1975 UJA Doing Well, Despite $500 Million Unelimed Pledges
JERUSALEM (JTA)— 1975 United Jewish Appeal though some $500 million in years, only three percent of
Jewish Agenc y Treasurer campaign in the United States pledges to the 1974 campaign American pledges have gone
Leon Dulzin said that the was doing relatively well al- remain to be redeemed in unredeemed.
cash.
Dulzin, who recently re-
Dulzin said he was confi- turned from a UJA speaking
dent the money would even- tour in the U.S., said the
tually be made available to American recession was mak-
Israel because Jews who ing itself felt in smaller
made commitments rarely pledges by normally large
defaulted. In the last five donors and in the wide gap
that still remains between
1974 pledges and cash pay-
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Technion Parley Withdraws
Invitation to UNESCO Editor
HAIFA — Sixty leading Fox said. "There is no rea-
philosophers, sociologists, son to suppose that man as
scientists, industrialists and a species is exempt from
legal experts from the U.S., this fate of natural law.
Canada, Europe and Israel,
"This doomsday is o n 1 y
participating in the Technion- made more inevitable by our
Wunsch International Sym- own mindlessness: our aims
posium on Ethics in an Age are too massive, making big-
of Pervasive Technology, ger and better wars; we're
voted unanimously to censure denuding the land and pc'
the United Nations Educa- luting the air we have
tional, Scientific and Cul- breath; and we're reprod,
tural Organization ing uncontrollably."
s(UNESCO) for its recent de-
"As a species, we have
cision to exclude Israel from between 50 and 200 years
the organization's regional left on this planet" he de-
activities.
clared.
The symposium participants
An attempt to counter
supported the withdrawal by Fox's gloomy prediction with
Technion President M a j . a note of guarded optimism
Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev of was made by Technion Bi-
the invitation to UNESCO ologist Amiram Carmon, who
representative Jacques G. cautioned that "Doomsday is
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done, one goes to sleep.
cation "Impact of Science on
"Doomsday is a possibil-
Society."
ity," Carmon conceded, "but
Among t h e participants not a necessity. Mankind will
who approved the withdrawal one day wake up and see the
were Aharon Gerstein of futility of its life-style of
Western Michigan University brinkmanship. It is only when
and Julius J. Harwood of all of mankind is facing a
Detroit, representing the common danger that it will
Ford Motor Co.
unite in a common effort to
Harvard University Sociol- combat that danger with ef-
ogist Daniel Bell opened the fective action."
four-day symposium with a
call for a renewal of religi-
ous beliefs based on tradi- Dinitz Confident
tional ritual practices as a of Israel Future
first step towards stemming
MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
the impending collapse of
Simha Dinitz, Israel's Am-
Western civilization.
T h e opening ceremony, bassador to the United States,
held in the Technion's urged American Jews "not
Churchill Auditorium, i n - to sink into despair" over
eluded brief addresses by Israel's future. He spoke to
Hebrew University Professor 1,000 persons attending a
Gershom Scholem represent- "Salute to Israeli Veterans"
ing the Israel National Acad- at. the Fontainebleau Hotel
emy of Arts and Sciences; at which $605,000 was raised
Rector Menahem Zvi Kad- for the Histadrut Mortgage
dari of Bar-Ilan University; Fund.
Dinitz reaffirmed Israel's
and Elhanan Pelles, presi-
dent of the Israel Association willingness to advance step-
of Engineers and Architects. by-step toward peace coupled
The session was chaired by with a readiness to hit back
philosopher Max Black of if attacked.
Cornell University, who was
general chairman of the AAJE to Study
Shevat 5735 -- Jong!
3 to February 12, 1975
symposium.
Rutgers University Anthro- Enrollment Decline
JNF SABBATH, 1VRDAY, JANUARY 25
pologist Robin Fox predicted
TU B'SHEVAT, Ne Or of Trees, January 27
that mankind has between in Jewish Schools
NEW YORK — The Amer-
50 and 200 years left on this
ican
Association for Jewish
planet.
Plant Treitt-tOisll Occasions
The American professor, Education will conduct a
who is director of' research landmark pilot study to de-
TASKS DURING ISRAEL'S 27th ANNIVERSARY YEAR
for the Guggenheim Founda- termine the underlying
❑ To avow full solidarity with the State of Israel in its period of stress.
tion in New York, was par- causes for declining enroll-
❑ To deepen JNF sentiment among masses of the Jewish People.
ticipating in a • panel discus. ment in Jewish schools.
The study, to be under-
sion entitled "Must Mankind
❑ To focus attention on more than 70 years of Jewish National activi-
taken in the greater Buffalo
Be Doomed?"
ties in building the land of Israel.
"More than 80 percent of area, was commissioned by
❑ To reclaim more land for outposts in the most vulnerable areas.
the earth's known species Buffalo's Bureau of Jewir'
have passed into extinction," Education with local cons.
❑ To inscribe your name, or the name of a relative or friends in the
erations in mind: namely, ,
Honor Roll of the Jewish People — the Golden Book.
35 percent dropoff in the
Golda Tops Gallup city's Jewish school popula-
❑ To place another thousand Blue-White JNF Boxes in Detroit and
since 1966-67.
Michigan Jewish homes.
Favorite List Again tion
Its findings, however, "are
NEW YORK—Golda Meir, likely to have important im-
❑ To plant more trees in Israel. Israel needs more trees. Trees represent
former premier of Israel, is plications for Jewish com-
the rekindled strength and lifeblood of the land.
the most admired woman of munities througout the
❑ To remind Jews to remember JNF in their Wills, thus not only linking
1974 according to a Gallup country which have experi-
Poll released last week. Mrs.. enced similar—and, in some
their names forever with the land of Israel, but that their legacy
Meir also topped last year's cases, even more drastic —
will help ALL of Israel.
poll.
shrinkages in school enroll-
Following Mrs. Meir in ment," said Mandell L. Ber-
We have before us a colossal task. The JNF is now
descending order of populari- man, chairman of the
called upon to strengthen existing positions and to
ty were Betty Ford, Patricia AAJE's national governing
prepare a new wave of land settlements so vital for
Nixon, Rose Kennedy, Happy council and president of the
Rockefeller, Rep. Shirley Jewish Welfare Federation
the future of Israel.
Chisolm and Prime Minister of Metropolitan Detroit.
Indira Gandhi of India, who
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