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Southwestern Jewish Press, September 28, 1951, page 2
By Albert A. Hutler, Executive Director, United Jewish Fund
Rosh Hashanah is the classic period of personal and communal introspection.
There is no more appropriate time for creating a state of calmness in which one
can take an inventory for the past years, as well as for creating that state of
forward looking vision so necessary to meet the complex needs and
responsibilities of American Jewry—of the Jews of San Diego. It is at this
time that all of us should look into the future and proceed against all
obstacles and fears, to draw our plans for a sound and creative community.
Education towards the formulation of a policy which can create such a community
is what our leadership needs more than any other single activity. The
encouragement and stimulation of all efforts on the part of individuals and
organizations in our community to create and develop a wholesome Jewish group
and individual life discharging our responsibility to ourselves, to our
community, and to our country, is an essential policy that must be
adopted. It is precisely in that area of community creativity that the San
Diego Federation of Jewish Agencies, the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, and
the Synagogues of the community working together on a sincere cooperative and
understanding basis can be most effective. No greater boon could come to
San Diego Jewry in the year 5712 than the wide spread acceptance of an honest
policy of constructive cooperation among all groups and their leadership. This
type of program, of course, calls for the highest degree of maturity and
steadiness of purpose. Perhaps we in San Diego are not ready.
Perhaps the San Diego Jewish Community has not yet reaches a proper state of
maturity. Together with best wishes for a year of fulfillment for everyone from
the joint Boards of Directors of the Federation and the Fund, their officers and
staff, is added the prayer that the New Year, 5712, will bring San Diego Jewry
closer to that goal.