direc- in a recent session of the UN se-
tor;znidji- planithig will begin im- curity Council debate on Jerusa-
mediately to arrange a national lem.
Jewlst-Jamlly conference next
-
In his 'retort on drug addiction,
Rabbi Trainin said -, :that currently
most -coniniunityi action on drug
addiction is little more than pub-
lic- forums for speakers who de-
scribe the extent of the drug nrob-
lent and answer questions. -
"Despite concern indicated- by
large audiences at these' meetings
and the intensity of the questions;
there is noeffective follow-up."
Dr. , William A: Wexler, interna-
tional president CI Bnai Brith, ad-
vised, the convention.
"ThereilaAitti validity in our
being ' - ."titegit*eijow_er structure
if itin deny.,.91440vislijOtitte."
11 •44ett. ti*felestlalt collegians
"are -:the.:„.intioitittiriarit-: a-Jewish

Anotheivreitalutiofelliiiiirg
are requested for speadC' activities
:the -UN called:1ot the- '-'establish- which--: are eulturid ie educational
;meat of a High...Commissioner (of and
- recreational:
Human -Rights to promote obsere,
'awe of. the TIniversal!Declaration
of Human Rights.!!.
_
was addressed by two lead-
ire In Anuaricatt. Jewialt affairs
M; Klutsnidk, former
ED .- WA -
Bail- 'kith president and a for-
- For the look of today •
mer U.S. -. ambassador , to the
in Black 8 'Grey -
United --Nations, and Dr. Mot.;
• Cut Velvet A Bell Bottoms
decal Kaplan, founder of the
is on colors
Reconstractionist movement
• Flares • Boots
both of whom- criticised aspects
. of American -Jewish community
Colored Shirts • Formal
Knit Shirts
••.-. Dr. Kaplan • Who is 90, became
Ask about special wedding rates
- the first reCiptent of the $1,500
for a -party of 4 or more
-Harold. Weisberg _Memorial Award
for ,his Contributions to "Jewish
Tuxedo Sales & Rental
6tought ";
The convention resolutions credit-
Men's. Clothing
U.S: -efforts - for .achieving the
Contplato Unit
;Current cease fire is the Middle
126 S. Woodward
of hisn's 'Sults &
(1.1 Block South of Maples en Woodward)
-East • bid . Warned that "genuine
Sportcoots
peade can only be achieved by the
Birmingham, Mich.
negotiation and agreement of the
parties in conflict."
The .resolution expressed . _ "deep
appreciation". to the Nixon admin-
istration' and Congress for 'Mili-
tary and economic aid • extended
to Israel.
Dr. KaPlan and Klutznick de-
plored. what they regarded as the ig
inability of the Jewish community 4f
to "think through" the probleMs * under the ACAPULCO SUN at the
that confront - it.
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According to Dr. Kaplan, Jewish fc
life has taken on "schizophrenic"
:Feb.
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patterns that "fragmentize rather
than integrate us into a whole * trip transfer in Acapulco — Baggage handling at air-
people."- KlutznIck assailed the : port and hotel.
idea of ."assessing priorities" in
JeWish - life, - declaring that none
per person
of the major concerns — Israel,
based on double
Jewish education and Soviet Jewry
occupancy plus
10% tax and service
—were isolated' from one another.
He also criticized the separation
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of , scholars and academics from
the decision makers in Jewish life.-
-The convention heard from Dr.
Maurice Friedberg, -of - the Rus-
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sian and East European Insti-
tute at Indiana University who
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charged ihat the Soviet 'Union
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hat "tampered" with Jewish pop-
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ulation figures hi the latest cen- rii m! .111 ■ 11,II
sus to support its debit that Jews
are disappearing as an ethnic
group In Russia.
He claimed that the figures re-
ported last April which showed a
5.2 per -cent drop in the Soviet-
Jewish . population were falsified.

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counter*hikt.7-Whielf; wants less

P.reichlOBT.-jenish pulpits;
less- gliltitesSf";*iiiii,;-jewish presi-= .
dents, lest -Catering at bar raitzrai
and more _genuine Jewish involve-
ment in the struggle for peace
and for racial_ and social equality."'
Dr.' Wexler; who completed
his second and last three-year
term as Baal Brith president,
warned- the delegates that
"Bright, articulate, Jewishly
conindtted_ yoting men and -wom-
en r.are. 'resisting a Jewish, com-
regard as over-
muaytp
whelmed 'With form and struc-
harken
of substance."
ture and
He also called for a new "non-
partisan liberal" ethnic-racial-re-

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