THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, March 1, 1974
Boris Smolar's
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Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1974, JTA Inc.)
INSIDE. UJA: Nobody knows how many Jews in this
country are managing to evade making contributions to
the United Jewish Appeal—the fund-raising agency for hu-
manitarian needs in Israel through the Jewish Agency=
and for needy Jews in other Jewish communities abroad
through the Joint Distribution Committee.
It is estimated that two-thirds of American Jewry are
conributors to the UJA, with a third shirking their Jewish
humanitarian responsibilities. The UJA is now embarking
on an effort to identify them and reach them. It decided
to start a special mass campaign, the ultimate goal of
which is to receive a maximum response from every po-
tential Jewish contributor in the United States.
Lay and professional leaders of the Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds throughout the country are expected to
use all their resources, imagination and creaivity to make
this effort a success.
UJA leadership is realizing that such a mass campaign
for broadening the base of the fund-raising drivle around
the country cannot be effective unless it becomes a "massive
campaign" which galvanizes a community. A variety of
programs and new techniques for constructive activity in
this direction is now being worked out by the UJA and the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in co-
operation with local federations.
Many communities already have thousands of non-
contributors on their current lists as well as low-end givers
—contributors of less than $100. They regularly solicit
them twice a year through the mails. This experience has
proven to be only marginally successful with mixed results.
The national UJA is therefore undertaking a direct mail
pilot program using the lists voluntarily provided by a
number of larger communities.
In projecting a Third Seder for every Jewish commu-
nity in the country, the UJA, this Passover, will introduce
into Jewish homes two innovations. One is a special Hagga-
da prepared by its Rabbinical Advisory Council, and the
second is a Fifth Question.
Every Jewish family will receive a centerpiece which
is being specifically designed by UJA to be .placed on the
Seder table on Passover. The - attractively designed center-
piece 'has as its main purpoge the presentation of the Fifth
Question which is related to Israel's needs and JeWish
identity.
The text of the Fifth Question reads: "Why is this
night of Passover, in the year when Jewish freedom was,
threatened by the Yom Kippur War, different from all other
nights?" The answer is: "Tonight as we celebrate freedom,
our Seder must be a symbol of solidarity with the Jewish
people, a link with Jews everywhere and a demonstration
of support for Jewish survival in Israel and throughout the
world."
All rabbis throughout the "country will receive a com-
munique concerning the Fifth Question. They will he asked
to communicate its concept to their congregations. Others
too will be urged to mobilize and sensitize all segments of
the community to the Fifth Question. Supplementing the
centerpiece will be a series of other materials which also
have the Fifth Question as their theme, including- radio
and television spots, posters, window stickers, buttons—all
aiming to make the Fifth Question a rallying point for the
entire Jewish community.
In the period between Passover and the Third Seder on -
Israel's Independence Day, the UJA leadership and the
leaders of the local communities will intensify the mass
campaign to reach every member of the Jewish community,
and to heighten the consciousness of the link between
American Jewry and Israel.
RAMAT GAN—The Inter-
national Red Cross 'in Gen-
eva, has notified Rector
Menachem Zevi Kaddari of
Bar-Ilan University that its
negotiations with Israel and
Syria regarding Israeli pris-
oners of war was continuing,
but that it considered the fate
of the Israeli prisoners and
the Syrian civilians displaced
by the October War as
"equally important."
The message came in re-
sponse to a cable sent sev-
eral days ago by Bar-Ilan's
rector, Prof. Kaddari, on be-
half of the university's sen-
ate, protesting the failure of
the International Red Cross
to condemn Syria's refusal to
turn over a list of the pris-
oners and permit the Red
Cross to visit them.
T h e Bar-Ilan university
senate also criticized the Red
Cross for speaking up late
and then only "half-heartedly
in muffled tones, condemn-
ing the Syrian o u t r a g e s
against Israeli prisoners of
war equally with Israel's re-
.
Names of War Dead to Be Published
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
names of Israeli soldiers who
were killed from the start of
the Yom Kippur War through
Feb. 12 will be compiled in
a "Sefer Hakedo-shim," book
of the fallen, to be published
within three weeks.
The "Sefer Inkedoshim"
had been previously used in
Central and Eastern Europe
by Jewish, communities after
a pogrom.
This is the first time such
a booklet is being issued in
Israel. Up to now the names
were listed in newspapers.
But some argued that news-
papers were not the proper
place since they are used for
packing, or wrapping or ust
thrown away.
After sending a question-
Children's Literature
Center Due in Israel
Red Cross Claims Issue of POWs
Relates to Displaced Civilians
NY Poll Hits
Soviet Trade,
Arms to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (D.,
NY)_ has reported that re-
plies to the annual question-
naire he had distributed in
mid-December in his Con-
gressional District showed
that about two out of three
respondents oppose extending
military assistance to Israel
and 4-1 are against giving
President Nixon authority to
adjust U.S. tariffs to boost
U.S. commerce with - the
Soviet Union.
Stratton said in a statement
that he had sent a 10-point
questionnaire to some
161,000 households in Albany,
Schenectady and Amsterdam
in upstate New York with a
population 'of 467,189, ac-
cording to the 1970 census.
There are about 18,600 Jews
in the three cities.
To the question, "Do you
favor furnishing military as-
sistance to Israel?" 31.9 per-
cent replied yes, 50 per cent
no, and 8.2 per cent were
undecided, Stratton reported.
On the question, "Do you
favor giving the President
wide powers to raise and
lower tariffs to pr o m o t e
greater trade with Russia?"
19 per cent replied yes, 75.2
per cent no and 8.8 per cent
undecided.
Stratton voted for the
$2,2,000,000,000 emergency aid
program for Israel and, being
a co-sponsor of the Mills-
Vanik proposal, voted for
barring U.S. trade benefits
and credits to the Soviet
Union until it relaxes its
emigration restrictions.
naire to the bereaved fami-
lies, it was decided to print
the names in a booklet which
will be available at post of-
fices, public institutions, li-
braries and Israeli missions
abroad. The booklet will in-
clude names of 2,328 soldiers
killed. Only 32 families have
asked that their fallen rela-
tives not be published in- the
When you cannot get a
booklet.
compliment
in any other way,
There will be also a list of
126 missing soldiers on the pay yourself one. — Mark
southern front (18 families of Twain.
MIAs have requested they
not be listed). The soldiers
missing on the Syrian front
will not be included.
There are 80 MIAs on the
Syrian front who are pre-
sumably held by Syrians as
POWs.
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fusal to permit the return of
Syrian civilians to -the war
zone."
In its reply signed by Dr.
Eric Martin, president of the
International Red Cross, the
organization said: "ICRC
considers any violation Gen-
eva Conventions serious
whether third or fourth con-
vention. Public condemnation
by ICRC has never been a
means of achieving its ob-
jective. P 1 i g s h t of Israeli
prisoners of war is considered
one of most important. Ef-
forts continuing. Application
Geneva Convention •for prO-
tection civilians and occupied
territories considered equally
important. Overtures to Is-.
raeli government will con-
tinue."
JERUSALEM— The David
Yellin Hebrew Teachers Col-
lege in Bet Hakerem is in-
itiating steps in the develop-
ment of a children's litera-
ture center which will be
related to the library and
teacher education program of
the college.
The college foresees the
center being used for sym-
posia where educators will
come to analyze and resolve
problems inherent in teach-
ing children's literature.
appeals to the Syrian Arab
Republic to recognize the
right of human dignity for
all mankind created in the
image of God and cease pro-
longing the agony of the
prisoners' families and the
prisoners themselves by re-
leasing the names of the
prisoners still alive, and per-
mitting communications be-
tween them, their families,
the Red Cross, and the
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Catholics to Present
Statement on POWs
NEW YORK (JTA)—Father
Joseph G. Konrad and Rabbi
Bruce K. Cole of the Catho-
lic-Jewish Relations Commit-
tee, sponsored by the Dio-
cese of Brooklyn, the largest
Roman Catholic diocese in
the United States, and the
Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation
League, left for Jerusalem
to present to the Israel For
eign Ministry, a statement in
support of the Israeli prison-
ers of war in Syria.
The statement, released at
ADL headquarters, declared
that "the Catholic-Jewish Re-
lations Committee, in the
name of God and humanity,
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