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THE DETROIT JEWISH MRS
CJF Plans 'Jewish Renewal' for Israel and the Diaspora
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Jewish renewal in the Dias-
pora and in Israel will be the
central purpose of 1979
campaigns in local Jewish
communities in the United
States and Canada. This
was decided at a meeting of
Jewish community leaders
convened by the Council of
Jewish Federations (CJF)
in cooperation with the Un-
ited Jewish Appeal.
The effort for Israel will
include participation in the
$1.2 billion program to close
the social gap for some
300,000 persons living in
economically distressed
neighborhoods.
The plan was outlined by
Leon Dulzin, chairman of
The Kremlin's Aims
Toward Soviet Jewry
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Editor-in-chief emeritus, JTA)
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
What makes the Soviet
government increase the
Jewish emigration now, at a
time when it uses harsher
measures against Jewish
activists and intensifies its
anti-Jewish propaganda in
the Soviet press, radio and
printed books?
This question is now
being carefully studied by
major Jewish organiza-
tions.
Moscow is the world's
greatest distributor of
anti-Semitic literature.
Some experts in this coun-
try advance the following
explanations of the duplic-
ity of the Soviet govern-
ment:
• Actually, rulers in the
Kremlin would now like "to
get rid" of as many Jews as
possible, having apparently
come to the conclusion that
this would help them to
solve the "Jewish problem"
they created. However, they
face the difficulty of exp-
laining to the non-Jewish
population as to why Jews
are permitted to emigrate
and non-Jews are not.
Hence their propaganda in-
side the country is concen-
trated on making Soviet
citizens perceive Jews as an
untrustworthy -element
that the country is better off
expelling.
• The Soviet government
is well aware of the fact that
many Soviet Jewish emig-
rants are proceeding to the
United States instead of to
Israel. But they have obvi-
ously come to the conclusion
that Soviet Jewish emig-
rants constitute no danger
for the USSR when in the
United States; their arriv-
ing in the U.S. in large
numbers can be utilized by
Soviet diplomats in
Washington as "proof" that
Jewish emigration from the
USSR is not hindered.
Therefore, they claim the
American ban on export
credits to the Soviet Union
is not justified.
Soviet policies are usu-
ally opportunistic. Jewish
organizations in the U.S.
are therefore watching the
increased emigration from
the Soviet Union, but they
are also watching the con-
tinued harassment by
Soviet authorities of Jewish
applicants for emigration.
In a survey conducted
among recent emigrants
from the Soviet Union both
in Israel and in Rome where
they are congregated as
"drop-outs," 53 percent of
those surveyed reported
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion Executive and acting
chairman of the Jewish
Agency, and Dan Shim-
shoni, staff director of a
joint committee of the
Jewish Agency and the Is-
raeli government. They said
the project would include
new or improved housing,
employment training, home
management training, aid
for the aged, family counsel-
ing, services for youth, men-
tal health and other prog-
rams.
Peggy Tishman of New
that they were dismissed, York, chairman of the
CJF's
community plan-
demoted or obligated to res-
ign from their jobs because ning committee, told the
local
leaders
that pro-
of their applications for
emigration. In the light of jects especially targeted
this information, leaders of for Jewish renewal in the
major Jewish organizations U.S. and Canada would
in this country are taking a include education, the
'wait and see" attitude. single parent families,
While welcoming the in- the increasing number of
creased Jewish emigration, aged, Jewish youth, re-
they point out that there are settlement of Soviet
also other Jewish grie- Jews, coping with the
vances against the Soviet mobility of Jews into new
treatment of Jews — grie- areas and especially the
vances that concern Jewish renewal of Jewish iden-
tity and commitment.
rights.
Irwin-Field, UJA general
It was therefore puzzl-
ing to many Jewish chairman, told of plans to
groups that the American reach many more potential
Jewish Congress tes- donors. "The time has come
tified before a Congres- to raise more on the basis of
sional subcommittee in Jewish ethics than for fear
Washington in favor of a and death," Irving Berns-
bill relaxing the ban on tein, UJA executive vice
export credits to the chairman, stressed. "This is
Soviet Union. This was for Jewish spiritual re-
done in obvious disre- newal, community renewal,
gard of the sentiments of family renewal, unity,
the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry of which
the AJCongress is one of
the 40 affiliated organiza-
tions.
So far, the State Depart-
ment is against any change
at this time in the legisla-
tion curbing credits to the
Soviet Union. So is the pow-
erful American Federation
of Labor which has a strong
influence in Washington
and is generally opposed to
extending credits to Russia
because of the Kremlin's
disregard of human rights.
AJCongress leaders want
their move to be seen as a
quid pro quo- to Moscow and
as a "symbolic equivalent of
the recent modest increase
in Soviet-Jewish emigra-
tion."
Contrary to the AJCon-
gress, the American Jewish
Committee, while taking
note of the increase in the
number of exit permits is-
sued by the Soviet au-
thorities to Jews wishing to
emigrate from the USSR,
called upon the Soviet gov-
ernment now to free the
Jewish Prisoners of Consci-
ence; to release Anatoly
Shcharansky and others; to
permit Soviet Jews the full
national religious and cul-
tural rights to which they
are entitled, and to end the
persecution of Jews such as
Pavel Abramovich and
Grigory Goldstein, who
seek to study and teach
their cultural heritage.
Very few in the U.S. are
aware of the fact that the
Nazi system of inquiring
into the Jewish origin of
grandparents recently has
been introduced in the
Soviet Union.
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