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Jewish Leadership Lashes
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Dr. Joseph P. Stern-
stein, president of the
Zionist Organization of
America, said "It is a sad
case of a discredited man
who wishes to get even
with the media who he
feels harms him. He is so
debased he is willing to
stoop to anti-Semitic lies
to achieve this."
Herman Rosenbaum,
president of the National
Council of Young Israel,
said Agnew's remarks were
"a shameless display of the
kind of ignorance which
must always be viewed with
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concern. His statements in-
dicated a severe misunder-
standing of the nature of
the American press and
public opinion as well as of
the Zionist cause."
Israel's U.S. Ambassador,
Simcha Dinitz, said re-
marks such as Agnew made
are typical of anti-Semites
going back to the "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion."
Dinitz added, "I don't
think we should be oversen-
sitive" to such bigoted re-
marks. "The record of Israel
and of American Jews is so
splendid that we can walk
with our heads high and
look down at these things."
He also stressed that he did
not believe that Agnew's
views were shared by the
majority of the American
people.
New Settlements
in Northern Sinai
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Ten new settlements and
two kibutzim will soon be
established in the develop-
ment area of Rafiah in
northern Sinai, it was an-
nounced by Aryeh Dulzin,
treasurer of the Jewish
Agency and the World Zion-
ist Organization during a re-
cent visit to the local area.
Dulzin stressed the fact that
the WZO will accelerate its
efforts to create a whole
chain of Jewish settlements
in that region.
KOLLEL INSTITUTE
OF GREATER DETROIT
ANNUAL DINNER
Monday, June 14 at the
Southfield Sheraton
Hotel
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Dr. A. Zuroff
Morris Chandler
Chairman
Dinner Chairman
Nathan P. Rossen
Guest of Honor
Philip Minkin
Marvin Berlin
Joseph Borenstein
Co-Chairman
Ticket Chairman
Dinner
Committee Chairman
WE WELCOME THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY
For reservations and further information call 398 9095 or 356 6080
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Boris SmoIar's
'Between You
• • • and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
CJFWF ACTION: The Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds has embarked on a program which will
enable Jewish communities — and their agencies — to se-
cure government grants to which they are eligible but which
have previously not been sought nor obtained. For this pur-
pose it opened an Action Office in Washington.
Jewish federations and the institutions which they sup-
port may ultimately receive many millions of dollars in
newly-found federal money. The Action Office will initiate
and process their applications for eligible funds. It will fol-
low up these applications with government departments in
Washington, and will also arrange for representatives of lo-
cal federations to meet with government officials in Wash-
ington concerning their applications.
Communities are eligible to obtain federal grants for
building apartments for the aging, child-care cultural pro-
grams, vocational education programs for Jewish immi-
grants from the Soviet Union, nutrition programs for sum-
mer camps and Jewish schools, as well as blind and hard-of-
hearing.
Thirty Jewish federations, including Detroit, have thus
far applied for government funding of housing for the eld-
erly. The CJFWF Action Committee has followed up these
applications with the respective government offices in
Washington. Nine of these applications involving $25 mil-
lion were recently approved. The other applications were
also found to be in good order, according to inquiries by the
Action Office with the proper government quarters. Federa-
tion representatives will give Congressional testimony con-
cerning the state of crisis in housing for the elderly.
The Action Office also succeeded in securing clarifica-
tion from the Department of Agriculture of the application
of kashrut laws to the government's Food and Nutrition
program. As a result, it is estimated that Jewish day camps
and residential camps will be funded this summer with well
over $1 million brand-new federal dollars in New York, Bos-
ton, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Denver, At-
lanta, Minneapolis and other cities.
ADVICE AND GUIDANCE: There are quite a !vim-
ber of opportunities for Jewish projects to become eligible
for government funding — some of them practically un-
known. The Action Office in Washington developed a serv-
ice for fedefations, sharing with them the vast amount of
information concerning federal funds and the intricate pro-
cedure by which which funds could most efficiently be
obtained.
Federal funding is now being sought for the purchase
and preservation of 31 of the earliest Yiddish-language
films — including the original film "The Dybbuk" — which
would otherwise be lost forever to both the Jewish and gen-
eral public.
The New York Federation will now receive, potentially,
the sum of $250,000 as a grant from a Bilingual Vocational
Education Agency in WaShington for a model vocational
training program for Soviet immigrant Jews. It will receive
even larger sums for e ontinuing language training of such
immigrants. Officials of the Department of Labor had dis-
cussed the bilingual grant for Soviet Jews in the U.S. with
representatives of Jewish federations. Top officials of the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare held similar
discussions for funding bilingual consumer education for
these immigrants.
Hebrew schools throughout the country are now study-
ing materials sent to them by the Action Committee from
Washington to guide them.in their efforts toobtain feeding
money for kosher commodities.
Several senior citizen programs in federations such as
Miami and Cleveland are now preparing to ask assistance
from the Library of Congress for individual senior adults to
receive tape and record players, as well as materials, free of
charge. Federal reading services for the blind and those un-
able to read standard print will also be sought. The Action
Office, through its contacts with government offices, will
seek to stimulate in Washington speedy decisions on the
various applications.
GOODWILL IN WASHINGTON: Federal offices are
very willingly helping the CJFWF Action Office with infor-
mation, applications, consultations and guidance of every
kind.
The monetary total of much of the federal assistance
received by federations and their agencies due to Action Of-
fice work will be tallied within a few weeks, when many
federal agency decisions will be reached on pending applica-
tions. The total is expected to reach many millions of
dollars.
In the meantime, it can be said that the CJFWF pres-
ence in Washington is held in high esteem in government
circles there and that members of Congress and Senate Are
eagerly helping the. Action Office to solve specific federa-
tion problems with regard to applications for government
funding. White House contact has also been established by
the Action Office on desired levels for funding for federa-
tion-related programs.