10 Friday, November 1, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Program Guide to the 49th General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Federations, Nov. 11-16
TUESDAY
8 p.m.-10 p.m. — Women's Division reception for all women
delegates.
WEDNESDAY
8 a.m.-9 a.m. — Breakfast session, Large City Budgeting
Conference.
8 a.m.-9:45 a.m. — Women's Division — nine concurrent
sessions — planning for regional services.
9 a.m.-Noon — LCBC Budget Review: Panel A —
Synagogue Council of America, American Associa-
tion for Jewish Education. Panel B — America-Israel
Cultural Foundation, Jewish Labor Committee.
Panel C — Jewish War Veterans, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
10 a.m.-Noon — Women's Division plenary session on "A
JewiSh Response to the Challenge of the 80s."
10:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m. — Leadership Skills Training Session
(pre-registration required).
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. — Informal luncheon for Women's
Division.
1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. — Women's Division Ideas Bazaar.
1:30 p.m.-5 p.m. — LCBC Budget Review: Panel B — Na-
tional Conference on Soviet Jewry; Panel C —_ North
American Jewish Student Appeal.
2 p.m.-5 p.m. — Reception at Detroit Institute of Arts spon-
sored by Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. — LCBC budget review: National
Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.
4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. — Orientation for first-time partici-
pants; College youth informal reception.
5 p.m.-6:15 p.m. — National Leadership Development
Committee.
6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. — Dinner session, Women's Division
presidents seminar.
6:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m. — Leadership development: dinner
honoring Young Leadership Award winners.
7 p.m.-8:45 p.m. — LCBC budget review: Joint Cultural -
Appeal; "Grantsmanship: Securing and Using Gov-
ernment Funds" (For Cities Under 15,000 Jewish
Population); Careers in Jewish Communal Service,—
an informal meeting for college students; Orientation
for newly-elected Federation presidents.
9 p.m.-10:30 p.m. — Open Plenary Session: Welcome:
George M. Zeltzer, President, Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation of Detroit; Report on the State of Federations by
Morton L. Mandel, CJF President; Recognition of
. Young Leadership Award winners.
10:30 p.m. — Young Leadership opening session: Experien-
tial program: introduction to Symposium on the
Jewish Family; Informal reception for delegates; Col-
lege youth orientation.
THURSDAY
8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Concurrent Breakfasts: Forum I:
"Strengthening the Jewish Family: Developing a
Community Support System": Workshop 1 — "The
Unmarried"; Workshop 2 — "Early Married Life and
Families with Young Children"; Workshop 3 —
"Families With Teenagers"; Workshop 4— "Families
With College Youth"; Workshop 5 — "Families at
Mid-Life - and Retirement"; Intermediate Cities
Presidents Seminar; LCBC Budget Review: Bnai
Brith Hillel and Youth Organization, Jewish Welfare
Board, American Jewish Committee and American
Jewish Congress.
8 a.m.-10:15 a.m. — Concurrent Breakfasts: "Multiple Ap-
peals: New Issues Around An Old Problem"; Wash-
ington Action Office; Developing Cultural Resources
as Part of the Ongoing Communal Agenda;
Strengthening the Links Between the North Ameri-
can Jewish Community and Israel.
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. — Endowment Fund Development.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Diaspora Jewish Communities
Facing New Challenges (Argentina, Iran, Ethiopia);
Meeting the Needs of the Volunteer-Directed Com-
munity; Federations and Jewish Community News-
papers; Mutual Responsibilities.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Campaign Session I (In coopera-
tion with United Jewish Appeal); Large Cities
Presidents Seminar.
1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. — Women's Plea for Soviet Jews.
2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. LCBC Budget Review: Anti-
Defamation League, HIAS.
2:30 p.m.-5 p.m. — Forum II: The Struggle for Soviet
Jewry at a Time of Tension and Change: A
Program of Action for Local Communities.
2:30 p.m.-5 p.m. — Intermediate Cities; Leadership De-
velopment Symposium; Federation-Synagogue Rela-
tions; Small Cities Presidents Seminar; Small Cities.
2:30 p.m.-5 p.m. — Federations and the Media: Cable Tele-
Vision and Its Potential; College Youth and Faculty:
The Large City Budgeting Conference
Reviews Major Agency Needs Anually
LCBC seeks to advance Council. Individual com-
The Large City Budget-
ing Conference (LCBC), es- the mutual interests of the munity support for LCBC
tablished in 1948, is a joint participating communities agencies is usually a matter
activity of the larger Jewish and the cooperating agen- for the decision of each
federations designed to im- cies. It provides a channel community separately.
prove their budgeting for for community representa-
LCBC is housed' in the
national and overseas tives and national agency Council of Jewish Federa-
needs. The LCBC is a coop- leaders to consider together tions' offices. It is a sepa-
perative process of research, how much support each rately budgeted and staffed
consultation and recom- agency requires in total and operation supported by its
mendation on the budgets from federationl on the member federations.
and programs of national basis of an objective Member federation support
U.S. Jewish agencies for analysis of the agency's is provided by dues based
U.S. member communities program, budget and upon a mutually agreed
rather than an agency hav- sources of income, and a upon formula published an-
ing an existence separate consensus on community nually with the LCBC an-
priorities as perceived by nual budget and dues
from its constituents.
All the constituent LCBC both the communities and schedule.
federations are members of the participating agencies.
Actions of LCBC are
the Council of Jewish Fed-
Participation of member taken by the representa-
erations. Their estimated communities and of tives of the member com-
Jewish population is gener- cooperating agencies is vol- munities at LCBC meet-
ally over 20,000. Their indi- untary, and recom- ings. They are not subject to
vidual amounts raised an- mendations of the Large ratification by the Council
nually are from $2 million City Budgeting Conference of Jewish Federations or by
to $17 million. They allo- are' advisory in nature. any other body.
cate from $100,000 to up to LCBC does not usually
For those agencies which
$1.5 million annually to the recommend specifically how participate in the LCBC
participating LCBC na- much should be contributed budget review process,
tional agencies. (New York to a particular agency by LCBC's analyses provide:
City is not included because the individual member
• A channel of two-way
it is not organized along communities. However, to communication
with
federation lines.)
' meet the Soviet Jewish ref- agency leadership which
The LCBC conducts reg- ugee emergency in 1979, makes it possible for corn-
ular joint budget review specific community recom- munity representatives to
meetings with cooperating mendations were made for learn agency needs and
participating national and the support of HIAS.
services for the current year
overseas agencies to ex-
In 1980, LCBC sought to and the reasoning behind
change views and enhance institute a "Fair Share shifts in proposed budget-
understanding of the agen- Dues" plan for individual ary provisions for the corn-
cies' actual operating needs, community support of the ing year and to transmit
rather than-their campaign National Jewish Commu- and receive suggestions.
goals.
nity Relations Advisory Agency representatives be-
came more aware of the
community needs, requests
and ability to fund the
agency programs;
• Advisory or informa-
tional comments about as-
pects of an agency's pro-
grammatic or functional fi-
nancial experience which
may have a bearing on other
programs in the same area,
or about the impact of an
agency's activities in com-
munities or in a total field of
service in which the agency
participates;
• LCBC presents advisory
recommendations formu-
lated by community repre-
sentatives about the prag-
matic reasonability and/or
the communal priority and
urgency of an agency's
budgetary requests and
financing, including the
total amount sought from
federations;
• Special reports and
minutes, as required by
LCBC resulting from LCBC
or its subcommittees' activi-
ties, .meetings and special
inquiries covering specified
program areas or organiza-
tions of interest to LCBC
member communities, or
providing additional back-
ground financial or statisti-
cal data of assistance to
local community budgeting,
allocations or social plan-
ning committees.
,
Creating a Jewish Community on Campus: Issues
and Skills for the Campus Leader; Women's DiVision
Seminar (For professional directors of Women's Di-
visions); New Developments in United Way: Impli-
cations for Federation.
5 p.m.-6 p.m. — Cameo appearance in the college youth and
faculty loinige; Leadership Development Consulta-
tions.
5 p.m.-8:30 p.m. — Dinner Session, National Committee of
Small Cities Annual Meeting.
9 p.m.-10:30 p.m. — Plenary session: "Israel-Diaspora Re-
lations: Partnership and Interdependence" with -
Menahem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel. Recbgni
tion of federation anniversaries and recognition of
Rabbinical Award winners.
10:30 p.m. — Reception for delegates by Detroit Jewish
Welfare Federation.
11 p.m. — Film Festival on Soviet Jewry: "Where to Wan-
der, When to Rest" and "They Chose Freedom."
FRIDAY
8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. — Forum III: "The Continuing Quest for
Peace and Security in the Middle East"; Soviet
Jewish Resettlement; Public Relations: Communica-
tion Techniques of the Future; Saving Money
Through Energy Conservation; Intermediate Cities;
Small Cities; The Voluntary Sector: A Critical Ingre-
dient in North American Democracy; Jewish Educa-
tion (Confronting the Needs of the Weekday Congre-
gational School).
8 a.m.-Noon — LCBC Executive Session.
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. — Assembly Action, Smolar Awards
for Excellence in North American Jewish Jour-
nalism.
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. — Leadership Development: Model
Program Workshops (Images of Israel, Community
Relations, Community Concepts, Leadership Skills);
Jewish Federation Pooled Income Fund; Small
Cities; Campaign Session II; The Growing Concern
for the Jewish Handicapped; Soviet Jewish Reset-
tlement.
1 p.m.-2 p.m. — Luncheon Session, CJF Board of Directors.
2:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m. — Forum IV — Serving the Aging in the
1980s: Public-Voluntary Collaboration (Presenta-
tion followed by three concurrent workshops on
Housing, Health Care, and Human Resource);
Women's Division Cabinet: "Road-Map To The Fu- .
ture"; Women of Achievement Presentations; Small
Cities; Intermediate Cities; College Youth and Fa-
culty; Leadership Development (Three sessions):
Campaign Practicum, The Effect of Mass Activities
on Leadership Development Programs and Demon-
stration of Model Program on Soviet Jewry; Budget-
ing, Planning and Priority-Setting: A Year-Round
Enterprise; Revolutionary
- Cliariges in the Islamic
World.
4:55 p.m. — Candle Lighting.
6:30 p.m.-7 p.m. -- Shabat Services.
7 p.m.-9:15 p.m. — Shabat Di-liners and Programs: General
community dinner arranged by the, Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, Young Leadership dinner and
College Youth dinner.
Oneg Shabat: Rediscovering Our Legacy:
9:30 p.m.
Sephardic Life and Culture.
10:45 p.m. — Cameo appearance in the college youth and
faculty lounge.
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SATURDAY
8 a.m.-9:45 a.m. — Informal breakfast discussion: "Integra-
tion and Distinctiveness: An Appreciation of the
American Jewish Experience."
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. — Judaic Teach-In; Women's Division
Shabat study group; Student teach-in.
9:30 a.m. — Traditional services.
10 a.m.-Noon — Assembly Shabat service with sermon by
Herschel W. Blumberg, national chairman, United
Jewish Appeal.
Noon — Kidush by the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation.
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. — Informal Sessions, Canadian insti-
tute.
2 p.m.-3 p.m. — Cameo appearance in the college youth and
faculty lounge.
3:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m. — Oneg Shabat: "Projecting the 80s —
A New Generation of Scholars Views the Jewish Fu-
ture.
9 p.m.-10:30 p.m. — Plenary Session: Implications of the
Results of the U.S. Elections for the Concerns of
North American Jewry; Shroder Awards.
10:30 p.m. — Film Festival; Reception for young leaders;
Reception for college youth.
SUNDAY
8 a.m.-10 a.m. — Closing Plenary Session.