Mrs. Rose L, Halprin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency executive in New York, issued today a Rosh Hashanah message reviewing the Agency’s achievements during 5717 and outlining plans for activities, in the new Jewish year.
Extending good wishes to American Jewry “which has been Israel’s faithful partner in the rebirth of the Jewish people.”Mrs. Halprin said in her message; With the continued support of American Jews, the New Year will become a year of increasing stability for Israel and of hope and freedom for the hundreds of thousands who will be coming to make their home there.”
Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, central body of all Zionist groups in this country, spoke in his Rosh Hashanah message of the concern with which American Jews view the ominous developments” which are now taking place in Syria and which “bode ill not only for Israel, but for the entire world.
“As we confront the year 5718, once again we express the profound hope that the coming year will see the realization of peace in the Middle East, which is the touchstone of peace throughout the world, ” the AZC leader said,”Once again, we reaffirm the condition that if it lies within Israel’s power, peace in the Middle East and the security of the area will be a reality in the near future, “
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said in his message that “5718 will be a crucial year for the Jewish people and will present a new challenge to the sense of responsibility of American Jewry. The increasingly grave dangers to Israel must command our deepest concern. Recent events have made it unmistakably clear that there will have to be an even greater mobilization of our resources and our support in order to nullify the unabated threat to Israel’s security and to avert Communist domination of the Middle East.
“Just as Israel has continued to move forward in its historic task of nation-building, despite the dark shadow of Soviet-Arab aggression which hovers over it, so must every conscientious American Jew work indefatigably for the achievement of a secure Israel, free from the constant threats of war, furthering the development of its economy, enriching its culture and thereby contributing to the creative development of Jewish life everywhere, ” the ZOA president stressed.
Dr. Miriam K. Freund, national president of Hadassah, declared in her New Year statement that the United States must increase its economic and political assistance to israel “so long as rising tensions are manifest” in the Middle East In addition, she argued Americans to continue to give “wholehearted material and moral support to Israel.” Similar greetings were issued also by various other Zionist groups, including the Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi of America, the Farband-Labor Zionist Order and others.
The national executive of the Zionist Organization of Canada, in a Rosh Hashanah message, expressed “assurance to the people of Israel that Canadian Jewry is mindful of its responsibilities to Israel in helping that country absorb another 100,000 immigrants during the coming year.”
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