THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 11, 1975 5
CJF Convention Discusses Priority Concerns at Home and Abroad
ATLANTA (JTA) — The
spring quarterly board and
national committee meet-
ings of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds (CJF) were held here
last month.
Jewish communal leaders
and Federation executives
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from North America as-
sessed the full range of con-
cerns and priorities of their
communities at home, over-
seas, and in Israel.
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Among the highlights of
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the meetings was a report
ton the piesent status of
ommunity federated cam-
- aigns which, as of the end
of February, have raised
almost $230 million for lo-
cal, national and worldwide
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Jewish needs.
On two major issues con-
sidered by the community
• planning committee, the fol-
lowing actions were taken:
in the matter of "Local Re-
settlement of Soviet Jews,"
the creation of a broad-
based national committee to
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Writers Urged
to Support Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The
biannual meeting of'the Is-
raeli Writers Association
ended last week with an
appeal to Jewish writers all
over the world to rally ar-
ound Israel -and support its
position and cause.
Another resolution urged
writers in general to act ac-
cording to their conscience
with regard to the Middle
East conflict. Resolutions
were also adopted protest-
ing the genocide conducted
against the Kurds by the
Iraqi regime and in Indo-
china.
The two-day conference
was attended mostly by "old
guard" Israeli writers with
few young faces present.
The main theme of the gath-
ering was the need for unity
among Israeli writers.
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In its review of the
"Impact of the Recession on
Jewish Communal Serv-
ices," federations were
urged to seek out fresh
funding sources, in particu-
lar governmental, and to be
open to more intensified
service needs, new clients
and to maintain an ongoing
review of their agency's
programs.
At the meeting of the ov-
erseas services committee,
Israel Protests U.S. Official's Talk
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Foreign . Ministry
lodged a formal protest with
the American Embassy over
what it considers an unau-
thorized meeting recently
by the U.S. economic and
commercial attache, Daniel
Nestor, with members of
the Ramallah Chamber of
Commerce in that West
Bank Arab town.
The ministry asked the
embassy to see to it that any
future contacts between
American diplomats and
West Bank residents are
arranged through the Is-
raeli military government.
According to the Foreign
Ministry, Nestor's remarks
at the meeting were inter-
preted by the Arab busi-
nessmen as advice to discon-
tinue doing business with
American firms through
Palestinians Hold
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Jewish community" to
them before they leave
Europe.
COPENHAGEN (JTA) —
A secret conference of Pa-
lestinian organizations was
held recently in the small
town of Gilelie, north of
Copenhagen. Seventy dele-
gates from Britain, West
Germany, Holland and Bel-
gium and other countries at-
tended the conference,
whose secret was kept even
from the Danish police.
A leader of the Danish
Community for Palestine,
Eskild Hoiland Olsen, re-
ported the conference, say-
ing that one of the items on
the agenda was the opening
of a Palestine Liberation
Organization information
office in Copenhagen.
their Israeli agents and to
establish their own direct
contacts with the firms in
the U.S. instead. Nestor has
denied that he made. any
statements of a political
nature at the meeting.
Max M. Fisher, chairman of
the Jewish Agency board of
governors, reported that the
agency's budget has had to
be cut from $750 million to
$500 million.
The newly-constituted
national planning commit-
tee for Jewish education
and culture explored effec-
tive means for the develop-
ment of comprehensive
national services and lead-
ership in the field that
takes into account existing
organizational structures.
The committee's timeta-
ble looks to have its propos-
als for an intergrated and
coordinated national
approach shaped within 30
days, available for commu-
nity review and reaction
before the summer and
ready for consideration by
the general assembly in
November.
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