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Citrin's 'Joint Agenda' Given to Assembly
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of our Israeli brothers and
sisters."
Another element in the
joint agenda, Citrin said,
"are our deep concerns
about anti-Semitism and
relationships here in
North America and
world-wide."
The strength of the North
American Jewish commu-
nity has in no small part
been due to the work of the
communal federations in
organizing and in-
stitutionalizing "an incom-
parable network for human
services for our own people
and for the disadvantaged of
this continent and beyond,"
Citrin said.
To show how well the
Federations system has
done, Citrin offered some
data — 1932 versus 1982.
"As a base line reference,"
he said, in 1932, the Jewish
population in North
America was 4,380,000; in
1982, 6,263,000, an increase
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of some 43 percent. In 1932,
there were 125 federations
although the majority of
these were welfare funds
only and not full-fledged
federations. Today, there
are 200 full-fledged federa-
tions in North America.
Continuing, Citrin
pointed out that there were
3,500 synagogues in North
America in 1932 and 5,400
today; 2,000 Jewish schools
in 1932 and 2,500 today.
Within those numbers,
there were 12 day schools in
1932, compared to 600 to-
day; student enrollment
numbered 200,000 in 1932,
compared to 360,000 today.
In 1932, Citrin said,
Jews in North America
raised $17 million in their.
annual campaign; in
1982, Jews in North
America will have raised
through Federation
campaigns, including
Project Renewal, $640
million. Starting from an
organization of 13 federa-
tions in 1932, it has grown
to 200 federations today.
What of the next 50
years? Citrin asked what
will be the North American
agenda and how will it be
implemented?
The first priority on the
agenda of total concerns is
Jewish education, Citrin
said. "Without Jewish edu-
cation, there is no Jewish
people," he observed.
Another priority on the
agenda of Jewish concerns,
Citrin said, is the relation-
ship between North Ameri-
can Jewry and Israel once
"true and enduring peace"
has been established in that
land. "Think about the pos-
sibilities of our understand-
ing and working with each
other in the context of peace
and not war," he told the
delegates.
"First, of course, to
save the threatened
Jewish communities of
the world wherever they
now are or might be in the
future — Ethiopia, Syria,
Soviet Russia ..."
Continuing, Citrin also
called upon the audience to the Project Outreach ses-
"think about the possibility sion on Innovative Services
of developing the network of to the Elderly; and Mandell
know-how and investment L. Berman, discussing
between the affluent and Jewish studies on college
experienced Jewish com- campuses. Former CJF
munities of the world and President Max Fisher
Israel to help bring to full chaired an oneg Shabat
fruition the industrial and focusing on Israel-Diaspora
economic opportunities relations.
available there — a people-
Other
Detroit
to-people link, not just a dol- attendees
included
lar link. We have our first Madge Berman, Marlene
glimpse of the power of this Borman, Sam and
kind of relationship in Proj- Thelma Cohen, Avern
ect Renewal."
and Joyce Cohn, Dr. Paul
In the final analysis, Cit- and Shirley Feinberg,
rin said, the agendas for the Wayne and Leslee Feins-
years ahead, "in reality, are tein, Stanley and Judy
the same agendas that we Frankel, Lynda Giles,
have had for the last 4,000 Rabbi James Gordon,
years: a yearning to exist, Irwin and Bethea Green,
not by sufferance but with Dr. Martin and Sharon
pride and hope and worth, Hart, Dr. Allen Juris,
with comfort and meaning Alan Kandel, Thomas I
in our lives."
and Linda Klein, Alvin
Other participants from and Ruth Kushner,
the Detroit area at the Gen- Henry Lee, Joel Milinsky,
eral Assembly included Judy Naftaly, Michelle
Robert H. Naftaly, vice Passon, Norman Rosen-
chairman of the Large City feld, Larry and Jane
Budgeting Conference, who Sherman, Bernard and
chaired a panel for budget- Barbara Stollman, Max
ing review; Dulcie Rosen- and Frieda Stollman,
feld, speaking on "Televi- Phillip Stollman, Joel
sion: Cable and Beyond"; Tauber and George M.
Linda Lee, chairman for Zeltzer.
session 1 of the Leadership
Dr. Hart and Mrs. Lee
Development Symposium: attended as young leader-
Large and Intermediate ship awardees. Rabbi Gor-
Communities; Dr. Conrad don was Detroit's rabbinical
L. Giles, a group member of delegate.
Have U.S. Jews Become
a Single-Issue Community?
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish commu-
nity today is "more isolated,
more self-centered, and
more particularistic," ac-
cording to Albert Vorspan,
vice president of the Union
of American Hebrew Con-
gregations (UAHC), in the
current issue of Reform
Judaism.
In "A Hard Look at
Jewish Leadership: 1948-
1982," Vorspan contends
that "Israel and Soviet
Jewry have become the only
truly Jewish issues in our
social action firmament.
"Jews — who have always
condemned single-issue
group§ like the anti-
abortion fanatics and gun
nuts — now appear, to the
non-Jew and sometimes
even to themselves, as a
single-issue community,"
he writes.
Amid all the changes in
social action activities, Vor-
span says, "one reality has
remained. The Reform
movement is still at the cut-
ting edge within the Jewish
community."
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