This year’s convention of the DAIA “marked a turning point in Jewry’s structure” in this country, Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of DAIA, central body of organized Argentine Jewry, told the closing session here. The convention was attended by 150 delegates from 28 cities throughout Argentina.
“Our destiny,” Dr. Goldenberg said, “is not only in non-Jewish hands. We must interpret the great social changes that appear on the horizon, and rebuild Jewish life with a view toward the future.” Proposing reliance on “a Zionist solution” for the problems facing Jews here, the DAIA leader insisted that, nevertheless, “Jews must fight for their rights.”
The closing session heard a plea for closer contact between the Jewish community and the trade union movement in this country, and applauded an impassioned speech by Jacques Benoliel, a leader of the Jewish youth movement in Argentina, who pledged Jewish youth’s “determination to support Jewish interests.”
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