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We Are One People EDrrOR'S NOTE: Allliougb liw ii Mrvliig (or the tint time piwiihiit of the Waaen'i DMiion o( the Omaha Phllan^Oirapiaa fMiyalgn, CanrI OrMoberg is no atranger to tUa exftremaly tanportant (und-raUni program. The wife of Omaha Jnunnoe encutlve Barton Greenterg, who was Women'i ^tMvWoo vice chairman two years ago, has t>een Involved In 'Phllanthraptes since IKl "with time out (or babies" - daughter |Bcth, now », and son Joe, 14. Mrs. Oreenberg has also been Women's Israel Bonds Chairman the past two years and has •erved on the Beth El Synagogue SlsteilMxid board. In the community-at-large, she serves as a tour guide at Joalyn Art Museum. Here she gives her feelings about the 1978 campaign. !M
There are lo many reasons for my belief that the 1875 •Philanthropies Campaign must be the most successful ever. II begins with (he knowledge that Jews are "One People." i'And Jews all over the world need the help of other Jews. The |iray that we can best help Is by providing money. And the fact Is, HJ learn what Is happening In other parts of the world, ours Is IhCMsiesttask. ^ As a woman, I perhaps Identify more readily with Individual 'crisis than with general problems. I Identify with the Russian woman who is physically quite comfortable. She has a home as 'nice as her non-Jewish nelgtitmr. She has a Job, a language, a 'family, but she sees that her children cannot be Jews and cannot know Judaism f She kaowB that In her home, her cfaUdreo cannot know their iharltagB. 8o aha t^roots heraetf to take her children to Israel. B(^ wet llyB^JWiJtliliigla pay and strange and difficult It Is
BjrJoaegbPalahitf WASHINGTON (JTA) "An historic understanding in the area of human ri^ita," acconUng to Sea Heniy M. Jackaon (D. Wash.). "A great tribute to the deep moral feeling of our country," asserted Sen. Jacob K. Javlts (R. NY). -It has cleared the way for humanity and human right," declared Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D.Ohio). These were among the statements from leaders in the two-year Congressional fight for legislation tying SovietAmerican trade with Soviet emigration practices. Making public Friday the
letters of agreement between himself and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Jackson said ttie formula achieved was "a Joint effort of give and take by our side and the President and the Secretary of State." Terming the formula "historic In the fact that an agreement on human rigbta was worked out In a trade agreement," Jackaon said the AdminlatraUon-Congressknal accord wu "true bipartisanship" that "the American people expect of us." Jackson lauded his Senate colleagues and Vanik and Rep. Wilbur Mills (D. Ark.) who Introduced (he Jackson-
MUIs-Vanlk resolutkm In the House. Vanik obtained the 289 coiponsors in the House that led to its four to one victory last December. President Ford "deserves great credit," Jackson said, "as does" Kissinger. Javlta, lauding Jackson's "brilliant initiative," also praised the "extraordinary statesmanship" of Ford and Kissinger. The Soviet assurances on emigration that Kissinger outlined to Jackson in their exchange of letters form a test of' Soviet inlentk>ns in its relations with the United States, according to Jackson and Javlta.
A Double i-ocic On Compliance
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i have a a^-year-oki daughter and a 14-year-okl son. Ye*, 1 Jdentify with the Israeli motiiers and the terror they must live l^rltb when their children are at war. If I can help them care for jttielr aged, their war-wounded, their oprhans - If I can make Ibeir bun^ somewhat easier by allowing them to see that iomeone cares — that someone will at least help eaae the Unandal burden, I can only feel that this is my Uesring as well iflamyduty. I don't know how to Identify with Uie women In Syria. Their total lack of freedom, their total deprivation Is beyond my Imagining. So If I can do anything Uiat will enable these women 'and their families to leave their personal hell. It Is I who am fortunate. And I certainly Identify with that women — because 1 am (hat woman — in Omaha, Nebraska, who Is a part of a Jewish Federatkm that has so many arms to make life easier, 'pleasanter, more enriching. That Federation cannot run on •ppreciaton — It needs financial help — so it la to my benefit to ^belpitaillcan. I an convinced that what we must do to ensure a successful Campaign Is to see ourselves as Jews — and to recognize that jbeihg a Jew Is claiming kinship with every other Jew on earth. Knowing that we are "One People" our concern will translate Itself Into the dollars that are needed. The 19/5 Women's Campaign Cabinet has been formed and li bagbming its work. We dedicate ourselves lo the fact, as well •p the words, that everywhere In the world Jews are "One
First Emigration Effects ToBsFWtNsxtYsw JHINGTON (JTA) aite first effects of the successful negotlatkm on Soviet •migration policy probably will not be felt until earty next pwar after the Trade Reform |Act becomes law. r But the 8ovM authorities, W a totun of gMd faith, may jut thairbaiTters earlier. " Sen. Henry M. Jackaon (D. iWaah.), In making public ^tklay the texU of two letters iftetween himself and ISacrstary of State Henry A plaalBgar on the Soviet liasurances regarding Emigration practices, ?>'benceforlh" Ihoutfil that the
trade bill wiU be legislated by CongresahiDec. The Senate Finance Committee, he expects, will present the measure to the Senate shortly after it returns Nov. IS from Its reelectkm recess. After enactment there, the bUl wUI go to the Senate House conference where the language of the two brandies on the bill as a whole, including the Jackaoo-MUIsVanlk measure linking Soviet emigratkm with U.S. trade beneflta and crediU, will be made lo conform and then y(M t^ both diambers.
"The key element of detente in all Its manlfestallons is the good faith performance of this agreement," Javlts said at the White House. The assurances, he observed, have cleared the way to the new legislation on trade that will help detente but "not at the expense of human rights." According to Jackson, the formula represents "a definite change" in the Soviet view of human rights that "Is worth trying. The historic significance of this effort," he said, is that "it has never been done before. They said It couldn't be done. I felt It could be done because we had the bargaining chips."
'Beautiful People' OMAHA — A collage of "beautlfal people" Is dlipliyed by, from left, Harry Kraine, Edith SckaeMer and Isadore Shafer. The trio, all retidenU of (he Dr. Philip 8her Home, were tmong the 12 who created the eoliige hi an arts and crafU project, according to Janet Fither, recrealion therapist. Tlir lighthearted collage, on display at the home, fraiures words and pIcUirei denoting resideats' hiteresti and actlvltlei — such as "gossip," "Bectbovea." "food," "radio," "nursbig," "grandchildren."
Decline of Jewish Community and Births Are Among American Judaism's Problems By BORIS 8MCH.AR The Council of Jewlah Federations and Welfare Funds, which Is constantly holding Its fhiger on the pulse of Jewish conununal needs, isperturtied. It sees contemporary Jewish life In this country facing a number of critical developments that may well determine whether we enter vlably into the 2Ut century. Expression of this mood was given by the director of the CJFWF's Community Planning Department, David Zeff, at a gathering of
Jewish communal workers. The current and growing malaise In the American Jewish community, he stressed. Is not a dimly perceived apprehenston, but rather an already existing and troubling fact of life. Among the critical laauea be eaumerated are: tha •radon of Jewlab communal IdsotUlcattai: attrition through asahnllatlon; •Mdiocrtty In Jmriah knowMge Into whkdi American Jewry la daaosndta«; tho fact that Jewish education lor 90 par cant of our chikfeen
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WASHINGTON (JTA) Congress will Judge Soviet compliance with Its assurances on emigratloa practices under the Congresskxial-AdmhilBtratlaa agreement and will determine the continuing flow of U.S. trade beneflta and credits to the Soviet government on the baals of Its Judgment of A4mtailatratlan reports. This trtamph for Congress ewiived hi the final diacasslon between Presfclent FV)nl and key Oongreaatooal figures on the trade emlgratlaa issue that was hammered out Friday after CoogresskMai and White Houee aides worked late the night before to write thelegislatkn. "We have a double hxk on compUanoe," a Coogresshmal aide told the Jewish Telegraphic Ageoey. He waa referring to the foUowlng legtalative praceea to govern ocmpliance: After the trade bUl with the Jacksoo-Mllla-Vanlk measure In It intact becomes law, tha President will have the authority to extend to tho Soviet government moat favored natian treatnoent and make It eligible for U.S. credita during the ensuhig U Thirty days before that period ends, the President will ask Congress for an extension of that authority and submit a report to Congress on Soviet emigration practices compared with assurances Secretary of State Henry A. KIssUiger has outlined in his letter to Sen. Henry M. Jackaon and Jackson's understanding of them hi hia response to Kissinger. Congress will have 80 days to pass a concurrent affirmative resolulton on the President's request. If It is not paaaed, then h) the next 45 days either House will have the right to veto the authorization. After that, annually, either chamber will be able to veto continued authorization. If neither does, the authorizatkm continues automatically.