BACKGROUND Who's taking care of your loved one NJCRAC Proposal Rocks Soviet Jewry Movement JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T while you're away for the winter ? If you're not sure, you should have called Progressive Care before you left. Progressive Care is a professional private duty health care service dedicated to assisting your loved ones when you're not there. Progressive Care offers experienced personnel who serve in homes, hospitals, senior housing facilities and nursing homes. Our personnel is sen- sitive to Jewish traditions and customs and is better prepared to assist your loved ones by not only meeting their clinical requirements, butalso their personal and spiritual needs. Progressive Care offers: ❑ Registered Nurses ❑ Nurses aides ❑ Licensed Practical Nurses ❑ Physical Therapists ❑ Occupational Therapists ❑ Male Attendants ❑ Live-ins ❑ Companions So, before you leave, be sure your loved ones are cared for. Call Progressive Care at he National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) met in Washington last week, and its proposal urging a waiver of the Jackson-Vanik amend- ment has reopened deep wounds in the Soviet Jewry movement. The Jackson-Vanik amend- ment tiesfavorable trade ar- rangements with the Soviet Union to improvements in that country's emigration policy. The National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) has been urging a go-slow approach to a waiver. "What we are say- ing is that we are in an "assessment mode: " said Shoshana Cardin, NCSJ chairman. "Our goal is to ful- ly determine whether the changes that have taken place in the Soviet Union will be codified; so far they have not:' More to the point, NCSJ planners were hoping to pro- duce a unified response to (313) 273-2005. PROGRESSIVE CARE Progressive Care is an affiliate of Comprehensive Aging Services, Inc. Cardin: 'assessment mode' • The world's leading custom closet company. • A decade of service and experience. • One day installation, spotless cleanup. • Fully adjustable. 3160 Haggerty Rd., West Bloomfield UNIQUE CONCEPTS IN SPACE PLANNING CALIFORNIA (North of Pontiac Trail in West Bloomfield Tech Center) (313) 624.1234 1, 1.983 California Closet Company, Inc. All R;ght Rama. Each franchise independently ouxed and coen24. 36 FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1989 Jackson-Vanik by the mainstream Jewish organizations. But after a spirited debate, NJCRAC approved a state- ment urging a waiver, although the proposal also in- cluded language deferring public announcement of the decision until after NCSJ had made its own decision on Jackson-Vanik. "This was disingenuous," said one angry Soviet Jewry activist. "Everybody knew there were reporters present; everybody knew this would become a matter of public record as soon as the vote was taken." Cardin referred to a "well orchestrated design on the floor" of the convention, and suggested that NJCRAC leaders did not follow through on the earlier consensus agreements in which they had participated. What it does is send a mix- ed message from the Jewish community," she said. "What it will do is confuse our own government and the Soviet government." One prominent Soviet Jewry activist here put it in less diplomatic terms. "I think the group was swayed by a kind of euphoria caused by the improvement in the numbers," he said. "Euphoria is the worst possible thing for us to get caught up in now." Unsung Hero Of Holocaust To Be Honored Rep. Chuck Schumer, (D- N.Y.), is getting set to honor an unsung hero of the Holocaust. Recently, Schumer's office became aware of the wartime efforts of George Mandel- Mantello, a Salvadoran who spent much of World War 11 serving in a diplomatic post in Switzerland. . After learning of the Nazi death camps in 1943, Mantello issued false Salvadoran citizenship papers to up to 15,000 Jews. And the Central American diplomat purchased a large number of Swiss timepieces and smuggl- ed them to the Allies, who needed them for the construc- tion of navigational devices. This week, Schumer was ex- pected to introduce a resolu- tion honoring Mantello with the Congressional Gold Medal. Mantello, 90, is ex- pected to travel to Brooklyn soon to accept the award. Gary Hart May Address Arab Group The American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee has an interesting lineup for its convention here in April. Currently, the group is planning to feature an ap- pearance by Ibraham Souss, the Palestine Liberation Organization's representative in Paris and author of "Letter to a Jewish Friend." But the State Department has not indicated whether Souss will be granted a visa. .