Mrs. Schenk Says U.S. Zionists Have Much to Contribute to World Congress

Departing for Jerusalem today where she will head the Hadassah delegation to the 28th World Zionist Congress later this month, Mrs. Faye L. Schenk, national president of Hadassah declared: “As representatives of the largest and most prosperous Jewish community in the world, American Zionists have much to contribute and to gain from this world conclave.”

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, joined with B’nai Zion, a fraternal organization, and the American Jewish League for Israel, which is active in Jewish education and youth activities, to make up the United Non-Party Zionist slate in the recent US election for delegates to the Congress. Mrs. Schenk said the World Zionist Congress provides inspiration to the delegates by the very drawing together of Jews from all over the free world who share the belief that a secure and developing Israel is the central factor in the life of the Jewish people.

She asserted that “we are committed to helping the beleaguered State of Israel meet its many social and economic burdens which include the astronomical cost of absorbing immigrants and providing them with education and medical and social services. In a country which must allot so much of its budget to defense, Zionists must assume a share of responsibility for providing such services,” she said, “We are also committed to working for the security and freedom of Jews wherever they live,” she added, “especially where they are victims of repression, as in the Soviet Union, Syria and other Arab countries.”