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Permit No 625 .I
ADDRESS
CORRECTION
REQUESTED
Aug. 15,1980
Subject Cash:
An Urgent Message: Being Even is Not Enough
For the first seven months of 1980, cash collection were even with 1979 totals. We
struggled together to reach this point after being down more than $6 million in the last
three months. On the face of it, this would seem to be good news.
However... inflation in the United States is running at an alarming 11 percent.
Inflation in Israel, a staggering 111.4 Percent in 1979, is 125 percent for the first six
months in 1980, caluclated on an annual basis, the Israeli inflation rate was 95 percent; for
the months of April, May and June, inflation Israel rose to 150 percenL
We realize that it is easy to become bogged down in the numbers and to forget what
the numbers actually mean. The reality is this: in Israel, around the world, and at home, in
your own community, the dollars that bought a given level of services for our fellow Jews in
1979 will provide substantially diminished services in 1980.
Therefore... being even is not enougl This year, more is tess. We are all aware of the
issues, We work hard at our campaigns, We amass pledges. And we feel a sense of
satisfactiorr There is one thought we must sell to our communities: A pledge will not help
one single Jew anywhere in the world Cash payments equal to last year's will help less than
they did last year. MORE CASH IS NEEDED. NOW.
We must speed our cash collections. We must provide at least the same level of
services that we did last year.., at this time of increasing need. Please forward all
outstanding monies as quickly as possible.
We cannot:be satisfied with the status quo. Now-more than ever before--cash
counta " -
Please Pay your pledge.
Edgar L. Cadden, UJA National Cash Chairman
Henry Zetlin, Treasurer, United Jewish Federation
• Henry Zetli lef treasurer of the United Jewish Federation of Norfolk and
Virginia Beach, presents a $200,000 check from the Beth-Sholom Federation
Endowment Fund to Morton Goldrneier, president of Beth Sholom Home of Eastern
Virginia. The check is the first installment of $670,000 from the Beth Sholom-
Federation Endowment Fund The balance must be paid by the end of AugusL
, Individuals who have madepledges to the Fund are dsked to sendpaymentprior to
the end of the month in order to help the Beth Sholom Federation Endowment Fund
meets its obligations.
Dialogue on Public Criticism
Jerusalem (JTA)-The 16th annual
American-lsrael Dialogue ended here
recently with general agreement that
American Jews and Israelis had not only
the right but the responsibility to par-
ticipate in each other's affairs as
"partners in the Jewish enterprise."
But the 40 Israeli and American Jewish
Scholars and community activists gath-
ered by the American Jewish Congress for
four days of discussions and debate dif-
fered sharply on whether criticism and
COunsel should be aired in public, par-
"ticularly when it came to domestic poll-
• tics and military security.
Howard Squadron, president of the
American Jewish Congress and chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, said that
Public attacks by American Jews against
Israel's West Bank policies, for example,
Were "unhelpful" because "they divert
attention from the genuine consensus
, that exists with American Jewry on the
essentail issues." he said these were "Is-
rael's right to recognition by its Arab
neighbors, Israel's right to secure and
recognized boundaries and Israel's right
to Jerusalem as an undivided city and its
capital."
Zalman Abramov, a Tel Aviv lawyer,
thought Americans should be "prudent"
in their public criticism of Israel but
added that, in turn, "Israelis have a duty
to be mindful of the opinions of diaspora
Jewry for our own se-interest. Israel
should avoid whenever possible adopting
policies that American Jews cannot sup-
port," Abramov said, adding: "Obviously,
we cannot subordinate our own judg-
ments to the desires of American Jews,
but we should be mindful of their views in
formulating our policiies."
Edward Sanders of Los Angeles. a
former senior advisor on Jewish affairs to
President Carter, agreed that U.S. Jews
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A Child Without a Home
There's not too much to distinguish the unable to care for him properly.
slight, dark six-year old from his peers. He He is now a ward of Jewish Family
is friendly, smiles a lot and likes to play with Service of Tidewater and in a foster home,
But there is a difference. He was de- care for him, according to Nell Newstein,
In Copenhagen
Notes On the Women's Conference
By Sharyn Perlman
(Editors note: This is one of several in-
tervqews the Jewlsb T,rsp Agevy
conducted with leaders of .American
Jewish Women's Organization who at-
tended the World Conference of the United
Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen
last month.)
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The day after
Arab terrorist grenades killed one Jewish
fifteen year old boy and injured twenty
other persons in Antwerp, Belgium,
0vadiah Sosser, a member of the Israeli
delegation to the UN Decade for Women
Conference, requested the floor at one of
the plenary sessions. Complying with the
rule that such requests be seconded by
another Nation, the United States eagerly
volunteered its support. Instead of giving
the floor to the Israeli delegate, the session
chairman promptly .adjourned the
meeting.
That was July 28. Two days later an
overwhelming majority adopted a "Plan
of Action" which included a denunciation
of Zionism as one of the world's worst
evils. Esther LaMa, a member of the
official U.S. delegation to the conference
and a past president of the National
Council of Jewish Women, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview
from her home in Salt Lake City that "the
really evil thing is that this is the second
time a women's conference has been used
for (anti-Zionist) purposes" and has been
followed by an anti-Zionist vote from the
UN General Assembly.
The first time a tiN women's conference
suffered such politization was at the
beginning of the UN Decade for Women in
1975, in Mexico City. That conference was
followed by a UN General Assembly vote
equating Zionism with racism. The second
such vote was on July 29 when a resolution
tremendously well organized and well
financed" and will "use every UN con-
Landa said.
Not only Israel, but all democratic
countries were subjected to bias in
Copenhagen, Landa said. "The
democracies did not have much hand in
running things, "she said, adding that the
PL0 and anti-Israel countries at the
conference "read history completely
differently than we read history, and if,it
weren't for off, I think the world would not
pay so much attention to their reading of
history."
Within the parameters of U.S. foreign
policy, the official delegation members
tried to thwart the virulent anti-Israel
attacks. "The stance of the U.S. is not to
answer point by point on either attacks an
the U.S. or its allies, not to engage in
shouting matches with opponents, and not
to descend to their (enemies') level,"
explained Landa.
She added that despite U.S. efforts on
behalf of a "strong defense of Israel" it
was "rather difficult to get the floor
because chairs of the sessions were not too
receptive to interruptions from the U.S. or,
other democratic countries."
Official contacts between U.S, and Arab
or Third World delegates was non-existent
because "as state officials we were not
permitted to converse with diplomats from
countries with whom we do not have
diplomatic relations," Landa said. If they
did happen to meet, perhaps en route to a
session, they exchanged only brief and
general comments, she said.
There was some contact between the
U.S. and Egyptian delegates and Landa
did speak briefly with an Egyptian
delegate. She said a meeting was even
being planned between an Egyptian and an
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