18 Friday, March 2, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Trudeau Critical of MPs for Meeting with Arafat
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members of the Canadian
Parliament had with Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion Chief Yasir Arafat in
Amman, Jordan this week.
The MPs are on a Middle
East tour sponsored by the
Arab League.
MONTREAL (JTA) —
Prime Minister Pierre El-
liott Trudeau and Conser-
vative opposition leader
Brian Mulroney dissociated
themselves Wednesday
from the meeting seven
Constitution
for Israel?
The Prime Minister's
office said Trudeau had not
sanctioned the 10-day trip
which the MPs, Liberals
and Conservatives, made
privately. An aide to Mul-
roney said he was not aware
of the trip. The meeting was
angrily denounced by
Canadian Jewish groups.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Justice Minister Moshe
Nissim believes Israel will
have a constitution within
the next two years, resting
on 10 basic laws.
He told reporters Tuesday
that within that time frame,
the Knesset will enact three
more basic laws, bringing
the total to 10. One basic
law was adopted this week,
dealing with the legal sys-
tem. The other three con-
cern the state comptroller,
human rights and the legis-
lative process.
SBA Regulation
Hurts Hasidim,
ADL Claims
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith (ADL)
called upon the Small Busi-
ness Administration (SBA)
last week to withdraw a
proposed rule that would
discriminate against Has-
idic Jews by virtually
excluding them from fed-
eral assistance for minority
businesses.
In a letter to Henry Wil-
fong, Jr., associate admin-
istrator for the SBA's
Minority Small Business
and Capital Ownership De-
velopment, Justin Finger,
director of the ADL Civil
Rights Division, charged
that the proposal goes be-
yond the intent of Congress
and places an almost in-
surmountable burden"
upon members of the
ultra-Orthodox Jewish
group who seek the gov-
ernment's help to start or
maintain small enterprises.
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According to the Arab League spokesman, Yassar
League office in Ottawa, Askari, said the MPs repre-
Arafat urged the MPs to sented the Canada-Arab
press the Canadian gov- World Parliamentary
ernment to officially recog- Group consisting of more
nize the PLO. An Arab than 70 MPs and Senators.
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1984, JTA, Inc.)
WOMEN LEADERSHIP: Women are now coming
more and more into high leadership positions in Jewish
communal service. More and more of them are holding the
post of president in Jewish federations and in national
organizations. Equality for women in the ranks of com-
munal leadership had been accepted long before the Equal
Rights Amendment.
In about 20 cities, the federation presidents are
women. Among the vice presidents in the country, 24 per-
cent are women. The president of Brandeis University is
for the first time in its history a woman — Dr. Evelyn
Handler. The president of the JWB is Esther Leah Ritz of
Milwaukee. The chairperson of the National Jewish Corn-
munity Relations Advisory Council is Jacqueline Levine,
the first woman to hold this post. Charlotte Jacobson is the
president of the Jewish National Fund, the first woman
ever elected to this highest position in the JNF in this
country. Bernice Tannenbaum, a former Hadassah
president, is chairperson of the World Zionist
Organization-American Section.
There is also an ever increasing number of women
holding positions as executive directors and assistant di-
rectors in Jewish agencies. They now comprise eight per-
cent of the professional top executives in the Jewish com-
munal system. At present, the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, the central body of the organized Jewish corn-
munities in the United States and Canada, is considering
plans to assure an even larger access for women into execu-
tive positions.
The CJF is on record since 1972 affirming the vital
importance of fully integrating women into the working
force of Jewish communal service and providing oppor-
tunities for them to rise to positions of leadership. Federa-
tions which elected women as presidents during the last
several years include New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore,
Boston, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Boston,
New Orleans, Louisville, Nashville, Phoenix and Madison.
THE "WOMEN'S DIVISIONS": Various Jewish
organization's, including the United Jewish Appeal, local
federations, Bnai Brith, ORT, American Jewish Congress,
HIAS, Jewish Labor Committee and all national religious
groups have separate women's divisions. But there are also
important national Jewish organizations which never had
such divisions.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is
one of them. It elects women to its executive and to its board
of directors on their merits and abilities. T6day, JDC has
quite a number of active women on its policy-making
bodies, some of them holding the positions of chairpersons
of the very important "area committees" which deal with
the needs of Jewish communities in various areas of the
world, including Israel. Other organizations which make
no distinction between men and women in membership and
leadership are the American Jewish Committee and the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. They have no
women's divisions.
The importance of women's divisions functioning as
separate groups within some national Jewish organiza-
tions is recognized primarily because of their separate fund
raising. Women's gifts to federation and UJA campaigns —
made in addition to the gifts by their husbands — totaled
about $66 million last year. Funds raised by the Women's
American ORT, which has a membership of 140,000,
amounted to about $5 million last year. Funds raised by the
women's division of the American Jewish Congress have
for years been a mainstay of the organization's budget.
The women's divisions also serve indirectly to
strengthen Jewish identity in the family. Intensely in-
volved in their fund-raising responsibilities, they are de-
eply concerned also with the needs for which the funds are
raised.
IMPACT ON COMMUNITY: With the march of
time, the women's divisions became a major force in Jewish
communal life, strongly supporting Israel, interested in
high-quality education for their children, and — as Ameri-
can citizens highly sensitive to issues of social policy.
The CJF Board was enlarged in 1968 specifically to make
available more places for women.
The impact of women on organized Jewish communal
life can now be seen best at the annual CJF General As-
sembly. Some 1,250 women from 110 communities
attended the Assembly last year.