Community Organization Issues Engage Attention of German Jewish Leaders

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Community organization issues now engage the attention of Jewish leaders in Germany in connection with the recently arrived at decision to form a Federation of Jewish Federations in Germany. The issue occupies a prominent place in the fourth session of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia which opened here Sunday.

Discussion revolves mainly around the proposed bill which is to be submitted to the government for the reorganization of the Jewish communities and the creation of a Reichsverband, Federation of Jewish Federations.

Opinion is divided between the liberals, and the Zionists and conservatives. The liberals, the Reform Jews, demand that the Jewish population be organized in separate communities, each according to their religious views, and that the Reichsverband be merely a joint commission representing the various communities. The Zionists and the conservatives urge the creation in each city of one community, in which membership be obligatory to all Jews, although membership in respective synagogues and temples, be subject to individual choice. According to the Zionists, the Reichsverband is to be elected directly by the Jewish population and is to be a constituent of a Jewish world federation which is to be created in the future.