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Page 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 21, 1978
43-year-old chairman
UJA brings in young blood
by Judy Siegel
Jerusalem Post
Finally, Israel has a good friend
in the oil industry.
Irwin Field's factory makes
vegetable oil, not the “black gold"
that has enriched Saudi Arabian
oil sheikhs and turned America's
head.
But as the new general-chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal, Field
can inspire American Jews to give
tens of millions more in the coming
fund-raising campaigns.
At 43, the Los Angeles
businessman is the youngest man
to be named to the top voluntary
position in the UJA. But he still
has behind him 20 years of
communal and national leadership
experience. He was one of the
founders of the UJA Young
Leadership movement and one of
its First officers, and active in the
Council of Jewish Federations, the
American Association for Jewish
Education and the Joint
Distribution Committee.
“Young Jews aren’t replacing
the older generation in the UJA,"
he told The Jerusalem Post during
the recent Jewish Agency
Assembly. “It’s a coming together
of two generations, with the young
contributing new backgrounds
and ideas and the older ones
adding their experiences and
memories of the Holocaust and the
establishment of the Jewish State.”
While conceding that some
young activists in the UJA felt
“they weren’t getting to the top fast
enough," Field doesn’t think that
the older leaders of the past
intentionally kept the upcoming
generation out. Now, he says, there
is a whole new batch of young Jews
who want to play an active role in
Jewish community life and fund
raising for Israel’s educational,
social and health projects. There
are over 10,000 members of Young
Leadership in the UJA, which
Field helped found.
Field comes from a solid Jewish
and Zionist background. His
father Walter, the president of a
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company, is a “self-taught” Zionist
who wrote a book in verse on the
major events in Jewish history
from Abraham’s time until the
birth of Israel. Irwin’s first trip to
Israel was in 1931, when he
accompanied his father to the first
Zionist Congress to be held in the
Jewish State.
He has since been here many
times with his wife Joanna on
Young Leadership missions. Each
of their two sons, now aged 19 and
17, received a trip to Israel as their
Bar Mitzva presents. “Those were
our most memorable visits here,
since you notice so many different
things through the eyes of
teenagers," Field recalls.
When Field moved to Los
Angeles to take business and
finance courses at UCLA, he first
became involved in Jewish
communal life and entered the
course that led him to the UJA
general-chairmanship.
He says he never finds it difficult
to ask people for money.
“I’m not asking for them to give
their money away, but rather to
invest it in their own futures. For
giving to Israel and their Jewish
community gives their lives dignity
and pride, a feeling that they are
part of a people.”
Field recalls a recent UJA
“Walkathon” in Los Angeles,
where 15,000 Jews—children,
parents and grandparents —
marched long distances to get
contributions from sponsors.
The new general-chairman
agrees that the best way to
encourage UJA contributions is to
bring Jews to Israel. That only one
out of seven American Jews has
visited since 1948 is regrettable, he
says, but the UJA is doing its best
to promote tours and disseminate
informational material. He views
the UJA as an instrument that has
the unique ability of bringing
together all Jews—wherever they
are on the political, religious or
ideological spectrum.
Irwin Field
There have been calls in local
American Jewish communities to
send less UJA-collected money to
Israel and spend funds on local
needs like schools, hospitals, old
age homes and the like. Field
insists that instead of cutting the
pie differently, contributors must
make the pie bigger.
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