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Members of Ihe Atlanta Jewish Federation's Second Young Leadership Mission.
Young leadership mission
to Israel an ‘awakening’
Members of the Atlanta Jewish
Federation's Second Young
Leadership Mission have returned
from Israel full of eagerness and
enthusiasm to “spread the word"
of their strengthened commitment
to Jewish life throughout the 1982
Campaign.
Elliot Arnovitz, co-chairman of
the missioTi, proudly announced
that the group of 47 people raised
$36,955 for Project Renewal and
$56,868 for the regular
campaign—a 206 percent increase
for the same people since the 1981
Campaign. The comparison was
made, said Arnovitz, to emphasize
th? value of the Young Leadership
Mission’s program as a tool to
create excitement and heightened
commitment to the campaign
among participants.
The initial response from people
who wanted to go on the mission
was instantaneous, and their
enthusiasm carried right through
the trip. Both Arnovitz and Chuck
L.owenstein, the mission's other
co-chairman, found the experience
to be one of “tremendous Jewish
awakening" for participants.
The chairman described the
young Atlantans’ insaliable
curiosity to learn, to see and to
experience all that they could in
Israel. Arnovitz asserted-that the
experience...“not only created
people committed to Federation
but created Jews. It really ‘built
Jews’ in that many in the group
started out with no real sense of
Judaism as a part of their adult
lives. In Israel, they developed a
sense of Judaism as related in their
own family, as well as to Israel.”
l.owenstein remarked upon the
tremendous Jewish awakening of
the group and the fact that many
people on the mission...“did
Jewish things that they had never
done before.” Two of the men,
Ralph Levy and Jon Miller, had
never become Bar Mitzva The
Atlantans held a ceremony at the
Wall; the Torah was read; and
afterward, the women danced
around them and threw candy.
Not to be left out of the
awakening sense of rediscovering
Jewish roots, 12 of the women on
the mission participated in a Bat
Mitzva ceremony atop Masada.
Allen Soden felt the trip was a
very personal experience which
gave him and his wife a sense of
their roots—of where they came
from—and a resolve to pass that
sense along to their children. As
Soden said, “What Israelis must do
to defend their country cannot be
understood by reading Time or
Newsweek. The trip also gave us
some small insight into the
Hassidic culture and an
understanding of its importance in
the preservation of Judiasm.
Federation sponsorship of
Young 'Leadership missions was
called...“a weapon against Jewish
indifference” by Levy, who feels
that “the more Jews who go to
Israel, the more supporters of
Jewish causes there will be."
Adam Skorecki’s perspective
changed about what his
responsibilities should be as a Jew
living in Atlanta He calls the
people in settlements like Ariel, the
children guarding tanks in the
Golan, the Israelis living and
working throughout the country,
the true heroes and pioneers of
Israel
There were four criteria for
mission participation: to be under
40 years of age, to attend four
mission orientation sessions; to
agree to be solicited in Israel; and
to participate actively in the
campaign upon return.
The first three criteria were all
met; the last is being met by all
involved. As Arnovitz and
l.owenstein agree—“The mission’s
program is a tremendously fertile
source of leadership for our
community.”
r Canada establishes program-n
MONTREAL (JTA)—The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC)
announced that it has established the first national Holocaust
documentation program in Canada, which is partly funded by the
Canadian government.
Disclosure of the project, which will videotape the testimonies
of Canadian citizens who are Holocaust survivors, as well as
statements from other Canadians and military liberators who
. “nessed the Holocaust era, was made in the first issue of the
“Congress Quarterly Report,” described as one of “a number of
new, informative (CJC) publications directed toward a diverse
readership."
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