A proposal for a research study of the attitudes of American Jews settled in Israel, to determine why they came and the reasons why some returned to the United States, was made today by one of the emigrants at the International Jewish Ideological Conference taking place at Hebrew University. The suggestion was offered by Murray Weingarten, a kibbutz member.
Rabbi Robert Gordis of New York, former president of the Synagogue Council of America, told the conference there was no reason for worry about the continued existence of American Jewry as a religious group. Haim Finkelstein of Argentina asserted that Israeli youth must take the lead in pioneering in Israel. He said it was easier to get pioneers for the Negev from Buenos Aires than from Tel Aviv.
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