Wjc Creates New Advisory Body

The formation of an Advisory Council of the World Jewish Congress was announced here this morning by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the WJ Congress. The founding meeting of the new body was held in New York last Tuesday. Dr. Goldmann said the Council was a purely advisory body and that its members were selected as individuals on the basis of their prestige in the business, finance, professional and academic fields.

The direction of the Council is in the hands of three chairmen: Edgar Bronfman of New York; Sir Marcus Sieff of London; and Dr. George Wise of New York. Its headquarters will be in New York. The overall task of the new body will be to look beyond the day-to-day problems of Jewish communities, to try to predict the impact of social, economic and political trends on the Jewish future, to identify and analyze the likely problems of the next five to ten years and to suggest priorities.

Among the questions that the Advisory Council will objectively and seriously examine are: the possibilities of a viable Jewish life in Communist countries; the long-term relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish diaspora; the internal problems of Jewish communities in Latin America, especially with regard to the young generation. The members of the Couple will also be available to the World Jewish Congress leadership for consultation on any problems with respect to which the Congress might consider helpful for their influence and broad contacts.

The members of the Council, which is still in the process of formation, include: England: Sir Marcus Sieff and Sir Sigmund Warburg; France: Baron Edmond de Rothschild; Israel: Dr. David Horowitz, former Governor of the Bank of Israel; and Dr. Nathan Rotenstreich, Prof. Jacob Talmon and Prof. Ephraim Urbach, all of the Hebrew University; United States: Dr. Marver H. Bernstein, president, Brandeis University; Philip M. Klutznick of Chicago; Prof. David S. Landes, Harvard University; Prof. Henry Rosovsky, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; and George Wise, former president of Tel Aviv University. The Latin American countries are represented by important personalities from different communities.