..The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, January 13,1978 - Page-lJ
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Organizations and People
More women seek careers; volunteers hard to find, says UIA campaigner
By MOURA WOLPERT
HSMILTON--
just how independent is a woman about the dollar she gives to the United Israel Appeal? Barbara Epstein, national president of the UIA women's division, was pondering the question during a recent interview.
Now that she has travelled across Canada and met and worked with wo-, men from all over the country. Mrs. Epstein is able to assess some of the organization's successes and some of its problems.
The question of a woman's independence is the second, "more interesting and more difficult" of two genuine problems facing the women's division today. The other, common to all women's organizations, is "that with the much higher incidence of women pursuing careers, there is the problem of getting the kind of volunteer worker that you need.
"The essence of a successful campaign." says Mrs. Epstein, who was chairman of the Hamilton UJWF women's divi-
sion in 1974, "is one person saying to amother: 'This is what I am giving. What about you?'"
This kin^f canvassing has to be done "on a one-to-one basis, by one volunteer approaching another. A good professional can make this whole,-process much easier." sHe-adds", ". . . but a professional cannot do the canvassing." Fortunately, "we may be the kind of organization that is attractive to business and working women . . . because they can work at their own pace and in their own time."
Very few women think of themselves "as the managers of their business, which is their home" and getting them to look at the money they give as a year-round gift, by putting aside each week a small sum out of their housekeeping money "is still not an easy concept to get across." she says.
"In this day and age of liberation, this is as liberated a thing as a woman can do: to look upon herself as somebody with management skills, with a stake in
Begin Tjooks up' tvith Bond heads
TORONTO —
"We live in a period which may be called, historic because there is a great change in the relations between us and the largest Arab country. Egypt," said Prime Minister Menachem Begin in a telephone hookup to Jewish leaders across Canada and the U.S. last week.
However, emphasizing., that Israel faced difficult economic and social problems at home, he called for wider response to.the Israel Bond campaign. A large-scale housing program was needed to elim-' inate substandard living conditions of 50.000 families (300.000 men, women and children), said Begin.
The prime minister's phone call marked the climax of the nationwide cash drive of the closing weeks of the 1977 Bond campaign to stimulate the country's economic development. Begin went on to say, "there is reason to be optimistic. My dear friends, with God's help, we may have peace in the near future and for a long period. as-\ve believe, for' 'our children and grandchildren."
Sam Rbthberg, general chairman of the Bond pr-gahizalion-who introduced Begin to the. telephone audience, added that "'we were ready to pay the cost of war. Now we must be prepared to pay the price of peace."
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JERUSALEM [JGNS] -
An Israeli radio journalist had a narrow escape at Entebbe airport in Uganda when he was fortunate enough to escape detecr tidn by the local authorities, 'v
He was a passenger on a plane from Kenya which made an unscheduled landing at this airport where Israeli commandos staged their dramatic rescue operation in June, ■1976.
The journalist. Zvi Li-. dar. was the only Israeli on board the plane, and he first tried to solicit help from the British pilot who told him: "lean see your problem." Having then tried Unsuccessfully to hide in the plane's toilet when spotted by a Ugian-daih security man, he joined the other passengers in the terminal where police: were checking dpcurnents.
"Since I had only an Israeli passport, I was really^scared," Lidar said on his return to Israel. "I knew only too well that, the Ugandans were on-the lookout to detain Israelis.-Th.en realizing I had little option, Itook a chance and nonchalantly slid into a group of passengers; whose papers had already been checked and were being allowed back on board the aircraft.
"The noise" of the engines, restarting was.the
Israel and with^he same responsibility that anyone else has for the preservation of it. We are beyond the stage of token giving."
In the members of the women's division she has found"a sense of dedication to Israel, tempered with the best judgment one could hope to have" and working with these women — who raise about 12"(> of the entire UIA dollar in Canada, "a very substantial lot of money — has been a very exciting experience."
She is impressed also with what the women's division has done to educate itself and the community: "a woman's gift is an educated gift and educated giving is really the hope for the future."
A meeting in Banff of the Pacific and Midwest regions brought home the difficulties of maintaining "the kind of connections, the getting together and reinforcing that comes so naturally in this part of the country (Ontario)."
However, the Mari-tiincs, with what has been described as 1'A women's divisions, present a different problem. Separate men's and women's campaigns do not appeal to Maritimers and "maybe wc will have to come up with a technique that makes sense to them."
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