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out their ideas, "the outcome was better
than either of our original plans." Cohen
has great admiration for Bronfman, whom
he describes as "very open and very strong
in his Jewish comniitments."
The two men did not work in a vacuum.
About 50 leaders and thinkers from the
U.S., Canada and Israel were consulted
through both formal and informal discus-
sions, including Canadian novelist Mar-
garet Atwood, film director Norman
Jewison, Rep. Mel Levine (D-Cal.), Rabbi
Aharon Lichtenstein of Har Trion Yeshiva
in Jerusalem, Reynold Levy, president of
the AT&T Foundation in New York, Robert
Fulford, editor of the Canadian magazine
Saturday Night, Ibm Dine, executive direc-
tor of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee in Washington, Rabbi Gerson
Cohen, chancellor emeritus of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of New York, and Eli
Allali, mayor of Dimona, Israel.
The end result was the concept of the
Foundation supporting programs which
improve communication, promote mutual
understanding and cooperation, encourage
high standards of achievement and develop
a broad international perspective.
As a catalyst, said Cohen, the Founda-
tion will "identify and stimulate in-
dividuals and groups to develop major in-
itiatives on key issues." In addition, it will
entertain funding requests for projects
related to its areas of interest.
Further, the Foundation will be "devel-
opmental" in that it will look at long term
solutions, seek to have its programs in
Canada and the Jewish world reinforce one
another, and look for allies in other
foundations.
Cohen insists that money alone is not
the answer to the problems facing the
Jewish world. How that money is used —
creatively — is the key. "The Jewish world
has had a lot of money for some time now,"
he says, "but that has not necessarily
meant that it has been used in the most
effective way in solving our most impor-
tant problems.
"The Foundation has to be quite modest
in its assessment of the role of money," he
continued. "What is important is to marry
money to talent and ideas for specific pur-
poses and plans that can be implemented."
The Foundation has a senior staff of five
in Montreal and is opening an office of one
in Jerusalem this week. A major part of
the staff's job, according to Cohen, is to
"live and breathe the areas of concern and
to know the difference between an answer
and a cliche. We have to have a good ear,
to know what the concerns are out there
and determine whether we could make a
major contribution to solving a problem."
Cohen's approach — and this is what ap-
pears to separate the CRB Foundation
from other existing Jewish foundations —
is to be "problem-oriented rather than
institution-oriented." He cites Jewish
education as an example of a problem area
where, until now, the communal response
has been to fund various institutions deal-
ing with Jewish education rather than
"starting from scratch, from zero budget-
ing, and say here is this problem, how can
we best deal with it." He feels that foun-
dations can play "a special role" outside of
the framework of maintaining existing
institutions.
"Foundations can be more responsive to
constituencies that are disenfranchised
and, until now, less involved in Jewish life.
We should be on the cutting edge, able and
willing to seek out and bring together
diverse forces and find new modes of
creativity."
As a Jewish community, Cohen believes
we concentrate too much on politics and
not enough on culture, and he wants to find
ways to change that, sometimes by com-
bining the two. For example, the Founda-
tion is planning to deal with the problem
of polarization among Jews by offering a
grant to the Israel street theater company
that comes up with the best original pro-
duction dealing with the problem. The
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The CRB logo, fittingly, in French,
English and Hebrew.
group would then perform the play
throughout Israel and perhaps the U.S.
and Canada as well.
The Foundation also plans to "inculcate
key Jewish values in our individual and in-
stitutional lives," says Cohen, "like peace
and justice, holiness and mercy," adding
that "when it comes to the concerns of the
Jewish people, those who ignore values are
the losers?'
"Jewish unity is not a given, it's a
challenge," he says, "and it's an enormous
conceptual problem to figure out solutions
that are more than cliches. Jewish exper-
iences are so different, and they can't be
bridged by declarations."
Cohen is hoping to bridge them through
creative ways of attacking problems and
making sure that the Foundation reaches
out beyond the existing institutional
framework.
Does he feel burdened by the respon-
sibility? "Yes," he responds, "I do feel the
heaviness of it. And I do wake up at night
worrying. But I've always done that, wor-
rying about Jewish issues."
Ethiopians Meet Shamir
Costa Mesa, Calif.—A nationwide organ-
ization representing all sectors of Ethiopian
Jewry in Israel was formed recently with the
sole purpose of increasing the rescue of
Ethiopian Jews still in Africa. As its first
task, the committee met with Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir.
The group, called the Joint Committee of
Ethiopian Jews, met with the prime minister
as well as with members of Israel's Knesset.
At the meeting, the committee pointed out
that whereas 15,000 Ethiopian Jews cur-
rently live in Israel — most as a result of the
airlifts Operations Moses and Joshua — as
many as 10,000 Ethiopian Jews remain in
Africa. In addition to facing famine, drought
and religious discrimination, they are sepa-
rated from children, siblings and parents.