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VM. LXVII No. 20 OmlM, ftabr.
Federation leaders strike deal to pay for domestic resettlement
Lincolnites join in Israel mission ManlMn of UM Lincob Fedcntioa'a MiMka to IsTMi poM for a pktan before Odlr tetan. Pletared from left, bock raw, Hnry awl Auda Allea, Roth Goldenberg. Irene CMadbMr. Oariotte Oclott, Inr Ckddidbaig; ariddk raw, Miaoile Br^ low. Yak Gotadiner; front row, Betty and Hy Pobky. <See Lettata to the Editor OB Page ^
Shevardnadze promises Iris government will protect Jews By Auaa Btrabama NEW YORK (JTA) Sonnet Foreign Miaister Eduard Shovardnadse haa promiaed his govenmieat will protect its Jewiati citiseDS against ,^tiSentitic violence, according to a member of the New York City Cdimdl who aaya he met with Kremlin official last week. ' The Soviet govemmoit ^wiU Bt>t tolerate pogroms" against Jews, Shevardnadze is said to have toU City Councilman
NoaSt'bwr of BirboByn during a private meeting at the FonigB Itinistry in Moacow OD Jan. 91. "We win do everything in oqr power to (votect the Jewish CQDununity." Dear quoted tile foreign minister lib aaying. Shevardnadse's remarka appear to be the hi^iestImlal government reaponae 80 far to the series of antiSemitic threats that have triggered panic among Jews in the Soviet Union. Deor saki SlMvardnadze
gsve him fats word that the Soviet govemmeDt would ajppfy existing legialation to protect Jewa. "There are laws 00 the books presently to poniab people who express these type of threats, and we wUl uae theae laws," the councilman quoted him as saying. The foreign miniater's remarka were made through an interpreter, said Dear. He said the meeting had been arranged by the Foreign Mii^stry.
By AUiaoa SjqtlaB MIAMI (JTA) - Leaders of Jewiah community federations from around the country have made a historic commitment to join forces in the resettlement of Soviet Jews in the United Statea and Israd. At a special general assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations, representatives of 83 community federations overwhelmingly endorsed four resolutiona implementing Ae principle of "collective reaponafbility," for the reaettlenMnt effort. The agreement means the federations will individuaDy shouUer a fixed proportira of not only the United Jewish Appeal's 1420 million Operation Exodua can^aigrufor aJ>sorption of Soviet Jews in Israel, but also the total cost of settling the 40,000 Soviet Jewa eiqiected to oqme to tUp oonat^ in the nextyair.The dacjauo to share the coat of domeetic rsoettlem«nt—aa oppooed to leaving communitiee heavily imlMcted by the emigration wave to fend for themselves—waa hailed as particularly historic by CJF officials. The federations "finally accepted that they would help other communities pay some costs," said Miriam Schneirov, president of the Federation of Jewiah Agendee of Great-
er Philada^>hia and a CJF vice p^eaident. Schneirov co-chaired 4 special CJF panel on teaettlement that came up with many of the proposala adopted recently. The point moot debated at the aaaemUy regarded the exact the formula by Which each community's share of the financial fatmko would be calcuJated. There was no (q>position to a proposal to base each community's share of the UJA Operation Exodus goal on ita performance in the 1986 general fnndraiaing campaigns. Forinatance, if a community raiaed three percent of tlw total raiaed oy all federations in 1988, it will be respcmsible for the same percentage of the Operation Exodus goal But nnaller federations that have raiisedretaitivaly Iargi> auma of money tot eominmnitiee of tbeir siae afa|K6*4it9nBiBftkn aanw fimmla to detemina their ahare of funda to be raiaad nationally for domestic resettlement.
Several of theae federationa buuled together and propoted inatead that the formula for dmnestic reeettlement be baaed 50 percent on the 1986 campaign results and 50 percent on a Jewish community's size relative to the national Jewish population. A compromise was hammered out to make the formula based 85 percent on the 1988 campaign results and 16 poTXot on population. The negotiaticm of the compromise was a "fine exhibition of statesmanah^" Martin Kraar, executive vice president of CJF, commented after the proceedings. "The smaller oomnnmities walked away . feeling aa much a part of this process as the New Yorkers," he said. And larger communitiee like New York demonstrsted that they "were mars coooaned about conaeoatts than their own parochial interests," he said.
Resettlement project needs volunteers tQ help make new families feel af home By Jo CarroU Ever want to graet someone at the airptjrt with flags and banners urtMBWiahaiT W«U now ia your^kaMe.'flle resettlentent project is looking for help. j^ If you woulcrato to be on hand to graet eomo of the 16 Russian famfliea who will be arriving in the next few months it would be great. Bat if that ia not yoor cup of i«( and you wiguld Uke to halp your boUiara •nd aiatara lh)m Ruaala aa (hqr ssparianoe thatr first taata or freedom, thara's pISBty of OtlMT tUiWi 10
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help with the everyday things that you and 1 take for grantad. Until they have the opportunity to drive a car, they need help with transportation. Think how many timaa you get into your car each day. You use it to go to the grocery Store, to the poet offioe. to take a aick chlU to the doctor, to go to the temple or synagogue or to the Jewiali Community Center. For thooa of you who drive and have aome free time, perbape you could taJu an afternoon or a morning and be reaponaiUs for one tamOy'a traoapdctation nasda (or that liayba you're not so kaan on driving someone around, but maybe you Uln to cook. You eooU fcnvt a family ov» to share
supper with you. It doesn't have to be fancy. These immigrants are uiwd to standing in line, not knowing what kind of food they will have to buy. Anything you cook will be appreciated. A koaher meal is not neceoaary. And maybe cooking ia what you do beet but you really don't want to have coakpaay. Take a family a diab and ait down and visit for a while. Better still, taka the ingrediante over to a newly wrived Roaaian family's house and teach them how to make an American diah. roraaoato(ilieaa(«niliaa, aerBwUng to Howard Bpataia, prsMdant of Jewiah raafiy Service, tUa will be their (bat inttodncUoa t« freedom. He Itheinportanoaof
making it a pleasurable one for them. They left Ruaaia with little more than a satchel of clothing and no peraonal belongings. It is moat fortunate that funding has been provided for the necessities of life, but much hdp is still needed in terms of helping hands. Apartments have been secmred, but must be furnished. The first choice is to obtain good uaed donated fomlture, but if it is not available volunteers are needed to akop (or living and dining room fumitvrs and booroom furaitore. (tar thai bo purchaaed. The aituatkm ia afandar to a family's belongings being de6)
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