22 Friday, June 27, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mrs. Sadat Cool to Leah Rabin
At Women's Parley in Mexico
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Mrs. Leah Rabin, wife of
Israel's prime minister, and
Mrs. Jihan Sadat, wife of
president Anwar Sadat of
Egypt, discussed the role of
women in their respective
countries during the Inter-
national Women's Confer-
ence in Mexico City and on
an American network televi-
sion program over the week-
end. However, the two "first
ladies" had no contact on
either occasion — largely
because Mrs. Sadat refused.
Both were delegates to
the international parley but
were interviewed separately
in the ABC-TV program
"Issues and Answers" Sun-
day.
Noting that "the hope was
expressed that you and Mrs.
Sadat might get together,
that you might get a chance
to meet each other," a re-
porter asked Mrs. Rabin
"would you still like to meet
Mrs. Sadat?" "Yes, very
much so," the premier's
wife replied.
She felt Mrs. Sadat's
speech was "very interest-
ing and very construc-
tive," although "of course,
there were a few remarks"
with which she could not
agree. Mrs. Rabin added
that "I truly believe that it
would have been vastly
important for something
that would serve as a be-
ginning. I mean a hand-
shake, any exchange of
even a few words because I
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Women's
Year Observance
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•
Points Up Changing Roles
By BORIS SMOLAR
Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
The International Worn-
en's Year now being ob-
served throughout the world
— proclaimed by the United
Nations — is drawing atten-
tion to the important role
which Jewish women in this
country play in Jewish com-
munal affairs.
Women raise today
among themselves about 10
percent of the more than
$600 million collected an-
MRS. RABIN
nually by Jewish federa-
tion, I don't see the reason tions, and many millions for
why not."
women organizations.
Mrs. Rabin said she had But even more important
made no effort to arrange than their effective partici-
such a meeting because Mrs. pation in fund-raising for
Sadat "had stated from the Jewish causes is the fact
very beginning that she that they are coming more
would not meet with the Is- and more to the forefront in
raeli representatives, and Jewish communal leader-
why force her. If she doesn't ship.
want to, we honor her
At every national gath-
wishes." (It was reported ering of major Jewish or-
Wednesday that Third ganizations one can now
World attendees and their see more and more women
sympathizers walked out as delegates, as equal par-
during a speech by Mrs. ticipants representing en-
Rabin.)
tire organizations.
Mrs. Sadat, who had The importance of the
asked the conference offi- active role of the Jewish
cers not to seat her near woman in communal affairs
Mrs. Rabin and refused to is also being felt in many
meet her, was spared any Jewish homes. Inspired by
questions on the ABC pro- the experiences in her corn-
gram about her attitude to- munal activities, the mother
wards the premier's wife of the house shares her in-
and she did not volunteer spiration with her adult
any comment about her. children.
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*
Women's Unit Branch Hit
for Opposing Aid to Israel
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Congress
National Women's Division
called on the Women's In-
ternational League for
Peace and Freedom to
"repudiate in unambiguous
and unequivocal terms" a
statement by the WILPF
New York Metropolitan
Branch opposing Israel's
request for $2.5 billion in
U.S. aid.
Leona Chanin, president
of the Congress Women's
Division, declared:
"Those who formulated
this statement presump-
tuously exploit the name of
women who have been op-
posed to American interven-
tion in Cambodia.
"They deny and distort
the position of those of us
who remain wholehearted
and unswerving in support
of the peace movement and
at the same time perceive
critical and decisive differ-
ences, in terms of America's
legitimate national inter-
ests, between support of
autocratic governments of
Southeast Asia and support
of the free and democratic
government of the State of
Israel.
"The lessons of history
are clear. If we have gained
nothing else from past
events, we should have
learned that the way to
maintain peace in the Mid-
dle East is to allow Israel
the means to defend herself
and thus deter the agressive
use of force against her peo-
ple and her borders."
The Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and
Freedom statement was
contained in a letter to Sen.
Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.),
signed for its New York
Metropolitan Branch Legis-
lative Committee by Ruth
Gage-Colby, UN representa-
tive, and Elaine Eldridge,
corresponding secretary of
the New York branch. Cop-
ies of the letter were sent to
76 Senators who recently
wrote to President Ford
supporting economic and
military aid to Israel.
In her protest to the
WILPF, Mrs. Chanin
charged that the statement
was "not checked, cleared or
confirmed by any of the na-
tional officers of the WILPF
or by its national sponsors
— many of whom we know
to be embarrassed by this
partisan and unauthorized
pronouncement."
Rep. Bella Abzug (D.-
N.Y.) resigned from the
WILPF in protest against
the misuse of her name in a
letter sent to members of
Congress by the New York
branch opposing aid to Is-
rael.
Ms. Abzug, who supports
the Israeli aid request, also
dispatched letters to Sen.
Javits and other members of
the Senate disassociating
herself from the letter.
The national leaders of
the WILPF also assured Ms.
Abzug that they would
write to members of the
Senate disassociating the
national organization from
the New York letter which
they said was sent without
their knowledge.
Israel to Reduce
Shlikhim in U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
reduction in the number of
Shlikhim Israeli emissaries
in the United States is un-
der way as a result of the
sharp decline in aliya from
this country to Israel and
budget difficulties.
Other measures of auster-
ity will include a closing of
offices throughout the U.S.
and a reduction to one emis-
sary in many communities
that presently have two or
more.
It also helps to strengthen
Jewish identity among ad-
ult children and to check the
possibility of intermarriage.
The great majority of
women active in Jewish
communal life are centered
around the Jewish federa-
tions and the United Jewish
Appeal. In New York alone
these women raised last
year about $20 million. In
Los Angeles and Chicago
they raised more than $3
"All these measures do
million in each city. In De-
not mean that we are going
troit and Miami they raised
to cut out activities on be-
more than $2 million in each
half of aliya," Yehoshua
city.
However, the value of Yadlin, director of Israc•
women's participation in Aliya Center in Nort.
communal affairs is in- America said Tuesday.
creasingly seen not merely
He said that aliya here
in their fund-raising activi-
will be encouraged through
ties but also in wide aspects
new means that will seek to
of communal life in which involve members of local
they show themselves as .a Jewish communities and
growing force. organizations.
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. .. and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
INSIDE JDC: The Joint Distribution Committee
speaks with pride of being a "Three R" organization — a
body engaged in relief, reconstruction and rescue for needy
Jewish communities overseas.
Originally, when the JDC was formed more than 60
years ago, it provided relief only. Those were the years of
World War I from which large masses of Jews in Poland,
Romania, Lithuania emerged impoverished. The JDC
opened hundreds of soup kitchens, milk stations and clinics.
It distributed huge transports of shoes and clothing shipped
from the United States.
Its reconstruction program began when JDC estab-
lished credit cooperatives and loan associations in hundreds
of towns throughout. Poland and Romania, enabling thou-
sands of Jews to obtain small capital as interest-free loans.
It also granted funds for restoration and upkeep of trade
schools, Jewish medical establishments and sanitary insti-
tutions. It opened a school for Jewish nurses in Warsaw
which won meritorious recognition by the League of Na-
tions. It developed an effective child care system and
brought about the solving of the problem of some 14,000
Jewish war orphans and children separated from their par-
ents during World War I.
JDC's rescue period started with the rise of Nazism in
Europe. Jews in Germany who sought to leave were aided
by JDC. After the fall of the Nazi regime JDC transplanted
hundreds of thousands of Jews from DP camps as "illegal
emigrants" to Palestine. This rescue program was later ex-
panded to take out Jews from Yemen and other Arab
countries.
* * *
THE WEILER PROPOSAL: Jack D. Weiler, the na-
tional chairman of the JDC, has suggested an "in-depth sur-
vey" of the organization. The study will range over the en-
tire gamut of the JDC -operations. It will take into
consideration the needs which the JDC may be called upon
to meet in the short-term future. It will review in depth the
governance of the JDC and its philosophy, and the final re-
port should be completed for presentation to the executive
committee in March 1976.
* * *
JDC METHODS: The formation of the study commit-
tee indicates best that the JDC does neither slumber noi
sleep in seeking new methods of bringing aid to needy Jew-
ish communities abroad. It has always been on the alert in
re-examining its program.
Today, the yearly budget of the JDC is about $30 mil-
lion, almost a third of which is spent on the JDC program
in Israel. The JDC is still spending about $4 million a year
on helping Jews in Moslem countries. It spends more than
$4 million a year in Eastern Europe, and $2 million a year
on relief for the needy Jews in Romania. It helps the ORT
system of vocational schools and religious projects in var-
ious countries, including the supply of matzos and other
Passover food.
The JDC study shows the determination of the leader-
ship of the organization to meet the JDC's historic objec-
tives.