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leaders of the United Jewish
Appeal and local Jewish feder-
ations are gearing up to com- -
plete the overhaul of American Jewry's *-
central fund-raising establishment.
This month, an outside facilitator,
Jeffrey Solomon, began meeting with
top professionals at UJA and the
Council of Jewish Federations to keep
their merger from idling on the way to
a self-imposed year-end deadline.
When it emerges after nearly a
decade of conceptual planning, the ne\O
entity — born of the union of UJA,
CJF and the United Israel Appeal —
will have a single chief professional offi-
cer and a unified organizational struc-
ture. It will also have a new system of
governance that puts federations
squarely in the driver's sear of North
America's primary Jewish charity, which
raises over $1 billion a year for Jewish
needs, both nationally and overseas.
"I think it's appropriate that the fed-
erations control the system," Dr.
Conrad Giles of Bloomfield Hills, CJF's
president, said in a telephone interview.
"It is their system. They are paying for
it, and whatever sense of loss of control
they have had in the past is regrettable."
That sense, he explained, grew out of(3
a perception that the national organiza-
tions, although supported by local fed-
erations, were not responding to the
communities' needs. As a result, an
increasing number of federations began
to demand a louder voice and a greater
share in deciding how funds would be
allocated here and in Europe and Israel.
Last month in Washington, a three-
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day quarterly meeting of the UJA-
CJF-ULA partnership, which currently
is being called the UJA Federations of
North America, yielded a basic outline
for operations. It gives federations a
majority voice in the partnership's
governing bodies.
Still to be resolved are several poten-
tial sticking points.
For example, the structure and
function of committees will reflect
widely debated issues, such as the
need for a Jewish renaissance commit-
tee to address concerns about educa-
tion and continuity or a committee to
oversee and secure funding for nation-
al social service agencies. II 1