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New Americans, which
handles almost 50 percent of
all Soviet Jews who enter the
United States. A founding
body of the UJA was the Na-
tional Coordinating Commit-
tee for Aid to Refugees,
NYANA's predecessor.
The special campaign will
be run by local federations,
who will raise money and
turn it over to the UJA. Fund-
raisers are expected to ask for
donations in cash, rather
than pledges, in order to
make money immediately
available for resettlement.
Half of the funds raised in
the special campaign will be
available for domestic needs
and half for overseas needs.
The overseas portion will
include money for the Joint
Distribution Committee and
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society. Both provide services
for Soviet emigrants when
they arrive at migration
facilities in Western Europe,
and both are reporting huge
deficits.
The 50-50 split was insisted
upon by the UJA and its ma-
jor beneficiary, the Jewish
Agency for Israel, as a way of
protecting the integrity of the
UJA as a fund-raiser for
Israel and enhancing Israel
as a destination for Soviet
Jews.
Local federations are not
bound to take part in the
campaign, but most of the
close to 180 federated com-
munities in the United States
are expected to do so, accor-
ding to UJA's Rothstein.
Los Angeles, New York and
San Francisco have already
begun special efforts to raise
resettlement money.
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U.S. to Question PLO
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New York (JTA) — The
United Jewish Appeal has of-
ficially launched a special
campaign to raise $75 million
to resettle Soviet Jews in the
United States and Israel.
The campaign, to be called
"Passage to Freedom," was
formalized at a recent
meeting of UJA campaign of-
ficers and the heads of agen-
cies most severely affected by
an enormous influx of
immigrants.
Specific plans for the cam-
paign remain sketchy, but are
expected to be worked out
among various Jewish fund-
raising and service agencies
over the next few weeks.
The first major events of the
campaign could begin as ear-
ly as the first week in April,
according to Raphael Roths-
tein, vice president of UJA.
The campaign is a response
to the largest Soviet Jewish
emigration in 10 years. If
emigration levels reached in
January and February are
maintained through the rest
of the year, more than 30,000
Jews could be let out of the
Soviet Union in 1989.
Local Jewish federations
are often responsible for most
of the services needed by
Jewish immigrants, from
English classes to housing to
health care.
Ordinarily, UJA raises
funds primarily for services
in Israel and, on a smaller
basis, the overseas relief ac-
tivities of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee.
But UJA does have a tradi-
tion of helping immigrants. It
funds the activities of the
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Washington (JTA) — The
United States warned that
the increasing number of at-
tempted attacks against
Israel planned by groups link-
ed to the Palestine Liberation
Organization "raises ques-
tions" about the PLO leader-
ship's commitment to meet
the conditions of the U.S.-PLO
dialogue.
Responding to last week's
attempt by members of the
Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine to in-
filtrate northern Israel, State
Department spokesman
Charles Redman said, "The
United States views with con-
cern the increasing number of
Palestinian attacks in South
Lebanon, most recently by
the DFLP.
"We recognized from the
beginning that some groups
and factions, particularly
those based in Damascus,
were opposed to the positive
evolution in PLO attitudes
toward Israel, and would be
trying to undermine the U.S.-
PLO dialogue and block
movement in the peace pro-
cess."
"Nonetheless, if the PLO
leadership cannot or will not
exercise such control, it raises
questions regarding the com-
mitment undertaken in the
name of the PLO — indeed
questions about the PLO's
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