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should know the game plan for the
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new organization that aims to repre-
sent the domestic and international
agendas of some 200 Jewish commu-
nities in North America.
This year's G.A., as the General
Assembly is commonly known, will be
the first official event for the United
Jewish Communities, which is being
formed by the merger of the United
Jewish Appeal, the Council of Jewish
Federations and the United Israel
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marks the first meetings of the com-
mittees and boards that will govern the
UJC, which was founded at a meeting
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ers this spring after six years of discus-
sions and development.
"We will begin the decision-making
process at the G.A.," said UJC
President Stephen Solender. "But of
equal importance, we're going to begin
the education process at the G.A."
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Israeli feminists; and a host of Jewish
thinkers, teachers and writers.
G.A. participants, including approx-
imately 300 Israelis, are also expected
to learn from each other in round-table
discussions and in open forums
focused on the four areas designated as
pillars: Jewish renaissance and renewal,
Israel and overseas concerns, human
services and social policy, and financial
resource development.
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Since April, Solender said, the UJC,
acting under an interim governance
structure, has been soliciting recom-
mendations from federations for seats
on the 550-plus-member delegate
assembly and the pillar committees.
The thousands of federation responses
were reviewed by the UJC's top lay
leaders — Charles Bronfman, chair-
man of the board, and Joel Tauber of
Detroit, chairman of the executive
committee — and a nominating corn-
mittee, which made the appointments.
Federations' ownership role should
be clear in the work of the governing
bodies, officials said, where federations
have a majority voice. The bodies are
constituted as follows:
Delegate Assembly — 550 federa-
tion representatives, plus 15 seats for
independent communities; one seat
each for agencies that work with the
UJC nationally and overseas, including
the Jewish Agency for Israel, the
American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee; Hillel and the Jewish
Community Centers of America, and
one seat each for representatives of the
four synagogue movements.
The delegate assembly is mainly
responsible for adopting annual bud-
gets and voting on major public policy