Rabbi Joseph Sternstein Elected ZOA President
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still live in Syria.
The convention elected Dr •
In an address in which he
Joseph Sternstein as presi - outlined the current interna-
dent to succeed Herma n tional situation affecting Is-
Weisman, who has been i n rael, Jacques Torczyner, who
that role for the past fou ✓ was re-elected chairman of
terms.
the national ZOA administra-
Rabbi Sternstein's electio n tive committee, declared that
marked an end to a bitte ✓ President Nixon . must be
conflict during which Arnol d recognized as the chief pro-
Ginsburg and Samuel Wig ponent of aid for Israel by
der also contested for th e this country.
high Zionist post, Ginsber g
Jack Lefkowitz, chairman
having affirmed in the pre of the convention committee,
sentation of his candidac Y presided at the opening ses-
that he has been campaign sion and also introduced the
ing nationwide in ZOA dis other convention sessions.
tricts for 10 months. All ele Deep interest in increased
ments of politicking were in aliya was aroused in an ad-
evidence, including Ginsburg dress by Gideon Patt, mem-
campaign buttons that were ber of the Israel Knesset,
distributed at the convention and participating American
on the last day before the youth in Masada.
balloting.
Leon Ilutovich, re-elected
President - elect Sternstein, national executive director of
In his address at the conven- ZOA, declared that "in the
tion banquet, called the politi- final analysis aliya calls for
cal campaign "a gruelling fundamental changes in the
experience." It was much personal life of the prospec-
more that that: it was tensely tive immigrant and the major
shocking for many delegates. social, psychological, cultural
The election was not de- and financial adjustments in
void of rancor, and the ad- his life and those of his fam-
ily.
ministration was compelled
"To overcome the difficul-
to employ the Honest Ballot
Association to conduct the ties, various practical pro-
balloting, in order to assure grams must be developed,"
fullest acceptance of the re- said Ilutovich. "A major step
sults without—as challenges in this direction has been
recurred during the sessions taken by the ZOA by launch-
—repetitive demands for roll ing its high school education
calls. Rulings by presiding in Israel for American youth
officers were consistently through the establishment of
the model Mollie Goodman
given majority approval.
While the three candidates Academic High School on the
were all members of the Kfar Silver ZOA campus in
Weisman administration, the Ashkelon, and through
victory for Dr. Sternstein was broadly . based . youth . pro-
a vote of confidence for the grams conducted every year
retiring officers because the with the participation of hun-
losing candidates' supporters dreds of ZOA youth at its
sought scapegoats to be- summer camps and leader-
smirch the adminstration. ship training . programs . in
Israel."
The final vote could be in-
Ilutovich called for the ex-
terpreted as a rebuke to ran-
cor. Just before the balloting, pansion of ZOA programs
a young girl from Masada and projects in Israel "to ex-
asked for the right to speak. pose many thousands of
youth to
She deplored character as- American Jewish
* •
sassinations and pleaded for
examples of dignified Zionist
demonstrations as means to
impress youth into coopera-
tive labors for the movement.
Rabbi Sternstein received
245 votes, Ginsburg 203 and
If imitation is the sincerest
Wigder 63, but the election form of flattery, then The
was voted a "unanimous" Jewish News should be flat-
one on the suggestion of tered indeed.
Rabbi Max Nusbaum.
At the pre-election session
The Weisman administra- of the Zionist Organization
tion took great pride in the of America convention, a
acquisition of the new ZOA 16-page New ark Jewish
House at 4 E. 34th St., made "newspaper," claiming a 30-
possible primarily . by.. the year existence but not even
$250,000 gift. of Mr. and recorded as a functioning pa-
Mrs. Jacob Goodman. It was per by the American Jewish
announced at the opening of Year Book, distributed some
the convention that a $100,- 4,000 copies attacking the
000 gift had been secured ZOA administration.
from James Ross of Youngs.
The losing candidates re-
town, 0.
pudiated the sheet and denied
U. S. Senators Jacob Javits, having a role in the attack.
Robert Taft and Gale W. There was a considerable
McGee and Rep. Ogden Reid, staff distributing the paper
who were among the many on the convention floor.
prominent speakers at the
Its contents revealed a
convention, reaffirmed their virtual lifting of at least five
determination to assist in book reviews, special articles
efforts for Israel's support, and a promotional advertise-
to battle against terrorism, ment from The Detroit Jew-
to support the cause of Rus- ish News. None of the articles
sian Jewry and to assist in carried any attribution or
saving the 4,000 Jews who credit to The Jewish News.
Israeli life and reality."
In his presidential address,
Weisman stressed the many
needs to counteract Arab
propaganda and to alert pub-
lic opinion to the dangers
that stem from Egyptian and
Syrian threats to Israel's
existence.
He formulated a demand
that President Nixon should
not concede to Russian hopes
for a detente as long as the
Jews in the USSR are denied
their just rights and the free-
dom to emigrate to Israel.
The coveted Louis Brandeis
Award w a s presented to
Weisman, at the concluding
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his distinguished service to
the Zionist causes.
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