THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

26 Friday, November 1, 1980

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Biblical Games
Offers Unique
Strategic Analysis

"Biblical Games: A
Strategic Analysis of
Stories in the Old Testa-
ment" by Steven J. Brams
(MIT Press), brings a new
approach to the study of the
Scriptures — the use of the
mathematical theory of
games. Brams uses the
theory to explore the central
question of theology, man's
relationship to God.

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which it is demonstrated
that biblical 'players,' (God
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Boris Smolar's

`Between You
. . and Me'

Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA

(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

THE CJF ASSEMBLY: The Council of Jewish Fed-
erations, central body of the 199 Jewish federations which
serve nearly 800 communities embracing over 95 percent of
the Jewish population in the United States and Canada,
will hold its 49th General Assembly in Detroit next week
with an ambitious and imaginative project. The project
gives a new dimension to federation fund-raising and opens
a new era in this field.
Today, federations raise about $560 million annual'
This sum is allocated to a network of local institutions
services, to national organizations and agencies, and —
through the United Jewish Appeal — to Israel and the
Joint Distribution Committee to help meet Jewish needs
overseas. The annual expenditures of this network is over
$3 billion.
The CJF project has as its objective raising $1 billion
annually instead of the $560 million being raised pre-
sently.
The goal of $1 billion is not considered a mere dream by
the CJF leaders. It is based on the simple fact that today top
performing federations have set a standard which, if
matched by the other communities, will produce the needed
results. The project is built on a concept of "collective re-
sponsibility" of all communities in this country. It is in line
with the ancient tradition of "Kol Israel Areivim Zeh
B'zeh" ("All Jews carry collective responsibility for each
other").
CJF leaders identify a potential of at least $1 billion a
year achievable by federations within the next five years.
Most recent documentation indicates that this level of
achievement is within the capacity of the community cam-
paigns.
A process which involves new cooperative national-
local campaign planning by the CJF, UJA and the commu-
nity federations has already been set in motion in connec-
tion with the projected $1 billion total goal. It is guided by
the CJF's Campaign Planning Advisory Committee. Its
approach involves assessment by each community of its
own fund-raising capacity, based on collective responsibil-
ity.
FUND-RAISING RE-EXAMINATION: Deter-
mined to see the $1 billion project put into operation with a
minimum delay, Morton L. Mandel and Robert Hiller, the
president and executive vice president of the CJF, have
been busy visiting communities to explain to local leaders
the importance of collective responsibility of all federations
as an arsenal of mutual assistance. They find a response
which shows a growing recognition of the interdependence
of all communities and a concern of each community for
what goes on in the other cities.
Simultaneously, a CJF/UJA Campaign Planning Task
Force is also visiting communities with the objective of
reaching the $1 billion total. Top lay and professional lead-
ers from the CJF and UJA join local leaders for a thorough
examination of the community's fund-raising potential. A
comprehensive strategy for the community's 1981 cam-
paign is delineated at the Task Force meetings. Twenty-
two of the communities visited have already accepted a
1981 campaign objective of more than $287 million, which
is $60 million more than what they raised last year. Some
70 communities are expected to participate in the CJF
project during the first year of its operation.
WELCOMED REASSESSMENT: Parallel with the
"collective responsibility" plan to raise $1 billion annually
in the 1980s for communal obligations, the CJF leadership
is also seeking to develop the endowment funds of the
federations to over $1 billion in this decade. At present
these funds have reached a level of more than $400 million.
Fifty federations maintain endowment funds.
Needless to say that with the growing inflation, 0 11111-
CJF plans for the annual fund-raising campaigns and tot
the endowment funds are of utmost importance to local,
national and overseas institutions and agencies supported
by the Federations. They all are struggling to meet their
budgets. The UJA shows increases every year in the total
amounts it secures. However, these increases are a small
amount compared with the constantly rising inflation.

The CJF projects are therefore welcomed by all Jewish
communal institutions and national agencies. They are
also welcomed in Israel, since the UJA receives its share
from the federation campaigns on a proportional basis and
Israel gets loans sometimes from the endowment funds.
The projects will be the center of discussions at the CJF
General Assembly in Detroit which will be attended by
more than 2,000 lay leaders and professionals from the
communities all over the United States and Canada — the
largest Jewish parliamentary gathering in the world today
and in Jewish history.

