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National Meetings in New York
Celebrate UJA 40th Anniversary
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Author Elie Wiesel will lead
a celebration of the people of
Israel at the United Jewish
Appeal 40th anniversary
banquet Saturday night in
the New York Hilton Hotel.
Wiesel's appearance at
the banquet will combine a
tribute to Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate Premier
Menahem Begin of Israel
and the people of Israel as
they carry on their search
for a just and lasting peace
with a celebration of the
40th anniversary of the
UJA.
Other events at the UJA
national conference this
weekend include three ple-
nary sessions and a series of
lifeline workshops on such
topics as campaigning,
budget and allocations,
Project Renewal and Soviet
Jewry.
"An Expression of
Support and Solidarity:
The Destiny of Soviet
Jewry, 1978-79" was the
Thursday topic of Leon
Dulzin, Jewish Agency
chairman and chairman
of the historic Brussels
Conference on the
human rights of Jews in
the Soviet Union. The
second UJA David Ben
Gurion Award was pre-
sented at this session to
the Soviet Jewish Pris-
oners of Conscience.
The second plenary ses-
sion, "Project Renewal and
the Jewish Agency
Lifeline," is scheduled for
today. Akiva Lewinsky, the
new treasurer of the Jewish
Agency, will make a pre-
sentation of the human
needs and aspirations be-
hind the lifeline programs
sustained by the Jewish
Agency 1978-79 budget.
The presentation will in-
clude an in-depth account of
the aims, dimensions and
current status of Project
Renewal.
The Sixth Annual Louis
A. Pincus Memorial Lec-
ture, "Camp David and Af-
ter" will be held Saturday.
Four scholars will lead this
public forum: Prof. David E.
Aapter, Yale University;
Prof. Martin Peretz, Har-
vard University, and editor
of The New Republic; and
Prof. Richard E. Pipes, Har-
vard University. The mod-
erator will be Prof. Michael
L. Walzer, Harvard Univer-
sity and chairman of the
UJA Faculty Advisory
Cabinet.
Baron Guy de Rothschild
was guest of honor at the
national leadership dinner
Thursday. There was also a
tribute to Simha Dinitz, Is-
rael's Ambassador to the
United States, and to
Chaim Vinitsky, the UJA
director general in Israel.
On the eve of the UJA
conference, Detroiter Max
Fisher, chairman of the
Jewish Agency, called for a
renewal of support for the
UJA. Fisher said a peace
with Egypt could lead to
immigration to Israel of
35,000 persons in 1979.
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UJA AT 40: Marching with time, the United Jewish
mysteries of the mind
Appeal came to its 40th anniversary national convention in
Exciting entertainment for your club or organization. An
New York this week with a very important innovation in
amazing demonstration of ESP and mind reading with audi-
its structure. For the first time since the historic agreement
ence participation.
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destine Appeal (now UIA) was signed 40 years ago, merg-
ing their two separate campaigns by establishing the
United Jewish Appeal as their unified fund-raising arm,
the governing body of the UJA — the board of directors —
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will be reconstituted.
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The board of directors has been composed all these years
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of representatives of the JDC and UIA only. These agencies
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were and are the only corporate members of the UJA. The
present change also will bring into the board representa-
tives of the UJA Campaign Cabinet and representatives of
BETTER CLOTHES & CUSTOM TAILORS
Jewish communities. The board will henceforth be com-
posed of 10 members designated by JDC, 10 representing
the United Israel Appeal, plus — for the first time — five
representatives of the campaign leadership recommended
SPECIALIZING IN LADIES' & MEN'S
by the Campaign Cabinet, and five representatives from
the communities. The election of the directors from the
RESTYLING & ALTERATIONS
communities will be worked out under a special procedure.
"WE HAVE MASTERED THE ART
In addition to the above 30 members, there will also be on
OF INTRICATE FITTING"
the board the UJA national chairman and the UJA
president, thus bringing the total-board membership to 32.
ON FINEST BRAND NAMES
The JDC and UIA will remain the only corporate members
IN MEN S CLOTHING
of the United Jewish Appeal, also for_the future.
INCLUDING BIG & TALL,
The new UJA structure testifies best to the democratic
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spirit of the agency. It widens the representation on the
board in a way that the JDC and UIA — its two corporate
members — will no longer be the only ones to make policy
decisions; the fund-raising organ of the UJA — the Cam-
paign Cabinet — and some of the larger Jewish federations
now will also have a say in decision making. The forinula
for the new structure was agreed upon by all sides involved
after examining several alternatives. .
POWERFUL FORCE OF UNITY: The restructuring of
the UJA governance opens a new page in the book of 40
years of UJA history. It gives the communities a better
voice.
During the years of its existence, UJA became a powerful
force for Jewish unity and strengthening Jewish identity
among many thousands of American Jews through its
enlightening public relations system.
The first episode in its saga encompasses the years of
World War II, 1939-1944. During this dark period, about
165,000 Jews were rescued by UJA funds from the Nazi
death machine; of them more than 76,000 were moved to
Palestine — then under the British Mandate — despite the
A proverb has three char-
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mast dangerous wartime conditions on land and sea; the acteristics: few words, good
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remaining 89,000 were moved to the United States and sense, and a fine image.
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other free countries. UJA funds also made possible the
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sending by JDC of food parcels and money into Nazi-
controlled ghettos. •
Immediately upon the conclusion of the hostilities in
1945, UJA funds began to pour in a life-giving stream —
through the JDC — into Europe, to care for the concentra-
tion camp survivors, to provide relief and welfare for an
ever widening mass of Jewish displaced persons numbering
more than 250,000 by the end of 1946, and to reconstruct
through the JDC Europe's Jewish communities, most of
which were in ruins at the end of World War II.
With the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the
ORGANIZATION FOR REHABILITATION THROUGH TRAINING
UJA provided funds that_made possible the ingathering of
Jewish exiles from Moslem lands, including the transfer to
Israel of virtually the entire Jewish community of Yemen
— a mass airlift which went into Jewish history under the
name of "Magic Carpet," involving 50,000 men, women and
/-3- ildren. This was followed by airlifts that brought to Israel
( great - majority of the Jews of Iraq, numbering more
`man 120,000 Men, women and children.
By becoming a member of Women's American ORT, you will be giving a
30 PLUS 40: The 40 th . allrii- versary of the UJA coincides
Chanukah gift of educational skills to thousands of students.
with the ntiii anniversary of the establishment of the state
of Israel.
*ORT - The vocational training program of the Jewish people in Israel, the United States and
Special attention will be given at the parley to the UJA's
more than 20 other countries around the world.
newest project — Project Renewal — which aims to rebuild
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the slums in Israel. The project is considered the most
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imaginative in UJA history and will be the basis of the
Kindly enroll me as a member of WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT
1979 campaign. More than $7 million — gifts by 28 people
— has already been pledged for this campaign at a $100,000
minimum gift dinner, in addition to contributions to the
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regular UJA campaign. Sortie $21 million has been pledged
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on other occasions.
ADDRESS
Irwin S. Field is the young and energetic national chair-
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man of UJA, who has brought the 1978 campaign to great
CITY
heights and who will be re-elected to his leadership position
RETURN TO: 21540 W. Eleven Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076
Attached is check.for $10.00 covering dues.
for 1979. To him this project—for which the UJA will raise
For further information please call ... 355-9151
special funds parallel with the regular yearly drive —
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means to improve the quality of life for 300,000 people now
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living in the slums in Israel, 200,000 of whom are children.
At stake is the future of the next generation in Israel, he
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