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Allied Jewish Campaign Rises to New Heights

$11,276,613 Initial Gifts Boost Philanthropic Goal to Record Sum

All Precedents Shattered
With Increases Expressing
Detroit-Israel Solidarity

All precedents in Greater Detroit's philanthropic efforts
were shattered with the announcement, at the opening din-
ner of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund,
held Wednesday evening in the newly-dedicated social hall
of Adas Shalom, that initial gifts totaled $11,276,613.
Samuel Frankel and Paul M. Handleman, co-chairmen
f
' c this year's campaign, in their analyses of the contributions,
, icated that they represented an increase over last year,
y the same contributors, of 6 , per cent. This set a new
standard in giving, and as the heads of the campaign organi-
zation analysed it, it was a strengthening of the ties between
Detroit Jewry and Israel. It was acclaimed as a new mark
of solidarity between this community and the Israeli kinsmen.
Sparked by calls to greater action than ever before in
the reports of campaign attainments thus far and by the
results indicated, and inspired by the featured film, "Pano-
rama: Golda Meir," the opening function in the 1973 drive
was viewed as auguring unprecedented results in behalf
of Israel and the national and local causes to be provided
for by the funds to be raised.
In announcing the $11,276,613 total, Frankel, who re-
ported that 14,000 Detroiters had already made their con-
tributions, called to his side his associate chairman, Handle-
man, and the national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal,
Paul Zuckerman, in expressing his elation over the com-
munity's generosity.
Zuckerman thereupon spoke of Detroit as a pacemaker
in campaigning for the entire country and in expressing
confidence that this community once again will be the goal-
setter for the entire country in establishing new records
for generosity.
The honor rolls of members of the current campaign
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organization who reported on the results thus far included:
William M. Davidson and Lewis Grossman, who called for
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Assaying Detroit Community's
New Philanthropic Standards

SAMUEL FRANKEL: Records are made to be broken,
and we'll break last year's for new high goals this yearbe-
cause our campaigners represent the vitality of our community.
PAUL HANDLEMAN: There is a steadfastness among the
Israelis that inspires us in our efforts. And We have the serious
obligation not to delay the rescue of Russian Jews.
PAUL ZUCKERMAN: Detroit has led the way in establish-
ing high goals for the United Jewish Appeal. Last year was
UJA's best year.. The Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign points
to even greater results that will inspire the generosity of all
American Jewry.

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Reported USSR Tax Removal Called
'Temporary Expedience"; Mov ement
Against Favored Status Continued

Impressions given last week that the Soviet Union has removed restrictions on
JeWish applicants for visas to go to Israel were discounted in reports from Russia, Israel
and American sources.
In London, Greville Janner, Labor member of parliament, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that a telephone survey with Jews in Moscow, Kishinev, Vinnitsa and No-
vosibirsk indicated no change in the USSR emigration policy.
Janner, who is the honorary secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee
for the Release of Soviet Jews, said: "Not a single Jewish activist in any of these four
centers was given his exit visa," He added that in these circumstances the question of
the education tax would not have arisen.
JTA also reports from London that British Jews have received no confirmation
that the education tax on Soviet Jewish emigrants has been rescinded or will not con-
tinue to be applied in practice, according to Lord Janner of Leicester, who' is the father
of MP Greville Janner.
Addressing a meeting of the Board of Deputies of. British Jews, Lord Janner said
that there has been no known improvement in the position of Soviet Jews who applied
for exit visas for Israel and they are still being harassed.
In New York, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry quoted Jewish sources in
Moscow as saying there had been no significant changes in Soviet emigration policy. The
NCSJ said there were indications of a new wave of trials for alleged "parasitism." Fif-
teen families who had applied for exit visas were reportedly rejected on the same day
that reports emanated from Moscow of a relaxation of emigration.
The' Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported in New York that it had learned
in a telephone conversation with Jews in Kiev that successful applicants for exit visas
were being informed by the ovir (visa bureau) that they were "exceptions." Three Kiev
activists were refused visas during the past few days and were told they could not re-
apply for a year. The Kiev Jews said that eight activists in Leningrad were also refused
visas, the SSSJ reported.
In a dispatch to the New York Times from Moscow this week, Hedrick Smith re-
ported:
"Jewish sources in touch with Jewish com-
Pro-Arab Propaganda munities in other major Soviet cities said they esti-
that at least 1,000 Jews who had sought
Sophisticated in Brazil mated
permission to emigrate to Israel were being refused

Detailed story by JTA News Editor
Murray Zuckoff on Page 3.

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William Landau Elected President of the
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Raymond Epstein of Chicago, vice president and chairman of the nominating commit-
tee of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced on Monday that William M. Landau has been elected president
of the JTA and will take office April 1.
Landau, 47, succeeds Robert H. Arnow, who has been president since April 1967.
The announcement by Epstein came at the annual meeting of the board of directors of the world-wide agency
that gathers and distributes news and information concerning the Jewish people the world over.
Other officers elected were: Arnow, chairman of the board; Epstein, Jerold C. Hoffberger of Baltimore
and Philip Slomovitz of Detroit, vice-presidents; Julius Berman, New York, secretary; and Abe Goodman, New
York, treasurer.
Current directors of the JTA board who were re-elected were: Victor M. Carter, Los Angeles; Gottlieb
Hammer, New York; Irving Isaacs, Pittsburgh.; Morris Levinson, New York; Morris Rodman, Washington, D.C.;
Hyman Safran, .Detroit; Joseph D. Shane, Los Angeles, and Stephen L. Stulman, New York. New board mem-
bers are: Melvin Swig, San Francisco;' Bennett L. Aaron, Philadelphia; Marshall Weinberg, New York; Max Schray-
er of Chicago; and Donald Carr, Toronto.
Moshe Rivlin, director general of the Jewish Agency in Israel, and Nessim Gaon of Switzerland were elected
as directors.
Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow presented Arnow with a scroll by the JTA board of directors with the inscrip-
tion: "To Robert II. Arnow, who served as president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with distinction with
dedication and thereby made an outstanding contribution to the cause of Jewish advancement and learning."
Below the inscription was another one in Hebrew stating:
"May you live to 120 and continue your fruitful laborsin behalf of our people."
The board of directors also took cognizance of the long and devoted service of Eleazar Lipsky, board chair-
man, and appointed him as a director for life and to be listed on the roster as "Past President and Director
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for Life."

March 30, 1973

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