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Swiss Donate Milk Cheese
To Help JDC Feeding
GENEVA — The 'JDC received
oVer 450,000 lbs. of powdered
milk and cheese, valued at near
ly $260,000, as a gift from the
Swiss Government in 1960, Louis
D, ;Horwitz, director general of
the Joint Distribution Commit
tee, annoiumad this week.
Expressing *DC’s gratitude for
this generous^, contribution, Mr.
Harwitz saidthat without it
JDC would have had to divert
funds needed for other vital
programs in order to purchase
the dairy products needed in its
feeding programs. He pointed
out that in 1969 JDC spent about
$7,000,000, or nearly one-third of
its budget, on cash relief and
feeding programs which served
some 155,000 people in 27 coun
tries. JDC receives funds for its
health, welfare and refugee as-
sistance programs mainly from
the campaigns of the United
Jewish Appeal.
The milk and cheese were dis
tributed for use in feeding pro
grams in schools, canteens, old
age homes and other institutions
which JDC supports in Israel,
North Africa and Eastern Eur
ope, Mr. Horwitz said. The bulk
of the milk and cheese — 275,000
pounds at _ milk, and 44,000
pounds of kosher cheese — was
Shipped for use in Israel, where
JDC/Malben operates 10 old
age homes with 2,700 residents
and also subsidizes 130 yeshivoth
with 18,500 students. -
Mr. Horwitz also reported that
JDC has been notified by the
Swiss Government that its allo
cation in 1970 will include 130
tons of milk and 65 tons of
cheese. While most of this will
again be used in Israel, North
Africa and . Eastern Europe, 15
tons of milk and five tons of
kosher cheese will be sent to
Iran for the first time, to re
place contributions previously
received from other sources,
Mr. Horwitz added.
In Iran, 7,000 out of 10,000
Jewish children who attend a
network of JDC-supported
schools and kindergartens bene
fit from feeding programs hi the
schools, to which the Swiss dairy
products will be distributed, Mr.
Horwitz said.
Since the schools are in ses
sion only 138 days out of the
year, a $25,000 pilot project has
been initiated by the JDC Med
ical Department, whereby 700 of
the neediest children are also
being fed on weekends and holi
days to see what effect the add
ed nutrition will have on their
height, weight and general
health. Without the Swiss con
tribution it would have been dif
ficult to find funds for this pro
ject, the JDC leader concluded.
1HE PHILADELPHIA STORY
If you have ever been at a World Zionist
Congress—whether in Switzerland where the con
gresses took place before the establishment of
Israel, or in Jerusalem where they are being held
since Israel was established—you were reminded
of it vividly in Philadelphia last week, when at-> nam war, and
tending the founding convention of the American problems the way
Zionist Federation.
The Philadelphia gathering in which about 800
delegates from all over the country participated,
was a Zionist Congress in miniature. The full tra
ditional routine of a World Zionist Congress—
which is the supreme body of the world Zionist
movement—was followed at this first gathering
of all the 13 national Zionist groups existing in
tha United States/ .
There was the formal opening address by Louis
Pincus, chairman of the World Zionist Executive
and of the Jewish Agency. There was the ideolog
ical debate in which leaders of the major groups
in the American Zionist movement — from the
left-wing Socialists to the Orthodox -+ outlined'
their views an what is Zionism in 1970. There
were the caucus meetings of each of the 13 na
tional organizations of which the American Zion
ist movement is composed. And there was, of
course, much, lobbying and bargaining on the
composition of the leading organs of the newly--
created American Zionist Federation which will
from new on be “the body which speaks and
acts on behalf of the unified Zionist movement
in the United States.”
dephia convention, but also substance. Although
there was no exact clarity of what the spokes-
men of the youth groups demanded, there* was
clarity of the fact that they we very strongly
Jewishly involved. They Applauded every tune a
remark was made by a speaker against the Viet-
they reacted to general American
way a large number of student
youths In this country react; but it was obvious
that they are very serious in their views on at
tachment to Israel and on action in this country
on behalf of Israel. They have proven that Jewish
identity is not at all weak among a substantial
proportion of American student youth.
THE VOICE OF YOUTH
Something new, however, has been added at
the Philadelphia convocation. And this was the
voice of the youth.
Bearded,
—boys
fledged
form as speakers. The inter-party ideological de
bate, which was one of the major sessions at the
convention, was even presided over by one of
these bearded youngsters. They came as delegates
from various cities representing Zionist youth
groups in this country. What is more, they
secured two seats as vice presidents of the new
organization, three seats in the national executive
committee, and 10 of the 120 seats in the national
board.
You suddenly discovered at the convention
that there are at least 10 various Zionist youth
groups existing in the United States—from the
ultra-right Betar to ultra-Socialist Hashomer Hat-
zair, and from Mizrachi orthodox youths to such
organizations as Bnei Akiva, Dror, Habonim,
Masada, Hashacher, Hamagshimim and others.
It must be emphasized that the participation
of the youth added not only color to the Phila-
ZIONIST POTENTIAL
I must- admit that I was ... t
to see at the convention not only lone
youths but also a good proportion of middle-aged
delegates—men and women. It is generally ac
cepted that the Zionist movement in this country
consists mostly of grey-headed people. At the
convention, the elderly delegates were not the
most conspicuous element in the hall at the ses
sions. '
, Does this mean that the organized Zionist
movement in this country still has a large po
tential of manpower?
This question will have to be explored by the
newly-formed Federation. While the various
Zionist groups affiliated with the Federation will
continue to enjoy their independence as far as
their ideological and fund-raising activities are
concerned, they will also have to concentrate
their efforts on attracting new elements into the
ranks of the Federation—elements composed of
Jewish groups and of individual Jews who are
not formally adherents of any wing in the Zion
ist movement but who sympathize with the move
ment as a whole.
This is the basic idea of the provisions made
by the Federation to accept with full rights of
representation — group membership like syna
gogues, fraternal organizations, and even individ
ual Jews as members at large of the Federation.
Direct membership in the Federation—avoiding
belonging to any of the factions in the Zionist
movement—is the innovation introduced for the
purpose of bringing into the Federation all those
Jews who recognize the need for Zionist activities
in this country but who do not want to be labeled
as member of this or the other group in the Amer
ican Zionist movement /
In a way, the success of the newly established
Federation depends entirely on the extent to
which this unified body of the American Zionist
movement will be able to attract into its ranks
organizational membership of general Jewish
organizations as well as individual membership,
JEWISH CALENDAR
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