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Dec. 24 Blood Drive
To Be Dedicated To
Charles Weinstein
The Jewish Community
Blood Drive on Thursday,
Dec. 24, will be dedicated to
the memory of Charles
Weinstein, president of the
Jewish Community Blood
Donor Council for the past
two years. Weinstein died
Dec. 10.
The Red Cross Blood—
mobile will be at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
from 12 noon until 6 p.m.
Those wishing to donate
blood may stop in anytime
during; those hours or may
call 231-3696 or 252-5253 to
schedule an appointment.
This year's goal is 150
pints of blood, according to
Blood Drive Chairmen
Richard Grundstein and
Richard Handler.
Summit Not A 'Failure'
On Human Rights
According To U.S.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
President Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev
ended their three days of
talks last week with Reagan
calling the summit a "clear
success."
The two leaders signed an
agreement to dismantle
medium- and short-range
nuclear missiles. But from
both public and private comments there was no indication that any movement had
been made on human rights,
including the issue of increased Jewish emigration.
However, a senior administration official, briefing the
thousands of reporters who
covered the summit, said he
would not "classify" the
human rights discussion as
"a failure."
He noted that Reagan said
American and Soviet
societies most "come in contrast, come in conflict" on
the issue of human rights
and addressed the topic
throughout the summit.
In his statement bidding
farewell to Gorbachev, during a heavy rain on the south
FEATURE
Thirty-First World Zionist Congress
Seen As Watershed
In Israel-Diaspora Relations
By Rabbi Bradley N.
Bleefeld
JERUSALEM - Clearly
the Thirty-First World
Zionist Congress held here
last week has become a
watershed event in Israel-
Diaspora relations. Marked
by the emerging influence of
liberal American Zionist,
this gathering of international leaders will be remembered for the dramatic
change in power it represents.
A harbinger of the dynamic shift in dominance from
the politically more conservative Likud party to the
liberal Labour Party coalition came with the early victory for W.Z.O. chairman of
Labour's Simcha Dinitz over
his Likud opponent, Gideon
Patt. Dinitz, who is deeidely
more receptive to Liberal
Jewry's programs, funding
needs and political solution's
to the Arab-Israeli conflict,
follows the tenure of Arye
Dulzine of Likud.
For the first time in
W.Z.O. history the liberal
Jews of the Diaspora joined
with the Labour party and
Hadassah coalition to become the dominant force in
the decisions determined
during the Congress. Following on the heels of the Dinitz
election, came two days of
intensive meetings to prepare policy resolutions for
the Congress floor. Issues
ranging from budgetary
allocations to religious
pluralism in Israel to West
Bank settlement activity
came into question.
On all serious issues, the
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld (left) of Temple Israel congratulates Simcha Dinitz, the new chairman of the
World Zionist Organization, at the Knesset.
WZO determines; these
policies as a voice of
Diaspora or World Jewry to
coincide with or in counterbalance to the decisions
made within Israel by her
own democratic process. If
the Knesset is the parliament of Israeli Jewry, then it
is said that the W.Z.O. is the
parliament of World Jewry,
exercising their right of expression as lovers of Zion
and as those who share responsibility for. Israel's
security and economic,
demographic and moral
development.
Brought to the floor during
the week were issues that
would affect Israel and the
Diaspora for decades. .
Among the resolutions
debated with great passion
were:
• recommendations for
new guidelines for the WZO
and Jewish Agency partnership in regard to Aliyah, programs and allocations;
• "the granting of complete equality of rights to all
streams of the Jewish Religion and giving their rabbis
the legal right to perform all
life cycle events and other
rabbinic functions";
• allocation of WZO funds
for settlement activity ont he
West Bank and Gaza;
• new roles for the Jewish
Agency and the Israeli
government;
• the conflict of democracy vs. demography in resolving the Arab population
issue;
• the willingness of all
Jews l;o work together to
insure a more secure, more
democratic Israel through
education and mutual commitment to Zionist goals.
ARZA, and MERCAZ, the
Reform and Conservative
Zionist groups, together with
Israelis Labour party and
Hadassah, formed a strong
coalition which brought
about needed reforms in the
international Jewish arena.
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld of
Temple Israel attended the
recent W.Z.O. Congress in
Jerusalem.
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Center
To Join Together For Programs
"Center to Center," a year
of joint programming
planned by the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center and the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for the Performing Arts,
will begin next month.
The goal of the programming is to bring Blacks
and Jews together to learn
about the historical coalition
of the two communities,
assess where that relationship is today and how the two
groups can plan together for
the future. The community
centers anticipate this first
year will generate further
joint projects.
"We feel this important
initiative will serve as a
catalyst for future dialogue
and activities by the two
local communities," says
Barbara Brandt, program
chairwoman. Three programs are planned, each targeting a different segment of
the community.
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Issues,
Official
lawn of the White House,
Reagan stressed that human
rights will continue to be discussed with the Soviets.
"Our exchange on the subject of human rights underscored the priority we in the
Western democracies place
on respect for fundamental
freedoms," the President
said.
"I am pleased that during
the summit we addressed
this area of heartfelt importance and ensured a continuing dialogue on human rights
at the highest levels of our
government."
Gorbachev also mentioned
human rights in his departure statement, the first time
he has referred to it in public
here.
"We have had a useful exchange of views which have
clarified each other's posi-
,. tion concerning regional conflicts, the development of
our bilateral ties and human
rights," the Soviet leader
said.
He added that "on some of
these aspects, it seems likely
that we can soon identify
specific solutions, satisfactory to both us and to other
countries." It was not clear
whether this included human
rights. More likely he meant
regional issues.
The senior administration
official said the Arab-Israel
conflict Was discussed by the
two leaders, although it apparently was not a major
topic during the discussion
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ADL Looking For
Witnesses Against
Schwammberger
The task force on Nazi War
Criminals of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith is seeking witnesses
willing to testify against
Nazi war criminal Josef
Schwammberger who was
recently arrested in Argentina.
According to Elliot Welles,
director of the ADL Task
Force, the names of potential witnesses and their evidence agianst the concentration camp commandant will
be forwarded to the prosecutor's office in Stuttgart, West
Germany. Schwammberger
faces extradition from Argentina to West Germany,
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