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$115m makes UJA optimistic
NEW YORK The I980 National United Jewish Appeal
campaign has surpassed $ 115 million at this early date, giving rise
to optimism that campaign goals, including Project Renewal, will
be met
UJA National Chairman Irwin field reported at a recent
leadership dinner that this total represents “the largest amount of
money raised, in the most communities, at the earliest date since
the 1979 campaign, which began immediately following the Yom
Kippur War '
The 1980 drive seeks a regular campaign increase of some $ I00
million, Field said, with maximum additional pledges for Project
Renewal, the social rehabilitation program designed to rejuvenate
the lives of 300.000 immigrants living in Israel's distressed urban
areas.
UAHC backs SALT II
TORONTO—The Union of American Hebrew Congregations
voted overwhelmingly recently to support ratification of the
SALT II treaty.
The Reform Jewish group, composed of 750 synagogues in the
United States and Canada with more than a million members,
adopted the statement in a resolution passed at its 55th biennial
convention.
"The ongoing SALT process offers the most realistic possibility
presently available for checking a wasteful and potentially
catastrophic nuclear arms race,” the UAHC resolution said.
Klutnick gets unanimous vote
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Philip Klutznick was unanimously
confirmed by the Senate last Thursday as Secretary of Commerce.
He is expected to be sworn into office Jan. 7. The confirmation
vote was 74-0.
It followed quickly after the Senate Commerce Committee
approved President Carter’s appointment of Klutznick without
dissent. Klutznick took a leave of absence as president of the World
Jewish Congress after his appointment last month. At a$ft-7
will be the oldest member of the Carter Cabinet.
El Al may close down
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The fate of El Al, Israel’s national airline,
appeared to rest this week with the air crews’ union representing
pilots, flight engineers and navigators. They were to meet Tuesday
to decide whether to accept a 20 percent cut in salary and other
concessions demanded by management as the only means of saving
the financially troubled carrier.
The El Al board of directors met Monday night after a lengthy
negotiating session with the pilots’ representatives. Chairman
Avraham Shavit said it would convene again Tuesday and, should
the llight crews have rejected an agreement, the board will consider
recommendations to close down the airline
Cruise ships sail for Haifa
NEW YORK (JTA) —Haifa will be a port of call for some of
the world’s most famous cruise ships in I980, the Israel
Government Tourist Office has announced. Four vessels making
round-the-world cruises have Haifa on their itineraries. They are
the British Queen Elizabeth 2 and Canberra and the Norwegian
Sagafjord and Royal Viking Star. The first named departs from
New York on Jan. 17 and will embark passengers later at Port
Everglades, Fla. and Los Angeles. She is due at Haifa on March 11
and sails for New York and Port Everglades March 12. Short
segments of these three month cruises may be booked, including
the Haifa-U.S. sailings, the Tourist Office noted.
Tel Aviv’s garbage piles up
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Efforts to clear Tel Aviv's streets of the
garbage that piled up during a three-day strike by sanitation
workers last week were foiled Sunday when garbage truck drivers
engaged in a work slowdown. They decided to work only one shift
which is insufficient to remove even a single day's accumulation.
Mayor Shlomo Lchat has asked the government to order the
drivers to resume their normal hours. Meanwhile, the refuse is
festering in cans and plastic bags, providing a feast for dogs and
cats and sour odors for the populace.
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Your right to a Jewish education
Editor:
There has been a great deal of
talk in the organized Jewish
community lately of the
importance of Jewish education to
Jewish identity. In fact, Jewish
education is seen as a linchpin in
the fight to combat the many
internal problems the American
Jewish community is having. This
is not an easy task. In a report
released last year entitled “Jewish
Education and Jewish Identity,”
the American Jewish Committee
pointed out that its studies
revealed that while increasing
numbers of Jewish parents are
sending their children to day
school, the percentage of those
attending is miniscule. In addition,
it is estimated that a minimum of
1,000 hours total of Jewish
education is necessary to have an
impact on one’s Jewish identity.
Several suggestions were made
Reader
response
Editor:
I find Rabbi Feldman's
exposition, “ ’Tis the season...to be
Jewish.” (The Soul hern Israelite,
Dec. 14, 1979) to be remarkable.
And I consider it laudable for The
Southern Israelite to have
appreciated it enough to publish it.
Briefly and succinctly. Rabbi
Feldman confronts the issue of the
25th of December 25th of Kislev
holidays and helps us to put the
emphasis in the right places in the
most practical wavs.
Thank you. Rabbi Feldman.
I hank you, I SI.
Helen R. Jersawitz
Send hints
Editor:
Help us solve some of the “on-
the-job” problems that plague
mothers of babies and toddlers.
You know the kind: what to do if
baby decides morning starts at 4:30
a.m., how to amuse a toddler
throughout a long and cold winter,
or how to make an exciting lunch
for a “non-eater.”
Mothers often develop creative
methods for handling such
situations.
We are compiling a book for
mothers of babies and toddlers,
tentatively called “The Survival
(iuide for Mom,” based on
mothers' original ideas and tips.
We’d like to hear from you!
Send hints on any topic related
to your baby or toddler. We ask
only that you include your name,
address, or age of your child
during the time of your hint. Your
name and hometown w ill appear in
the book, if your hints are used!
Mail to: Hints for Mom. P.O. Box
14733, Omaha. Ne„ 68124
Karen Sakolof Javifch
Atm Cassman Friedman
in the report. One was to urge local
communities to raise the financial
priority of Jewish education,
increasing allocations in that area.
Another was to create an
atmosphere through the provision
of a variety of services so that more
people could take advantage of
Jewish education. It is in the latter
category especially that this
community falls short..
Atlanta is blessed with
extraordinary fine Jewish
education. The cost is substantial-
however. anyone sending children
to private school understands
there is an expense involved. In
fact, the community has been most
generous with partial and full
scholarships. One of the real
problems, however, is the one
confronted by the working family.
There is no late afternoon daycare
available to either the single parent
family or the family with both
parties working. Thus, slym of
finding a private babysitter or
enrolling a child in a day care
program, one cannot pick up the
option of sending ones’ youngsters
to a Jewish day school. That is. of
course, unless one has a lot of
money! Not only is that deplorable,
it is self-defeating
It is estimated that currently
more than half of the women in the
American Jewish community now
work. It is also estimated that the
percentage will rise to above 90
by the year 2.000. Women have a
right to work and children have a
right to Jewish education. T he two
are not mutually exclusive. The
community must take steps now to
deal with the problem
William A. (Iralnick
Southeast Regional Director
The American Jew ish Committee
JWV joins in protest
The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. recently joined the
growing movement protesting the casting of Venessa Redgrave as
Fania Fenelon, a Holocaust survivor, in the CBS presentation of
“Playing for Time.” JWV filed a complaint in U.S. District Court
in Philadelphia regarding the use of Fort Indiantown Gap. a
military reservation, for the program’s production.
The complaint was co-filed by the Department of Pennsylvania
JWVs against Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh, the
Department of Military Affairs and the State Armory Board of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the state's attorney general,
Syzygy Production, Ltd., and CBS.
Redgrave’s ongoing support and endorsement of the Palestine
Liberation Organization is cited in the complaint as the total
disregard of the human and civil rights of the citizens of
Pennsylvania.
P»ge 5 THE SOLTHERS! ISRAELITE December 28. 1979