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16 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1990
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Miami (JTA) — At a
special general assembly of
the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations, representatives of
83 community federations
overwhelmingly endorsed
four resolutions to coor-
dinate their efforts to reset-
tle Jews in Israel and
America.
There will be a $420
million "bare-bones" special
United Jewish Appeal cam-
paign to resettle as many as
200,000 Soviet Jews in
Israel, and more millions
will be spent to resettle the
40,000 Soviet Jews expected
to come to the United States
this year. All of this is above
and beyond regular fund-
raising campaigns which
fund domestic services and
provide about $750 million
annually to UJA for Israel
and other overseas needs.
A Detroit Jewish Welfare
delegation, led by its presi-
dent, Mark Schlussel, and
executive vice-president,
Robert Aronson, attended
the meeting.
The decision to share the
cost of domestic resettlement
— as opposed to leaving
communities heavily im-
pacted by the emigration
wave to fend for themselves
—was hailed as particularly
historic by CJF officials.
The federations "finally
accepted that they would
help other communities pay
some costs," said Miriam
Schneirov, president of the
Federation of Jewish Agen-
cies of Greater Philadelphia
and a CJF vice president.
The current wave of Soviet
aliyah "is one of the most
cataclysmic events in Jewish
history," exclaimed Robert
Tropp, executive director of
the Jewish Federation of
Pinellas County, Fla.
But together with his ex-
citement, Tropp said he has
"concerns about the level of
funding and whether it's
achievable."
On the other hand, the
$600 million that Israel is
requesting from world
Jewry, including the $420
million from UJA, "is the
bare-bones minimum," said
Martin Stein, chairman of
UJA's board of trustees.
Many in the audience
winced during parts of the
presentation that laid out
the number of immigrants
Israel is expecting and the
astronomical cost of their
resettlement.
Officials of the Jewish
Agency for Israel reported in
the presentation that for
each of the more than 200,000
Soviet emigres expected to
go to Israel in the next three
years, transportation and
absorption costs covering
only their first year there
will reach an estimated
$5,000.
The point most debated at
the assembly regarded the
exact formula by which each
community's share of the fi-
nancial burden would be
calculated.
There was no opposition to
a proposal to base each
community's share of the
UJA Operation Exodus goal
on its performance in the
1988 general fund-raising
campaigns. For instance, if a
community raised 3 percent
of the total raised by all fed-
erations in 1988, it will be
responsible for the same
percentage of the Operation
Exodus goal.
UJA will view the percen-
tage to go to Operation Ex-
odus as a "firm commit-
ment." The national organ-
ization is drawing a lesson
from last year's Passage to
Freedom campaign, which
achieved only $50 million of
its ambitious $75 million
goal.
"UJA is not making a re-
quest for a best effort" from
local federations, as it did
with Passage to Freedom,
said Marvin Lender, chair-
man of Operation Exodus
and national chairman-elect
of UJA.
This time, he said, "UJA
wants a firm commitment
for each community's fair
share of $420 million."
While the concept of what
constitutes a fair share is
relatively straightforward in
the case of Operation Ex-
odus, heated debate over the
proposed formula for do-
mestic resettlement was ex-
pected Tuesday at the CJF
special general assembly.
According to the proposal,
communities may fulfill
their domestic responsibility
either "in kind," by locally
resettling their fair share of
Soviet Jews, or by con-
tributing $1,000 for each
refugee they have not settled
to a national pool.
Heavily impacted corn-
munities that settle more
than their fair share of
Soviet Jews will be able to
draw money from the na-
tional pool to cover their ex-
penses.
Federation leaders from a
number of communities in-
dicate they will be raising
money for Operation Exodus.