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spend some time with a hospice
patient, providing respite for a
weary caregiver. Some of us
have that drive, that desire in-
side of us, yet it gets placed on
the list of something we've been
meaning to do.
What was learned back in
that '70s snowstorm is that a
pile of threatening snow is only
a temporary urgency. The need
that many agencies and orga-
nizations have for you and I to
help out, to perform a mitzvah,
that's the urgency. It's impor-
tant in the middle of the beau-
tiful spring as it is during times
of severe weather.
The fears that many of us
have come from that unknown.
On Sunday, you'll learn what
you can do, how you can do it.
You don't need to have an ex-
pectation level that you'll have
to change someone's medica-
tions or sheets. That's not it at
all. If your comfort level moti-
vates you to stuff envelopes for
one hour a week, that permits
an agency staffer to spend that
hour doing something else. Your
stuffed envelopes will bring
comfort to someone's life directly
or indirectly.
During that snowstorm,
there was a green awning, no
figurative welcome mat and red
carpet. But the thinking then
was all wrong. We should be
putting the red carpet out for
groups that offer these volun-
teer opportunities. And cer-
tainly, after Sunday, there isn't
anyone around our community
who can complain of a lack of
that opportunity. They're being
placed under one roof for us.
Turn the football game off, bring
the children with you. Doing the
laundry, clearing that last par-
ticle of ice from the driveway
can wait. This is an opportuni-
ty we all need to share in. ❑
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Paris (JTA) — The French
branch of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund underwent
something resembling an
unfriendly takeover last
month.
At the annual assembly of
Keren Keyemeth Lelsrael of
France, held here Dec. 12,
some 200 new members
showed up, hoping to elect
their own slate of candidates
to KKL's National Corn-
mittee.
The new members, who
belonged to the right-wing
Herut movement, out-
numbered the rest of the
gathering by 2-to-1.
Daniel Marcovitch, KKL's
secretary-general, soon got
into a heated discussion with
the leader of the new mem-
bers, Joel Bettan, who sits
on the executive board of
Herut-France, over the right
of the newcomers to vote for
the National Committee.
KKL-France, which is not
directly affiliated with the
Jewish National Fund in the
United States and does not
have a say over how JNF
money in Israel is spent, is
led by Jacques Orfuss, 88, a
veteran Jewish leader who is
the group's president.
The debate between Mr.
Marcovitch and Mr. Bettan
was interrupted when Mr.
Orfuss managed to introduce
Israel's ambassador to
France, Yehuda Lancry.
Mr. Lancry, a personal
friend of Israel's former
Likud foreign minister,
David Levy, delivered a
speech backing the current
Israeli government's efforts
to implement the historic ac-
cord signed with the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization in September.
Booed by part of the au-
dience, Mr. Lancry finished
his speech and soon left the
assembly.
Amid the ensuing
shouting and heckling, Mr.
Bettan and his supporters
finally got what they want-
ed: They were allowed to
take part in the vote.
As a result, the candidates
presented on the spot by Mr.
Bettan won an overwhelm-
ing victory. The victorious
slate consisted mainly mem-
bers of Herut-France and its
two youth organizations,
Betar and Tagar.
A fuming Mr. Marcovitch
said that 30 out of the 40
newly elected candidates
had become members of
KKL only six days before the
vote.
The Herut party, which
was founded in 1948 and
remained under the leader-
ship of former Prime Min-
ister Menachem Begin until
his retirement from public
life in 1983, became part of
the Likud bloc in 1973.
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