Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1961 — Page 14

The National Jewish POST and OPINION

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Dov Joseph Hits Dewey Stone Group Debt Plan

Jewish Agency treasurer, Dr. Dov Joseph, has criticized the newly-formed Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., for cutting the budget to be spent in Israel in order to repay loans in the United States. Joseph announced that the Jewish Agency expects to receive 6 3 million pounds from the U. S. in 1961, roughly 35 million dollars, which is Joesph 25 million pounds less than last year. Dewey Stone, chairman of the American group would not comment on Joseph’s criticism. The POST and OPINION learned, however, that the American group does not want to enter into a public squabble with Joseph prior to their meeting with Federation and United Jewish Appeal leadership on the debt liquidation problem next month. The present UJA goal is $72 million, out of which about $51 million is earmarked for the Jewish Agency in Israel. Joseph claims that he will only get $35 million with the rest being used to pay interest and principle on previous loans made when the Jewish community in the United States

did not raise as much as was needed for immigration and acsorption needs and other projects it supports in Israel. Joseph also angrily charged that all the fine resolutions passed at the recent World Zionist Congress will noi be implemented at all, due to the curtailed budget. The overall budget was cut from 198 million pounds last year to 184 million pounds this year (April, 1961, to April, 1962) Everything in the budget was cut except for two allocations. One was the amount to be used to repay loans and interest se f at 50 million pounds and the second was an increase of 400,000 pounds for activities in the United States. Isidore Hamlin, executive director of the American section of the Jewish Agency, explained when asked what the increase for U. S. activities was to be used for, that there was no increase at all and that, in fact, the allocation for U. S. activities was cut. The item in the budget announced in Jerusalem that makes it seem that we are getting 400 000 more is really a bookkeeping arrangement. The budget announced the treasurer in Jerusalem indicates that U. S. activities will use one million fifty nine thousand pounds as against seven hundred twenty four thou-

I sand pounds last year. Hamlin listed the activities of the American section as aliya, patwa, Latin American division service, Kol Zion radio, press section, executive, publication services, German Claims Dept, Israel students, and Shlichim Depts., The total budget of 184 million pounds is broken down as follows: Youth and Hechalutz 4.27 million (same as last year) education and culture 1.594 million (same) Torah education and culture 837,000 (same) a reserve item for the three above depts. 500,000. Immigration 10.95 million (last year 11.509 million) Absorption dept.' 10.615 million (last year 11.5 million) Immigrant housing 13.5 million (last year 19.5 million) Settlement 58 million (last year 72 million). Also Youth aliya 9.57 (last year 9.8 million) Economic dept. 1 million (same constructive projects run by various parties) 3.065 million (until creation of Jewish Agency, Inc., this was allocated direct from the U. S.) Information and Kol Zion Lagola 1.096 million (same) organization dept. 850.000 (same) Binyanei Haoomah 300.000 (same) repayment of debts 49.9 million (last year 39.7 million) Jewish National Fund 2.6 million (last year 3.5 million) Keren Hayesod 1.15 million (same). Activities in the United States 1.059 million (last year 724,000).

Pope Prefers Religious to Secular Jewish Reps, for Vatican Parley

LONDON (P-O) —Dr. Nahum Goldmann and other secular leaders nave been rejected as possible participants in the Ecumenical Congress it was indicated by A spokesman of the Pope. If Jew. ,gh observers were to take part the deliberations the Pope would want them to be experts in Jewish law and religion, it was asserted. According to an article in the London Jewish Chronicle from the paper’s Rome correspondent, the Vatican ruling was spelled ®ut to a leading Rabbi. Last November, Dr. Goldmann in talks with a Vatican Cardinal, asked about the possibility of Jewish participation in the Congress sc that they could request that prayers harmful to Jews be deleted fi'om the Catholic liturgy. Dr. Goldmann had also requested that Catholic schools include in their curriculum some instruction that would put Jews “in .. more positive light.” The rabbi who recently received the Vatican ruling, said he was asked by Vatican officials whether Dr. Goldmann and the presidents of various American Jewish organizations, who have also conferred with the Vatican, wer? authorized to speak in the name of the Jewish people.- The rabbi replied that no one has that right. The leaders, he added, only expressed the opinion of the group or organization with which they were connected. The Vatican spokesmen said that the Pope was certainly aware that it was not the Jews Who had crucified Christ and that no negative opinions about the Jews should be put before the public or students. But the whole matter, these

spokesmen asserted, was an internal church matter. Should it be considered necessary to take advice from Jewish representatives, the spokesmen added the Vatican would take it only from experts in Jeiwsh law and religion. Orthodox and Conservative Jewish leaders in the United States have opposed the idea of rabbis participating in the Ecumenical Congress. The rest of the Jewish community has been waiting to see if an invitation to participate is forthcoming. They will decide on their position

when, and if, such an invitation is issued.

RABBI ELECTED Rabbi Herschel Schacter, spiritual leader of Mosholu Jewish Center, the Bronx, has been elected president of the Yeshiva University Rabbinical Alumni. He succeeds Rabbi Israel Miller, of the Kingsbridge Heights Jewish Center, the Bronx. Rabbi Schacter is active in the Rabbinical Council of America, the Religious Zionists of America, the Jewish Welfare Board and the Bronx Council for Jewish Education.

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PHOENIX;Ariz. (P-O)—When a rabbi displays the mantle ox Isaiaja and Amos in discharging his responsibility as spiritual director, educator and civic leader what happens? THE COMMUNITY in which he lives manifests its warm feeling of affection, respect and admiration for him by simple and direct measures of recognition so that his kind, thoughtful, productive and considerate years may be long remembered. Such is the story of a dedicated rabbi — Abraham Lincoln Krohn — who bore proudly and most deservedly — the name conferred upon him prophetically at the time of his birth in Montclair, New Jersey, January 6, 1893, by hopeful parents. THEIR HOPES were not destined to disappointment. When Rabbi Krohn died November. 23, 1958, his achievements in many fields of human and humane advancement stood as the monument to a life highly creditable to the man for whom he had been named. The rabbi was known as “Father Krohn” in this community, which is naming a new public housing development after him as an earnest of its appreciation for his tireless efforts on behalf of slum clearance and low rent public housing for all low income groups in Phoenix. THE HOUSING Authority of the City of Phoenix, announcing its intention to, honor him in the naming of its newest development, stated: “At its regular meeting in August 1960, the Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority unanimously agreed that the late Dr. Abraham Lincoln Krohn should be the personage

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