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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 9, 1972
Philanthropy Restyled
Under "Peanut Rutter" King
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher, Detroit Jewish News, Vice President JTA
American Jewish philanthropy has taken a sharp turn around
the corner, going upward, assuming new trends, emphasizing the
Establishment's soul-searching aimed at revolutionary objectives.
Detroiter Paul Zuckerman had
more than mere fund-raising in
mind when he assumed the gen
eral chairmanship of the United
Jewish Appeal. At the end of
the first six months of his serv
ices as the country's top leader
in the greatest humanitarian ef
fort in American Jewry’s experi
ence—and on the eve of his 60th
birthday — Zuckerman defined
his aims as being primarily to •
provide security for Israel and
to assure a home for the es
capees frOm persecutions and
for those desiring to link them
selves with the Jewish people’s
historic ambitions for a great
spiritual regeneration in the
ancient homeland.
In the process, his aspiration
is:
• Democratize our philanthropic
activities and make the layman
a factor in our activities side by
side with the professional in
framing policies and directing
the social service and humani
tarian labors for Israel and
world Jewry.
• Draw in the youth and build
our future leadership from our
ranks,
• Strive for every active leader
to visit Israel and to share first
hand knowledge of the major
cause in behalf of which so
much assistance is needed from
American Jews.
The national UJA leader
commenced his analysis with
the last item on his cumulative
agenda. As chairman of UJA’s
Operation Israel, prior to his as
suming the top job in the move
ment, he introduced a new pro
gram of activities. Instead of
one or two Missions to Israel,
he succeeded in enrolling many
hundreds for study missions to
Israel—there were periods- last
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year when there were four and
five missions a month, some for
men and women, some for youth
alone or women alone — and
there were missions for profes
sionals.
“That’s how we succeeded in
teaching our leaders, and
leaders-to-be, the basics of our
needs, the objectives of our
services,” Zuckerman said.
“These mission-p^Tticipants re
turned from Israel imbued with
a great deal, dedicated to our
labors, determined to raise the
standards of giving, themselves
emerging more generous.”
He proved his point by
quoting figures: “I am respon
sible for 900 American Jewish
communities where we conduct
campaigns. They can be as large
as New York and Los Angeles
and Chicago, or Philadelphia,
Cleveland or Detroit; or as
small as Sandusky, O., or Pa
ducah, Ky. I am ready to go
anywhere to meet with my fel
low Jews to fulfill our obliga
tions to our people.”
He has brought unprecedent
ed results as of the end of the
first half of his first year’s
services: “We are now $43,000,-
000 ahead of last year in UJA
accomplishments, with more
than $216,000,000 pledged, com
pared with last year’s $170,630,-
000. And we are still moving
ahead. We now have 17 contri
butors of $1,000,000 and more
each. We are building sentiment
to assure its repetition next
year, as long as we labor to
fulfill an historic obligation..”
“What we do,” Zuckerman
said, “is with the fullest co
operation of our lay leaders.
They share with us planning for
campaigns, and many of them
enter the role of total leadership
while viewing with us Israel as
she is and learning from her
leaders when we are on missions
together.
“More important than any
thing else we are are accomp
lishing Ls the enrollment and
participation of youth. It is we
in the Establishment who are
creating a new Establishment—
a role of equality for public
service and Jewish identifica
tion between young and old.
Both generations are sharing
with us the obligations to Is
rael—often there are three gen
erations in the ranks of leader
ship and volunteers—and with
sueh enrollment we cannot, as
we must not, fail.”
In Zuckerman’s credo for the
Establishment of young and old,
lay leaders and professionals, is
merged assistance to Israel and
the obligation to give all possi
ble aid to the settlement of Rus
sian Jews in Israel. "We hope
to see the integration of 70,000
new settlers in Israel this year,”
he said, “and most of them will
be from the Soviet Union.”
From Peanut Butter King of
America—he is the largest pro
ducer of the product in Amer
ica—Zuckerman has emerged as
the top lay leader in philan
thropy.
In his Jewish leadership role,
in addition to serving on the
board of United Israel Appeal,
Joint Distribution Committee
and Hias, Zuckerman is one of
the three Americans, with Max
M. Fisher of Detroit and Melvin
Dubinsky of St. Louis, on the
World Executive of the Jewish
Agency for Israel.
Zuckerman who was born in
Istanbul on May 31, 1912, and
brought to this country by his
parents as a child, began his
communal labors in the ranks
—as a worker in Detroit’s Al
lied Jewish Campaign.
It is thanks to his son-in-law,
Thomas Klein, who gave up a
lucrative law practice to join
his firm, that he is able to
travel anywhere for UJA on
short notice. He aided the ef
forts of the Los Angeles Jew
ish community in its UJA ac
tivities—LA. having risen from
a $6,500,000 campaign to $24,-
000,000 last year—and his nu
merous trip from coast to coast
have given UJA a great boost.
His daughter, Linda (Mrs
Klein), a University of Mich
igan Phi Beta Kappa graduate,
and son, Norbest, now a grad
uate student at Boston Univer
sity, share their father’s deep
jnterest in Israel and in gen
eral Jewish affairs This applies
to his wife, the former Helen
Fleisher whom he married in
1937.
The Zuckermans live in
Franklin, Mich,, and they now
also reside whenever they are
in Israel in their newly-built
home in Caesaria.
Zuckerman has many hobbies
—he is a good bridge player and
is an excellent wrestler — and
when Teddy Kollek visits him
in Detroit they share a common
sports interest—wrestling.
How does even a tough-look
ing six-footer like him manage
to give all his time as a volun
teer national leader, on beck and
call always from communities
small and large, with never
a moment available for a good
rest? His explanation: “I’d rather
be tired and have the satisfac
tion of knowing that I served
my people well—and when I
serve my people well I also
serve myself and my family
well.”
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