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TEXAS JEWISH POST NEW YEAR ISSUE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1979 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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An Essential Point
Through all the discussions on the Egyptian-Israeli
peace talks, through all the ups and downs of the
negotiations, it is sometimes easy to forget one
essential point: it takes people to make peace.
This was graphically demonstrated in Haifa during
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s recent visit there. It
was not only that Sadat was cheered in the streets of
Haifa as Israelis have been cheered in Cairo and
Alexandria. More important was the demonstration of
camaraderie between the hundreds of sailors and
officers of Sadat’s yacht and accompanying ships and
Israeli sailors.
Bus loads of Egyptians sailors were taken around the
area and then joined Israeli sailors in a program of food
and entertainment. “Looking at the faces of my men I
can see that they are very happy, satisfied and enjoying
every minute of their stay.” Admiral Mouhamed Ali
Mouhamed, commander of the Egyptian Navy said. His
Israeli counterpart, Rear Admiral Zeev Almog, told the
Egyptians, “I feel as if we are the ones who are
implementing the peace agreement. We met today for
the first time and started to talk, and it looks now as if
we have known each other for years, as if we are
brothers.”
Almog was right. When leaders get bogged down in
technical points or issues of prestige they sometimes
forget who they are making peace for. The meeting of §
sailors in Haifa demonstrated that if peace is left to the
people barriers can sometimes be quickly overcome.
It takes people to make peace!
Have a Happy Holiday.
Shalom!
President Carter's Message
WASHINGTON [JTA] — President Carter issued the
following Rosh Hashana message: “My fellow Americans:
As you celebrate Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the High
Holy Days, Rosalynn and I send our warmest greetings to
you as you gather together in homes and synagogues to
welcome a new year.
“I know that your liturgy for this sacred season includes
prayers for reconciliation between neighbors, affirmation
of life and recommitment, and at this time you reflect on
eternal questions concerning life and death. The words of
these services echo universal human concerns.
“Let us strive to make common cause with decent people
of all faiths and nations. Let us strive to preserve the
values of our democracy and to broaden the areas of its
blessings. Your religion, like mine, seeks to help all people
learn to live in harmony with one another and with G-d.
May the coming year bring us closer to the just and lasting
peace for which we have yearned and prayed so long, and
bring to each of you new strength of faith and purpose.”
“With you, we recommit ourselves to cherish the
freedom of all peoples and to strive peacefully for its
realization. With you we pray not for an escape from
challenges, problems and decisions, but for the wisdom,
insight and courage to chose wisely and bravely.
The Payoff
Between You and Me
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief
Emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1979, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
CHANGING OF THE
GUARD: The changing of
the guard at the Council of
Jewish Federations last
week — the retirement of
Philip Bernstein as execu-
tive vice president and the
installation of Robert Hiller,
leading figure in Jewish
communal work, as his
successor — marks the
determination of the CJF to
intensively widen the scope
and influence of the Jewish
Federations and their cen-
tral body.
Hiller will serve as full-
time top CJF executive for
two years. Three years
hereafter he wili serve as
part-time paid consultant, if
he so chooses. He will be
assisted by Carmi Schwartz
and Darrell Friedman se-
lected by the CJF board to
serve as associate executive
vice presidents. Charles
Zibbell, the able assistant to
Bernstein for many years,
will likewise serve as as-
sociate executive vice presi-
dent.
program. This program was
adopted last June at a
special CJF General Assem-
bly in Denver — the first
special assembly ever held
by the CJF in the 47 years of
its existence.
It took more than two
years to process a program
to this effect — the
brainchild of Phil Bernstein.
A special CJF committee,
headed by Raymond Epstein
of Chicago, the eminent
community leader and form-
er CJF president, cleared
the recommendations of the
program with some 1500
community leaders'through-
out the country. The carry-
ing out of these recommen-
dations — which is no small
task — will now fall on the
shoulders of Bob Hiller who
has a rich record of
accomplishments in Jewish
community work as execu-
tive vice president of the
Associated Jewish Charities
and Welfare Fund in Balti-
more, and earlier as execu-
tive vice president of the
Pittsburgh Jewish Federa-
tion.
Schwartz, who has been
the executive vice president
of the Jewish Federation in
Metropolitan New Jersey
and Newark, has the inten-
tion and expectation to
succeed Hiller, and the CJF
likewise has this intention
and expectation; but it is
understood by all parties
that there is no guarantee
regarding succession, and
the CJF Board will make
such a determination at the
appropriate time. Friedman,
who served as executive
director of the Jewish
Federation in Rochester,
expects to become senior
associate executive vice
president of the CJF at that
time.
The new program empha-
sizes that the central pur-
pose of the CJF is to
enhance the survival and
enrichment of Jewish life. It
places top priority on the
CJF services to build the
strength and achievement of
each community Federation.
It also aims to extend
cooperation among national
and overseas agencies on a
consensus basis. It endorses
collective actions in Wash-
ington and by Federations
elsewhere through the CJF,
on community Federation
concerns.
is today the foremost ex-
pert". He will be drafted by
the CJF for special endeav-
ors. He may be chosen to
deal with the important task
of dealing with Soviet
Jewish immigration which is
drifting more and more
toward the United States
and over which there is a
dispute prevailing between
the Jewish Agency and
American Jewish leader-
ship.
to
k
Priority is also being
placed by the program on
building of the financial
resources of Federations in
campaigns — with UJA-CJF
partnership — in endow-
ment funds, government
grants and other sources.
The program includes a vast
variety of other responsi-
bilities — educational, cul-
tural, religious, economic,
inter-group, family, child
care, aged services — local,
national and international.
The U.S. Congress has
this year appropriated a $16
million Federal Block Grant
for Soviet Jewish Resettle-
ment in this country. The
CJF and HIAS are adminis-
tering this grant. Now the
government recommended
to Congress to appropriate
additional $8,300,000. More
than 115 of the Federations
engaged in settling Russian
Jews in their communities
have already submitted pro-
posals to the CJF for grant
funds. If Bernstein accepts
the mission to deal with the
Soviet immigration — he
may accept it on a part-time
basis, having also other
projects in mind — he will
have his hands full from
every side.
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CJF PRIORITIES: Hiller,
Schwartz and Friedman
were selected for their CJF
positions with the under-
standing that their highest
priority would be to carry
out the basic recommenda-
tions of the CJF expanded
Bernstein, who during his
35 years of service brought
great strength to the CJF
and the Federations, will not
be permitted to divorce
himself entirely from Jewish
communal work of which he
AGENDA FOR U.S.
JEWRY: On the eve of his
retirement, Bernstein —
with his immense exper-
ience in organized American
Jewish community live —
outlined an “agenda” for
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MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
^monitor Some Blacks Against Aiding PLO
BY LEONARD J. DAVIS
While the furor over
Andrew Young’s departure
may be receding, the sting of
the hatred expressed during
the episode remains. Ameri-
can Jews were taken by
surprise at the quick accusa-
tions that they had “cruci-
fied another Christian.”
They were dismayed by the
pilgrimage of leaders from
the Southern Christian Lea-
dership Conference to the
oracle of PLO propaganda,
Zehdi Terzi. But perhaps
they shouldn’t have been so
shocked; some of the same
black leaders who expressed
support for the PLO in
August were endorsing Pal-
estinian Arab demands
much before the clandestine
Manhattan meeting which
was to be Young’s undoing.
And in early July, Jesse
Jackson, leader of Operation
PUSH, called for a “thor-
ough reassesment” of the
“blind and arrogant” U.S.
policy in the Middle East.
Urging recognition of “the
just demands of the dis-
possessed Palestinian peo-
ple,” Jackson warned,
“there will be no lasting
peace in the Middle East
until a homeland for the
Palestinian people is given
the same weight of impor-
tance as our concerns for . . .
a homeland for the Jews. . .”
Fortunately, this word-
mongering and hate was
rejected by others in the
black community. The Twin
Cities Courier, a black
newspaper published in Min-
neapolis, wrote that
“Young’s ‘sin’ in this in-
stance adds up to by-passing
political and diplomatic pro-
tocol at a touchy time in
foreign affairs when expe-
diency is of the essence in
assuring that the ultimate
end will be politically profit-
able.
Rustin, the veteran civil
rights leader who is presi-
dent of the A. Philip
Randolph Institute. Writing
in The New York Times,
Rustin insisted, “We must
reject any formal or organ-
izational relationship with
the PLO.
In February, Ralph Aber-
nath, president emeritus of
the SCLC, joined the pro-
PLO Palestine Human
Rights Campaign in attack-
ing Israel’s administration of
the West Bank. In May,
Abernathy was a co-sponsor
of a PHRC Christian confer-
ence on the “human rights of
the dispersed and occupied
Palestinian people.”
With this background,
perhaps it should not have
been surprising to read in
The Afro American, a
Washington weekly, “There
are some who attribute —
and we think rightly so —
the exit of Young to Jewish
pressure.”
The editorial went on to
claim that the Palestinians
were “made homeless by
Israel’s hostile Mideast war-
mongering and expansion-
ism. That the Palestinians
are darker-skinned peoples
does not escape our notice,
either, for we know too well
the meaning of this hard fact
in a white-controlled world.”
“This definitely is not the
time to play footsie with the
PLO, an organization noted
for practicing unforgiveable
violence and hatred toward
Israel,” the Courier wrote.
“Young is well aware of
what it means to bear the
brunt of racial and religious
hatred that stops at nothing
to prove the point. Consider-
ing the PLO’s reputation
around the world, it seems
illogical to assume that the
Young-Terzi encounter had
any viable death and pur-
pose.”
“This identification and
even solidarity with the
PLO is based on a terrible
perversion of the truth, not
only the truth about the
PLO, but the truth about
our own movement as well,”
Rustin said. “The PLO, from
the day of its creation in
1964, has never once uttered
a word in support of any
form of nonviolent resis-
tance, peaceful relations . . .
or a political solution.”
The flirtation of some
blacks with the PLO was
also analyzed by Bayard
The memory of Martin
Luther King, Jr. has been
used — and abused — by
Palestinian propagandists in
the recent furor, and Rustin
restored the proper per-
spective to King’s legacy: “In
word but more importantly
in deed the PLO espouses
violence, hatred and racism.
It repeatedly scorns recon-
.•iliation. While Dr. King
frequently spoke of non-
violence as ‘the sword that
heals,’ the PLO exalts the
sword that kills.”
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