PHIL GRANOVSKY, the 1972 UJA-ISF campaign chairman (right) discusses phins for the annual drive with campaign director DAVID MARKS. Campaign leadership seminar is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 9 at Primrose Club.
Israel expects influx of Soviet Russia Jews
Israel is preparing to accept a large influx of Soviet Jews, the annual meeting of the UJWF was told by Phil Granovsky, the 1972 UJA-ISF campaign chairman.
Mr. Granovsky, reporting on a conversation he and several other Toronto campaign leaders /had recently with Prime Minister Golda Meir, said that a total of 1,800 Soviet Jews arrived in Israel in November and 850 have come so far in Debember. The Netherlands embassy, which acts for Israel in Moscow, is receiving applications for visias at the rate of 200 a week.
Mrs. Meir told Mr. Granovsky that th<s c6st of an exit visa from Russia is 500 rubles, about $500. To cancel their Soviet citizeh-ship Soviet Jews must pay another 500 rubles each;
Russia has given Egypt a new type of missile which can be lired f rpm a boat, which means an Egyptian • boat can sit anywhere up to 100 miles off the coast of Israel and lob missiles into the cities^
Mr. Granovsky. said it is a great honor and a rare privilege to be given the opportunity of serving as campaign chairman. "I assure you I will do everything in my power to make certain the 1972 campaign is successful," he said.
"When 1 say successful," he continued, "I mean only that all of us involved in the campaign will do our best. There is no such thing as 'success' in a campaign of this type, because we are really dealing in human lives and not only in money. We -are successful when we save lives,,$sjwe ddi through UJA. On the other hsiild, ivhen w^ consider that there is 0 much more we should be^oiiig and so many more lives to be saved, we realize that the term 'successMs only relative."
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His philosophy abbiit giving is precise: If you are a member of a community w'ho benefits froin it -—Jew or non-Jew you have an obligation to put something back.
Carr stresses need for community council
Toronto must have a Jewish Community Council because it cannot exist corporately without it, Donald Carr declared at the annual meeting of the United^ Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto. '
.Mr. Carr, who has just retired as president of the UJWF, said in his 1971 presidential report thatithe council must be formed as a new entity within the Canadian Jewish Congress. Leaders of the UJWF, he said, "are prepared to submerge the Welfare Fund in this-new entity which will be fully representative of every local Jewish organization and the public at large — founded oiii>4^^^^modrqtic annual election ; . /. a true parliament of Toronto Jewry."
For a' strong, vibrant community, one entity must decide upon priorities and must then distribute the community's /fe-serveS — monetary and human -7- to those priority areas, Mr. Carr said.
Mr. Carr emphasized that the UJWF has long been in favor of the Jewish Community Council principle and pointed out thait in 1967 the Welfare Fund enacted By-Law 100, a radical restructuring of the Fund to reflect representation from the entire community — organizations and individuals.
"We postponed its implementation," he said, "solely in the hope that Congress would create the Community Council and that there woiild be no need for the by-law. If the Community Coun-
. cil does not come into existence during this corning^eaf, I^say
' that we mu^^impfem^nt By-Law 100^ because we cann6t\continue in limbo for so long. . . . The Welfare Fund ca'nnpt keep repeating 'Barkis is willing' forever ..."
For full text of Mr. Carr's report please turn to page 2 of this special section.
A view of the large attendance at the 33rd an^^^
Harry L. Wol^n elected presideiil
"I am dedicated to the con^ cept that our cdmnmnity is one and 1 will endeavor to ensure a vibrant and meariiiigful Jewish community of Toronto," de-elared Harry L. Wolfson, as he
assumed the presidency of the /United Jewish Welfai'e Fund of Toronto, at the 33rd annual .meeting held in Beth Tzedec Synagogue. (For the full slate of officers and members of the board of directors see page 3) ^
There was a large attendance at the meeting and there was enthusiastic applause of approval ;as reports were^elivered detailing the activitiesf of the UJWF during the past year.
Mr. Wolfson, who was elected by acclamation, said he would not make any specific promises about plans for the future. "I can only pledge consistency of effort and consistency of purpose," he said.
"I have within me a feeling of strong desire to contribute and be of service to something held dear in the caus6 of Jewish community^" Mr. Wolfson stated and he expressed the hope that "each and every; one of us as Jews, citizens and humian beings will be able to derive a full measure of justifiable pride and meaningful purpose."
He paid tribute to the retiring president, Donald Carr, and said that "those of us who have been involved will realize how gigan^ tic has been not only the volume but the type of issues he_has dealt with;... His sincerity of purpose and his warm personality have endeared him greatly^"
A highl^lit of the meeting vvas the presei^^ the Ben
SadowsW 14y^^ to Morris B. Kaufman, and the I^^
A^ard is given to ^ member of toe communit^^'for outstanding lesuleisliip i
vices.^ The Leadership Develop^
Retiring WWF president DONALD GAR^RyQC. (right) turns over standing young leader for service the gavel of office to the new president, HARRY    WOLFSON and coraroitment to tlie com*
annual meeting, held in Beth Tzedec Synagogue. '\      munity." .'^