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By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
ATLANTA (JTA) — The
Jewish community in the
United States and Canada
is facing a period ahead that
is fraught with uncertain-
ties and challenges that will
require "faith, commit-
ment, courage and vision,"
to ensure "the safety and
strength of the state of Is-
rael and the creative con-
tinuity of the Jewish
people," Martin Citrin,
president of the Council of
Jewish Federations told
some 3,000 delegates from
the United States and
Canada attending the`52nd
General Assembly of the
CJF.
In his keynote address
last week Citrin, of Detroit,
told the Jewish communal
leaders that the theme of
this assembly, "Coping With
Change: Federations Con-
front the Challenges of an
Uncertain Future," reflects
the year that is drawing to a
close, a year "of crisis and
confrontation for America,
for Israel and for our Jewish
people."
Israel had to deal "with
the consequences of its
military power" and in con-
frontation with "the
realities of its economic and
political condition," Citrin
said. In addition, "Soviet
Jewry was forced into
deeper isolation — activists
of anti-Semitism reared
their ugly heads in western
Europe, within the Eastern
bloc and within Latin
America."
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MARTIN CITRIN
never relax — indeed, we
must intensify our efforts to
keep this tragic situation
central and up front on the
world's humanitarian
agenda of our own and other
governments."
The "partnership of con-
cern" also involved efforts
on behalf of the Jews of
Ethiopia. "We must state
categorically and emphati-
cally that we are proud of
the efforts of Israel and the
Jewish Agency to bring to
Israel in 1983 the largest
number of Ethiopian Jews
ever to arrive in one year
and, this, at huge sacrifice
and risk in human terms,
including physical danger,"
Citrin declared, but without
disclosing the number.
Focusing on the
American scene, Citrin
dealt with the problem
that he said has become
one of "increasing con-
cern" over the last 20
years: "The mobility of
Jewish America." He
pointed out that just as
North America is on the
move, so is Jewish
America, "even more so.
Significant portions of
our people will not reside
as adults in communities
where they were born. In
fact, in the quest for
livelihood, professional
growth, career or per-
sonal achievement, many
will have moved once,
twice, three times and
even more."
Continuing with this
theme, Citrin noted that
"mobility and 'continental
citizenship' has obvious ad-
vantages but a price is paid
in rootlessness and defec-
tion. I am talking about our
rootedness with families,
with friends and familiar
surroundings — rootedness
in Jewish lifestyle and at-
homeness, which we tend to
take for granted."
He warned that unless
Jews on the move are
sought out, welcomed and
made to feel comfortable
and can have ready access to
Jewish life in their new
communities, "they will be
prone to drop out." To avoid
this, Citrin said the federa-
tions must convey to Jews
on the move that "the
Jewish community cares
about them and their well-
being and offers them access
to Jewish institutional life,
to the synagogue, to the
Jewish school, to the Jewish
community centers" and to
all other available services.
Mayor Andrew Young of
Atlanta who was greeted
both at the beginning and at
heart-breaking losses as
a peace-keeper in Leba-
non and in implementing
its world respon-
sibilities," he observed.
And within the U.S., "we
continue to be concerned
that our government in-
volvement with the
human condition is di-
minished."
In dealing with the inter-
relationship between North
American Jewry and Israel,
Citrin pointed out that "the
future of the generations
that follow us is inextrica-
bly linked to Israel as a
source of our deepening
commitment to our sense of
Jewishness and spiritual
identification
"Israel will increasingly
become an operational
source through which we
crystallize and catalize our
heritage of Judaism for our-
selves and transmit that
heritage to our children."
As a concrete example of
this, Citrin noted the need
to become more intimately
and more directly involved
with the Jewish Agency "to
promote our joint goals and
objectives." This, he em-
phasized, "points to increas-
ing involvement of our fed-
erations, who seek to par-
ticipate in facilitating aliya
for those constituents who
want a new life in Eretz Is-
rael, and for seeking
strengthened and more ef-
fective linkage with Israel
as a central resource for
Jewish education."
However, he stressed,
"for all that Israel is and
will be in our lives — it is
not and cannot be a sub-
stitute for our own in-
creased commitments to
creative Jewish con-
tinuity at all levels in our
communities. Our ability
to use Israel, in the best
sense of the term, will be
related to what we can do
for ourselves and with
ourselves in Jewish edu-
cation and in our own
home environments."
Dealing with what he
termed "a Jewish com-
munal partnership of con-
cern with Jews of oppres-
sion," Citrin said, to sus-
tained applause, that Soviet
Jewry "has been upper-
JERUSALEM (JNI) — A
most" on the agenda of the
total of 4,065,000 people
CJF.
live in 1,091 settlements
(cities, towns, villages, etc.)
He recalled that the CJF
according to Israel's 1983
was well represented at
census, which was released
Brussels III Conference last
earlier this fall.
spring in Jerusalem when,
"with Jews and non-Jews
The figures show that
from all parts of the world,
during the last decade, the
we called upon the Soviet
country's population rose by
government to open its
948,000, a 29 percent in-.
gates and open its hearts to
crease. The survey also re-
let our people go. We must
vealed that the average
the end of his brief welcome
address to the delegates
with sustained applause,
praised the work of the At-
lanta Federation in playing
a vital role in dealing with
and helping to accelerate
whatever chanels exist in
the city between the black
and Jewish communities.
Elie Wiesel, author lec-
turer and chairman of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council, delivered a
moving and frequently
poetic analysis of the
Jewish condition in the
world. He pointed out
that, "we live in an age of
fear, of quasi-despair."
He said the world faces
the danger of extinction,
"but as a Jew, I am op-
timistic. What can the
world do that it hasn't al-
ready done to us?"
He stated that Jews can
contribute to prevent a
global disaster and to pro-
vide guidance toward peace
because "we have a secret;
that secret is our memory"
of what has happened be-
fore. But that memory car-
ries with it a responsibility
to transmit it as a guide to-
ward a sane world. And this,
he said, in turn requires a
deepening of Jewishness,
otherwise that memory be-
comes lost.
The continuity and
transmission of this mem-
ory is in essence what the
CJF General Assemblies
are all about, Wiesel de-
clared.
Detroiters at
General Assembly
Detroiters attending the
General Assembly were:
James and Doris August,
Michael Berke, Mandell
and Madeline Berman,
David Bittker, Marlene
Borman, Martin and Myra
Citrin, Judge Avern and
Joyce Cohn, Dr. Paul C.
Feinberg, Wayne L. Feins-
tein, Stanley D. Frankel,
Dr. Conrad L. Giles, John L.
and Bernice Greenberg.
Also, Dr. Martin and Sha-
ron Hart, Lawrence tac-
kier, Dr. Allen S. Juris,
Thomas I. and Linda Klein,
Alvin L. Kusnher, Dr.
James and Ellen Labes,
Henry and Linda Lee,
Robert H. Naftaly, Michelle
Passon, Norman H. and
Dulcie Rosenfeld, Mark E.
and Roselynn Schlussel,
Rabbi Irving and Barbara
Schnipper, Jane Sherman,
Bernard and Barbara
Stollman, Joel D. Tauber,
Shelby Tauber and George
M. Zeltzer.
Census Reveals Growth,
Changes in Israeli Life
number of persons per Is-
raeli family declined from
3.8 in 1972, to a 1983 figure
of 3.5.
According to the census,
some 90 percent of the popu-
lation lives in cities, but
there is an increasing move
toward suburban life in Is-
rael.
Rejoice not over thy
greatest enemy's death.