Los Angeles Jewry Joins in Demands for United Action

A demand that the B’nai Brith, the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee take immediate steps to secure united action in order to establish a “leadership that all Jews can follow and that can act as a spokesman and representative of the entire American Jewish people” was voiced at a meeting of representatives of Los Angeles Jewish organizations. Unless such action is taken, it was pointed out, these organizations “will find themselves without followers, which will mean disaster.”

In resolutions adopted at the meeting of which Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin was chairman and I. Irving Lipsitch, secretary, other communities throughout the country were urged to take similar action.

The resolution adopted by the meeting follows:

“The present crisis in the world position of the Jewish people emphasizes the need of united, coherent, effective national Jewish leadership in America. Recognizing this as a vital necessity, the representatives of all Jewish organizations of Los Angeles, in meeting duly assembled this fifth day of May, 1933, do hereby declare that our national leaders, entirely forgetful of personalities, should find a way to agreement and to a common purpose and a common platform in order that there may be established a leadership that all Jews can follow and that can act as the spokesman and representative of the entire American Jewish people.

“We therefore demand of the leaders of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the B’nai Brith, the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, by united action, to take immediate steps toward the accomplishment of this purpose. Otherwise they will find themselves without followers, which will mean disaster. And we do further recommend immediate and similar expressions of opinion and action by all other Jewish communities in the United States.”