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2000 Jewish Leaders
flo Attend CJF Assembly
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) -
More than 2000 Jewish leaders
representing 800 communities in
the United States and Canada
will meet here November 10-14
for the 45th General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
(CJF).
The five-day agenda will ex
amine the challenges to Jewish
continuity and the crucial role of
leadership in meeting with
them. It will also consider major
local, national and international
needs facing North American
Jewry.
Jerold C. Hoffberger, CJF
president, will address the first
plenary session November 10 on
“The State of our Federations.”
Other major speakers during the
Assembly will include Israeli
Ambassador Chaim Herzog;
Philip Bernstein, CJF executive
vice-president; Frank
Lautenberg, general chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal;
Mordechai Bar-On of the Jewish
Agency; Dr. Robert Gordis of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America; and Dr.
Daniel Elazar of Temple Univer
sity, Philadelphia.
Hoffberger, who will be end
ing his first term as CJF presi
dent, said the 45th General
Assembly “must resolve the
grave problems caused by infla
tion which threatens the basic
human rights of the Jewish poor
and elderly in America.” He said
“Our Federations are pledged to
improve the quality of life,
physical and spiritual, for all
Jews in North America, Israel
and other overseas countries.”
He warned that if spiralling
costs continue, “vital service
programs face curtailment.”
Rabin: Israel Ready For Geneva
Negotiations, UJA Leaders Hear
by GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -
Premier Yitzhak Rabin told 3000
delegates to the United Jewish
Appeal “This Year In
Dr. Norman Lamm To Be Invested
President Of Yeshiva U. Nov. 7
Dr. Norman Lamm, a student
at Yeshiva University some 30
years ago, will be invested presi
dent of the institution on Sun
day, Nov. 7. The third president
in the University’s 91 year
history, he is chief executive of
ficer of the nation’s oldest and
largest university under Jewish
sponsorship.
The investiture ceremonies
will be held on the Danciger
Campus at the University's
Main Center in Manhattan’s
Washington Heights.
The historic all-University
event, to which all members of
the Yeshiva University family
have been invited, will be
highlighted by the symbolic
presentation of the Yeshiva
University Charter to Dr. Lamm
by Max J. Etra, chairman for
nearly 25 years of the Univer
sity’s board of trustees, and by
the presentation to him of the
Presidential Medallion by Max
Stern, vice chairman of the
board, who joined the board 35
years ago and has been a major
force and benefactor of the
School.
Dr. Israel Miller, vice presi
dent for student affairs, is chair
man of the Investiture Com
mittee, and will preside at the
event
Dr. Lamm, 48 years old, is the
first American-born chief ex
ecutive of the University.
Previous presidents were Dr.
Bernard Revel, 1915-1940, and
Dr. Samuel Belkin, 1943-
1975. Dr. Lamm is a rabbi,
chemist, philosopher, teacher
and author. His early studies at
Yeshiva College, from which he
graduated in 1949, centered
upon chemistry, and he engaged
in graduate work in the subject
at the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn. As a student, he work
ed on a secret munitions project
for the struggling State of Israel.
It was Dr. Belkin, his mentor
and rebbe who guided him to
decide upon the rabbinate.
Win Some ■—Lose Some
Congressman Elliott Levi tag handily recaptured his
Fourth District Democratic seat in Tuesday’s election and
will return to the 95th Congress.
A new face in the Georgia House will be 33-year-old social
worker, Cathey Steinberg, who defeated incumbent George
Petro for the District 46 poet.
A second Jewish candidate won a House seat when Mike
Nichols, 24, defeated his Republican opponent in the
27th District.
Defeat was in the ballots for Attorney Stanley Baum,
who conducted a vigorous campaign but was unable to un
seat his Democratic opponent, popular incumbent John
Hawkins in the 50th district.
John W. Folsom, seeking election to the Georgia Senate
for the fifth district, was also defeated.
In the amendment voting, two which had considerable
support in the Jewish community were passed. No. 20 for
Bingo and No. 22 for exemption from ad valorem taxes for
religiously supported homes for the aged.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amon
Gafni, former Finance Ministry
director general, was sworn in
Sunday as Governor of the Bank
of Israel.
Canada Plans To Prohibit Taped
Telephone Hate Messages
TORONTO, (JTA) - Canada’s
federal government is planning
legislation to prohibit taped
racial and religious hate
messages over the telephone,
Justice Minister Ronald Basford
told parliament in Ottawa.
He said the messages were
produced mostly in the Toronto
area by a group called “Western
Guard.” He said they breed
“racial prejudice and bigotry,
arousing anxiety among racial
minorities and undermine con
fidence in the protection they
should be afforded under law.”
Basford said the hate
messages were aimed against
Blacks, Asian groups and Jews.
“This is a delicate area in which
to legislate,” he said, but he
assured parliament that his
proposals would deal with the
problem properly whils “protec
ting freedom of speech in a free
society.”
The proposed legislation will
be part of what the government
hopes will amount to a com
prehensive anti-discrimination
code. Ontario Attorney General
Roy McMurty has been asking
for such federal legislation for a
year.
MISS UNIVERSE, Riaa
Meseinger, coming to Atlanta
for Israel Bonds Gala. Story
on Page 7.
Jerusalem” convention here
Saturday night that Israel was
prepared to go to Geneva to
negotiate a full peace settlement
with the Arabs or even a limited
agreement to end the state of
belligerency but that it would
never accept an imposed settle
ment in the Middle East conflict.
Addressing the closing session
of the week-long convention,
Rabin said the ball was now in
the Arab court and it was up to
them to decide what to do with
it. He warned that if the Arabs
chose the road of aggression
they would face an Israel that is
“stronger today than any
enemy.”
The UJA delegates set a target
of $657 million to be raised in
1977 compared to $500 million
raised in 1976. Frank
Lautenberg was reelected to a
third term as UJA general chair
man.
Addressing a meeting of UJA
delegates Friday, former
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
proposed that Israeli forces cross
the Lebanese border to block the
return of terrorist gangs into the
border region of southern
Lebanon. He described the "good
fence” — the gap in the border
fence through which Lebanese
villagers may enter Israel for
medical treatment or to work —
as not much more than a public
relations measure. If the Army
does not take the necessary
steps, there will be nothing left
of the fence, Dayan warned.
AZF, UZR In Dispute
Over WZC Elections
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The
American Zionist Federation
and the United Zionist
Revisionists are embroiled in a
bitter dispute over the decision
last July by the Zionist General
Council not to hold elections for
delegates to the 29th World
Zionist Congress opening in
Jerusalem next January.
The AZF adopted a strong
resolution of censure against the
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Zionist Congress Court Sun
day overturned last July’s
decision by the Zionist General
Council not to hold elections
for delegates to the 29th World
Zionist Congress scheduled to
open here January 17. The
Congress Court, headed by
Supreme Court Justice Moshe
Landau, sharply admonished
the General Council and its
chairman. Labor MK Yitzhak
Navon, for by-passing the
democratic process.
UZR for taking its case to the
New York State civil courts
before exhausting internal
Zionist legal machinery. The
UZR, in a statement issued Oc
tober 26, blasted the AZF for
allegedly trying to deny 750,000
American Zionists their
democratic rights. The AZF’s
resolution, adopted by the um
brella organization of the
American Zionist movement at
its convention at Grossingers
recently by a vote of 122-13,
“deplored, condemned and cen
sured” the UZR “for their breach
of Zionist morality and
organizational discipline and
their subversion of Zionist prin
ciples.”
The resolution said that “in
bypassing the internal
procedures, the UZR have
delivered a pernicious blow to
the Zionist movement and
provided aid and comfort to
those who are all too ready to
gloat over any weakening of our
movement.” It called on all con
stituent organizations of the
ZAF to “close ranks” against the
UZR unless the court
proceedings, commenced by its
president, Prof. Howard E.
Adelson, are promptly
withdrawn.
Adelson responded October 27
in a statement saying, “We have
tried repeatedly to negotiate our
differences with major parties of
the AZF. Our demands for
democracy and our attempt to
have a delegation from the
United States at the World
Zionist Congress which ac
curately reflects the political
views of American Jews, have
met the crudest attempts at sup
pression.” Adelson contended
that the major Zionist groups
comprising the AZF had no
desire "to allow the Zionist
masses to be heard and to main
tain the democratic Zionist
tradition . . . The resolution of
the AZF is simply further con
firmation of the attempt to sup
press dissension.”