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Al'UUST 16, 10.17
William Grodinsky Heads Bond Drive
Willinm Grodinsky, promincn Omaha attorney, will head th ,1957 Bondji for Israel Campaign, It was reported Friday by Joe Illce, chairman of the past yea campaign. The announcement also carried the appointment of Mrs. Mike Freeman os chairman of the Women's Division. She succeeds Mm. -Sam Wolf who served in 1950 with Mr>. Isldor Levlnson as hoi' cochairman. Preparations for the drive arc now tinder way with the opening event scheduled for tlir midillc of September Mr. Urodlnsky, a well known participant in community affalrn, is a member of the executive com mlttcc of the Jewish Federation. Hc-J» chairman of the Hebrew Free Loan Society and Li on the Board of Trustee* of Boy's Town Mm.. Freeman Is i member o the executive committee of Na Monal Women's Division Hoard o UJA and was first \lce piesldcm of Federation of Jewish Women'a Club*: member of the executive commit lei* of the Jewish Federation; chairman of the Jewish Itill nnthropyi 1955; chairman of the lied Feathers-Red Cross Drive, 1955-56; member of Hniiiixont Chapter Hoard and Is n member of the budget committee and camp committee of the Federation. Mrs. Freeman Is also an active member of the National Counci nf Jewish Women, the Drandela University Organization find Beth Kl and U'nai B'rlth auxiliaries. Mr*. J. Hsrry Kulakofsky, member of the Israel Bond organ Izatlon'K board of governors, Is again honorary chairman of tho Women's Division. Plans are belntf formulated for a drive to exceed the $175,000 fl.imre achieved inKt yenr. Workers' wettings ore being planned and the names of oilier committee members will be an nounccd In succeeding weeks.
B'nai Jacob Gives
Gift For Rescue
William Orodliukj
Bin.
Mike Freeman
Ben Gurion Feels —
Israel Security Depends On Greater Immigration Jerusalem (JTA)—Tlic State of Israel, "to safeguard its security, requires the addition of at least l»o million more Jews" in the immediate future, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion today told delegate* to the International Jewish Ideological, Conference t a k i n g place at the' Hebrew University. rrolilrm of Security; .: "The decisive political problem of Inrael is tho problem"of security and the solution of this problem does not He in the organization of a first-dans army," he /mid. "The survival and peace of the State of Israel will be safeguarded by one thing and one thing alone —large-scale Immigration." Praises American Jewry He palled the cuttlng-off of onethird of European Jewry by the Bolshevik Revolution and the extermination of most of the remaining two-third* by Nazism "two appalling d i s a s t e r t," He contrasted these tragedies with the "second change, the beneficial one of the growth of the great Jewish center in the United States from one million to five million." He said the development of American Jewry was more than a gain of quantitative growth because "this Jewry became in our day the political, material and cultural metropolis of Diaspora Jewry."
American Jewry, assimilation in practice has been growing conBluntly," he stated. l i e refrained from any critical oomment on this point, After referring to the "growing division" of the Jewish people, the Premier said that "the State of Isreal has become the central pillar on which the unity of Diaspora Jewry, rests." •: ituMlun Kmlgratlon If the Soviet Government would permit emigration, at least half of Russia's Jews would come to Israel, Mr. Ben Gurion declared. He added that entire Jewish peapie "must prepare for this possibility." Asserting ho had greater hopes of large scale Immigration from Russia than from the United States, he said: "The Jewish problem in Russia is becoming mare than troublesome even from the Russian viewpoint and It Is not impossible that ultimately, perliapes in the next few years, the Russians may arrive at the only real solution:-Opening the gates for AUyah to Israel." Soviet Attitudes "Had It not been for the rise of Israel," he said, "Soviet Jewry would have been sooner or later condemned to disappear in the Jewish sense." He added that anti-Semitism, although legally forbidden in Uic Soviet Union, has neither ceased nor weakened. This fact, no less than the existence of Israel, encourages and strengthens Jewish feellngr. among Hustlan Jews, he asserted.
Philanthropies Scoreboard
New York (JTA)—The appointment of Stmha Pratt as Consul General in New York was'approved by the Israel Cabinet. Mr. Pratt who served as Israel Con*ul In Chicago until recently was originally scheduled for the post of Councillor in the Israel E m : bassy in Moscow. He succeeds Zemach Hyman.
C-*hb1ic Publication s Jewish Attitudes
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New York (WNSi — Ka t h c i Thurston N. Davis, eclltor-in-chlc of the Catholic weekly "America,' chiirges in the Current Issue of thi publication that, "in s o m e in stances," Jewish attitudes toward public Issues seem to l>e determined "primarily in terms of Jewish interest, not in terms of the totaf community." Cites Canon Father Davis, a Jesuit, cites as ciics In point American Jewish Congress opposition to Inclusion of questions on religion in the forthcoming Federal census and genera! Jewish objection to the Introduction of "even a minimal program of non-sectarian instruction in re iigious values into the New York City public school system."
Five hundred dollars was raised by the members of the U'nal Adas Yeshurun Synagogue for refugee rescue operatons and activities, and nuhed to the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Israel Appeal. It will be used in their special campaign to save 100,000 Jews, and moving them to Israel, Izzy Carsick, Pres. Sdent of the Synagogue announced ithis week. "The membership of out Syua Jjogue has always been Interested In aiding the important uctivllfet of the United Jewish Appeal agencies especially in the, Held of "Although the Ideology Of osrescuing Jews from land of similntion struck no roots in oppression." ' The Board of Commissioners Is composed of: 1zf.y Garslck, president; Joe Klrahenbaum, treasurer; Sam nifkln, s e c r e t a r y ; Harry Coopcrman, Hyman Guss, Jake Kaplan, Meyer Klrahenbaum, and As of August 16. 1957 Sam Levine, trustees; and Joe Adler, sexton. Thi following art currtnt riper)! from dMiloni in th* MS7 Oftuhl Rabbi Nathan F e l d m a n Is Jawlih Phll»nlhropl«i C«m»«lon: spiritual leader of the congregaDlvl.lon ' ; l»57 Tot.l to D«t. tion.
Pratt Is Israel Consul General
I'ulillihrd ovtrj mdi> |0l N. !»tli Annual Uate < IH>UM» U n i U Metruka ruaar 4* ISM gloglr C w I* Cent*
Initial Gifts $418,901.50 Men's Division 25,340.75 Women's Division 67,542.50 B. 4 P. Unit 2,843.00 Children's Division 2,025.30 High School Division *..».... 871.50 University Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.50 Organizations 2,463.75 Miscellaneous 1,210.00 Total to Date
.'.....$521,389.80
Laud Jewish Declaring that "the firm closing of Jewish ranks on this subject was dramatized December 3, 1955 when every rabbi in the city opposed the program unequivocally In his Sabbath sermon to his congregation," Father Davis admits that "these incidents puzzle and ot time provoke Catholics" but that "despite them, wo shall continue to look with understanding and even fondness at our historic brother, the Jew" and 'we shall go on admiring him for his strong sense of family life, his devotion to .learning and scholarship, his ability to Work hard, his creative gifts, hU love for music and the arts, his burning thirst for Justice." Jewish-Catholic lU'lutlon, Titled "Spiritual. Semites,"- Ka ther Davis' article asserts that "beneath those surface phenomena o anti-Semitism that bob up' among
Literally Speaking It's No Joke Jerusalem (JTA)—A visitor from Tel Aviv spent a night in jail here recently because he Joked with a child who took him seriously. Benjamin Meir told police he went for a walk in the Muxrara Quarter in this city while touring the sights. This section is on the Jordanian border, when Mr. Melrtrode near it, a nineyear-old boy warned him not to cross the line. In a joking mood, Mr. Meir replied, "It doesen't matter 1 want to die." The hoy thought he meant it, and called the police, who arresteil Mr. Meir and kept him behind bars for the night until they could get Information on him from the police in Tel Aviv.
Sabbath Bus Transit Decried Tel Aviv (JTA) — Orthodox Jews demonstrated here against Sabbath bus transit. However, the demonstrators, gathering to halt bus travel, discovered that a last minute decision had halted -, all bus transit until the Sabbath was over. The demonstrators thereupon vented their emotions. against passing private cars, stoning every automobile nnd clashed with police trying to clear the roads,
UN Day Observance Chairman" Selected The Governor's a/flec has nnnounced that Governor Anderson has appointed Samuel I. Derek of Fremont as state chairman of the United Nations Day observance in Nebraska, October 24. '
American Catholics, and underlying whatever animosity American Jews may feel for the Catholic Church, there runs between Jew nnd Catholic a still current of sympathy and understanding" but "what cuts athwart the solidity of Jewish-Catholic relations in the strictly contemporary sense l« tha rapidity with which American Jew« appear to be losing touch with tha ancient religious components ot their tradition." In his concern to become part of American Jif*, the Jews "seems to be sacrificing much that used to make him 'different'," writes Father Davis in connection with Jewish life ill the suburbs, adding that the same trend la widely evidencing Itself in Catholic communities where there 1st "yielding to the evils of conformity and the suburban yen for adjustcdness.'1
183.075 Jews Aided in 1956 New York (WNS>—The Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to 383,075 needy Jews In Israel, Kuropo nnd the Moslem world, including thousand.1! of refugees from totalitarianism and terror, it was disclosed here with the--publication, of the eleventh annual issue of the JDC Statistical Abstract. In a foreword to the Abstract, Moses A. Lciivitt, JDC Execulive Vice-Chairman, notes that. "In 1956, JDG not pnjy had to continue lta /nornial' program. lii 25 countries, but it also had to provide emergency aid to some 14,400 new refugees from Hungary and Egypt who arrived in Austria, France and Italy during November and December." 30 Million Appropriations The foreword indicates that JDC"» 1956 activities called for appropriations of more than $30,000,000. The Statistical Abstract, prepared by the JDC Research Department under the direction of Dr. Burls Sapir, also discloses the continued assistance provided by Malben, the JDC welfare program on behalf of aged, ill and handicapped newcomers to Israel. In 1956 the program aided 16,688 men, women and children in a network of old-age homes, hospitals, sanitaria, sheltered workshops and other institutions throughout the Jewish state, as well as through more than 780 reconstruction loans. Among those receiving aid were more than 8.800 receiving institutional care and 580 who were employed in sheltered workshops. 34,161) Aided In Israel A total of 34,160 persons received aid In Lsrael, the Abstract shows, including more than 12.000 who were assisted through JDCs cultural and religious programs, and 5,467 who received vocational training in workshops of ORT (the Organization fu,r Itehaulllatioh Through Training).
Klutznick Named Delegate to U.N. Washington (JTA)—Philip V. . Klut/nick, president of ifnui B'rith was named by President Klsenhfiwer this week-end as one of ten Americans to represent the Unite! States nt the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly session which opons next month, Mr. Klutznick will he the only Jewish number of the delegation.-He is a former Omaha resident.