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Friday, March 20, 1987
WINSTON PICKETT
Special to The Jewish News
FR
ROBIN MORRIS
thtl)
Agency Boosts Funds
To Israel Non-Orthodox
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
I
n an unprecedented move
that may signal a change
in its funding priorities,
the Jewish Agency has decid-
ed to allocate more than $1.6
million to new Reform institu-
tions and programs in Israel
this year.
In addition, an $864,000
allocation was granted for
Conservative programs in
Israel, which that move-
ment's leaders hail as a record
amount.
The two allocations bring
the total to more than $2.4
million earmarked for non-
Orthodox institutions, ap-
proximately five times more
than they had ever received.
The Jewish Agency, with
its ties to the World Zionist
Organization and the coali-
tion politics of the Israeli
government, in the past has
distributed the bulk of its
money to Orthodox institu-
tions. In 1983-84 for example,
about $26 million of the
Jewish Agency's budget was
allocated in that direction.
This year, it is estimated at
about $30 million.
The Jewish Agency's bud-
get for 1987-88 also includes
some $600,000 for programs
in Israel submitted by
various American Orthodox
institutions.
The new allocations to non-
Orthodox institutions follow
a year of heated and some-
times acrimonious debate
between Reform and Jewish
Agency leadership over how
public funds that are raised in
the United States are distri-
buted in Israel. Last year, the
Reform movement hinted it
might bypass the Jewish
Agency altogether if the
Jewish Agency failed to meet
its demands.
The Jewish Agency has
been under increasing pres-
sure to reform its methods of
allocating money raised in the
United States for Israel. San
Francisco's Jewish Communi-
ty Federation bypassed the
agency this year by sending
$100,000 directly to projects
in the Jewish state. Sources
have suggested that the
Jewish Agency agreed to the
Reform movement's request
because it feared that other
federations might follow suit
if the Jewish Agency didn't
restructure its dispensing of
funds.
The Jewish Agency's deci-
sion, disclosed at a meeting of
its board of governors in
Jerusalem last week, was an-
nounced by Rabbi Eric Yoffie,
executive director of the
Association of Reform Zion-
ists of America (ARZA). Yof-
fie called the allocation "a
breakthrough."
In 1985, all five institutions
of the Reform movement —
the Union of American Heb-
rew Congregations, Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion, the World
Union for Progressive Juda-
ism (WUPJ), the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis,
and ARZA — submitted a $4
million proposal to the Jewish
Agency.
In February 1986, they
were given $266,000, a sum
that Reform leadership at the
time called "wholly inade-
quate."
This year's allocation — $
1,642,000 — is earmarked for
the following programs in
Israel:
• $250,000 for Tzofei
Diem, Progressive Judaism's
national Israeli youth move-
ment, which includes a com-
munity outreach program
and social and educational
services to disadvantaged in
communities in Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem and Haifa.
• $250,000 for adult
outreach and social program-
ming in those three
communities.
• $181,000 for educational
programs at the Jerusalem
campus of HUC-JIR.
• $250,000 for family and
handicapped programing at
Beit Shmuel, the new
240-bed, 45-room WUPJ
youth center and hostel.
• $250,000 in for capital
building to complete con-
struction of Beit Shmuel.
• $129,000 for immigra-
tion and absorption pro-
grams, including Netzer
Olami, for Reform Jewish
-"olim" (immigrants) from the
United States, England,
Australia and South Africa.
• $156,000 for a six-week
summer program designed by
the UAHC for unaffiliated
Jewish youth and their
families.
• $146,000 for the In-
stitute for Jewish-Zionist
Democratic Values, which will
design educational programs
and teaching materials on the
roots of democratic values in
Jewish tradition.
• $32,000 for a two-week
summer youth camp for
disadvantaged inner-city
children from Thl Aviv.
In addition to those alloca-
tions, which are earmarked
only for programs (the