Mrs. Schenk Urges Strengthening of Non-party Zionism in the U.S.

Mrs. Faye Schenk, president of Hadassah, told the American Jewish League for Israel that it has an important role to play in strengthening non-party Zionism in the United States. Addressing the League’s 15th annual meeting, she stated that this objective is of extreme urgency in view of the withdrawal of the Zionist Organization of America from the American Zionist Federation.

Mrs. Schenk urged the League to mobilize its efforts to increase its membership and expand its projects. The League is a constituent of the World Confederation of General Zionists and is a non-party Zionist organization with a non-political program. The League, together with B’nai Zion and Hadassah formed the United Non-Party slate in the elections of delegates to the World Zionist Congress last Jan.

Kalman Sultanik, a member of the American section of the World Zionist Organization and executive vice-president of the General Zionist Confederation, reporting on his recent visit to Jewish communities in South America, said that the extreme political and social changes on that continent in the last 20 years “have been reflected in the life of the Jewish communities and have strengthened their ties with Zionism and Israel.”

Rabbi Max Schenk, a former president of the New York Board of Rabbis, was elected president of the American Jewish League for Israel. He succeeded Rabbi Isadore Breslau of Washington, D.C. who retired after serving four terms. Rabbi Schenk is a former president of the Brooklyn Association of Reform Rabbis and of the Zionist Federation of Australia and New Zealand. Samuel Rothberg was elected chairman of the League’s board of directors and Eleazar Lipsky was elected chairman of its executive.