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Fr#«y, Dec. 17, 1971
Zionist Groups Campaign for Votes
NEW YORK (JTA)— Spokes
men lor various organizations in
' the American Zionist Federation
campaigned here recently at a
“Town Hall Meeting" for the
election of members of their res
pective slates as American dele
gates to the World Zionist Con
gress in Jerusalem next January.
About 200 Zionist activists attend
ed the meeting at the Belmont
Plaza Hotel. Most of them were
middle aged, but there were some
young people in the audience. The
AZF had predicted an attendance
of 500 people.
Thirteen national Zionist organ
izations and 10 , youth student
groups were represented in the
seven states vying for 55 percent
oi the places in the 152-member
American delegation. Approxi
mately 700,000 registered Zionists
will be eligible .to cast postal bal- -
lots next month to fill these dele
gate slots. The remaining 45 per
cent of the American delegation’s
seats will be allocated on the
basis of the current membership
strength of the different Amer
ican Zionist organizations. The
Congress will . be attended by
some 500 delegates from around
the world.
Speaking first, based on an
order determined by random lot,
Bernard Harkavy, chairman of
the National Administrative Com
mittee of the Americana for Pro
gressive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair,
said the United Socialist Zionist
slate, comprising API-HH and
the Radical Zionist Alliance,
“stands for the democratization
of the (American) Jewish com
munity and the Zionist move
ment to assure grass-roots par
ticipation in decision-making, es
pecially by youth and women.”
Mrs. Bernice Sal peter, chairman
of Hadassah Zionist Affairs, said
her United Non-Party Zionists
slate, comprising Hadassah, Bnai
Zion and the American Jewish
League, views the “politics of Is
rael as the business of the citizens
of Israel and no diaspora group
should have any connection with
any political party in Israel.” Is
rael is a “sovereign country” and
diaspora Jews have “no right to
legislate for Israel or to suggest
legislation for Israel,” she said.
The Zionist Organization of
America slate seeks to advance a
“militant” revitalized Zionist
movement in the U. S. “without
fear that we do not agree with
the policies of our government,”
according to Jacques Torczyner,
former president of ZOA. Assert
ing that only “Zionism can insure
the future of American Jewry”
without being “blind to anti-
Semitism,” he said Jewish educa
tion and consciousness in Amer-
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ica must be strengthened and
must include a strong Zionist
orientation.
Representing the Independent
Student Zionists of America slate,
a coalition of religious and secular
students, Jonathan Braun, presi
dent of the New York Union of
Jewish Students, called for the
“revitalization of Zionist thought,”
including the “centrality of Israel
and Jewish life" and the “dem
ocratization” of the Zionist move
ment. He said the Zionist move
ment must undergo “houseclean
ing” if it wants to attract Amer
ican youth and Israel must sim
ilarly clean up its slums to fulfill
its “prophetic vision of truth and
justice.”
Jacob Katzman, general secre
tary of Farband-Labor Zionist
Order, who spoke for the Labor
Zionist Movement slate, also call
ed for democratization of the
Zionist movement. He said there
must be a stronger articulation of
the need to reorder the priorities
of the Jewish communty to ad
vance “American Jewish life and
its cultural, spiritual, Zionist
content.” Kataman, as did the
representatives of the USZ and
the ZOA, called for the estab
lishment of Zionist-inspired day
schools.
Speaking for the Religious
Zionist Movement slate, Rabbi
Bernard Poupko, president of
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamiznaohi, de
clared that although the Jews
have survived “2,000 years with
out statehood,” they have “never
been able to survive one century
without Torah.” He noted that
there is a “frightening erosion
of Jewish identity in the U. S.”
In Israel itself, Rabbi Poupko
added; there is a “crisis of
identity among substantial groups
of young people.”
The United Zionist-Revisionists
of America slate was advanced
by Dr. Mamin Feinstein, a mem
ber of the National Executive of
the United Zionist Revisionists.
Feinstein accused the Labor, So
cialist and Religious Zionists of
being “schizophrenic,” whereas
his group “is not split,” but
“stands for a, higher degree” of
Zionism. “Our concern is for Is
rael before our concern for other
aspects of living,” he said.
The meeting was generally con
ducted in a calm atmosphere of
politeness. Rabbi Arthur Hertz-
berg, a member of the World
Zionist Executive, chaired the
meeting and concluded it with
the observation that “more
unites us a& Zionists than divides
us.” This “Town Hall Meeting”
was one of 60 such gatherings
being held ground the country
this month under the sponsorship
of the AZF. Balloting, to be con
ducted by the American Arbitra
tion Association, will begin upon
receipt of ballots mailed to every
enrolled Zionist in the U. S. on
Nov. 29.
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