AJC-IEF Names 6 Associate Chairmen
Si•prominent Jewish com-
mural leaders have been ap-
poi'ited associate chairmen of
the 1975 Allied Jewish Cam-
pr Em e rgen c y
und, announced genera 1
chairmen Richard Sloan and
Arthur Howard.
ley are Dr. Leon Fill,
Mule Harris, Daniel M. Ho-
niman (not pictured), David
S. irvin s 'Seligman,
and1 . Alfred Taubman.
Fin, a vice chairman
of -the 1974 AJC-IEF, has
been in the leadership of the
campaign's professional di-
vision for many years. He is
a member of the Jewish Wel-
f a r e Federation's capital
needs committee and a direc-
tor of the Detroit Service
-
Tr oup.
Harris, who served as the
i-campaign advance gifts
chirman in the 49'74 cam-
is a past president of
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DR. LEON FILL
MERLE HARRIS
DAVID MONDRY
IRVING SELIGMAN
the Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service. A recipient
of the Frank A. Wetsman
Memorial Young Leadership
Award, Harris is a JWF gov-
ernor, a director, of the DSG,
and a past chairman of the
AJC-IEF's mechanical trades
division.
Honigman will serve as as-
sociate chairman for the sec-
ond -consecutive year. A 1973
pre-campaign chairman, Ho-
nigman is a past president of
Federation's junior division:
Mondry will be serving in
this post for the second con-.
secutive year. He previously
participated as a vice chair-
man of the 1972 and 1973
campaign and is -a past chair-
man of the mercantile divi-
sion. Mondry is on the board
of governors of Federation,
a trustee of Sinai Hospital
and the Detroit Service
Group.
A 1974 campaign •ssoci-
ate chairman, Seligman has
served as -a pre-campaign
chairman and chairman of
the real estate and building
trades division. He is a di-
rector of the Jewish Com-
munity Center and the De-
troit Service Group.
Taubman served on the
1974 campaign cabinet. He
is a former pre-campaign
chairman and has also been
ALFRED TAUBM
an AJC - IEF vice chair
and chairman of the real
estate division. Taubinar
board member of Sinai'.
pital.
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The associate chairmen are
all members of the cam-
paign's cash mobiliza-
tion committee which •accel-
erates cash collections. •
otlidarity With Israel Told at CJFWF Parley
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Klutznick warned that "nei-
ther the immediate past nor
the present suggest that this
kind of collaboration will be
easily accepted in Israel or
the Diaspora." He pointed
out, "Israel, cannot live in
isolation especially from her
closest friends, the Diaspora.
This is a complex problem,
and by now experience has
matured us so that we can
find the formula for talking
together instead " of at one
another."
- William Avrunin, executive
vice president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of De-
troit, took a more limited
view and stated: "Despite an
t'realating pressure for feder-
4 tions- to engage in areas
ich deal with the way Jews
ought to live, the federation's
limitations exclude religious,
political and ideological dif-
ferences on the periphery or
outside of the federation con-
cept."
Two personalities who
made world news addressed
the assembly. They were Is-
rael Information Minister
General Aharon Yariv, who
-conducted the delicate dines-
gagement talks between Is -
rael and the Arabs after the
Yom Kippur War last year,
and Sylva Zalmanson, re-
•cently released from a Rus-
sian prison camp and al-
loWed to emigrate to Israel.
Two of the 110 leadership
award winners were Detroit-
' ers. They were Mrs. Joel D.
Tauber and Stanley D. Fran-
kel.
The Jewish Community
Council of M-etrop9litan De-
troit was given an award for
best year - round T.V. pro-
gramming.
Honorable metion was giv-
en the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit for display
unit "Communiteas."
Meanwhile, 600 American
Jewish leaders pledged more
than $18,000,000 here Nov. 14,
_ toward the United Jewish Ap-
1..
peal-Israel Emergency Fund
1975 campaign •at what was
described as the most suc-
cessful inaugural dinner in
the UJA's history.
Minister Yariv, meanwhile,
told' a press conference that
Israel had hoped for political
64—Friday,
Nov. 22, 1974
_ George M. Zeltzer, second from left, a vice president
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
accepts a specially engraved menora honoring the '75th
anniversary of Detroit's organized Jewish community at the
General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds held in Chicago last week. Local activities to
celebrate the Jewish Welfare Federation's 50th year and
the "diamond" anniversary of the United Jewish Charities
are being implemented by the Joint Anniversary Celebration
Committee. Shown with Zeltzer are, from left: Raymond
Epstein, president of the CJFWF; Zeltzer; executive vice
president, William Avrunim; and Martin E. Citrin, a Fed-
eration vice president.
engagement after the disen-
gagement agreements with
Egypt and Syria, but this pos-
sibility had been changed by
the Arab summit conference
at Rabat which recognized
the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization as the sole repre-
sentative of the Palestinians
and by the United Nations
approval of PLO head Yassir
Arafat at the General Assem-
bly.
In a statement and in reply
to questions afterwards, Ya-
riv also said there was now
no one for Israel to negotiate
with. Raymond Epstein, pres-
ident of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds, presided at the press
conference.
Yariv said Israel could not
negotiate with Arafat because
of his call for a "democratic
state," a Palestine without
Israel. He said Israel seeks
a middle -ground, however
narrow, to start an effort to
negotiate, even with territor-
ial concessions. He said Is-
rael had intended to negoti-
ate with Jordan but that this
was not now possible.
When he was asked wheth-
er he believed there would
be another Mideast war, he
said that if there is no politi-
cal movement by December
or January, the danger of
war would grow because the
Arabs feel powerful and are
secure in support from the
Soviet Union, both politically
and militarily based on their
philosophy of "what is taken
by force must be retaken by
force."
Pinhas Sapir, chairman of
the Jewish Agency and World
Zionist Organization execu-
tives, denounced before the
CJFWF assembly the speech
by PLO chief Arafat as a
"foolish and futile attempt
to split the Jewish people
and the state of Israel."
Sapir termed Arafat's en-
tire speech an "utter distor-
tion of history (that) will not
deter the state of Israel and
the people of Israel."
Calling for the "entire Jew-
ish people to rally to the
state of Israel," Sapir said
that "the solidarity of the
Jewish people, united in its
concern for Israel -and in its
readiness to aid Israel, will
constitute the triumphant an-
swer to all those who plot
against the rebirth of the
Jewish people."
At the assembly it was an-
nounced that the 1975 CJFWF
general assembly will be held
in Philadelphia, to mark the
American Bicentennial. The
1980 assembly will be held in
Detroit, the completion of the
Renaissance projects assur-
ing sufficient hotel space for
the thousands of delegates.
Another major decision at
the assembly was the contin,
uation of the Institute for
Jewish Life until June of
1976. The Detroit delegation
was among the representa-
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Detroiters accepting the top prize certificate -for "best
year-round TV programming in Jewish content in a major
city" at the CJFWF general assembly in Chicago are, from
left: Alvin Kushner, executive director of the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Metropolitan Detroit; Nat Kameny,
chairman of the CJFWF public relations awards committee,
Jewish Welfare Federation president Mandell L. Berman,
and Jewish Community Council broadcast associate, Evelyn
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Orbach.
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Nat Kameny, left, chairman of the CJFWF public
relations awards committee, presented an honorable men-
tion award to the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation's
women's diiision for the photo display unit it uses at
"Communiteas." Communiteas are informal gatherings in
homes where small groups of women are introduced to the
concept of Federation. The display portrays Federation's
relationship to its local member agencies and illustrates
agency facilities, programming, and volunteer opportuni-
ties. Shown with Kameny are, from left: Federation presi-
dent Mandell L. Berman, and Federation's executive vice
president, William Avrunin.
tives instructed to vote for
another year's life for the in-
stitute.
During the plenary four
newsmen were named win-
ners of the 1974 Smolar
Award "for excellence in
North American Jewish jour-
nalism."
Lavy M. Becker, of Mon-
treal, chairman of the Smol-
ar Award Committee of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, said
the four were chosen from
among 62 entries submitted
in the third annual Smolar
competition.
The winners are: Leo
Mindlin, associate editor of
the Jewish Floridian, of Mia-
mi, in the competition for
columns and editorials; and
Max W. Jacobs, international
correspondent of the Buffalo
Jewish Review, in the com-
petition for, a special series
of articles.
Sharing the award for gen-
eral reportage and news fea-
tures are Robert A. Cohn,
edito•in-chief of the St. Louis
Jewish Light, and Gary Ros-
enblatt, 'associate editor of
the Baltimore Jewish. Times.
The award was established
in 1972 by the CJF in honor
of Boris Smolar, Editor-in-
Chief Emeritus of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency and still
active as a weekly columnist
for the JTA, a distinguished
journalist of long standing in
both the general and Jewish
press, as well -as the author
of various books on Jewish
affairs.
A group of seven reporters
and one newspaper were also
singled out this year for
award citations by the selec-
tion committee. The newspa-
per, the Philadelphia Jewish
Exponent, was given special
recognition for "its initiative
and reader service in the
publication of its monthly
supplement, the Friday For-
um, which is under the sup-
ervision of the Exponent's
editor-in-chief, Frank' n-
dohl. and the editors
Phyllis Z. Miller.
The seven reporters singled
out by the selection commit-
tee for special commendation
and citations for their year-
round local news reportage
in addition to the award win-
ners are: David Gross and
Jim Remsen of the Philadel-
phia - Jewish Exponent, Jeff-
rey Gale of the San Francisco
Jewish Bulletin, Lewis Lev-
endel of the Canadian Jewish
News of Toronto, Jakki Sayan
of the St. Louis Jewish Light,
Nina Liston. of the Cleveland
Jewish News, and Hirsh
Goldberg , of the Baltimore
Jewish Times.