A decision to establish a special youth department to combat increasing assimilative trends among adolescent Jewish youth was unanimously voted at the twentieth congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies today.
Efforts will be made to interest unaffiliated youth in communal and cultural endeavors, it was announced and the Board in its youth program will seek to carry out its work in cooperation and consultation with other agencies.
E.J.C. Horowitz, chairman of the Board of Deputies paid tribute to the youth activities carried on in South Africa by the Zionists. but said that additional efforts had proved necessary After controversy in past years on the question it was now recognized he said that the Board had the right and duty to enter on this work It did so he added with the best of intentions not to compete with organizations already active in the field.
Mr. Horowitz stressed that the central role of the Board was to strengthen Jewish communal life. He noted improvement in relations between the Jewish community and other sections of the population.
A resolution protesting the arming of the Arab States by the Western Powers without adequate guarantees for Israel s security was adopted by the congress.
Israel A Maisels was re-elected to his third term as president of the Board Mr. Horowitz. who completed two terms as chairman was elected vice-president.
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