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Gwartz heads campaign
TORONTO -
• The successful absorption into. Israers mainstream of 20,000 refugee Ethiopian Jews. .
• The affirmation of Toronto Jewry's commitment to Israel in what is today the state's moist critical economic hour.
• The. ongoing confron- . tation to meet Jewish communal need in Toronto. .
On tho.se three pegs resLs . the platform of the 1986 United Jewish Appeal campaign which commences Aug. 2,1. and of the man . who set the priorities,.UJA campaign chairman Jack Gwartz.
.Long known for his inr volvement in Jewish affairs and staunch advocacy of Israel, arid with a strong, credible reputation in the world of corporate bu.siness, Gwartz and his hand-picked UJA top leadership team have been involved since January in ' planriing the 1986 effort.
The potential for that, success,. Gwartz says, is more than ju^t potential — it's fact. :
Having carefully assessed recent UJA
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campaigns -r- and garnering along the way a firm respect for the Jewish community's sense of responsbile, charitable
giving — Gwartz believes the key toi that response lies in what he terms "the' awareness quotient." "Given the facts." he
says, "Toronto Jewry wants to help. It's concerned. It cares. And it does stand to be counted."
Underlying this in Gwartz's opinion is something unique to a Jewish community of Toronto's size. He says: "There's aclpseness and cohesiveness here that isn't always, found in other Jewish population centres. For Tprontonians, that feeling has come to manifest itself through UJA. It's the one unified campaign we have which responds both to local needs, and the support of Israel." ..
Not incide;ntally, Gwartz considers it to be the quality of that response which has made the Toronto Jewish community a major influence in the Diaspora today. -
On the question of Ethiopian Jewry having reached safe haven in Israel, Gwartz states that.the fm'al chapter in the saga of Operation Moses is in the making now — through a
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WOLF BLITZER WASHINGTON —
The campaign to ease the plight of Soviet Jewry will move to Washington in September when top Jewish leaders from more than 20 countries will convene to. discuss their future strategy.
The ihternational Council of the World Conference for Soviet Jewry, better known as the "presidium," has decided to meet in the U.S. captial — rather than in Paris, London or JBrussels as in the past because of the key role the United States is expected to play in the immediate period ahead in shaping the fate of Soviet Jews. ...
The conference, .scheduled for Sept. 8-9, will take place befot-e Secretary of State George Shultz's next round of meetings with the new. Soviet foreign minister, Edward Shevardnadze, at the United Nations later in September and October. Those meetings will be
followed by President Reagan's November sum-rtiit with the new_ Sovjet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. . It is taken for granted among most experts that the particular state of U.S.^ Soviet relatioris can have a tremendous Influence on the condition of Soviet Jew.s. Thus, when the relationship is going through a relatively smooth period, the plight of Soviet Jews eases — and vice versa. . During the heijght. of
detente.between the superpowers in the mid iand late ■ 1970s, Jews were leaving in rather impres.sive numbers; over 50,000 left, in 1979 alone. But as the relationship has deteriorated in, more recent years, especially .since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ,:and the crackdown on Solidarity in Poland, the numbers have shrunk. Less than 900 Jew.s were allowed to emigrate
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Peres-Mubarak meeting "likely" at UN session
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres will come to New York to address the 40th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a high-ranking Israeli diplomat says.
Peres is scheduled to arrive in New York at the beginning of October. The General Asembly opens on Sept. 17.
Asked if Peres will meet here with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who is also , schiedul-ed to address the General Assembly in October, the Israeli diplomat said that "it is likely."
Peres will go to Washington to meet with President Reagan and other administration of-flcials after his visit to the ■ UN. ■■■■ •
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''Zionism is racism'' deleted
By
JANICE ARNOLD
MONTREAL-
Although the attacks oh Zionism at, the Nairobi United Nations womeri's conference were no less virulent or frequent than at
Copenhagen five years ago, Canadian Jewish participants see as a significant victory the deletion of the "Zionism is racism", reference in the concluding document.
Twenty-two Canadian Jewish women were among
meetings ban overturned by Navon
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Education Minister Yitzhak Navon last week directed the ministry's religious education division not to distribute instructions forbidding Israeli religious schools from holding social meetings between Jews and Arabs.
"We shall not allow any ban on meetings with Arabs," Navon declared. The order was issued a day after the director of the division, Yaacdv Hadini, announced the ban and told reporte;rs that the directive had theTulI backing of^ Navon.
The ban on meetings between Jewish and Arab
youths was intended, ac-cordiiig to Hadini, to fight growing trends toward assimilation and mixed marriages. He also rejected* charges that the ban would conflict with the education ministry's recent directive to stress studies in democratic values and Jewish Arab understanding.
Navon said that he was responsible for the actions taken by the education -ministry and that he would not tolerate the intervention in the ministry by the Chief Rabbis of Israel, an apparent reference to a recent' statement from the chief rabbinical council objecting to meeting between Jewish and Arab youths.
the 300 Jewish women from 12 countries who were .present at last month's UN End of the Decade of Women Conference and/or the unofficial forum, which began earlier.
Those accredited as representatives of Jewish non-governmental organ izations for the conference were: Cecily Peters, WIZO; Dorothy Reitman, World Jewish Congress; Marilyn Waiiiberg, B'nai B'rith; and Helen Marr, International Council of Jewish Women.
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO members Lily Frank, Mirial SmaU and Stella Toronto^ were ad-niiUed as media for that organization's Grab Magazine, as was Ghila Benesty-Sroka, of Comite d'Action Juif, for the publication Tribune Juiye. Other Canadian Jewishjorganizations sending people to Nairobi were the Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training and the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada.
The rest of the 22 were members of the Canadian government delegation or of other international NGOs.
Reitman believes the presence of so many Jewish women, even though not all, including some of the. Israeli delegates, were prepared to defend Zionism, didmake a difference in the outcome of the conference. (She and Frank were the only Canadian Jewish women at the mid-decade Copenhagen conference in 1980.)
After Copenhagen, they determined to organize Canadian Jewish women for the next and final women's conference in order that Israel would not be quite so isolated in the iintemationai arena.
Their most iriimediate foes were the; 130 Palestine Liberation Organization representatives who systematically, Frank said, introducal the alleged evils of Zionism into as many sessions as they could. "They were like storm-troopers," .she said.
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PAULLUNGEN
TEL AVIV -
Competition, . and achievement were the goals, for most of the 4.000 athletes participating at the. recent 12th Maccabiah Games . . . but for many just.being a Jew.in Israel was reason enough to , smile. .
At the Games" opening ceremonies at Ramat Gan' stadium, athletes from 36 countries rnilled about in a colorful sea of confusion, as meeting and talking with Jewish sportsmen from around the world took pre. cedehce over keeping dis ciplined parade formation.
The 50,000 spectators vr-armly greeted the athletes from the large and familiar Jewish communities in the United States, Canada, France and Argentina, but they reserved the most emo-tionaJ and enthusiastic greetings from such out-of-the-way spbts as Zaire, Zimbabwe, Gibraltar and Bermuda.
In a very emotional moment, the lone, competitor frorn the Virgin Islands blew kisses to the: crowd as he entered the stadium,.and other athletes later commented there were tears in his eyes as he milled about with other Jewish sportsmen.
,. For Canadian, judo gold medal winner Mark Berger of Winnipeg, it was a lime for. meeting old friends from the Soviet Union, his birthplace.
As the teams gathered prior to the opening ceremonies at a field alongside the stadium. Berger spoke to Russian-born members of the Israeli team — friends, from a country whose Jews were not free to participate in the Games.
''It's a great competition," Berger later explained. "You get to see lots of Israelis who eniigrated from the Soviet Union and make new friends. I met someone who graduated with me from school and the ar-
my," the 26p-pound judoist said.
On the Israeli side. Kiev-born David Orenman described the feeling among the athletes as "yafeh mayod" (very-nice). :• .
. Freestyle wrestler Shai Kushilevitch. 27, originally from Moldavia, summed up .hi$ feelings by, simply stating "tov meod, she-. yavoh-u" (very good ,. . . they should come).
For Kushilevitch, there, was an added feeling of Jewish brotherhood at the; Maccabiah as he recalled competing at Kiev during the 1983 world championships in s,amb,o — a son of combination of judo and wrestling.
Ninety percent of Israel's wrestling team at the Kiev competition (and at the Maccabiah) were from Russia, he stated, and whien they wrestled in Kiev "we saw Israeli flags and many Jews came (to the stadium) to see the competition."
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Hockey great Jean Beliveau and his wife Elise attended the recent Maccabiah Games in Israel. (See story page 9). For other Maccabiah news see page 6.