Resolutions calling for a “serious attempt to integrate more phases of Jewish community life in the U.S. under a central system,” and lauding the Chalutziut (Israel pionecring) programs of the Labor Zionist movement in this country as the major contributions of the movement to the rebuilding of Israel were adopted here last night at the Eastern Regional Institute of the National Assembly for Labor Israel.
The meeting, under the chairmanship of Prof. Hayim Fineman and Rabbi Meir Lasker, also heard a discussion of the “grave situation emanating from the almost total orientation of the American Jewish community to fund-raising and the trend of those who control the purse strings to act as dampers to Jewish creativeness.”
Eleazar Liebenstein, Mapai member of the Israel Parliament, told the meeting that the tradition of Palestine being a “center of mysticism” is on its way out. Israel, he emphasized, is a pressure cooker where “Yemenite and religious values are being fused with the practical and technical skills of the Western world.”
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