Friday, 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. NEW CADILLAC? ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CR ISS MAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. 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