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Private detective to eye how planned
award to Arafat became known.

STEVEN ROSENBERG
Special to the Jewish News

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UJC spokesman Norman Eisenberg
did confirm that Kroll Associates had
been hired but refused to comment
"until the investigation is finished." At
this point, according to Eisenberg, no
UJC employee had been discharged
over the Arafat affair.
Tauber said the goal of the investi-
gation was to "take corrective action
to make it a more efficient organiza-
tion." When asked if he supported the
decision to retain Kroll Associates, he

he United Jewish
Communities (UJC) has
engaged a New York detec-
tive agency to investigate
how the planned Isaiah Award cere-
mony for PLO Chairman Yasser
Arafat was made public by a Boston-
based newspaper, the Jewish Advocate.
The Advocate reported last month
that the UJC, the umbrella
organization for America's
Jewish federations, which rais-
es $790 million a year,
planned to honor Arafat last
month with its prestigious
Isaiah Award for peace. The
ceremony had been scheduled
for Oct. 13 in Ramallah
before Palestinian Authority
leaders and more than 120
members of UJC's Prime
Minister's Mission, but was
cancelled in the controversy
that erupted after the newspa-
per reported the planned
event.
Joel Tauber
When contacted by the
Advocate on Oct. 5, two days
before the Prime Minister's
said, "It's not horrible and it's not
Mission left, UJC officials first con-
great. I'm just holding Steve
firmed, and then denied that Arafat
(Solender) responsible for running an
would be the recipient.
effective organization."
The Advocate later received docu-
Meanwhile, in a separate matter
mentation that the Isaiah Award
relating to the UJC, two longtime fed-
already had been purchased and con-
eration leaders spoke out against a
firmation that Arafat's office knew of
Humanistic Judaism event sponsored
the planned ceremony. The Advocate
by the UJC at the General Assembly
also printed a draft of the award
(GA) this week in Atlanta. The event
speech presentation prepared for, but
was a two-hour class Wednesday enti-
never delivered, by Detroit business-
tled, "Humanistic Judaism: A Powerful
man Joel Tauber, chairman of the
Alternative for Cultural Jews."
UJC's executive committee.
The GA, which is expected to draw
Last week, the Forward, a New
up to 5,000 delegates, has scheduled
York-based newspaper, reported that
several religious programs for the
the UJC had asked Kroll Associates, a
week, including services for
publicly traded detective agency
Conservative and Orthodox Jews, and
known for tracking Saddam Hussein
a "learning session" with Orthodox,
of Iraq's hidden assets, to look into
Conservative and Reform leaders.
the Arafat affair. UJC President
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of
Stephen D. Solender confirmed the
Humanistic Judaism, a non-theistic
Forward's report that Kroll Associates
form of Judaism, was scheduled to lead
had begun to look into "where our
the class at the GA. Wine planned to
system broke down."
give an overview of Humanistic
Steven Rosenberg is a writer for the
Judaism, which has close to 30,000
Jewish Advocate in Boston.
adherents, mostly in the U.S. and Israel.

