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FROM MUNICH TO UGANDA...
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
CONG. BNAI DAVID
SUNDAY, JULY 25, 12 NOON
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
Herb Brown: Coach of Detroit
Pistons Basketball Team, Former
Coach of Israeli Basketball Team
Cantor Mendelsohn: of New
York, Creator multi-media
presentation on Munich tragedy
Rabbi Gordon of Young Israel
Cantor Klein of Cong. B nai Moshe
Cantor Orbach of Temple Israel
Free Admission
Sponsored by:
HIAS met with Premier
Yitzhak Rabin; Max Fisher,
chairman of the Jewish
Agency's Board of Gover-
nors; Frank Lautenberg,
UJA general chairman;
Almogi and other top
leaders and hammered out a
closely guarded secret.
There is one published fact,
however: an eight-man com-
mittee is to review the en-
tire problem and report in
full within 90 days.
Another cause for
satisfaction was the agree-
ment reached on how UJA
and United Israel Appeal
funds are to be allocated to
the "constructive funds"
managed by the various
political parties in Israel.
The new agreement
provides for close and cons-
tant scrutiny. by the Agen-
cy's comptroller, a require-
ment which critics in Israel
and abroad have long
demanded.
This decision, however,
was not uniformly seen as
a breakthrough. The
Israeli daily Haaretz at-
tacked it editorially as a
coverup of what was to
remain, in effect, the same
bad situation: Jewish
funds raised abroad for
Israel being funnelled into
party instead of national
coffers.
Especially noteworthy at
the Assembly was the
criticism voiced by Fisher
and Lautenberg. In his
closing address to the
Assembly, Fisher called for
an end to politicization of
job-getting and job-holding
within the Jewish Agency.
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come of the Fifth General
Assembly of the Jewish
Agency. Yosef Almogi was
formally elected chairman
of the. Agency.
Many observers noted
that this assembly seemed
to mark for the first time a
public, conscious acceptance
by the Diaspora Jewish
leadership — and especially
by American Jewish leaders
— that aliya is a challenge,
vital to the future of the
state and of Jewry, which
must directly involve them
and not just Israel, Israeli
emissaries, or tired Zionist
functionaries who have paid
lip service to the ideal for
decades without realizing it
in practice.
In the words of Stanley
Sloane of New Jersey, one of
the 15 national chairmen of
the United Jewish Appeal,
"The Americans here at the
Assembly have come away
with the conclusion that it is
for us to get involved in
aliya . . . It is we who must
exhort our fellow, citizens to
live in Israel."
Sloane spoke as a
representative of what is
called the "non-Zionist"
half of the Agency
assembly — the fund•
raising organizations as
distinct from the
organized Zionist party-
based bodies.
One major achievement
of the assembly was the
unanimity obtained over the
delicate issue of aid for
Soviet emigrants heading
elsewhere than Israel.
Leaders of the Joint
Distribution Committee and
DETROIT ZIONIST FEDERATION
The Agency and its
various services and
programs affect the lives of
more than 600,000 Israelis
and it is vital that it have
the best men for the top jobs
without regard to their
political or party affiliation,
Fisher declared. Unfor-
tunately, this has not been
the case, he said.
into the hands of Dispora
communities.
His own recommenda-
tion — it is still in the form
of general, personal
thoughts that have been
running through his mind
— is for the American
Jewish leadership to
"identify the people who
are the potential for aliya"
and to encourage them,
materially and morally, to
make the move to Israel.
The aliya potential, Sloane
observed, is among the es-
timated two million urban
American Jews. About one-
half of these are elderly, but
the others are the obvious
reservoir for an initial mass
movement of American
olim to Israel.
Thus, Sloane observed,
the successful absorption of
a substantial number of ur-
ban American Jews in Israel
would certainly catalyze an
aliya process among the
young suburban Jewish
families — who would come
in even greater numbers
and would need much less in
the way of material aid and
support. The aliya of say
half a million Jews from
America to Israel, Sloane
said, far from weakening
the U.S. Jewish community,
would actually strengthen
it.
Fisher also said that the
point has not been reached
where Jewish Agency of-
ficials know that their ad-
vancement depended solely
on their ability and
diligence and not on ex-
traneous political factors.
The key of party affilia-
tion still bars able people
from working for the
Agency and bars able of-
ficials within the Agency
from advancing, Fisher
said. The party key must
be erradicated and the
selection and advance-
ment policies of the Agen-
cy must be based solely on
merit, he said.
He also criticized the
failure to solve the problem
of red tape that plagues
immigrants because of the
duplication of activities
between the Jewish Agency
and the Ministry of Absorp-
tion. The late Premier Levi
Eshkol had promised to
solve this problem years ago
and a solution cannot wait
much longer, Fisher
declared. He expressed con-
cern over the sharp drop in
aliya rates both from the
West and the Soviet Union.
Lautenberg complained
that the fundraisers he
represents did not have suf-
ficient say of participation
in the Jewish Agency's
policy-making process —
policies supported by funds
raised by the UJA and UAI.
Meanwhile, Stanley
Sloane of New Jersey, one of
the UJA's 15 national
chairmen, said that at the
assembly he saw evidence of
a move to take the respon-
sibility for aliya out of the
hands of Israel and to put it
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MRS. ROITER
Ellyn Sue Rubenstein and
Allen Harvey Roiter were
married recently at
Congregation KINS of West
Rogers Park, Chicago.
Thp bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris M.
Rubenstein of Flint.
Parents of the bridegroom
are Mrs. Faye Roiter of
Chicago and the late Mr. J.
Mack Roiter.
The new Mrs. Roiter was
graduated from the
National College of Educa-
tion in Evanston, Ill., where
she received a . master's
degree in education. Her
husband was graduated
from DePaul University of
4 Chicago and the University
of Minnesota.
The couple will live in
Gurnee, Ill.
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