Zionism in the United States can not make its strength felt because it lacks a unified, representative body, similar to the one set up recently in Canada. Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, stated here today at a news conference, where he reported on his recent trips to the U.S.A., Canada and Britain.
He declared that the United Jewish Appeal in the U.S.A. is now the main force uniting all Jewish groups and organizations. This is good, he said, because funds for continuing the upbuilding of Israel are important. But much better, he added, would be the unification of United States Jewry in a concerted effort to maintain the community’s Jewishness.
Mr. Pincus spoke approvingly of the leadership of the American welfare funds which, he said, have now entered forcefully into the field of Jewish education. He said that plans have been made to send more Israelis to work as teachers in the lands outside Israel. But the teachers from Israel, he held, must be freed of restrictions still imposed on them in some places, such as their pledges not to engage in Zionist activities or to teach about today’s realities inside Israel.
Israel can not supply all the Hebrew teachers needed abroad, and training for teachers and youth leaders in countries outside Israel must be increased, Mr. Pincus stressed. Reporting on the recent unification of Zionism in Canada, and on the work of the British Zionist Federation, he said he was impressed, in both these countries, by the large number of young people who have come forward, thus giving rise to optimism regarding the Zionist movements in Canada and Britain.
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