YOUNG JUDAEA REPORT.
It is not necessary for me at this time to burden you with a detailed report of the work done by Young Judaea during the past year, since the annual report of the Executive Committee of the Federation will tell of our growth in numbers, the greatest we have ever known. It will tell you of our strengthened organization. It will tell you how Young Judaea is getting the entree into Talmud Torahs, Religious Schools, Synagogues, and Junior Congregations, to the mutual advantage of these religious organizations and of Young Judaea. It will tell you of the far flung line of public celebrations of the national Jewish holidays through which the Young Judaea idea is brought to tens of thousands of Jewish boys and girls. It will tell you of steady sowing of the seed of Zionist thought and sympathy through the Young Judaean, our healthy, manly and proudly Jewish monthly magazine for the Jewish Youth. It will tell you this and more.
All that I need to do at this moment is to tell you in these general terms of Young Judaea's remarkable growth under the auspices of the Federation.
In these days when all America is talking of preparedness Young Judaea brings to the Zionist movement of America the true doctrine of Jewish preparedness, the preparing of a Jewish army to fight for the victory of the Jewish cause. The work of junior Zionism done by Young Judaea takes the American Jewish boy or girl and bathes them in a Jewish atmosphere. More important than this, it takes the adolescent in his years of doubt and turmoil, stress and rebellion, conflicting loyalties and gropings after freedom, and gently but surely guides him through those dangerous transition years, leading him from the alluring path of defection to the high road that is hedged with Jewish interests, and leading him on in the end to Jewish rest, Jewish loyalty, Jewish freedom — to Zion.
Young Judaea laughs to scorn that unreal bogy conjured up by so many —the spectre of Americanism being deflected by Zionism. For Young Judaea, working to a large extent with the native born American youth who have been trained in the public schools of this country and whose fervid Americanism is above the shadow of a suspicion, does not weaken that patriotism, but succeeds in strengthening that American loyalty by co-ordinating it with Jewish loyalty. Young Judaea, by its inculcation of loyalty to the traditions of the past, by its turning the hearts of the parents to the children and the hearts of the children to the parents, by its awakening in the young a true national feeling that is not narrowly limited by geographical lines, and by its opening up a vision of a national future that calls for present work and responsibility, succeeds in deepening in the youth his conception of what is meant by and demanded by national loyalty. It changes a narrow Americanism into a patriotism seen in the light of world problems and changes a shallow flag waving Americanism into a deeply founded appreciation of freedom through democracy, the American idea and the Tewish idea.
The work of the Federation of American Zionists has shown extraordinary development. But however brilliant this development may be, however successful our work may be, however widely it expands, it would none the less be intrinsically a failure without Young Judaea. It would be building without an outlook bounded by the present. Young Judaea is the Jewish youth organized. It is the future Zionist army being drilled, trained and equipped to fight the battle that brings not death but life. Young Judaea gives to our cause the energy of youth, the enthusiasm of youth, the idealism of youth. Young Judaea pledges to us the ultimate success of our work. Young Judaea pledges to us the future.
Mr. Lipsky: I recommend the appointment of the following committees who are to take up their work at once: The Committee on Rules to report at the Monday morning session; the Committee on Congress to report at twelve on Monday, and the Credentials Committee which is to take up at once the validation of all credentials:
COMMITTEE ON RULES.
Maurice L. Avner, Chairman, of Pittsburgh, Pa.Max Perlman, of New York.Joseph Jasin, of Pine Bluff, Ark.Dr. B. L. Gordon, Philadelphia, Pa.Edward Kahn, Brooklyn, N. Y.Rabbi Adolph Coblenz, Syracuse, N. Y.Miss Dora Lurie, Boston, Mass.Max Greenberg, Hazleton, Pa.Edward Harris, Chicago, Ill.Dr. Phillip Sher, Omaha, Neb.Miss Gross, Cleveland, Ohio.
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
Max G. Baron, Chairman, of St. Louis, Mo.S. D. Solomon, of Syracuse, N. Y.David Alpher, of Washington, D. C.Joseph Josephson, of Philadelphia, Pa.Lester Paley, of Rochester, N. Y.Leo Jolles, of Boston, Mass.Ezekiel Rabinowitz, of New York.Samuel Wiesen, of New York.E. E. Lisitzky, of Buffalo, N. Y.J. J. Jacobs, of Orange, N. J.Miss Annie Pailet, of New Orleans, La.
COMMITTEE ON CONGRESS.
Rabbi Samuel Margolis, Chairman, of Cleveland, Ohio. Leon Kohn, of Newark, N. J. Frank Schechter, of New York. Charles A. Cowen of New York. B. G. Richards, of New York.
Julius Meyer, Boston, Mass. A. H. Fromenson, of Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Meyer Freed, of Worcester, Mass. Dr. S. Burg, of San Antonio, Tex. Dr. B. L. Gordon, of Philadelphia, Pa.
The naming of these committees was approved by the convention upon motion.
Mr. Lipsky was recognized and moved that all other reports be laid over until the following morning, and that the convention adjourn to meet again on Monday morning in Horticultural Hall. The motion was carried. The convention then adjourned.
MONDAY'S SESSION
The first regular session of the Federation Convention was opened on Monday morning, July 3rd, at Horticultural Hall, Louis Lipsky presiding.
BASE, AUWME AT ee IT Mr. B. A. Rosenblatt of New York read telegrams of congratulation from: The Zeirie Zion of Springfield; General Executive Jewish National Workers Alliance, New York; Tikwath Zion Society, Birmingham, Ala.; Newport Zionist Society, Newport, Ky.; M. J. Finkelstein, President, Zionist Council of Winnipeg; American Jewish Congress, per Bernard G. Richards, Sec., New York; Dorshe Zion, Brockton, Mass.; M. I. Silverman, Norwich, Conn.; J. Ginsburg, Rochester, N. Y.; New London, Conn. Chapter of Hadassah; Tikvath Zion of North Adams, Mass., per J. H. Geller, Sec.; Hagudath Haivry Hazair of Philadelphia; Leo Wolfson of New York; Leon Shevitz, Sec., Worcester Zionist Society, Worcester, Mass.; Benjamin Futernik, Grand Master, Jewish Progressive Order of Philadelphia; also letters of congratulations from: ©. Warburg for the Actions Committee; Dr. Jacobson and Rosenbluth of the Inner Actions Committee; Dr. Arthur Hantke for the Actions Committee; Clarence I. de Sola, President, Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada. There was also a telegram from the Emergency Relief Committee of Portsmouth, Va., stating that $75 had been raised on Emergency Fund Day by the Ezrath Zion, the Hadassah and the Daurhters of Zion of Portsmouth. 5
Mr. Avner of Pittsburgh reported for the Committee on Rules.
A motion was made and seconded to accept the report of the Committee on Rules with the amendment that ten instead of fifteen signatures be required for a nomination. Discussion on the question was participated in by Mr. Rabol-