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ZOA Convention Asks U.S, to
Israel-Arab Direct Talks
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The four-
day annual convention of the
Zionist Organization of America
concluded here recently with a
resolution calling upon President
Kennedy and the United States
Government to make “a full-
scale effort to bring Israel and
the Arab states into direct ne
gotiations with the aim of avert
ing the danger of war and open
ing the way to peace and politi
cal stability in the Middle East
The U.S. Government was also
urged to pursue "an equivocal
and resolute policy on the Mid
dle East which will serve to de
ter aggression, promote the con
structive pursuits of peace and
strengthen freedom." The U.S.
Government was also asked to
reaffairm its commitment “to
act promptly and decisively
against any nation in the Mid
dle East which attacks its neigh
bor” and to enforce the princi
ple of free passage through the
Suez Canal for all nations, in
cluding Israel.
Max Bresler of Chicago was
reelected president of the ZOA
for a second term. Dr. Emanuel
Neumann and Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver were reelected honorary
presidents of the organization.
Dr. Max Nussbaum was reelected
chairman of the national execu
tive council; Jacques Torczyner,
associate chairman, and Dr. Mor
ton J. Robbins, vice-chairman of
the council. Dr. Sidney Marks
was reelected national secretary;
Charles Wolf, treasurer; Jacob
Goodman and Benjamin J. Doft,
associate treasurers.
Other resolutions adopted call
ed for a halt to the arms race in
the Middle East with assurances
by the U.S. and her allies "of
the maintenance of an arms bal
ance as the best guarantee
against an outbreak of hostili
ties”; termination of the Arab
boycott against Israel and Ameri
can firms dealing with Israel; re
settlement of Arab refugees in
Arab countries to come as part
of a general peace settlement in
the Middle East; and extension
of U.S. economic assistance, but
with insistence by the U.S. that
“nations receiving such aid will
refrain from boycott, blockade
and acts of war.”
The convention in a resolution
on Aliyah, urged that “all steps
necessary to bring to Israel
American Jewish ideals, Ameri
can standards and American
know-how in capital in order to
assist Israel, but in full realiza
tion that those who participate
also will find in answering that
need, a new sense of purpose and
gratification which inevitably
must flow from contributing
personally to Jewish survival in
the old-new homeland of the
Jewish people and to the de
velopment of that dynamic land.”
The convention also endorsed
programs for short term work
and study in Israel and to inspire
persons with capital or with pro
fessions and trades in short sup
ply in Israel, or with special
training, or in retirement or
about to retire, to immigrate to
Israel, to join in its upbuilding.
In resolutions calling for eco
nomic aid for Israel the conven
tion called upon its nation-wide
constituency to continue and in
tensify the efforts on behalf of
Israel bonds, and contribute to
the maximum to the United Jew
ish Appeal to carry forward “the
sacred task of rescue and re
settlement.” It also reaffirmed its
support of the cause of soil re
clamation and land development
in Israel undertaken by the
Jewish National Fund.
The convention also called
upon all its Regions and Chapters
to enlarge their educational ef
forts through the encouragement
of Hebrew study and discussion
groups, the encouragement of
the establishment of day schools,
the enrollment of children for
Hebrew courses in junirtt and
senior high schools, the fostering
of Hebrew speaking clubs, for
ums on Jewish kistory, Hebrew
lore and literature and widest
possible distribution of Zionist
literature.
Dr Abba Hillel Silver, ZOA
leader who recently returned
from a visit to the Soviet Union,
told the convention of the “un
favorable position in which the
Jewish people, as a nationality
group, finds itself in the Soviet
Union today.” He said that
“as individuals, Jews fare no
better and no worse than all
other Soviet citizens,” but em
phasized that “cultural and re
ligious discriminations are un
doubtedly being practiced against
the Jewish minority.”
The situation of the Jews has
“eased somewhat” since Stalin’s
death, he reported, but noted that
“many of the obnoxious practices
still remain” and much still re
mains to b3 corrected.” He felt
that “prog-ess in the direction
of granting the Jewish minority
in the Soviet Union the same
culture and religious considera
tions which are accorded all
other nationality and religious
groups can still be made, given
a friendly and insistent world
Jewish opinion.”
“1 do not believe that Russian
Jewry should be written off,”
Dr. Silver continued. “Many have
undoubtedly been assimilated in
the past 40 years, having been de
nied Jewish cultural and religi
ous education, and having been
cut off from contact with world
Jewry. In some instances this as
similation was eager and self-
willed. But many have retained
an unshaken racial loyalty and
an attachment, which, though not
vocal, are strong and unmistak
able.
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, presi
dent of the World Confederation
of General Zionists, addressing
the ZOA convention, reaffirmed
“as the definite and settled policy
of the Confederation to function
exclusively as a Zionist grouping
within the framework of the
World Zionist Organization in
pursuit of Zionist objectives.”
He stressed that it is not its pur
pose and function to intervene
in the internal political affairs
of Israel but at the same time
asserted that to deny an Israeli
group the right to be affiliated
in the Confederation would be
“a mockery of Zionism.”
Dr. Neumann maintained that
“the principle of non-interven
tion in Israel’s political affairs
must not be pushed too far, to
the point of absurdity.” He clari
fied this by saying that “it can
not be so construed as to deny
to an Israeli group the right to
be affiliateck with a world Zionist
confederation such as ours.” He
further asserted that “provided
our link with them is clearly
within the framework of the
Zionist movement, and our mu-
tural cooperation is in the field
of Zionist endeavors, we not only
welcome their adherence to our
Confederation, but feel honored
by their presence.”
"Their participation as Israel
citizens in the political life in
the country is their affair; it does
not deprive them of their rights
and status in the world Zionist
movement,” he continued. “Nor
can we question the right—per
haps even the duty—of Zionists
and all Jews in the Diaspora to
take a deep and active interest
in all that goes on in Israel, to b«
concerned with its manifold
problems and its evolution as a
democratic society animated by
Jewish ideals.”
Jacques Torczyner, associate
chairman of the National ZOA
executive committee, ass e r t e d
that the unification of the two
General Zionist parties in Israel
(General Zionists and Progress
ives) into one Liberal party is a
vindication of the policies which
have been advocated by the Gen
eral Zionists for the last ten
years. He voiced the hope that
the unification in Israel will be
followed by a total reunification
of the two World Zionist Con
federations.
Rabbi Max Nussbaum, chair
man of the ZOA national execu-
Stimulate
tive council, said the Zionist
movement was the only force
that could achieve the cultural
and spiritual unity of Jews the
world over. He asserted that not
only was it the task of Ameri
can Jews to give moral and fi
nancial aid to needy Jews the
world over but that it also was
“more significant” for the Ameri
can Jew “to feel a spiritual iden
tification with his fellow Jews
throughout the world.”
Other speakers included Gov
ernor Nelson A Rockefeller;
Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman
of the American Zionist Council;
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
executive vice-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal; James
G. McDonald, the first United
States Ambassador to Israel;
General S.L.A. Marshall, a lead
ing military analyst and com
mentator who was the U.S. Gov
ernment observer in Israel dur
ing the Sinai campaign; Rabbi
Joseph S. Shubow of Boston, a
vice-president of the ZOA and
Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, a mem
ber of the presidium of the His-
tadrut Ivrith, and others.
New Yorker To Teach
‘Judaistic Learning’
At Berlin University
BERLIN, (JTA) — Dr. Jacob
Taubes, associate professor of
religion at Columbia University,
New York, was appointed as the
first occupant of the Chair of
Judaistic Learning at the Free
University of Berlin.
Professor Taubes, according to
the announcement, will establish
an Institute of Judaistic Learn
ing, and will be provided with
several assistants and with a
special library. The Institute will
train Judaic scholars and spe
cialists for other German uni
versities.
Nathan Straus,
Philanthropist, Dies
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Nathan
Straus, noted Jewish leader and
philanthropist, died suddenly
last week. He was 72. Funeral
services were held at the Jewish
Community Center in White
Plains, N.Y.
Born in New York, he spent
his life crusading for slum clear
ance and civil rights. He was ad
ministrator of the United States
Housing Authority under Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. At
one time he was a national vice-
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal and director of the Pale
stine Economic Corporation. He
had been a member of the New
York State Senate and held
other important state positions.
He was chairman of radio sta
tion WMCA in New York at the
time of his death.
WAGNER NAMES
JEWISH LEADER
TO HIGH POST
NEW YORK, (WUP) —Mayor
Robert Wagner has appointed
as the Deputy Commissioner of
Sanitation of Greater New York
a staunch champion in Jewish
causes and an active, militant
Zionist.
The appointee is Gabriel A.
Wechsler, the general secretary
of the Fusion Party which
brought the late Fiorello La-
Guaridia into prominence as one
of the city’s greatest Mayors.
Mr. Wechsler is the former
National Secretary of the Emerg
ency Committee to Save the Jew
ish Peoples of Europe. He was
also national secretary of the
Committee for a Jewish Army.
He also served as State Director
in Ohio of Israel Bonds. Mr.
Wechsler's most recent position
was that of Executive Director
of the B’nai B’rith Office in
Philadelphia.
Jewish Expert
Identifies Book
By Ben Franklin
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—Ed
win Wolf 2nd, president of the
Federation of Jewish Agencies
of Philadelphia, has been credit
ed by Boston Public Library
with identifying a book in the
library’s rare book shelves as
one written and owned by Ben
jamin Franklin.
The book, “Experiments and
Obervations on Electricity," had
rested unnoticed on the library’s
shelves since 1873. Mr. Wolf,
head of the Library Company of
Philadelphia and a Franklin au
thority, identified a penciled no
tation on the inside surface of
the front cover as an authentic
Franklin shelf-mark.
Corrections in Franklin’s hand
writing appear on 20 pages of
the book.
BBYO Ends Conventions
STARLIGHT, Pa., (JTA) —
Aleph Zadik Aleph, the B’nai
B’rith organization of teen-age
boys, closed its 38th annual con
vention here, electing Sheldon
Zimmerman, a 19-year-old stu
dent at the University of Toron
to, as president. He is the first
Canadian ever to head the organ
ization, which is comprised of
18,000 members.
The 17th annual convention of
B’nai B’rith Girls ended here
this week with the election of
Marcia Goren, Houston, Texas,
as president for the next twelve
months. Miss Goren, 18, is a
freshman at the University of
Texas.
SKY PILOTS’ PILOT
DENVER, (JTA) — Chaplain
Marvin L. Labinger, a graduate
of the Jewish Theological Semin
ary of America, has been named
the first Jewish chaplain at the
Air Force Academy here. He
served as an Air Force Chaplain
at the Kessler Air Force Base.
Nazi Path Package
Honored By Poet Office
PHILADELPHIA, (WDP)-nAn
innnocent-looking envelope bear
ing the name of Dan Burro* on
the upper left-hand cover, P.03.
1381, Arlington 13, Virginia, ar
rived here this week through the
U.S. mails.
The contents included moat of
the literature issued by the
American Nazi Party—all filth
urging the institution of Naxi,
Hitler-like methods here for the
destruction of Americans of the
Jewish faith.
Dan Burros, listed as national
secretary of the anti-Bill of
Rights movement, writes in a
signed letter: “All fanatically
dedicated Americans who are
prepared to give their lives, if
necessary, to save our pople and
our sacred White Race from the
swarming Jew traitors, liars and
race mixers, are invited to come
to National Headquarters . .
We can provide a job, room,
board and endless inspiration
and activity for all those willing
to devote their lives to the pro
tection of their race and their
nation.” Burros closes his letter
with a “Sieg Heil’.”
Golda Meir to Head
Israel Delegation
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP) —
Among the 53 Foreign Ministers
who arrived in New York this
week to attend the 16th session
of the UN General Assembly was
Israel’s Mrs. Golda Meir who
will head the the Israel delega
tion the opening week. The ten-
member Israeli delegation will
include, in addition to Mrs. Meir,
Ambassador Michael Comay,
Ehud Avriel, Arieh Eshel, Sab-
tai Rosenne, Gideon Rafael, Ger-
shon Avner, Shimshon Arad,
Hava Hareli, Arthur Livran and
Shulamit Nardi. Hanan Aynor
replaces Arieth Eilan as one of
the Deputy Representatives on
the Permanent Delegation.
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