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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON R~'--~~e. t) ~ ~R\. June 18, 1976 ~p_L.. ~u'-le. \i

MEMORANDUM TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

The following event has been added to Mrs. Ford's June 22nd trip to New York City:

EVENT: Dedication of the Martin Steinberg Center of the Stephen Wise Congress House

GROUP: American Jewish Congress

DATE: Thursday, June 22, 1976

TIME: To be determined (4:00-6:00 p.m.)

PLACE: Martin Steinberg Center J.J.;<:rO 15 East 84th Street New York, New York

CONTACT: Mr. Richard Cohen, Associate Executive Director 0: (212) 879-4500 H: (212) 988-8042

COMi."1.ENTS: As you know, Mrs. Ford will participate in the dedication of the Martin Steinberg Center at the time of her trip to New York to attend the Jewish National Fund dinner at the New York Hilton Hotel. The Martin Steinberg Cultural t"e'fiter will contain reading rooms, gallery space, music booths, a library, etc. and is connected to the Stephen Wise Congress House (which is the headquarters of the American Jewish Congress) by a small

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garder.. >:r. Martin Steinberg is elderly and is in the hospital and ther0fore may not participate in the dedication. The file is attached.

Thank you.

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STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE • 15 EAST 84i'H STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TR 9-4500 Nightline: 879-4504 RICHARD CDHEN Home: 988-8o42 ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

June 12, 1976

?Ts. Betty Ford The White House Washington, D. C ..

Dear Mrs. Ford:

I am happy to enclose the formal invitation to the dedication of the Mar.tin Steinberg Center Tuesday after­ .noon, June 22, in New York City.

We would be deeply honored by your presence, which Will make this a day to remember for all of us in the American Je..-ish Congress.

I shall await your telephone call on Monday and hope you will say 11yes • 1•

I am grateful to our mutual friend for giv:L~g you this letter and invitation in person. ~~~ Richard Cohen . ;;.._

The Officers of the

American Jewish Congress

Are Pleased to Invite You

To the Dedication of

"where young Jewish artists can come together to explore and develop their creative talents.,,

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Tuesday, June 22, 1976 from 4 to 6 p.m.

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Stephen Wise Congress House 15 East 84th Street New York City

RSVP-TR 9-4500 Ext. 817 PROGRAM

Welcome HOWARD M. SQUADRON

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Address Hon. MARTIN E. SEGAL Chairman, Commi>Sion for Cultural Affain of the City of New York

0 Musical Presentation RABBI ALVIN WAINHAUS

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Poetry Reading DIANE LEVENBERG

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Affixing of Mezuzah and Dedication RABBI ARTHUR HERTZBERG

D The Martin Steinberg Cultural Center will be a meeting place for young Jewish men and women engaged in all aspects of Response Jewish artistic expression-music and dance, painting and MARTIN STEINBERG sculpture, poetry, fiction and film-making. 0 The Center will also house the Charles and Bertie Schwartz Jewish Reading Room and the Bernard L. Madoff Jewish Rema rks Music Library. BERTIE SCHWARTZ BERNARD L. MADOFF It will be a place where young Jewish artists will exhibit their work, read their poems, play their music, share their creative D efforts and develop a sense of community with each other. Celebration

Exhibition-"The Lower East Side Revisited" / Photographs i AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS NATIONAL OFFICERS President ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Chairman, Governing Council Senior Vice Presidents THEODORE BIKEL LEON KRONISH HENRY ROSOVSKY Co-Chairmen, Governing Council HOWARD M. SQUADRON PAULS. BERGER LEONA CHANIN Vice Presidents ALVIN GRAY JACQUELINE LEVINE Joseph Asher, San Francisco, Cal. Mark D. Coplin, Baltimore, Md. Treasurer Jack M. Elkin, New York BENJAMIN M. HALPERN Murray A. Gordon, New York Co-Treasurer S. Stanley Kreutzer, Great Neck, N.Y. CLARENCE GOLDBERG Sheldon Levison, New York Secretary Joel Levy, Washington, D.C JOSEPH GEROFSKY Stanley H. Lowell, New York Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary HAROLD BECKER Amram Nowak, New York Esther Polen, Philadelphia, Pa. Executive Director Richard Ravitch, New York NAOMI LEVINE Walter Roth, Chicago, Ill. Associate Executive Directors Morton M. Silverman, Los.Angeles, Cal. RICHARD COHEN Virginia Snitow, Scarsdale, N.Y. PHIL BAUM Jerry Wagner, Hartford, Conn. General Counsel Judith L Wolf, Newton, Mass. Will MASLOW Louis E. Yavner, New York

Honorary Chairman, Governing Council Shad Polier

Honorary Co-Chairman, Governing Council Morris Michelson

Honorary Presidents Israel Goldstein, Jerusalem Irving Miller, Woodmere, N.Y. Arthur J. Lelyveld, Cleveland Joachim Prinz, Orange, N./,

Honorary Vice Presidents Paul G. Annes, Chicago Max A. Kopstein, Chicago Max Doft, Lawrence, N.Y. Justine Wise Polier, New York Benjamin S. Kalnick, Kings Point, N.Y. Harry Schacter, Bedford Hills, .N··/~~ Theodore J. Kolish, New York Lillian Steinberg, Brooklyn /~:r· ~),\ ,..:1 ~I i ~1 \ ..... , \ 9 ..-/' THE WHlTE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

June 18, 1976

MEMORANDUM TO:

FROM: N PORTER

SUBJECT: ion Memo

The following event has been added to Mrs. Ford's June 22nd to New York City:

EVENT: Dedication of the Martin Steinberg Center of the Stephen Wise Congress House

GROUP: American Jewish Congress

DATE: Thursday, June 22, 1976

TIME: To be determined (4:00-6!00 p.m.)

PLACE: Martin Steinberg Center 15 East 84th Street New York, New York

CONTACT: Mr. Richard Cohen, Associate Executive Director 0: (212) 879-4500 H: {212} 988-8042

COMi."IBNTS: As you know, Mrs. Ford will participate in the dedication of the Martin Steinberg Center at the time of her trip to New York to attend the Jewish National Fund dinner at the New York Hilton Hotel. The Martin Steinberg Cultural Center will contain reading rooms, gallery space, music booths, a library, etc. and is connected to the Stephen Wise Congress House {which is the headquarters of the American Jewish Congress) by a small -2-

garden. Mr. Martin Steinberg is elderly and is in the hospital and therefore may not participate in the dedication. The file is attached.

Thank you.

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STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE • 15 EAST 84TH STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TR 9-4500 Nightline: 879-4504 RICHARD COHEN Home: 988-8042 ASSOCIATE £XE:CUTIV£ DIRECTOR

June 12, 1976

Me's. Betty Ford The White House Washington, D. Co

Dear Mrs. Ford:

I am happy to enclose the formal invitation to the dedication of the ¥.e.rtin Steinberg Center Tuesday after­ noon, June 22, in New York City. We would be deeply honored by your presence, which will make this a day to remember for all of us in the American Jedsh Congress.

I shall await your telephone call on Monday and hope you will say nyes • 1•

I am grateful to our mutual friend for giving you this letter and invit~tion in person. z:iy~ Richard Cohen " .::.1

The Officers of the

American Jewish Congress

Are Pleased to Invite You

To the Dedication of

"where young Jewish artists can come together to explore and develop their creative talents. n

D

Tuesday, June 22, 1976 from 4 to 6 p.m.

D

Stephen Wise Congress House · 15 East 84th Street New York City

RSVP-TR 9-4500 Ext. 817 PROGRAM

HOWARD ,"v1. SQUADRON

0 ~"4'; ·. Address ..(.,.~· ~· \ ~ . 1 . ) Hon. MARTIN E. SEGAL Chairman, Commission for Cullural Affair.' · ·: / ol tlw City of Ni"w York "'·~._ .... ~ 0 Musical Presentation ~~~ RABBI ALVIN WAINI !AUS Yleink'ir D Poetry Reading DIANE LEVENBERG

D Affixing of Mezuzah and Dedication RABBI ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The Martin Steinberg Cultural Center will be a meeting place 0 for young Jewish men and women engaged in all aspects of Response lewish artistic expression-musk and dance, painting and MARTIN STEINBERG 'iculpture, poetry, fiction and film-making. D The Center will also house the Charles and Bertie Schwartz Jewish Reading Room and the Bernard L Madoff Jewish Remarks Music Library. BERTIE SCHWARTZ BERNARD L. MADOFF It will be a place where young Jewish artists will exhibit their work, read their poems, play their music, share their creative 0 efforts and develop a sense of community with each other. Celebration

Exhibition-"The Lower [;:ist Side RPvisited" / !'holographs l AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS NATIONAL OFFICERS

President ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Chairman, Governing Council Senior Vice Presidents THEODORE BIKEL LEON KRONISH HENRY ROSOVSKY Co-Chairmen, Governing Council HOWARD M. SQUADRON PAUL S. BERGER LEONA CHANIN Vice Presidents ALVIN GRAY JACQUELINE LEVINE Joseph Asher, San Francisco, Cal. Mark D. Coplin, Baltimore, Md. Treasurer lack M. Elkin, New York BENJAMIN M. HALPERN Murray A. Gordon, New York Co-Treasurer S. Stanley Kreutzer, Great Neck, N.Y. CLARENCE GOLDBERG Sheldon Levison, New York Secretary Joel Levy, Washington, D.C. JOSEPH GEROFSKY Stanley H. Lowell, New York Theodore R. Mann, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary HAROLD BECKER Amram Nowak, New York Esther Polen, Philadelphia, Pa. Executive Director Richard Ravitch, New York NAOMI LEVINE Walter Roth, Chicago, 11/. Associate Executive Directors Morton M. Silverman, Los Angeles, Cal. RICHARD COHEN Virginia Snitow, Scarsdale, N.Y. PHIL BAUM Jerry Wagner, Hartford, Conn. General Counsel Judith L Wolf, Newton, Mass. WILL MASLOW Louis E. Yavner, New York

Honorary Chairman, Governing Council Shad Polier

Honorary Co-Chairman, Governing Council Morris Michelson

Honorary Presidents Israel Goldstein, Jerusalem Irving Miller, Woodmere, N.Y. Arthur j, 1.elyveld, Cleveland Joachim Prinz, Orange, N./.

Honorary Vice Presidents Paul G. Annes, Chicago Max A. Kopstein, Chicago Max Doft, Lawrence, N. Y. Justine Wise Polier, New York Benjamin S. Kalnick, Kings Point, N.Y. Harry Schacter, Bedford Hills, N.Y. Theodore J. Kolish, New York Lillian Steinberg, Brooklyn ...

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·-:Jt~~o: .. --.- -~·:--~ -·~- • Qi~=J?:I: •E~P:~E J - Mrs.~Ford Dedicates New=Jewisli Cultural Center:: · l ~:::YoRK - The new Jewish .:~-_-The center is designed to serve as T room-. for film pre5entations and ~ eu~ institution.,: the· Martin'. a...:.gathertng place- for young Jewish _exhibition space for work by Jewish; Steinberg Center of the . American ~artists , writers, musicians and film- artists and sculpt0rs. - -1 Jewish Congress, 16 E. 85th St.; bas. ::~ers . it .includes a music library Before formally unveiling a plaque\ been dedicated by. F"U'St Lady- Betty: and listening _booths, : ~ circulating _ bearing Steinberg's name, Mrs. Ford \ f'.'91'<1. and reference lib~~} '- ,~eening --~~t~ed _as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg. ~ ~ ~ _president of the American Jewish . Congress. affixed a- mezuzah to ~the doorpost of the building. The new center iS:joi?ed by .a.garden to the11 Stephen Wise Congress House; national AJC headquarters, at 15 E. 84t~ _st:_ Rabbi Hertzberg ·also. presented· Mrs.~.- Eord -with a. mezuzah. :.;· _ . ,.~~ / .... - . .., I '

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. . Mr s . Ford' s Remarks Martin Steinberg Center Dedicat ion June 22 , 1976 N.Y.C.

The dedication of the Jewish people throughout the centuries to the creative arts has enlivened the music, literature and theatre of many lands. Many American artists have been n urtured by the Jewish heritage. This influence has contributed to the diversity of our culture.

Because the Martin Steinberg Center will help keep alive the legacy of Jewish creativity, I'm very pleased to share in this ancient ceremony of blessing--the mezuzah--which symbolizes your faith. I know this center will help continue the lively history of J ewish cultural contributions. which bring so much joy to so many.

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. . AMERICAN JEWISH C:ONGBESS STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE, 15 EAST 84th STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TRAFALGAR 9·4500

Remarks of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, President, American Jewish Congress to Mrs. Betty Ford

a'l. Dedication Cerem:mies of the Martin steinberg Center, June 22, •76

Mrs. Ford and distinguished guests:

We a.re honored by your presence among us, in this house and garden, on what is to us e. most auspi-cious and happy occasj.on -- the dedication of the Martin Steinberg Center.

The Center is the gi:rt of Martin steinberg, who with his wife Lillian

have been generous contributors to the American Jewish Congress for many years.

fut they have been ioore than the givers of funds to create institutions such as

this. Mrs. Martin Steinberg -- our beloved Lillian -- has given us her energies, her devotion and her feeling for young people. From the gi:rts of Martin and

Lillian Steinberg we have ta.ken encouragement and inspiration and we have built living institutions where young people may gather to read, to pa.int, to sing -­

to bring out the best in themselves as citizens a.nd as Jews. It is a. noble and

beautituJ. work that the steinbergs have undertaken.

Martin Steinberg is ill today and Mrs. Steinberg is at his side. Our

joy in this occasion is marred only by their absence. Mrs. Ford, it is proper that we begin this dedication ceremony today with the affixing of a. Mezuzah to this doorpost in according with the verse from

Deuterononw, "And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thy house, and upon thy gates." There is a Mezuzah in every Jewish home in every corner of the

globe; it is fitting that there be one here.

Inside this sma.ll case is a. smaJ.1 parchment on which are inscribed

verses from the Bible.

The scroll inside the ~zuzah enjo:lns us to "teach ••• diligently" the words of the Lord unto our children. The words of the Mezuzah are especially appropriate for this house because the Martin Steinberg Center will be primarily a. place for

young people, young Jewish men and women engaged in all aspects of Jewish artistic

expression -- music and dance, painting and sculpture, fiction and film·ma.ki:ng.

Here they will come together to explore and develop their creative talents. Here they will exhibit their work, read their poems, play their music, share

their creative efforts and develop a sense of community with each other --

a.nd we believe, with the sense of pa.st Jewish tradition on which to make /.·~10-9 their own contributions to a vibrant, living Jewish culture. 1.,'f' '> .. X862 MORE {~ ~ \ ~ •,'· ..... ___ - 2 -

It is only J2 da;ys before the 200th anniversary of the signing of the

American Declaration of Independence, and we in tbe American Jewish Congress should like to regard this building as a. kind of contribution to the Bicentennial. For we believe deeply that as Americans we make our most valuable and original contribution to our community and to our country as we give authentic expression to a.ll that is Jewish within in. We a.re better Americans because we a.re better Jews. We a.re authentic Americans as we a.re authentic Jews.

In the 6o yea.rs since its founding the American Jewish Congress has done battle on many occasions for civil rights and civil liberties for al1Americans in the great and ongoing struggle to perfect American democracy. We have done so out of the injunctions of our prophet to pursue justice, to practice righteous- ness, to love one's neighbor as one's self~ Toda;y we dedicate this building as a center for that part of our program which seeks to enhance the creative continuity of the Jewish people -- through programs of Jewish education, through publications of our magazines; Congress . .. , Monthl;y and Jude.ism, through the inauguration of a. wide variety of programs designed to "tea.ch ••• diligently" unto our children -- and ourselves -- all that which is precious in our heritage. We see no separation, no division, no dichotomy between the tasks of advancing human freedom and strengthening Jewish llfe. These tasks a.re one -- joined by our past history and by our present condition. And here they are joined by a garden. Here we stand in the Martin S. Steinberg Center -- the place devoted to our Jewish culture. It is a. link to our past, through the great Jewish books that line its shelves. And it is an expression of faith in the future, a vote of confidence in our younger generation. For we believe that works of literature a.nd art and music that will be read here and listened to a.nd played and even created here will lead to a. greater awareness of' the Jewish heritage, a greater appreciation of the Jewish cultural tradition, a more authentic Jewish expression. Opposite us is Stephen Wise Congress House, our national headquarters, named for our :founder an:i longtime President, a great a.nd courageous fighter for the noblest ideals of the Jewish heritage and of America's great promise. The two bui1dings are joined not only by a garden but by the commitment we bring to improving the world unto the Almighty and to teaching His word and his law "diligently" unto our children. .. 3 -

Mrs. Ford, I should now like to present to you this silver Mezuzah e.s a gift for you a.nd the president :f'rom the American Jewish Congress. I remember that when the State of Israel was declared, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, cameto the White House and gave to President Harry Truman a scroll of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Dr. Weizmann t!>ld President

Truman in presenting the gift to him that the Torah, the most precious possession of' the Jewish people 1 be1onged not only to Israel but to America as well, for it contains the very precepts of justice a.nd liberty and respect :for human dignity by which our country was founded. And President Truman brought it to the White

House and then to the Truman Library next to his home in Independence, Mo.

On the eve of the Bicentennial of our country's :founding, it seems to us in the American Jewish Congress that it would be proper and fitting that you, as the First Lady of this land, should have something that be1ongs to the Jewish people and .... because we Jews are part of this country .... that be1ongs to America a.s well.

I.et this Mezuzah, which is fixed to the lintel of every Jewish home in

America. a.nd wherever there are Jews, be pa.rt of your home too. It represents all that is most authentically Jewish -- and hence authentically American .... in us, and we give it to you in friendship, in admiration and in 1ove.

xxx AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS 15 East 84th St., New York, N. Y. 10028 • TR 9·4500 Schedule

Dedication Ceremonies for the Martin Steinberg Center

June 22, 1976

4:00 p.m. -- Mrs. Ford enters Martin Steinberg Center from entrance at J.6 East 85th Street and is shown through the center by Howard M. Squadron, senior vice pres., .American Jewish Congress.

4:05 p.m. Mrs. Ford approaches doorway separating Martin steinberg Center from garden adjoining Stephen Wise Congress House. 4:17 p.m. .... Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, affixes a Mezuzah to the door post, recites appropriate blessing and explains significance of the Mezuzah to Mrs. Ford.

4:22 p.m. Rabbi Hertzberg presents Mrs. Ford with e. silver Mezuza.h in a velvet lined box as a gi:f't to mark the occasion.

4:24 p.m. ·- Mrs. Ford accepts the Mezuzah a.nd unveils a bronze plaque bearing the inscription, "The Martin steinberg Center. 11 Mrs. Ford will then speak for a.bout 3 or 4 minutes.

4:28 p.m. -- The First Lady will then return to the Martin Steinberg Center and exit from the doorway at J.6 East 85th street.

In the event of re.in, the same schedule will be followed, except that instead of standing in the doorway facing the garden (with the press and T.V .. covering from the garden itself), Mrs. Ford will face the other direction, looltj.ng into the Martin Steinberg Center, a.nd the press will be invited to cover the ceremony from inside the Martin Steinberg Center.

Following Mrs. Ford's departure, the dedica.tion program will continue inside Stephen Wise Congress House.

Welcome -- Howard M. Squadron, senior vice-president American Jewish Congress

Address -- Hon. Martin E. Segal, chairman of New York City's Commission of Cultural Affairs

Mu.sica.l Presentation -- Rabbi Alvin Weinhaus

Poetry Rea.ding .... Diane Levenberg

Remarks -- Bertie Schwartz (Donor of the Che.rles & Bertie Schwartz · Jewish Libr&l'Y and: Reeding Room) . ·- Bernard L. Ma.doff {donor of the Bernard L. Ma.doff· Jewish Music Library) l

.,,... 212 Closing -- Howard M. Squadron AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS 15 East 84th St., New York, N. Y. 10028 • TR 9-4500 June 22, 1976

Martin Steinberg a.nd Lillian Steinber6

Martin Steinberg of Brooklyn has been a. generous contributor to the American Jewish Congress for 25 years, not only to its programs in the United

States but also to its I.ouise Waterman Wise Youth Hostel in Jerusalem, the largest

youth hostel in Israel. With his wife Lillian, Mr. Steinberg has given the im- petus for many innovative programs undertaken by the American Jewish Congresss.

The Steinberg have provided funds for two major additions to the Hostel,

which serves us a social and cultural center for young visitors to Israel f'rom

around the world and for young Israelis. The Lillian and Martin Steinberg Garden Pavilion, dedicated in 1973, serves as an informal coffee house, meeting place and center of many of the Hostel's social and cultural activities. In March 1974, ground breaking for the Hostel's Lillian and Martin Steinberg Cultural Center was begun. This new three-story building will, when

completed, include a. threa.tre, library, movie and film. projection room and

dining facilities, and wilJ. also serve as a connnunity center for the youth of the suburbs of Jerusalem.

Lillian Steinberg has given more than a quarter century of service to the Congress, having held leadership positions in every facet of AJCongress work, including organization and membership, f\mdra.ising, la.w and social action, international affairs and Jewish cultural affairs. She served as president of the National Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress f'rom f'rom 1962 to 1965 and was recently elected an honorary vice-president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of its Commission on Jewish Affairs. La.st December the American Jewish Congress presented Lillian and Martin Steinberg with its Stephen Wise Award for "distinguished service to the Jewish people."

The Steinbergs a.re residents of Brooklyn. Mrs. Steinberg is a former teacher in the city's elementary schools. Mr. Steinberg is a retired realtor and investor. x x x

...... 212 Dedication - The Martin Steinberg Cultural Center 15 East 84 Street, New York City

Remarks by Martin E. Segal - Chairman, Commission for Cultural Affairs of the City of New York

June 22, 1976 Mrs. Ford, Mr. Squadron, Mr. Steinberg, Honored Guests:

I want to thank the American Jewish Congress for asking me to join in this ceremony at the new Martin Steinberg Cultural Center. Today's dedication of a center for the arts reminds me of a modest story for which I ask your indulgence.

Two women emerged from an art exhibit, exhilarated by what they had seen. Suddenly one turned to the other and said: "You know, even though I love abstract art, I really can't have abstract paintings in my home. After all, I do have a 16 year old daughter."

Her friend was puzzled. "What does that have to do with it?" she asked.

"Well," said the mother, "with those abstract paintings, you just never know whether they are decent or not."

This little anecdote about a naive mother points whimsically toward the theme that underlies this dedication.

Thomas Carlyle, in a critical essay published in 1827, said: 11The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

I cannot help think how that view, in all its nobility, contrasts with another view voiced 100 years later. Said the speaker: "When I hear anyone talk of culture, I reach for my revolver." Hermann Goering, who made that statement, truly meant what he said -- and he spoke for all Nazis as well.

Culture, which embraces that which is excellent in the arts, sums up the aspirations of.!!!!.!!.• Needless to say, a center devoted to culture sums up the aspirations of civilization. Its very existence affirms our commitment to decency -- and excellence.

The establishment of the Martin Steinberg Cultural Center is a major step in the enrichment of New York's cultural life. It is true that New York is home to many cultural organizations. But it can never be home to too many. For in an era when the City's preeminence is challenged in a number of areas, - 2 -

its stature as a cultural leader remains undiminished. Indeed, cultural leadership assumes new importance in these trying times.

Some 50,000 people in New York City depend for their living on the local 11 cultural industry." They work in the theater or concert worlds, for our museums, libraries, botanical gardens or zoos -- they are involved in ballet and opera, film or other activities.

This industry spends over $3 billion annually in New York City, making a vital contribution to the health of our economy. For its part, the City spends $25 million a year, in services and in funds, to help maintain institutions and activities which are components of this industry. In return for every dollar it so spends, the City gets back $4 directly in taxes and much more indirectly.

The City's contributions are, of course, vitally important to the vigor of the arts in New York. Equally important are the financial contributions of philanthropists such as Martin Steinberg, who through their own resources endow the arts with moral and financial support.

Sectarian or ethnic involvement in the arts is by no means rare. In New York it is warmly welcomed and encouraged, for our City boasts as one of its treasures an ethnically diverse population. Its Jews, who derive from many different backgrounds, have made valuable contributions to the cultural life of the City. The list of Jewish musicians, singers and artists, sculptors and composers is long and impressive. They include Leonard Bernstein, Beverly Sills, Richard Rogers, Barbra Streisand and others too numerous to mention.

But in addition to these distinguished Jews, and many as yet unknown but destined to achieve success and prominence, there are the other ethnic groups -- the Blacks, Hispanics, Italians and Orientals -- who live in this City with us, and who enrich it with their commitments of toil and talent. One of New York's major contributions to American culture has been the musical theater. It is here in this City that the musical theater, from the early days of "Floradora" to "A Chorus Line," has grown and flourished. - 3 -

Over the decades, in just this one segment of the arts so uniquely linked to New York, artists of all types and backgrounds have made important contributions to our lives and to culture. The musicals now on Broadway illustrate the kind of ethnic diversity which typifies that art form and gives it such vitality.

"Bubbling Brown Sugar" is a retrospective of the best in Black music, and "The Wiz" is a musical version of the Oz story that scintillates with an all-Black cast. "Chicagon co-stars Chita Rivera, a Hispanic, and nA Chorus Line" has made a singing and dancing star of Cookie Vasquez. "Pacific Overtures" stars several Orientals, including Mako, Yuki Shimada, and Soon Teckoh. The cast of "Grease" includes such Italian-Americans as Albert Infinnia, Ray De Mettis, Joy Rinaldi and Frank Piegaro.

Even White, Protestant Anglo-Saxons are represented -- there is "Shenandoah" at the Alvin Theater.

The musical theater is a microcosm of the arts. The diversity which characterizes it is now common in other areas -- the films, television and the novel, for example. The diversity which New York City has found to be so enriching has enriched the country as well, and indeed the world.

At a time like the present when the strains and stresses of the City's financial problems are putting pressure on the City's social fabric, the forward movement of its cultural life is truly a binding and affirmative force.

The Martin Steinberg Cultural Center, I am certain, will make a valuable contribution to cultural activities in New York. Its list of suggested programs is varied and ambitious. In the area of film, the Center proposes to work closely with young film makers as well as campus groups, youth organizations and the like, to view films at the Center. It will periodically review and evaluate films of special interest, and through these and related activities, become an important resource center. The Center's library will house an extensive collection representing all types of Jewish music, from liturgical to folk. There will be booths in which to listen to records and tapes, and workshops, seminars and other activities will encourage young composers and musicians to identify wi,~~~~tJt;;•a,,.:af"' Center, to use its facilities and to meet with special guest lecturerf~' ~ "- ~ - 4 -

Activities planned for young writers include a writers' workshop and poetry readings. An attempt is being made to arrange special visits and workshops by famous contemporary writers. Also under consideration is a plan to create a workshop for younger writers in high school in cooperation with the Board of Jewish Education.

What I have already described demonstrates the scope of this Center's ambitions. But there is more. In the fields of art and photography, the Center will provide space for the display and exhibition of works by talented young artists and photographers. Moreover, the Center hopes to get publicity and exposure for these artists to advance their careers. The scribal arts have a long tradition in history, and the Center proposes to meet the special requirements of those in this field. It similarly proposes to help the growing number of young people involved in crafts. In response to this need, the Youth Commission is arranging an outdoor crafts fair in cooperation with the West Side Jewish Community Council.

Needless to say, there will be emphasis on the drama. In the past year alone, a number of theater groups have sprung up and are performing in New York City. The Center will offer those interested in drama a place to meet and share common concerns. Help will be provided to. find. facilities for rehearsals and performances ~- an area in which the Center has already been active.

The library will have books and material relating to all the arts, and a special section will be reserved for the books and publications of the Jewish student movement.

Finally, the Center will sponsor an Arts Coffee House .. ~- a delightful diversion for young people involved in all aspects-of cultural life. Each monthly session will be.devoted to: a different.art form~.allowing for a broad interchange of views and skills among those in.differing disciplines. The coffee house will give young artists the opportunity to share creatively with each other and to develop a feeling of community among themselves.

Ad hoc committees, I am told, have already begun meeting to explore these suggestions so that the MartinSteinbergCultural·Centercan become a magnetic center of cultural expression and serve as a model for communitie.K(.11\i ...:•'··" , .) "" . ' ......

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It would be my hope, I might add, that the Center would serve as a model cooperator for other ethnic groups within the City who aspire to preserve and codify that which they have already accomplished, while encouraging the development of further creative output. Serving this way as a prototype for other groups, the Martin Steinberg Cultural Center would invest with true significance Carlyle's precept: "Let's each become all that he was created capable of being."

Before closing, I want to express on behalf of Mayor Beame and all of the City's citizens, our appreciation for the generosity of Martin Steinberg, which made this Cultural Center possible. In St. Paul's Cathedral in London there is an inscription to Sir Christopher Wren: "Si monument um requiris circumspice." Translated from the Latin, it means: ''If you would see the man's monument, look around." How gratifying to look around at a monument, not merely of bricks and mortar, but of the spirit as well -- built to house a Center for that which is noblest in man -- the art and aspirations of a great civilization. ,....______._...... AMEBIC:AN JEWISH C:ONGBESS STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE, 15 EAST 84th STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TRAFALGAR 9-4500

Richard Cohen1 l>:U-ecto:r De-pt. of' Public Relations -----For Immediate Release

Mrs. Betty Ford will dedicate the city's newest Jewish cultural institu- tion -- the Martin Steinberg Center ot the American Jewish Congress at 16 East 85th Street -- next Tuesday afternoon (June 22) at 4:00 p.m.

The center is designed to serve as a gathering place for young Jewish ar-

tists, writers, musicians and filmmakers. It includes a music library and listening

booths, a circulating and reference library, a screening room for film presentations,

and exhibition space for work by Jewish artists and sculptors.

Funds for the new center were provided by a gift from Martin Steinberg, a. Brooklyn realtor. Mr. Steinberg, a. longtime supporter of the Congress, is the hus­

band of Lillian Steinberg, an active leader of the organization Who served as pr~si-

dent .nf its national women's division from 1962 to 1965.

Before formally unveiling a plaque bearing Mr. Steinberg• s name, Mrs. Fbrd

will watch a.s RabbLA.rthu~ Jlertzberg, president of the Congress, recites the appro­

priate blessing and affixes a Mezuzah to the doorpost of the building leading to a

garden that separates the Steinberg Center f'rom. Stephen Wise Congress House, national headquarters of the Congress. A Mezuzah is a small parchment on which are inscribed verses from the Bi­ ble, rolled tightly and placed in a small case that is affixed to the doorposts of a Jewish home. The Jewish tradition of the Mezuza.h is taken from Chapter 6, Verse 9 of Deuteronomy, which states: "And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thy house,

and upon thy gates." Following the dedication ceremonies in the garden of the center, Martin E.

Sega.11 chairman of the New York City Commission for Cultural Affairs, will address a reception of leaders of the .AnErica.n Jewish Congress.

Mrs. Bertie Schwartz, donor of the Charles and Bertie Schwartz Jewish Read·

ing Room and Library, and Berne.rd L. Ma.doff, who contributed the Berna.rd L. Mad.off Jewish Music Library, will al.so speak.

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A Note of Thanks We wish to express our deep appreciation for Our share of satisfaction in supporting the your generous participation in the 60th Congress tonight lies in the knowledge that the anniversary celebration of the American Jewish help we give will be translated into programs to Congress. advance human rights, strengthen Jewish life, and Since its founding, the Congress has worked defend the right of Israel's people to live in with dedication and distinction to advance the security, in dignity and in peace. frontiers of freedom for all Americans and to protect and promote the creative survival of the Martin Begun Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jonas Jewish people. General Chairmen "Not relief but redress; not palliation but prevention; not charity but justice­ this is the only program worthy of a great and proud people. - Rabbi Stephen S. Wise March 27, 1916

"I know that the American Jewish Congress will continue to participate in the urgent, great and main needs of the Jewish nation-tl;ie establishment of a covenant of our people and a light to the nations in our common homeland." -David Ben Gurion

"The notable founders and leaders of the American Jewish Congress have played a historic role and made important contributions to this nation-and worked effectively to meet the problems of Jewish communities in many troubled areas." -Harry S. Truman

Founding fathers Nathan Straus, Louis Brandeis, Stephen Wise.

"Over the years, the American Jewish Congress has been in the forefront of our nation's great struggle to advance the cause of equal justice and opportunity for all Americans." -Earl Warren Founded by Stephen Wise, Louis Brandeis, Nathan Straus and other distinguished American Jews in 1916, the American Jewish Congress was the first democratically organized national Jewish "The eloquent voice of the American Jewish Congress has been heard not just on behalf of movement, established on the principle that all Jews, but on behalf of the highest ideals of freedom and democracy we all share as members of the Jewish community should have a Americans. Its courageous and effective campaigns to advance civil rights, protect civil voice in the determination of policies affecting liberties, and defend religious freedom have helped make this country a better home for Jewish life and that Jewish unity was essential if all." --Lyndon B. Johnson Jewish rights were to be protected. Proudly pro-Zionist, the Congress in its first action sent a delegation to the Versailles peace conference that successfully urged recognition by the League of Nations of the Balfour Declaration calling for establishment of a Jewish national "The American Jewish Congress has been deeply committed not only to the preservation of home in Palestine. fundamental American liberties but to the great work of advancing all our citizens who rhe Congress delegation also demanded suffer exclusions because of racial and religious discrimination and prejudice. I wish it well guarantees of minority rights for Jews by for the great unfinished work of building not only a better world, but a world of peace Europe's new post-war governments-protec­ among men and nations." -Nelson A. Rockefeller tions ultimately adopted but barely observed. When Hitler came to power in Germany, which stockholder resolutions about company AJCongress was the first national organization policy toward the Arab boycott are introduced at to warn of the Nazi danger and launched the corporation annual meetings, is twofold: first worldwide counteraction against Nazi 1) To gather information through reports to persecution with an intensive boycott of stockholders to the extent of the involvement of German goods and services. American business in and with the boycott. In 1936 AJCongress organized the World 2) To inhibit corporate collaboration with the Jewish Congress as an instrument for united boycott, since fear of exposure has in the past action to meet common danger; together the proved to be a major deterrent to company two agencies first brought the agonizing surrender to Arab pressure. appeals of Nazism's victims to the world. Thus far, more than 25 major U.S. corporations And in the great post-war political struggles - including Ford and General Motors, RCA, in Washington and Lake Success to win Scott Paper, Xerox and other giants of American United States and United Nations support for a industry- have given AJCongress written Jewish state, AJCongress was a national leader assurances that they will refuse to cooperate with -as it had been three decades earlier President Ford greets Al Congress President Arthur Hertzberg the Arab boycott. And hundreds of members have in Versailles. at White House meeting on Middle East issues. give AJCongress their proxies and their permission to introduce such resolutions in their names.

Israel Since Statehood 1 HardQuestions Arab Anti-Semitism Thus far, AJCongress-sponsored resolutions In the years since the rebirth of the Jewish state, and Answers have been voted on at ti1e annual meetings of on the Middle East AJCongress has given its highest priority to As the United States marks its Bicentennial, nearly 100 U.S. corporations. At one such Israel's struggle to build a land whose people American Jews face a new and grave chal­ meeting, the stockholder owned five shares; the can live in peace, in dignity and in security. lenge to the quality of their citizenship: resol ution received 1.2 million votes. It was When Israel was imperiled by Arab armies­ the importation into American life of Arab defeated (as expected), but won more than 5 per in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973-AJCongress bigotry against Jews and an Arab boycott of all cent of all votes cast - a phenomenal figure, members helped mobilize essential financia.I, who support or trade with the Jewish state especially in view of the fact that AJCongress military and diplomatic support to assure of Israel. made no effort to solicit proxies from company shareholders. And the president of the company Israel's survival. To meet this threat, AJCongress has (International Harvester), while opposing our mobilized staff, lay leadership and chap- resolution, pledged that his company would ters and divisions across the country in a great brook no interference with its fair trade policies Propaganda War national effort to protect the rights of American AMERIC~N LAW by any Arab government. vs. Jews from Arab attack and to defend the Today the Arab states are engaf in a new :d THE ARAB BOYCOTT American principle of free trade as it affects kind of battle against Israel-a •,ophisticated commerce with Israel. campaign, financed by oil mor~ey, to win world support for the Arab cause. Ir the struggle The campaign includes proposals for new, for public opinion, AJCongress has undertaken tough Federal and state legislation; public a major effort to distinguish truth from exposure on companies, banks, shipping lines propaganda and answer the Arab version and others that may bow to Arab pressure; of the "big lie." and legal action against public otticials and One recent AJCongress publication- private entrepreneurs who break American law "The Palestinians: What is Real and What is AJCongress continues to work closely -all designed to protect the rights of Politics"-provides essential information on the with the makers of public opinion and public American Jews and defend the freedom of all roots of Palestinian nationalism, the principles policy to demonstrate how the cause of Americans to trade with Israel. of the Palestine Liberation Organization Middle East peace and America's vital strategic An innovative and exciting approach to fighting and the facts needed for an understanding interests are served by an economically and the Arab boycott is AJCongress' shareholders' of the threat to Israel's survival posed by militarily strong Israel with secure and project - the most massive campaign of its kind the terrorist PLO. recognized borders. ever launched. The purpose of this effort, under The Jews of Syria Travel Hostel The tiny remnant of the once-flourishing AJCongress has helped Israel grow in the Twenty years ago AJCongress' Women's SILENT Jewish community of Syria has been described welcome periods of quiet, too. In 1958, Division built the Louise Waterman Wise Youth NOIVIORE by a recent visitor as "the most oppressed AJCongress sent 23 men and women to Israel Hostel in Jerusalem as a memorial to its Jewish community in the world." Subject to or...-~oZ>e>Ra in a fledgling Overseas Travel Program for founding president. Today the Hostel is Israel's H I K EL severe discrimination, poverty and police members. Today more than 100,000 persons largest-and expanding still further with the harassment, the 4,500 Jews of Syria are denied have visited Israel under AJCongress' auspices. recent addition of a garden pavilion and the right to leave or to live in dignity. construction of the Steinberg Cultural Center, Ours is universally acknowledged as the AJCongress has made their plight a matter to be completed in 1976. biggest-and the best-of all group travel of urgent priority. It was AJCongress that led programs to Israel. the successful fight against the National The Hostel, which draws thousands of young Geographic for publishing a false report on how Today AJCongress sends more Americans to people from all over the world during the good Syrian Jewish life is. The magazaine later Israel than all other Jewish organizations summer vacation period, also operates published the first correction in its history. combined. In addition, AJCongress offers person­ year-round. There are special citizenship More recently, AJCongress criticized the to-person group tours to Jewish communities in training programs for new immigrant children; CBS-TV network for an "excessive, inaccurate 40 lands around the world. Its itineraries, service, pilot projects bringing Moslem, Christian and and distorted" broadcast by Mike Wallace price and word-of-mouth praise by happy tourists Druze youth in Israel into contact with young on the 60 Minutes program. In response to the have earned AJCongress' Overseas Travel Jews; and-since the Yorn Kippur War- filing of a complaint by AJCongress with the Program the reputation as the best and biggest of a special program for the widows and children National News Council, CBS acknowledged the all group travel programs to Israel and points of of Israeli soldiers slain in Israel's fourth AJCongress criticism on the air, amplified Jewish interest abroad. war in 25 years. its original commentary and agreed to do another program on the Jews of Syria-which included an interview with a Syrian Jew in New York free to tell the true story of his community's Soviet Jewry suffering. More than ten years ago, when the beleaguered Jews of the Soviet Union were still the "Jews of silence," AJCongress was in the forefront of a small group of organizations working to bring their plight to world attention. Today the courageous Jews of the U.S.S.R. themselves have written a new chapter in the history of the Jewish people. And AJCongress, both in its own name and through the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (which it helped to found and which its officers still lead), continues to engage in a wide variety of activities to demand free emigration for At the Louise Waterman Wise Hostel in Jerusalem. Soviet Jews wishing to leave and full religious and cultural rights for those choosing to remain.

AJCongress leaders join the march in New York's " Solidarity The Steinberg Pavilion - latest addition to the Hostel. Day" parade for Soviet Jewry. A New Weapon Against Bigotry The Jewish Poor After World War 11, AJCongress pioneered The battle for equal rights has involved in forging a dynamic new weapon in the fight AJCongress in recent years in extensive efforts against anti-Semitism and other forms of to assist the Jewish poor-two-thirds of them bigotry: the law. elderly persons, many left behind in changing, In major battles to protect Jews and other hostile neighborhoods. minorities against discrimination in housing, We have demanded amendments in Federal education, employment and other areas, , law so that the Jewish poor may be eligible for AJCongress brought test cases, appeared as antipoverty assistance whether or not they live amicus curiae, helped establish human rights in designated "poverty areas." We have pub­ commissions and drafted fair employment lished directories in New York and major cities statutes in the struggle for civil rights. throughout the country of services and facilities Today AJCongress supports "affirmative available to the Jewish aged. We have launched action" programs to assure equal opportunity legal-aid programs to help the aged poor with in education and employment but vigorously everything from personal problems to finding opposes racial or ethnic quotas in college paths through the bureaucratic maze. admission and jobs as abuses of the equal opportunity principle. And in New York City we were the first organization to call for a metropolitan coordi­ Thus, in a major friend-of-the-court brief nating council to make possible a community­ submitted to the Supreme Court in the historic wide effort in behalf of the Jewish poor. DeFunis case (challenging a racial double Today such a council is the major instrument standard in determining law school admissions), Rabbi Joachim Prinz (right), then president of AJCongress, for receiving and dispensing public funds to AJCongress argued that a university may and with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights alleviate Jewish poverty. indeed should consider economic hardship, leaders in the front line of the 1963 March on Washington. educational deprivation and cultural disad­ vantage in choosing among applicants-but that it may not choose on the basis of race. to come before the United States Supreme Nursing Homes In the only opinion on the issues in the case, Court in the past 20 years affecting the religion In mid-1974 AJCongress published "The Last which the Supreme Court ultimately held moot, clauses of the First Amendment. These cases Resort-A Citizen's Guide to Nursing Home Associate Justice William 0. Douglas closely have led to a series of major legal victories Reform," calling for tough new regulation associated himself with the arguments in which the nation's highest court has accepted of nursing homes and strong improvement advanced by AJCongress. our position that any infringement of Constitu­ in enforcement procedures to prevent abuse tional guarantees is dangerous for church and and mistreatment of aged and infirm Americans Religious Freedom synagogue and harmful to American democracy. -many of them Jews. AJCongress has argued in our nation's courts The AJCongress report touched off a priz.e­ AJCongress is the national leader in the struggle winning series of articles in the New York Times to protect religious freedom by maintaining against prayer in public schools, against Federal revealing fraud, corruption and dehumanizing the constitutional wall of separation between and state aid to parochial schools, against conditions in the proprietary nursing home church and state. religious symbols on public property and against compulsory chapel attendance at the industry. State and federal government investi­ We believe the American experience has nation's military academies. gations led to indictments of leading nursing demonstrated that organized religion-includ­ Citing the same First Amendment, we have home operators. At the same time nursing home ing the Jewish faith-has flourished in America defended the constitutionality of the Federal reform legislation was enacted by the precisely because of the First Amendment legislatures of New York, Illinois, California prohibitions against government entanglement law permitting shechita (kosher slaughter), protected Sabbath observers against discrimina­ and other states-most of its based on in religious affairs and barring church bodies tion in employment, challenged Sunday " blue AJCongress' recommendations. from interfering in government. laws" and won changes in registration and Justly proud of its national leadership role AJCongress attorneys have initiated or election dates so that observant Jews could in nursing home reform, AJCongress has participated in virtually every major test case participate fully in the democratic process. launched a new nationwide program to link nursing home patients with the outside community through volunteer visitors. HONORARY SPONSORS .. President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford Vice President Nelson A Rockefeller Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin Jewish Identity and Jewish Education Steinberg House Because we believe that an understanding and On June 22, 1976, the American Jewish Congress appreciation of the ideas and ideals, culture and will dedicate the Martin Steinberg Cultural Center traditions that make up the Jewish heritage are opening onto the garden adjoining Stephen Wise Sen. J. Glenn Beall, Jr. Sen. Gary Hart Hon. Daniel P. Moynihan essential for meaningful Jewish survival, Congress House, our national headquarters in Mayor Abraham D. Beame Sen. Philip A Hart Sen. John P. Pastore AJCongess has developed into a vigorous adult New York. Gov. Robert F. Bennett Sen. Floyd K. Haskell Sen. Claiborne Pell Jewish education agency. Hon. Uri Ben-Ari Gov. Ed Herschler Mr. & Mrs. Shad Poller The Center will be a meeting place for young Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg Rabbi Joachim Prinz To implement this commitment AJCongress has Jewish men and women engaged in al I aspects of Gov. Ricardo J. Bordallo Amb. Chaim Herzog Sen. William Proxmire produced a wealth of materials and undertaken a Jewish artistic expression-music and dance, Gov. Otis R. Bowen Sen. Walter D. Huddleston A Philip Randolph variety of activities aimed at promoting the painting and sculpture, poetry, fiction and film­ Sen. Edward W. Brooke Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey Sen. Abraham A. Riblcoff creative survival of the Jewish community. making. It will also house the Charles and Bertie Sen. James L. Buckley Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Bayard Rustin Schwartz Jewish Reading Room and the Mrs. Warren E. Burger Sen. Jacob K. Javlts Gov. Thomas P. Salmon Our building contains the first and only Jewish Bernard L. Madoff Jewish Music Library. Sen. RobertC. Byrd Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker public reading room in New York. We have Gov. Brendan T. Byrne Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Sen. Hugh Scott sponsored traveling exhibits on the Holocaust, Thanks to the generosity of Martin and Lillian Gov. Hugh L. Carey Amb. Eamonn Kennedy Gov. Milton J. Shopp produced Hebrew and Yiddish language records, Steinberg, young Jewish artists will now have a Sen. Clifford P. Case Gov. Cyril E. King Sanford Solender conducted Jewish book fairs and produced study Center to exhibit their work, read their poems, Gov. Raul H. Castro Gov. Richard F. Kneip Howard M. Squadron guides for chapter discussions on great Jewish play their music, share their creative efforts and Mr. & Mrs. Marcy Chanin Mayor Teddy Kollek Sen. Robert T. Stafford books. develop a sense of community with each other. Sen. Lawton Chiles Lt.Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak Mr. & Mrs. Martin Steinberg Sen. Frank Church Gov. Richard D. Lamm Sen. Ted Stevens We also publish two of the community's most "Tours of Jewish New York" Dr. Kenneth B. Clark Hon. Louis L. Lefkowitz Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson important Jewish journals-Congress a Monthly, Because we believe that this Bicentennial year is Sen. Alan Oanston Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld Sen. Richard Stone lively review of Jewish affairs (which goes free to a time for greater understanding of our roots and Hon. Marlo Cuomo Hon. Arthur Levitt Gov. Robert W. Straub all AJCongress members), and Judaism, a heritage, so that all Americans can more fully Amb. Slmcha Dlnltz Hon. John V. Lindsay Sen. Stuart Symington distinguished quarterly of Jewish scholarship. comprehend the miracle that made this country, Sen. Robert J. Dole Gov. Arthur A. Link Sen. Robert Taft, Jr. Gov. Meldrlm Thompson, Jr. Because we oppose the use of public funds for AJCongress has provided program guidance for Sen. Pete V. Domenic! Amb. Dr. Alfonso Moreno Hon. James R. Dumpson Martinez Sen. John V. Tunney parochial schools AJCongress recognizes a "Tours of Jewish New York," an exciting series of Hon. Walter E. Fauntroy Sen. Charles McC. Mathias Hon. Robert F. Wagner special obligation to encourage greater funding visits to the people and places that make up the Hon. Leonard Garment Sen. Thomas J. Mcintyre Gov. Dan Walker for Jewish education from within the Jewish largest Jewish community in the world. Sen. John Glenn Rabbi Irving Miller Mrs. Earl Warren Highlighting the past history and current life­ community. Working with leaders of every Hon. Arthur J. Golct>erg Gov. William G. Milliken Hon. Robert C. Weaver branch of Jewish education, we have urged our styles of New York's Jewish community, " Tours of Dr. Nahum Goldmann Hon. Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. own membership, American Jews at large and the Jewish New York" are a celebration and Rabbi Israel Goldstein Sen. Walter F. Mondale Roy Wilkins funding arms of the Jewish community to raise commemoration of the uniq1:1e contribution of Gov. Ella Grasso Sen. Joseph M. Montoya Sen. Harrison A Williams significantly the level of support for all types of American Jews to the growth and development of Sen. Robert P. Griffin Sen. Frank E. Moss Mrs. Whitney M. Young, Jr. Jewish education. New York. SPONSORS

Alfred E. Aaronson Mr & Mrs. Charles A. Bronfman Lawrence P. Fraiberg Mr & Mrs. Seymour Gross Mr & Mrs. Lester Koch Hon. & Mrs. Stanley H. Lowell Mrs. A~ Abeloff Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bronsteen Rabbi Leon Fram Mr. & Mrs. Louis. C. Grossberg Richard Koch Mr & Mrs. I rvin~ Lubitow lrvil' low Jacob Burns Hans J. Frank Dame Hattie Grossman Max L. Koeppel Mr & Mrs. Stan ey Lurie Dr. Mrs. David Abrahamsen Harry B. Frank Dr. Joseph A. Grossman Theodore J. Kolish Dr & Mrs. Egon Lustig Morris B. Abram Dr William G. Cahan Andrew J. Frankel Hon. Louis Grossman Prof. Milton R. Konvitz Frank Abrams Family Mr & Mrs. John Gruen Philip C. Kopitsky Marvin S. Caligor Mr & Mrs. Alan J. Freedman Mr & Mrs.Julius J. Maas Harry N. Abrams Mr & Mrs. Joseph Gurwin Mrs. Mortimer Kopp Sol C. Chai kin Hon. David B. Friedland Mr. & Mrs. George Mack Robert Abrams Mr & Mrs. Morns Gusowsky Max Kopstein Mr & Mrs. Joseph Chanko Geor~ Friedland A. Dr & Mrs. Bernard L. Madoff Morris Adelman Mildred A. Gutwillig Max M. Korff Mr. & Mrs. Harold Chumsky Hon. iriam Friedlander Mr. & Mrs Seymour Malamed Dr & Mrs. Lloyd Kornblatt H. Mrs. S. Martin Adelman Mr. & Mrs. Mike Claman Edith Friedman Jerome E. Malino Mr. & Mrs. Harry Haber Mr. & Mrs. Louis T. Kotch Dr.'Harvey T. Adelson Alan N. Cohen Hon. Stanley M. Friedman Edward J. Mallin Bernard Adelstein Barry S. Cohen Hon. Sidney J. Frigand Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Halpern Mrs. Ruth Kovner Gottlieb Hammer A. T. Maimed Arthur Aeder Mr. & Mrs. Merrill K. Cohen Ors. Edward & Mary Frishwasser Hon. Werner H. Kramarsky I. Irving Mandel Hon. Jolie Hammer Mrs. Benjamin Kramer Benjamin A~ase Mr. & Mrs. Saul Z. Cohen Alfred Fromm Dr. Samuel S. Mandel Mr. & Mrs. wen Alper Prof. Steven M. Cohen Maurice S. Handler Dr. & Mrs. I. Robert Krasner Hon. Stanley H. Fuld Dr. & Mrs. Seymour Mann Prof. & Mrs. Milton Handler Mr. & Mrs. Albert Krassner z. Dr. & Mrs. Albert Altchek Sidney E. Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Norman Furman Theodore R. Mann 1 Hon. & Mrs. Mel Hantman Otto E. Kraus Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Altman Mrs. Mortimer Hart Coleman Gerald Furst Lucy Manoff Mr. & Mrs. Max J. Anchin Justin Colin William Harmefin Dr. Philip E. Kraus Dr. & Mrs. Allen Harris Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Margolin Hon. Irving Anker Mr. & Mrs. Herman E. Cooper Dr Milton Gabel Hon. Robert S. Kreindler Ephraim Margolin Paul G. Annes Mrs. Barbara Harrison Hon. S. Stanley Kreutzer Rabbi Samuel ~er Dr. & Mrs. Richard L Gaines Robert Markewich George J. Arden Mr & Mrs. Daniel reamer ~ Mr. & Mrs. Henry Harteveldt, Jr Arthur H. Kroll Hon. Harriet E. Gair Stanley A. Marks Albert E. Arent Ira J. Hechler Herbert Kronish Nathan Cummings Jeff'.h H. Gallet Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Masius Norman J. Arnold Solomon Heiferman Mr. & Mrs. Irving H. Kudlow Robert M. Cummings Dr. ill M. M. Gallet Dr. & Mrs. Harry Maslow David Aronow Mr. & Mrs. Max L. Heine Sol Kullen Mr & Mrs. Abe Gelb Hon. & Mrs. Joseph Mazur Erich J. Aschkenasy Mr. & Mrs. Julius D. Heldman Stanley H. Kunsberg A. Dr. Isidore Daichman Dr. Melvyn M. Gelch Mrs. Constance Mehlman Dr. Aaron Hendin Dr. Samuel B. Kutash Ted Ashley Mrs. Herbert Daitch Hon. Abraham J. Gellinoff Lawrence Meinwald Mrs~ Sol G. Atlas Albert E. Dann Lillian Gershuny Herbert H. Hershfana Mr. & Mrs. Howard Herzig Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Lagin Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Meisel Dr. Robert Auerbach Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Dannenberg Joseph Gerofsky Alvin Meiseles Mrs. Milton Avery Otto Herstik Fred Landau Mr & Mrs. Joseph A. Daroff Mr. & Mrs. Monte Getler Nancy Meisels Felix Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. William M. Landau J. Morton Davis Morton J. Getman Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Burt Bacharach Albert Hirschfeld Dr. & Mrs. Jacob Landers Mr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Degen Robert S. Gettinger Howard D. Mendes Mr. & Mrs. Albert M. Hodes Mr. & Mrs. Harold Lane, Jr William P. Balaban Amos S. Deinard Stanlei Gewirtz Mr. & Mrs. Harry Meresman Dr. E. C~nton Bamberger, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Maxwell M. Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Ira N. Langsan Mrs. Harry DeJur Mr & rs. Leon L. 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