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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE. June 27, 1975 — PAGE 4
What Made Abe Goldberg Run ?
This of course, is a paraphrase of a popular bdok and movie of
several decades ago in which a typical huckster by the name of
Sammy starts facing pell-mell to achieve his ca/reer goals. And
when these are achieved, they are as usual, figments of imagina
tion and empty illusion.
Close observers wondered what made Abe Goldberg run,
though there was never the same kind of motivational goals for jviwtiiiii
which Sammy strove. The fictional character was seeking selfish t j, e wor |<j this week after adopting jtle of Israel. Jewry throughout the
Jewish Agency Assembly Ends;
I
Pledges Unity, Lowers Budget
national UJA chairman, and Max
C. Gettingcr, executive director of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation, who served as a con-
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
300 delegates to the Jewish Agen
cy’s fourth annual Assembly were
returning to their homes all around
the world th
achievements. Abe Goldberg’s charge towards achievement had resolutions expressing world
as objective the well-beifig of others. There was no room for self- Jewry's unity with Israel, Concern
glory or gratification in a public or physical sense for Abe for the plight of Soviet Jewry and
Goldberg. And this was in the true “zdakah” tradition of pledging to intensify the fight
Judaism. against the Arab boycott, to
Actually friends thought he’d eventually winddown and he
would be much, much better off if he topk time Off for htmsell and Assembly concluded with a
forgot about his fellow man. _ i declaration that “We pray for a
He never could forget people who needed a friendly hand, or a J usl an< l lasting peace in the
gentle nod, or a kind word, or an affable smile of empathy. These Mid® 3 * 1 Wc 8° forward with the
he provided with such generosity, you wondefed when does he | radltl0na Jew,s esstng.
y . . l r . j , .1 . . Ufross aletnu succat shlomecha
ever slow down enough to rest and recoup for t^e next go-round. (Spread Qver u$ |he tabcrnade of
In a certain measure, it would be a compliment to his record to your peace.)’’
call him a prototype of the perfect volunteer. His selflessness, his Attending the Assembly from
energy, his generosity, his remarkable availability, his versatility Atlanta were Larry^M. Frank, a
and far, far more — are certainly traits which would grace any
volunteer — male or female. In fact, just a few of them would
make the perfect volunteer.
Altogether, coupled with his free-wheeling impulses and in- sultant to the committee on educa-
defatigable creativity, the communal and civic scene would tion.
probably not long survive if all the volunteers were in the Abe Max Fisher of Detroit, chair-
Goldberg mold. There has to be a backdrop of organization and man °f lhe board of governors of
group cooperation, otherwise the total objectives would never be thc Jewis b Agency, told the closing
realized. If every volunteer were an Abe Goldberg, there would be sessl °! 1 ° 1 SSCm ..^ ' at in 1 ®
. ., J ., ° past difficult year. We saw and
more chaos than otherwtse. I^rned some great and heartwar-
Abe Goldberg knew this very well. He had great respect for the ming truths, first and foremost
set-up in which masses of volunteers could work under a mutual that Israel is here to stay.” Fisher
umbrella. It was just that he preferred to operate another way sa 'd the people of Israel have
and that other way was usually swifter and more direct. Certainly, remained “strong in heart, and will
he was an ideal volunteer — an inspiration to others. and vision. , . . .
• The difficult period through
Well, in retrospect, we thank the heavens for a guy like Abe which the Jewish people is going
Goldberg. He was an inspiration to watch, a source of deep has tested the partnership in the
satisfaction to know he was around and active. It was rewarding reconstituted Jewish Agency,
to sense his love for people and you instantly loved him in return. Fisher said. “It is my firm belief
He will be greatly missed from the Atlanta scene. that we have passed the test — that
this Agency has proved itself to be
united, viable and forward
looking,” he declared.
Fisher asserted that the future
appears better than most people
think since Israel -4»»s many
friends, especially in the United
States, but also elsewhere. He said
the Jewish Agency, after com
pleting first the reconstitution,
then the understanding of it; and
now has entered the third stage,
that of planning. He said the goal
for the next five years is to bring an
increase in immigration, close the
social gap, create a permanent
solution to the housing problem,
and strengthen the tics between
Israel and “it’s only true ally —
the Jews of the world.”
The delegates to the Assembly
adopted a >541.9 million budget
for the fiscal year which began
April I, a budget SI50 million
below that presented last year.
Jewish Agency treasurer Leon
Dulzin said earlier that the budget
was based on expected income
rather than on need which would
have required another $160
million.
The Assembly adopted a resolu
tion stressing the primacy of the
United Jewish Appeal and the
United Israel Appeal as the fund
raising instruments for Israel and
emphasized the importance of cash
contributions. Thc resolution
stated that the UJA and UIA “are
the only instruments authorized to
raise funds for the basic human
needs of Israel and must not be
eroded by diversion or competiton
for funds, times and energies of
other drives ... All other fund
raising activities must be worked
out in each country under the
auspices of the UJA or UIA . . .
with the exception of the women’s
organizations,” the resolution
stated.
The Assembly resolution on
Jewish unity declared admiration
for the “superb courage of the peo-
Qmitk Cnleadn,k
•TISHA B’AV
•SUKKOT
Thursday, July 17
Saturday, Sept. 20
•ROSH HASHANA
•HANUKA
Sat.-Sat.
Nov. 29-Dec. 6
Saturday, Sept. 6
•YOM KIPPUR
‘Holiday Begins
Monday, Sept. 15
Previous Evening
world stands firmly with the State
of Israel and Jslael's struggle for
.peace and security," it said.
Expressing concern over the
continuing harassment and
persecution of Soviet Jews, the
Assembly declared that “We say to
our brothers apd sisters in the
Soviet Union that the Jews of the
free world will intensify their ef
forts to open the gates, so that they
will be permitted to join their
brothers and sisters in Israel. We
in the Assembly of the Jewish
Agency pledge ourselves that all
those who come to Israel will be
fully absorbed.” To Jews in Arab
countries, the delegates said, “We
pray that soon we will be able to
greet them here, in freedom.”
The Assembly called on Jews
throughout the world to combat
the Arab boycott and to condemn
those who yield to blackmail and
place economic and political ex
pediency above international
morality.
The Assembly also condemned
terrorism and those who “have
condpned this savagry” in the
councils of the world. Before leav
ing Israel, Fisher told newsmen at
Ben Gurion Airport that American
Jewry will be called upon to inten
sify the effort against the Arab
boycott. He noted that both the
Ford Administration and the
American public opposed the
boycott.
West German President
Lauds Jews' Contributions
By Mindy Yocheison
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Walter Scheel, President of the
Federal Republic | of West Ger
many, made a point of visiting the
Leo Baeck Institute here, during a
one-day stop-over in New York,
part of his five-day visit to the
United States.
At the Institute, which is a
research center on the history of
German Jews from the 18th Cen
tury to the Nazi era. Dr. Scheel
declared that some of the great
Jewish intellectuals, such as Sig
mund Freud, Albert Einstein and
Karl Marx, were persons of great
German culture as well as being
Jews.
He declared that he was pleased
that Jews driven out of Germany
by thc Nazis had maintained the
German heritage that Hitler
sought to erase. Dr. Ernest Ham
burger, a member of the Institute’s
executive committee, presented
Dr. Scheel with specially bound
volumes of two books published by
the Institute about Jews in Ger
man political life during the 19th
and 20th Centuries. One was
written by Dr. Hamburger.
Dr. Scheel presented to Dr. Max
Gruenwald, president of the
Institute, the first edition of the
complete works of Heinrich Heine,
published in 1866. The German
leader recalled that this was the se
cond time a President of West
Germany had visited the Institute.
His predecessor, Theodor Heuss,
came to New York in 1958.
The Institute was named after
Rabbi Leo Baeck of Berlin, the
last leader of the German Jewish
community before the Nazi era.
Rabbi Baeck was responsible for
beginning the reconstruction of
good relations between the Ger
mans and the Jews after World
War II
Soviets to Print
Hebrew Pentateuch
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A
Hebrew edition of the Pentateuch,
the Five Books of Moses, with
Russian translation, will be
published in the Soviet Union for
the first time since the 1917 revolu
tion, it was announced June 18 at a
press conference here.
The conference marked the
return of three religious leaders
and trustees of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation from their
June 3-10 visit to the Soviet Union
and Hungary; Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, of Park East Synagogue
in New York and president of the
Foundation; Bishop Silas, head of
the largest Greek Orthodox
Diocese in the United States and
chief aide to Archbishop Iakovos
of the Greek Orthodox Church of
North and South America; and the
Rev. Donald R. Campion, editor-
in-chief of the Jesuit national
weekly, “America.”
Free emigration and the oppor
tunity for religious and cultural
survival for those Russians who
wish to remain in the Soviet Union
stand as the main purposes of the
Foundation and of this trip, they
said. The three-man team
acknowledged on behalf of the
Soviet government officials, much
greater receptivity and willingness
to admit that there does exist a
problem in the matter of religion
which cannot be solved with the
old methods of repression that had
been witnessed on their previous
trip in 1966.
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