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Nathan Seeks
Federations to Air Local, Israel Needs at Parley
YORK — In the light ment resources to help fund will be presented at the Sat-
Funds. for Ship of NEW
events following on the services for the elderly and urday evening board meet-
NEW YORK — Abie
I than, Israeli crusader for
peace and captain of the
"Peace Ship," on a fund-rais-
ing tour here to keep his
ship afloat for broadcasting.
I
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
Nathan, et former fighter
(Copyright 1974, JTA Inc.)
pilot for the British in World
War II, a restaurateur and
AN OUTSTANDING RECORD: There are not many Jew- art dealer, spent about $300,-
ish organizations in this country — in fact, in the entire
world — that can boast of 90 years of existence. You can
count all such organizations on the fingers of one hand.
United HIAS Service, which is holding its 90th annual meet-
ing thi sweekend in New York, is one of them.
HIAS, which merged in 1954 with the United Service for
New Americans and became United HIAS Service, , had at
one time been the most important humanitarian Jewish
organization in America. This was during the years ending
the last century and the first quarter of the current century.
In those years several ships used to arrive each day from
Europe with thousands of Jewish immigrants landing at
Ellis Island. Immigration was at that time not restricted,
and Jews from East European countries — where they lived
in poverty and under oppression — sought a new life in the
United States. They were aided by HIAS upon their arrival
and eagerly welcomed here by friends and relatives.
There are today very few Jewish families in the 'U.S.
whose parents or grandparents were not assisted by HIAS.
This assistance consisted in helping with documentation
ABIE NATHAN
formalities needed to secure a U.S. immigration visa, in
arranging for the transportation of the immigrants, in meet- 000 to refit his 180-foot coast-
ing them upon landing at Ellis Island, in providing for al freighter for broadcasting.
many of them food and shelter during the first days of their
The PeaCe Ship, with a
arrival to this country, in contacting their relatives in New volunteer crew began broad-
York and in other cities with whom they were to be reunited, casting in the Mediterranean
in helping them to register for their first citizen. papers.
last May. Nathan estimates
In thousands of Jewish homes throughout the U.S. there that his 50,000-watt trans-
are still people—elderly of course—who speak nostalgically mitter reaches 30,000,000
of how the HIAS aided them when they landed in this Arabs and Jews. The station
country as strangers without knowing a single word of the broadcast more than 3,000
language of the country.
hours before it went off the
air from a lack of funds.
UPS AND DOWNS: There were periods in HIAS when
In his broadcasts, Nathan
the activities of the organization had fallen to a very low picks up news from BBC sta-
point, becoming almost insignificant. This was especially tions and rebroadcasts it
the case after the passing, in the early 1920s, of the law with comments, most of
establishing a yearly quota for the number of _immigrants which urge peace between
to be admitted to this country. As a result of this restrictive the Arabs and Israelis. He
law, Jewish immigration was reduced to a trickle.
plays classical and rock mu-
HIAS now is engaged in helping Jews permitted to sic in his programs.
leave the Soviet Union for reunification with their friends
"We found out the Arab
and relatives in the United States, Canada, Latin Ainerica
kids
and the Jewish kids
and South Africa.
like the same music," he
In the years following the liberation of the Jews from said, "We got requests for
the Nazis, it was the Joint Distribution Committee—which the 'Moody Blues' from
incidentally celebrates its 60th anniversary this autumn — Cairo, and we got requests
that conducted the massive emigration work of the "Shaarit for the 'Moody Blues' from
Haplayta," the survivors of the Holocaust. Under the direc- Tel Aviv," he said.
tion of Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, then head of the JDC activ-
- Nathan said the cost of
ities overseas and now JDC vice chairman, more than 226,000
running
the ship was $120,-
surviving Jews were taken out by 1949 from refugee camps
and other places in liberated Europe to countries where they 000 per year. "That's less
wanted to start their lives anew. Included among them than 1 per cent of the cost
were about 200,000 who chose to , go to Israel, and more than of one fighter plane," he
20,000 who went to the United States, with many of them said.
He began his peace mis-
being assisted by the United Service for New Americans
sion in 1966 when he won at-
upon reaching this country.
The herculean emigration work conducted by the JDC tention by flying alone in an
was later transferred partly to the Jewish Agency and anciet biplane from Israel to
partly to HIAS. Those who wanted to emigrate to Israel Egypt to try to convince the
were assisted by the Jewish Agency, while those seeking leaders of the two countries
emigration to countries other than Israel, including the to sit down and talk.
United States, fell under the jurisdiction of the United HAIS.
This arrangement continues to exist today also with regard Christian-Jewish
to Jews coming out of the Soviet Union. .
'Between You
. . . and Me'
Week in W. Germany
Yom Kippur War, more than
200 Jewish leaders and fed-
eration executives will assess
the major areas of Jewish
communal responsibility —
at home, overseas and in Is-
rael — at the quarterly na-
tional board and committee
meetings of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Wel_
fare Funds (CJF), at the
New York Hilton Hotel,
March 14-17.
Delegates from more than
70 communities throughout
the United States and Canada
will participate in a series
of committee meetings focus-
ing on priorities in American
Jewish communal responsi-
bility.
Among the highlights will
be the status of accelerated
community federated cam-
paigns which as of the end
of February have raised a
total of more than $580,000,-
000 for local, national and
worldwide Jewish needs, an
increase of 106 per cent by
the same contributors in the
previous year.
The overseas services com-
mittee will address itself to
community relations issues
and programs relating to the
Middle East. It will also
analyze the current status
and expectations for Soviet
Jewish immigration to the
- United States with regard to
community planning and
financing.
Federation concern for the
growing and diverse needs of
the elderly will be featured
at the meeting of the com-
mittee on services to the
aged. It will explore recent
innovative developments in
group residences for those
"moderately impaired," and
report on a survey of govern_
the extent to which federa-
tions are utilizing them.
The urban affairs and pub-
lic welfare committee, in its
consideration of recent legis-
lative developments, will look
into the new Social Security
amendments and supplemen-
tary income provisions,
emerging National' Health In-
surance proposals and the
Conable Bill which deals'with
limits on voluntary agency
attention in advancing social
legislation programs.
Concurrent with the board
and committee meetings, the
CJF will conduct its third
annual Public Relations In-
stitute.
The Smolar Award for ex-
cellence in North American
Jewish journalism in 1973
ing. Those to be honored are
Dr. Arnold Ages of the
Toronto Chronicle Review,
Murray Zuckoff of the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency and
free-lancer Raphael Roth-
stein.
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EYES ON SOVIET JEWS: The number of Soviet Jews
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coming to the United States, assisted by the United HIAS Jewish "Brotherhood Week"
Service, is relatively very small compared with the tens of ceremonies are under way in
thousands that proceed to Israel. In 1971 there were about West Germany and West
300 Soviet Jews who reached the U.S. with United HIAS aid. Berlin.
In 1972 their number was about 600. Last year it exceeded
Dr. H. G. Adler of London,
800.
who was an inmate.of several
Recent annual Jewish immigration to the United States Nazi concentration camps
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Dr. Adler, 64, has written
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Since the time when the U.S. Attorney General expresses,
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