Page 6-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, November 22,1984
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An intensified educational effort in the Jewish community on the plight of Ethiopian Jewry was urged in a resolution passed almost unanimously at the Council of Jewish Federation General Assembly.
Community leaders should be urged to participate in missions to
"Ethiopia to monitor the situation of those Jews remaining in that African country, the voting delegates agreed.
The large numbers of Jews fleeing to the refugee camps opens up new possibilities for the rescue of the majority of Ethiopian Jewry. "Resources must be provided. Maximum' rescue efforts must be continued," the resolution states.
refugee Status
MONTREAL-
Canadian Jewish Congress has asked for a new refugee status determination board in its brief to the Plaut Commission on Canadian Rehigee Status, Administration and Policy.
The 25-page submission was presenti^ recentiy by Congress president Milton Harris, Congress social action committee chauman Fred Zemans, land die refugee sub-committee chairman Lome Waldman.
The brief says tiiatfefti-gee status determination is currentiy a slow', subjective, bureaucratic process and that "the present procedure denies accessibility to persons who have failed to mention their refugee claim before removal oi-ders have b^n made." - Congress calls for golds so that refugee status decisions "will be quick and just, while covering as broad a sector of claims as possible."
The brief favors oral hearings at an early stage, widi the individual present. This is hot die procedure now. It also states that die benefit of doubt be given to the refugee and that a separate refugee status board be removed froni current immigration procedures.
In presenting the brief, Zemans noted that refugee matters are a major Cana-
Fred Zemans . .. presents brief
dian issue of particular concern to Canadian Jewify . .itself largely a community of refugees.
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The General Assembly commended Israel and the Jewish Agency for the resettlement of some 8,500 Ethiopian Jews "in an absorption process that is unprecedented in its complexity and cost."
It urged support for an American Jewish Joint Distribution committee program set up for general famine relief in Ethiopia.
Also under the "endangered Jewish population" headline wereresolu-. tions urging greater action by the Jewish community and the Canadian and U.S. governments on behalf of Soviet and Syrian Jewry.
In otiier resolutions passed, the CJF gave its ' 'wholehearted endorsement of the program to increase funds sent to Israel in this time of economic crisis." This program was presented to the General Assembly by Israel deputy prime minister Yitzhak Navon (see page Tstory). A meeting of North American Jewish leadership is to be convened to examine ways to maximize contributions to Israel's economic rebuilding through United Jewish Appeal campaigns, purchase of State of Israel Bonds and business investments.
The General Assembly urged the new joint U.S.-Israel Economic Committee to provide incentives for investment in Israel and applauded die "substantial" U.S. economic and military aid to Israel, particularly the change from loans to grants of part of the allocation.
Other Middle East resolutions called for Egypt to renew negotiations under the Camp David Accords, for the U.S. to reduce its arms sales to Arab countries, and the passage of at least a non-binding resolution in the U.S. Congress to locate the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
The concern of many
In quiet conversatioii only moments bdiMV a demonstration for Ethkipian Jev^ disrupted the opening plenary of the General Assembly, are, from left, Toronto alderman Ron Kanter, CJF president Martin E. Citrin, Toronto Jewish Congress president Yitz Feldman and Metro Toronto chafarnan Dennis Flynn. [Graphic Artists photo]
delegates about what is perceived as an increasingly Christian influence in government policy making in the U.S. was expressed in a resolution supporting "vigorous efforts to protect the important principle of church-state separation.'' This principle, it was felt, is "now threatened to a greater degree than it has been in decades. What is at stake is the character of American democracy."
A resolution on the 1985 United Nations End of the Women's Decade Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, urged the U.S. to "defuse efforts by the Arab-Soviet bloc to politicize the conference widi anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda" and to withdraw U.S. participation if this occurs.
In other business^ the CJF General Assembly approved a 1985 budget of $5,327 million (U.S.) and
the establishment of an office in Israel next year, at a total cost in the first two years of $270,000. A new formula for determining the annual dues of each member federation will be based on die average of die highest and lowest amounts collected in local cam-
paigns for the years 1981, 1982 and 1983.
The CJF has embarked on a major study of how to improve the recruitment and development of the member federation's professional staff. It will also be looking at the relationship between professional
and lay leaders.
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