ZOA Loses Out. in Battle' Against . Mail Vote
for Delegates to World Zionist Congress
Parley on 'Jewish Living' Set for February
KIAMESIIA.LAKE (JTA)—The into oblivion," President Jacob
United Synagog* et America will Etetninanotted at the nosing ses-
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neer Women). 98.396; Religious Confederation received only 164 "reverse sorjewv.
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Meretz. Slimed Ussishklii, Itzbak Zionists of America (including voteS. which was insufficient to
Sbevo and Gabriel Galzer.
- Mizraehi - Women and - Hapoel place even one delegate.
In one section of its six.page 1 Hamizrachi - W o m e n ) . 103.878:
In Mexico, (Jewish population'
-ruling, the court stated the basis [Tnuat Aliya. 3,000; United Zion- 45.000). in vary light'lialloting-byj
for its ruling in favor of -selecting ists-Revisionists.- 23.876; Zionist 700 voters. the General Zionists
45 per cent -of the American con- i Organization, of America. 114.823: won ,I delegate ' seat . Herut—r.
party,and _Youth _Mobilization, for Israel,
gress delegates hrciugh.:
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The court noted that each cairn- Members of the nine youth
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(18.000
try has its own characteristics and movements constituting the Amer-
that in the U. S: the Zionist Fed-: igen Zionist ,I,Vouth Council were:-.!
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fespective adult
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eration is still an organization of ;included
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organizations rather than one of mihements or in the Youth Mobill- -. 313.4.1;:VIM
*inch- the country. waa4entilSed;
zation for- Israel figure.
individuals.
e voting wer
The tribunal agreed earlier 1st Results cf Congress Elections Gam', 534; Golasteinaaprin.
that the comptroller's office of in Latin-America Announced
Con federatio 175.
the World Zionist Organization
NEW YORK (ZINS)—Election of
disappointing fraction of the
would audit the1 membership delegates to, the 28th World Zion-
figures of the Zionist groups in ist Congress have now been com- 145;000 Jews of -Brazil took" part?:
in
elections.
A total of 4,390 votes
the U. S. Comptroller Benzion pleted in Chile. Colombia, Mexico,
were cast with the following - -re-
Mehl said this could be done in Uruguay and Brazil.
suits:
Mapai-2,255,
electing five
three to four weeks so that the
Of the 1,455 votes cast in Chile
elections will be held in time (Jewish population of 35,000), the delegates; lierut.556- votes.. en-
titling it to 1 delegate; General
for the congress opening.
results were: General Zionists—i
Membership figures, according to delegate; Herut - 1; Independent Zionists-520 votes, 1 delegate.;
Mapam-510 votes, and ,Mirradii--;
a summary 'given to the tribunal, Zionists-2; Mapam-1; Mapai—L 504
votes, each electing 1: dee::
are: American Jewish League for
(Jewish population.
on. g ate. The 'Indeneiident. Liberals
Israel„ 7,596; Arnericans, clor--Pro- 50,000), 4,121 - persons voted' with
did
not
a delegation,- receiv-
gressive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair, the following results: General ing only win
45 isolated- vcites. -
13,678; Bnai Zion, 26,129; Hadas- Zionists-1 delegate;.Herut-2; In-
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(In a lively election campaign
sah, 327.228; Labor Zionist Move- dependent Liberals-1; Mapam-1;
HEAVY NUGGET BOLD GOLD
ment (Poale Zion, Farband, Pio- Mapai-2. The Goldstein-Halprin in Australia, where 6,500 .voters
(50 per cent of the Jewish popula-
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ham
tion) Partieipated in electing-dele-
•B. 1411101niCild'I'lloggetTentre Starvf held . . . $40.00
Australian Jewry - Seen as Vibrant . gates to the 28th World Zionist
blow GM 11/47. -Nigget Texture. "13i” . . . $31.00--
Congress, the General Zionists
By 1.1. FISHBEIN
ternates every two years between gained 3 out of the :7 delegate-10'
Australian Jewry is a most se- the two major cities.
seats to 'which Australia ,is.
cure, comfortable and tightly or-
T. IL GRANT
One of it outstanding achieve- !titled. The remaining four dele.
ganized Jewish community.
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ments recently was the establish gates' positions were apportiantid
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DIAMONDS AND FINE JEWELRY
Seventy thousand in number, ment of the: Federation of Jewish as follows: blapal-2;Ilizrachi-.-1-
Goldstein
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Halprin
Confederation
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they are divided almost equally Communities of Southeast Asia and
AS A Price That's Nice"
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between Sydney and Melbourne, the Far East.
trianfochirers of Original and Unusual Creations°
although small groupings can - be
found scattered across the con- a Intermarrlige—fast becoming
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major problem as it is in
tinent.
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America—is estimated to be as
The two cities are as different high as 25.-Per cent. Eighty per 9—
culturally as they are in climate. cent - of all- young Jews now at-
In Australia they have a saying tend college.. where__ they meet
that "Sydney,ls.a.warni.city--with other...Yeiing 'people, and inter-
cold Jews and Melbourne is a cold marriage often results. We were
city with warm Jews." Harry S. told, however, that two events
Goldstein, president of the New the -
War and the pro-
South Wales Jewish Board of Dep- testi on - behalf of Soviet Jewry
uties with headquarters in Sydney, —have helped in bringing many
admitted there was a friendly youth back to the fold.
rivalry between the two main
The editors of the two Jewish
centers and explained that most
of his Jews were of Germanic papers here agreed that the major
or Hungarian origin, whereas Mel- problem was that of holding the
bourne's came primarily from youth: A new youth movement has
East Europe. and were more im- recently arisen, called the Jew
Identification Movement (JIM).
mersed in Yiddishkeit.
These are young Jews who want
The majority of the Jewish the community to be more identi-
children in Melbourne receive fied with social issues such as
their education in the Yiddish Vietnam, drug control, etc.
day schools. The largest of these,
Relations with. Israel „are _ very`
Mt. Scopes College, has an en-
rollment in excess of 2,250.Chil- good, although Arab propagandists,
dren begin with kindergarten are hard at work. Goldstein said
and are ready to enter univer- an average of five people ,a week,
sity when they finish the Jewish leave for Israel—a total' of about-
high school. Seven hundred at- 2,000 within the past four years.
tend the Lubavitcher Yeshiva
We were fortunate :enough to
and, because all their subjects spend some time with Sir Asher
are taught in Yiddish, by the Joel, a legendary figure -in_Aus-
time they graduate they are well tralian politics, who is a - member
versed . in that language. Other of the upper chamber of the NSW
day schools in Melbourne have I parliament, and highly respected
smaller enrollments.
because of his many services to the
Sydney now has a vibrant Commonwealth. ,
Sephardic group consisting of
He told us that- Australia .; -is
refugees from Iraq and Egypt almost entirely free of any re,=,
and other Moslem countries: They ligious friction. Jews have occu-
have helped to form an Associa- pied prominent positions in the
tion for Far Eastern Jews.
political and judicial life of the
There are some 19 synagoguei country for many years. There
in Melbourne, and an equal num- are four Jews in the federal par-
ber in Sydney. As in America, liament and many more serve in
attendance is sparse except for numerous state bodies.
the holidays.
The country's friendship with
Most communal activity centers Israel stems from two - factors:
about the Jewish Board of Depu- One is the Australian soldiers'
ties in each of the five states. In dislike of the Arabs during World
New South Wales, for example, War II and the fact that 200,000
the board consists of 118 depu- native troops were stationed in.
ties; 53 are elected by general Palestine during the fighting. Sec-.
franchise and the other 59 repre- ondly, the two•important figures
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sent constituent bodies.
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in Australian history were both
The individual state boards have Jews: Sir Isaac Isaacs was the first
IN THE DEXTER DAVISON SHOPPING CENTER
formed an Executive Council of Australian-born governor general,
SERVING DETROIT - AND SUBURBS fi AMPLE FREE PARKING
Australian Jewry which speaks and Sir John Monis' h became head
OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TM 9 UNTIE HANUKA , ,
with one united voice for all Aus- of the Australian army during
tralian Jews. Its headquarters al- World War Two.
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