THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 16 Friday, March 21, 1980 Democratic Movement May Bolt Boris Smolar's Likud Government's Coalition `Between You • • . and Me' EXCALIBUR Hair Styling Salon JERUSALEM — The secretariat of the "Demo- cratic Movement" will dis- cuss proposals from mem- bers Sunday that the movement pull out of the Likud coalition. The issue will be raised despite movement chairman Yigael Yadin's stated wish that the discussion be deferred. Several leading Demo- crats, including WZO Executive member Eli Eyal and secretariat chairman Yisrael Granit met with Yadin in Jerusalem Tues- day night to ask him to take the party out of the govern- ment "in the national inter- est." They cited the gov- ernment's failing popular- ity, its settlement policy (to which the movement stead- GUY MINNELLA International Hair Styling Award Winner 353-4848 Call for your appt. 24901 Northwestern Suite 111 Heritage Bldg. S.W. 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The Democratic Movement, Yadin argued, should not be the factor responsible for bringing down the govern- ment and forcing it to face these problems as a lameduck 'transitional gov- ernment' pending election- s.Under Israeli law 100 days must elapse be- tween the dissolution of the Knesset and the hold- ing of new elections. Dur- ing that period the gov- ernment continues to function as a 'transi- tional' administration. But the secessionist dele- gation was unconvinced and pressed for the issue to be aired by the secretariat. Yadin summoned home fel- low DM Minister (of justice) Shmuel Tamir who is pre- sently in Canada, and the two of them are expected to rally their supporters to head off the move to take the DM out of the coalition. Observers say that never- WE HAVE THE 2ND LARGEST SELECTION IN MICHIGAN! SHELVING • RACKS • WORKBENCHES • STEEL BEAMS • PIPE • ELECTRIC MOTORS • CHAIN HOISTS • TOOL BITS • MILLING CUTTERS • THOUSANDS OF QUILTING TOOLS • ETC. • ETC. • ETC. 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Labor- But the affiliated daily news- paper Davar claimed Wednesday that two DM knesseters, Zaidan Atshe and Shlomo Eliahu had put out feelers towards the Labor Alignment with a view to joining should the DM finally fall apart. Eliahu is publicly on record as favoring the DM's secession from the government. The Democratic Move- ment unrest follows hard on the heels of a near-secession move in the National Reli- gious Party. Veteran party leader Dr. Yosef Burg spoke publicly last week about the prospect of early elections, but, at a Knesset faction meeting this week he ap- peared to back away, saying that the NRP should not be the factor that brings about the government's downfall. The other two NRP ministers, Hammer and Abuhatzeira, joined with Burg in urging that the party defer any further dis- cussion of the "malfuntion- ing of the government" for the time being. Only two faction members (out of 12) hawk Yehuda Ben-Emir and dove Avraham Melamed, dissented from this line and advocated a heart-searching discussion right now. Group Fighting Religious Sexism NEW YORK — A nationwide network of Catholic, Jewish and Pro- testant women has been formed to combat sexism in religion. The organization will serve as a clearinghouse for the gathering and exchange of information, according to Annette Daum, a consul- tant to the Union of Ameri- can Hebrew Congregations, which is sponsoring the group. Mrs. Daum said the net- work's members would con- duct research to correct mis- interpretations of women in biblical and religious his- tory, work to eliminate church and synagogue prac- tices and policies that dis- criminate against women, and seek to expand the em- ployment of women in or- dained and other profes- sional posts in churches, synagogues and other reli- gious institutions. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) THE "THREE-WAY COMPETITION": National Jewish organizations depending to a certain extent on allo- cations from the Jewish federations, find themselves in financial difficulties. They are compelled to introduce au- sterity in their programs. They are in a three-way competi- tion for federation funds needed and sought by local groups and institutions, the United Jewish Appeal and then` selves. In some federations a view is advanced that the sup- port of national agencies is the obligation of "somebody else." This is completely contrary to the policy of the Coun- cil of Jewish Federations and far from the attitude of the Large City Budgeting Conference that reviews the budgets of 32 major national agencies and recommends allocations for them by the federations. The LCBC, comprised of 29 largest communities in the country, is aware of the difficul- ties some communities face in providing sufficient re- sources for all concerns of the federations. However, this is a consensus of opinion among the LCBC members — who are also top leaders in their communities — that in the process of budgeting a way must be found by the federations to provide for the national agencies without pitting them against local agencies. FEDERATION ALLOCATIONS: Some of the na- tional mass-membership agencies are also having difficul- ties in maintaining their membership rolls. This is believed to be due to the changing demography in some areas of the country. For 1980, the LCBC recommended to the federations that they allocate to the American Jewish Committee $1,440,000 compared with 1979's $1,220,000. This equals about 15 percent of the total contributions the AJCommit- tee expects this year. For the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, the 1980 allocations recommended by the LCBC are $1,455,000, compared to $1,398,000. This would make 14 percent of the total contributions anticipated by the ADL this year. For the American Jewish Congress, allocations by federations totalling $760,000 in 1980 were recommended, compared with $650,000. This constitutes about 13 percent of the total income from contributions expected by the AJCongress in 1980, including income from tours which its women's division conducts. Allocations of $1,202,000 were recommended for 1980 to be made by federations to the Jewish Welfare Board. In 1979, $1,114,000 was recommended. The LCBC recom- mendation does not include other community income of the JWB, as well as the funds which the agency receives from the New York Jewish community. In general, the LCBC advised the mass-membership agencies not to incur this year any deficits and to balance their fiscal operations by having their expenditures match the available income. SPECIAL AID TO "YIVO": There are two kinds of national agencies which present their budgets to the LCBC for analysis and for recommendation of allocations. One is the independent national agency, such as the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League. The other is made up of the na- tional agencies created by the Council of Jewish Federa- tions, like the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council — the roof organization of 11 national Jewish bodies and 106 local Jewish councils fighting bigotry — and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture which administers the Joint Cultural Appeal on behalf of nine national cultural organizations. The CJF has created the agencies of the latter category at the request of the federations. They have no fund-raising mechanisms and the federations feel a special obligation toward them. The communities do not wish to see the ef- forts of these agencies dissipated in fund-raising activitic- The NJCRAC requested from the federations $570,000 f 1980. For the Joint Cultural Appeal, the LCBC recom- mended a 1980 total federation allocation of $701,000 f operating requirements of the nine agencies which the- Appeal represents. In addition, the LCBC was advised of the critical reduction in the assets of YIVO — one of the nine agencies — as it sought to cope with a past cumulative deficit. In view of the communal heritage represented by YIVO archives, it was the opinion of the LCBC that a special funding campaign should be developed to relieve the YIVO's financial emergency. Books, like friends, should be few and well cho- sen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again — for, like true friends, they will never fail us — never cease to instruct — never cloy. Next to ac- quiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Colton