Betimit-Uabibinieal Commission Adopts Pro-Busing Stand

Recognizing that busing school children
is neither inexpensive nor easy, the Rab-
binical Commission of Detroit nevertheless
has issued a statement in favor of busing
because "it is preferable to neglecting prob-
lem that will- otherwise get worse."
-The statement was developed by a - Rab-
binical Commission subcommittee com-

posed of Rabbis Milton Rosenbaum, Hayim
Doubt and Ernst Conrad. The commission
Itself includes rabbis of all denominations
and is headed by Rabbi Leon Fram.
Inn their conclusion, the rabbis declared
themselves.-"Pi favor of busing- children,
between sehiikd distrigi—
orbiiiiitil the some
school district if no better solution can be

The 'Yevorekhekha'
I ntennationalized

found. We urge members of the Jewish
community to follow the law in this matter,
whatever it should prove to be."
They added: "We Jews, who for cen-
turies were city dwellers, now live largely
in suburbs that are separate municipalities.
In a land which' has offered us every op-
portunity socially, politically and economi-

rally, we may be tempted to be satisfied
with cultural separation and social uncon-
cern. If we do, we will be, disloyal to the
highest Jewish principles of justice to all
and consideration for the disadvantaged and
jeopardize everything that America has
meant to Jews and to others who want
freedom and opportunity to be the marks
of our society."

WISH NEWS

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Foreign
Investments,
Israel Bonds
Benefit the U.S.
Commentary
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Michigan Weekly

Review of Jewish News

Zionist Congress
Controversies:
Realities,
Confusions and
Contradictions

Editorial
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pt. Assures Congressmen
eady Aiding Soviet Jews

Pincus Retains WZO Leadership;
Mizrachi, Labor and Confederation

Gain Seats in World Executive

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Louis Pincus was re-elected chairman
of the World Zionist Organization Executive at the conclusion of
the 28th WZCongress. The Confederation of General Zionists gained
a third seat on the executive. The Labor Zionists and Mizrachi
also claimed victories in that each gained an additional member
on the executive. New and re-elected members of the current
executive are, in addition to Pincus, the following:
Mordechai Bar-On; Haim Finklestein, Raanan Weitz and Prof.
Allen Pollack, all Labor; Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum, Moshe
Krone and Rabbi Emanuel Racknran, all Mizrachi; Mrs. Charlotte
Jacobson, Ezra Shapiro and Kalman Sultanik, all Confederation;
Jacques Torczyner and Aryeh L. Dulzin, both World Union of
General Zionists; Yosef Warman, Herut• Avraham Shenker,
Mapam; Andre Narbon, representing the Sephardim; Mrs. Raya
Jaglom, WIZO; Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, representing Conserva-
tive Judaism; Rabbi Richard Hirsch, representing Reform Judaism.
Others elected included: Rabbi Israel Miller, president of
the American Zionist Federation and Moshe Rivlin, director
general of the Jewish Agency, newly designated as the one asso-
ciate member. All the seats but the last were elected. Torczyner
replaces the retired Dr. Emanuel Neumann; Rabbi Hirsch re-
places Rabbi Dr. Leon Feuer. Also departing from the American
Executive are Ben Halpern and Sam Rothberg.
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State Department has informed the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee that it continues to support a congressional resolution to "help focus
world attention on the plight of Soviet Jewry," but opposes recommendations in it on
action the •President should take.
The department's position became known Monday when a letter dated Dec. 30 and
sent to Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) was made available to the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency.
In its letter, the department observed that "Through various means, action is being
taken by the executive branch to persuade the Soviet Union to alter its policies toward
Soviet Jewry and that the resolution therefore need not urge the President to take "imme-
diate and determined steps."
"Moreover," the letter to Sen. Fulbright continued, "The President should decide
how and when approaches and appeals to ,te Soviet authorities on behalf of those Soviet
citizens who are discriminated against or who are separated from their families can most
usefully be made."
The department's position regarding the President's handling of the matter contrasts
sharply with the Senate concurrent resolution introduced do the floor on July 12 by Sen.
Bill Brock (R. Tenn.) with the co-sponsorship of Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.) Since
then, the resolution, JTA was informed, has gained the support of 50 additional Repub-
licans and Democrats, Among them virtually all the Senate Republican leaders and the
Democratic presidential hopefuls.
In their letter to Sen. Fulbright on Jan. 26, the two senators said that their resolu-
tion "calls on President Nixon to raise the issue of the denial of religious freedom in Russia
with the highest levels of the Soviet government" and also calls on the State Department to
"present Soviet violations of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights before the
General Assembly."
The central point in the Brock Jackson letter was a request to Sen. Fulbright to hold
hearings on their resolutions at the "earliest possible date." Although the committee has

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Extremists at World Zionist Congress
Force Diaspora Jewry Into Back Seat

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM—Theodor Herzl's parliamentary creation, the World Zionist Con-
gress, experienced many crises. Commencing with Herzl's nachtasyl, his temporary
relief proposal of a state in Uganda, in 1903, through the decades in which 27 world
congresses were held, there were controversies and conflicts. All were resolved by
the healing elements of time. From the World Zionist Congress arenas emerged reality:
the foyillment of Dr. Here's assertion at the First World Zionist Congress in 1897: "In
Basle I created the jeWish State." Last week, in the re-created Israel Jewish state
at the 28th World Zionist Congress, there was a different kind of dispute. This time
it was over aliya, the predominant view of the young Israelis who played an
important role at the session being that those who seek leadership in Zionism must,
within two years, settle in Israel.
Since 12 of the 20 elected members of the Zionist Executive automatically are
expected to establish residence in Israel, the eight Diaspora leaders were placed in
a quandary. The American women Zionists especially resented the action, and the
chairman of the Jewish Agency and of the World Zionist Executive, Louis Aryeh
Pincus, found it necessary to assert that the majority vote-104 to 92— ordering those
in power to settle in Israel, was illegal. -
(The face-saving ruling of illegality by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum only adds mirth to
a situation that would be viewed as a comedy if it were not so serious.)
Regardless of the legality or constitutionality of the majority decision, it appears
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as if the Diasporn—representing 75 per cent of the Jews of the world—has taken a
back seat in fayor of the Israelis, audit is on this point that the-Zionist parliament may
be under challenge. It is understandable that Zionist and pro-Israel activities must
depend upon_iise centrality of Israel's influesee. But Zionist activity, the tasks of
searring--lhe financial assistance for Israel, the encouragement to you Jews to be
linked with their people and their heritage, to study Hebrew and acquire a Jewish
edneation, mast he effected in the Diaspora.
It is _not improper, therefore, to ask whethei= it is wise for World Zionist Con-
gresses to be overwhelmed by talkfests, to be dominated by speeches by Israeli
leaders—all of whom are heard in their Diaspora fund-raising circuits—to the exclu-
sion of takhlit, to a reduction of sound parliamentary discussions which could reduce
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Fisher, Rabin Present Shazar-Autographed
'Encyclopedia Judaica' to President Nixon

At a 15-minute ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, last Friday, Max
M. Fisher and Israel Ambassador to the- U. S. Hank Rabin presented President Nixon
with a set of the 16-volume "Encyclopedia Judaica," especially autographed by Israel
President Zalman Shazar as a gift to the President of the United States. Also attending
the presentation were Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Board of Economic
Advisers; Chaim Herzog, chairman of the board of Refer Publishing Co. in
Jernsalem, which prepared the encyclopedia, and Jeremiah Caplan, president of Mac-
millan Co., Inc. of New York, which will distribute the encyclopedia in the U. S. Herzog
explained that of the approximately 2,500 scholars who prepared the encyclopedia,
about 60 per cent are Israelis, 30 per cent American Jews and 10 per cent from other
countries. He told Mr. Nixon that a loan from the U. S. goyernment helped the project.

