More American Jewish youth will immigrate to Israel “if the right approach is used,” Dr. Morton Robbins, national chairman of the American Youth Commission, told the Congress last night. He said it was unfortunate that some emissaries sent from Israel to work among American Jewish youth knew little English and did not understand the American mentality.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, in a special sermon heard by many Congress leaders and delegates, pleaded with Jews from overseas, and particularly the United States, to come to Israel “if not in your totality, then in your tens of thousands, and if not in your tens of thousands, at least in your thousands, and fully participate in this country.” He called for continuing moral and spiritual growth of the country to parallel the physical maturing of the state.
The Congress paid tribute, in a one-hour service, to members of the Zionist movement and Jewish and non-Jewish friends of the movement, who died since the last World Zionist Congress. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, who delivered the memorial address, eulogized the late Dr. Stephen S. Wise as “an encyclopedic Jewish leader in the scope of his activities and a man whose foremost quality was his love for every individual.” Among other Americans singled out for tribute were Judge Morris Rothenberg, Daniel Frisch, Alexander Pekelis, Gedaliah Bublick, Dr. Judah Leib Magnes, Henry Monsky, Bronislaw Ruberman and Col. David Marcus.
The “continued pride” of the American labor movement in the achievements of the Israel Labor Government was expressed to the World Zionist Congress here last night by a delegation representing the American Trade Union Council for the Histadruth, the Israel labor federation.
Joseph Breslaw, chairman of the Council, read to the Congress a declaration describing the aid given Israel by the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations during Israel’s liberation war. Earlier, the delegation was present when four streets in the settlement of Helen, lined with houses built with funds made available by American trade unions, were named after American trade unions. One street was named after the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, another after the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the third, after the Jewish National Workers Alliance, and the fourth after the Hotel and Restaurant Waiters Union.
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