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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
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... and Me
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
_ (Copyright 19'73, JTA Inc.)
PERSONAL PIt'aFILE: Raymond Epstein, the new
president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds — the central body of the organized Jewish commun-
ities in this country and Canada — is a man with whom one
feels at home the first time he meets him. He generates
warmth and friendliness.
He is a quick-thinking person with a penetrating mind.
An engaging personality. He reaches people quickly and
easily. He is not a doctrinaire; his mind is open to new
ideas and to change. He looks upon the organized Jewish
co—munities as carriers of the greatest responsibilities in
.1 ill history. He considers them the base for Jewish
stiength and for meeting local, national and world-wide
Jewish obligations. The Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds is to him an instrument of the communities
to collectively work together.
To his friends he is Ray. They speak of him with great
affection. He is not a newcomer to the Jewish communal
scene. His active interest in Jewish affairs goes back at
least a quarter of a century. He comes from the young
leadership ranks. Some 25 years ago he was president of
the Young Men's Jewish Council in Chicago, where he was
born and is residing now. He speaks with pride of his
father's exemplary leadership and strives to follow in his
= father's footsteps. He succeeds Irving Blum of Baltimore
who resigned CJFWF presidency 'because of ill health.
RECORD OF LEADERSHIP: As head of a Chicago-
based engineering and architectural firm, with offices in
New York and in capitals abroad, Ray Epstein is a very
busy man. Yet he devotes a good deal of his time to Jewish
causes and is vigorously active in his work for these causes,
which embrace local, national and international Jewish
communal interests.
On the local front in Chicago, he is presently the gen-
eral campaign chairman of the Jewish United Front, after
having served as JUF Board chairman and president. He
also served for three years as president of the Chicago
Jewish Welfare Fund. He is a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Chicago Medical School, a life director of
the Mount Sinai Medical Research Foundation, a member
of the Citizens Board of Loyola University, of the Mayor's
Commission for Senior' Citizens and other local civic bodies.
On the national Jewish front, he has been serving as
vice president of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds and chairman of the CJFWF overseas com-
mittee 'till his present election to the CJFWF presidency.
He has also served as member of the National Council of
the Joint Distribution Committee. He is vice president of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a board member of the
National United Jewish Appeal and a member of its
executive committee.
On the overseas scene, he is a member of the Board
of Governors of the Jewish Agency and actively engaged in
various other activities for Israel. He is a frequent visitor
to Israel and is highly regarded there by leaders of the
government. He takes an interest in Jewish problems in
France, England and other countries overseas and meets
with Jewish leaders there every time he visits these coun-
tries on his business trips. He is always kept fully informed
on the latest developments in Jewish life in overseas nations.
Closely watching the Jewish scene abroad, he advocates
the CJFWF periodically sending a delegation of American
Jewish community leaders to foreign countries to study the
changing Jewish requirements there. He finds that on-the-
spot consultations with Jewish community leaders abroad
on their programs helps to create a "Klal-Isroel" link
between Jewish communities in the U.S. and other coun-
tries, thus cementing world Jewish unity and coordination
of work to meet community needs.
„CHALLENGING PROBLEMS: Epstein has assumed
ti )JFWF presidency just when the CJFWF leadership is
be.6iyning to map the agenda for its forthcoming general
assembly which is to take place in November in New
Orleans.
This will be the most important gathering of the year
of Jewish community leaders, both lay and professional.
The quality of Jewish life in America will be reviewed in
all its aspects, including the quality of Jewish family life,
of Jewish education, of programs to strengthen Jewish
identity, of work among student youth and faculty members
on the campuses, of services for the constantly growing
number of Jewish aged.
The General Assembly is also expected to deal with
problems concerning fund-raising for local, national and
overseas needs, including Israel, as well as with the effect
of inflation on the budgets of Jewish institutions. Other
problems of basic importance to the American Jewish
community will similarly 'be discussed. Epstein thus takes
over CJFWF presidency at a time when communal life is
expanding and presenting challenging problems.
The expansion of Jewish communal interests can be
judged best from the rapid increase in attendance of the
general assembly. Last year some 2,500 communal leaders
attended the assembly as compared with about 1,300 ten
years ago. Of them, 87 per cent were lay leaders and 13
per cent professionals. The growth in attendance is begin-
ning to confront the CJFWF with the question of the size
and structure of the assembly.
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