Sachar Scores Anti – Semitism in Universities

The investments in the Hillel Foundation have now been levelled at about $60,000 a year, Dr. Sachar informed the convention. For this sum, ten foundations are functioning on ten great campuses of the country, reaching more than 7,500 Jewish students.

The Foundations have developed great cultural and religious activities among the Jewish students at the universities, especially among students with little Jewish background and all too often the desire to escape the responsibilities of Jewish life. The social welfare program of the Foundation has also been successful, Dr. Sachar reported.

A. Z. A. REPORT HEARD

At today’s session Sam Beber, president of the supreme advisory council, reported on the activities of Aleph Zadik Aleph. Maurice D. Rosenberg reported on the work of the Washington Bureau of the B’nai B’rith.

In his report Mr. Rosenberg dwelled at length upon the immigration and naturalization laws and emphasized the work the Washington Bureau has done in combatting defamation over the radio. He also enumerated cases where the B’nai B’rith intervened with the State Department when alarming reports were received about the Jewish situation in Poland, Mexico, Bolivia and other countries.

Louis J. Borinstein, chairman of the wider scope and fund raising commission, reported on the activities of his commission. A report of the committee on constitution and by-laws was submitted to the convention by Edwin J. Schanfarber. Judge A. B. Frey reported on the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital and Milton L. Anfenger submitted a report on the National Jewish Hospital.

WATCH ALIEN BILL HEARINGS

Representatives of the B’nai B’rith will appear throughout the year at naturalization hearings of the immigration committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and lend their voice to matters vital to the Jewish alien, it was reported today by Sidney K. Kusworm, executive director of the Americanization committee.

Mr. Kusworm reported on the assistance the Americanization committee has given to Jewish immigrants in becoming citizens. He reported on the classes established by the B’nai B’rith lodges in many communities to teach American history and other necessary subjects to make it possible for Jewish applicants to pass the naturalization tests.

‘EVERY JEW A CITIZEN’

” ‘Every Jew an American Citizen,’ “is the slogan which some day I hope will be a reality,” Mr. Kusworm said.

Declaring that “there are too many Jewish aliens in the United States,” Mr. Kusworm said there will be fewer if the B’nai B’rith lodges cooperate with the Americanization committee in its naturalization activities.

Numerous changes in the naturalization laws introduced during the last years have been detrimental to the aliens, Mr. Kusworm declared. The B’nai B’rith together with other organizations successfully fought some of these laws. The organization was especially active in fighting the Registration ### which is inimical to every im#### Mr. Kusworm reported.

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{SPAN}###{/SPAN} Jewish social welfare, and for an organized relationship between national Jewish agencies and the communities they appeal to for support, was stressed by Ira M. Younker, vice-president of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, addressing yesterday’s session of the convention.

“The principle of cooperative unity, as it exists in local communities through Federations and Welfare Funds must be extended to become a national principle in Jewish welfare,” Mr. Younker said. “It is not sufficient that individual communities have found it imperative to organize to meet their local needs. The question is broader than that. Each community is part of a larger community and subject to problems and conditions national in scope.”