“Time is running out for the Jews of Morocco and in the face of the rising tide of Arab nationalism, 200,000 of them will have to seek a new future–most of them in Israel,” Moses W. Beckelman, Joint Distribution Committee leader, told a reception in his honor at City Hall here, The reception was attended by delegates to the biennial congress of the Board of Deputies now in session here Tribute was paid to Mr. Beckelman by E.J.C. Horowitz, Board chairman and Abel Shaban, chairman of the United Communal Fund.
Gustav Saron, general secretary of the Board of Deputies, speaking at the reception, stressed the need for communal consolidation and the urgency of the new United Communal Fund drive to be launched here for the strengthening of local institutions Mr. Beckelman endorsed his statement with the comment that, in his experience, those communities which best served local institutions were also the best supporters of overseas causes, He also paid tribute to South African Jewry’s personal contributions to world Jewish causes commenting that the 40 persons who were sent from this country to take part in JDC’s postwar relief program “taken as a group were most competent and devoted.”
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