An urgent plea to end the “chaos, duplicated efforts, and unbridled inter-organizational rivalries,” and to establish “a proper coordination and a set of priorities in American Jewish community effort on the national as well as on the local levels” was voiced here by Louis Segal, general secretary of Farband-Labor Zionist Order, at the Annual Conference of the National Board of Directors of the organization now taking place here. The conference is attended by more than 200 Farband leaders from all over the country.
Pointing out that a high degree of unity has prevailed for a number of years in both the fund-raising and the public relations work of the American Jewish community for Israel, Mr. Segal, who is also a member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, declared that it is “high time that we begin to pull together in meeting also the most urgent needs of Jewish communal, cultural and spiritual existence in this country.”
“Only a democratically constituted representative body of American Jewry would have the necessary moral authority to bring order out of the present confusion and to marshall the resources of the whole community to meet the challenge of Jewish survival, not in the physical sense, but culturally and spiritually in the midst of the free American society,” he said.
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