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Friday, January 25, 1985
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Highlighted by a concert of
songs in many languages and
anecdotes by singer-actor Theo-
dore Bikel, the Allied Jewish
Campaign kicked off its annual
drive Wednesday night at Shalom
Synagogue.
Entertaining an audience of
more than 400 persons, Bikel
sang in English, Hebrew, French,
Russian and Spanish. He gave his
own rendition of the Purim story
and peppered his concert with
some social commentary and
humor.
He called for Jews to be "active
Jews, not reactive Jews," adding
that "we are a noble people and we
cannot hang our identity on some-
thing that our enemies do, we
cannot wait, mustn't wait for the
threat of annihilation or
holocausts or wars in the Middle
East or the obliteration of Israel
before our Jewish muscle asserts
itself.
"Because if we wait for anti-
Semites to yell for Jewish blood
before we assert our Jewishness,
then we allow the anti-Semites to
define our Jewishness for us."
He elicited laughter from his
audience when he described his
program for the evening. "I sing a
lot of Jewish songs to non-Jews
and a lot of non-Jewish songs to
Jews on the simple theory that the
non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse
of the Jewish world and the Jews
are entitled to a glimpse of the
world."
The theme of the evening and of
the AJCampaign was "Partners"
and Jewish Welfare Federation
President Joel Tauber em-
phasized the theme when he
enumerated the services provided
by the funds gained in the drive.
In particular, he cited the re-
scue of Ethiopian Jews,
nicknamed Project Moses, which
helped bring more than 14,000
persons to Israel. "This is simply
another demonstration of the
partnership of Jews," Tauber
said.
Following a slide presentation
entitled, "Partners," describing
the Federation's agencies funded
by the AJCampaign, Robert Naf-
taly, 1985 Campaign chairman,
listed pledge totals realized in
pre-Campaign activities.
Naftaly said that $14,908,000
had been pledged to date, showing
an increase of $1,600,000 on a
person-to-person basis over 1984.
Tile five-year total for Project Re-
newal stands at $6 1700,000 while
$640,000 had been pledged for
Project Moses. Naftaly said that
although therewas an increase in
contributors during the pre-
Campaign phase of the drive, the
community-wide phase is show-
ing a downward trend. To offset
this trend, Naftaly said that con-
tributors must be encouraged to
increase their pledges and "we
must seek out new people to
broaden our base."
Tauber said last year's cam-
paign marked a record, raising
$21 million in cash. Naftaly said
this year's goal is $22.5 million or
more.
Rabbi Lane Steinger of Temple
Emanu-El recited the invocation,
substituting for Adat Shalom's
Rabbi Efry Spectre. Naftaly's
Campaign co-chairman, Stanley
Frankel, introduced Bikel, who
was accompanied on the piano by
Elliot Finkel.
NEWS
Bible For Blind
New York — The Jewish
Braille Institute of America has
launched a historic project to pub-
lish large-print Hebrew and
English editions of the Five Books
of Moses for free distribution to
severely visually-limited persons,
according to Dr. Jane Evans, JBI
president.
The new editions are intended
for distribution exclushrely to the
visually-impaired rather than to
institutions. Synagogues and lib-
raries are urged to refer such per-
sons directly to the Jewish Braille
Institute, 110 East 30th Street,
New York 10016.