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Every five years, top leaders of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and of the United Israel Appeal — the two founders of the United Jewish Appeal 45 years ago as their merged fund- raising arm — get together at a ceremony to sign their renegotiated agreement of partnership. The agree- ment sets the sums that each of the two partners should receive from the funds which the UJA se- cures from 210 Jewish fed- erations and from about 450 non-federated community campaigns. The ceremony last week took place in a spirit of enduring friendship and understanding of each other's needs. There was no bargaining as to the di- vision of allocations. The merger of the two agencies' fund-raising into the United Jewish Appeal was a direct response to the infamous Nazi "Kris- tallnacht" of Nov. 10, 1938, when synagogues were burned in Germany and scores of Jews were beaten and killed. This made the leaders of American Jewry realize that only a decen- tralized fund-raising body could fully mobilize the re- sources needed to meet the crisis confronting the Jews of Europe on the eve of World War II. The five-year renewed contract provides that =the United Israel Appeal is to receive yearly 88 percent of the "first $200 million se- cured by the UJA and 75 percent of the excess raised. The JDC is to receive 12 percent of the first $200 mil- lion and 25 percent of the excess. The UJA receives about 62 percent of the funds raised in campaigns conducted by Jewish federa- tions. Together with the `Jews fare better in Iran than Bahai counterparts' Washington (JTA) — While Jews and other reli- gious minorities in Iran are discriminated against, they are not persecuted in the way that members of the Bahai faith are, Elliott Ab- rams, assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs said. Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommittee Location of U.S. embassy draws fire at home, abroad AOrq. MN ^ A6 • Washington (JTA) — The State Department main- tained last week that its de- cision on the location of the U.S. Embassy in Israel will not be influenced by threats from Arab countries. "We determine our own policy based on our assess- ment of our interests," de- partment deputy spokes- man Alan Romberg said. He added that President Re- agan has recently stressed U.S. opposition to Congres- sional efforts to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Romberg's remarks came after he refused to comment on a reported statement by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt that Egypt would break diplomatic relations with any country that moved its embassy to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, president of the Moral Majority, charged last Tuesday that the United States has made an international "door-mat" out of Israel by the refusal to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The U.S. position is "a slap in the face of one of our true friends in the world," the Protestant fundamen- talist leaders said in testify- ing before a joint hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommit- tees on Europe and the Mid- dle East and on Interna- tional Operations. sums it receives from non- federated community cam- paign.s it was able last year through the UIA to trans- mit $325- million in cash to the Jewish Agency in Israel for various humanitarian purposes. Originally, the JDC was the senior partner of the UJA, receiving a larger than the UIA from fu raised by UJA. With trie mass-emigration to Pales- tine of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, liberated after the fall of the Nazi re- gime, the UIA became the larger partner in the UJA allocations. In a related development, the president of Costa Rica has declared that he would "not give in to diplomatic terrorism" and move his na- tion's Israeli embassy out of Jerusalem. Addressing the annual convention of B'nai B'rith International's Caribbean District in Panama last week, President Luis Al- berto Monge said that he transferred the Costa Rican Embassy from Tel Aviv "not for military or economic reasons, but be- cause of morality," and would not move it back again. In Paris Olivier Stirn, who was a minister in the government of former President Valery Giscard d'Estaire, is urging France and all western European governments to transfer their embassiesin Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Stirn heads an opposition minority list, supported by an ecological splinter fac- tion, which is running for election to the Parliament of Europe. The elections will be held July 23. He said that once his faction is seated in the Parliament, he would "tirelessly press" for the move. Neither the govern- ment nor the major opposi- tion parties have com- mented on Stirn's proposal. Unofficial spokesmen said the former minister was making an open bid for Jewish votes. on human rights, Abrams said that in one of the world's "worst" human rights problems, the regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini "has virtually criminalized" the Bahais. Viewed as "heretics and as a potential fifth column for the U.S. or Israel, the Khomeini regime has rob- bed the Bahais of their rights as citizens in a way sickeningly reminiscent of Nazi Germany's treatment of German Jews before the Holocaust," Abrams said. Judaism, however, is a recognized religion and Jews can practice their faith and teach it to their chil- dren, Abrams said. He noted that "synagogues and religious schools operate, at least in Teheran" and the Jewish community has a representative in the Ira- nian parliament. But, Abrams said, "the Khomeini regime is fiercely anti-Zionist and anti-Israel, with little distinction dis- cernable between these sen- timents and anti-Semitism. Iranian Jews have been forced to make anti-Israel statements in public and prominent Jews, particu- larly those who may have visited Israel during the shah's regime, are always in danger of being denounced as Israeli agents. The loy- alty of all Jews in Iran is suspect," Abrams said. He added that "Zionism" is considered a capital crime in Iran and several Jews were executed on charge spying for the U.S. or and for Zionism in the early days of the Khomeini re- gime. New LA center for HUC-JIR New York — Plans for a $20 million cultural center in Los Angeles have been announced by the Los Angeles unit of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish In- stitution of Religion (HUC-JIR), with ground- breaking scheduled for early in 1985.