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page 5-THE NEWS—February 1979 Everything You’d Want To Know About Federation HOW MUCH DOES FEDERATION RAISE? In 1978 the pledges of both men and women totalled more than $602,000. That was over $40,000 more than we raised in 1977. IT ALL COMES FROM A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE, YOU DON’T NEED ME. It’s an awfully big handful. In 1978 there were 819 men and ■ women who made pledges. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE PLEDGE BUT I HEAR THAT A LOT DON’T PAY - ESPECIALLY THE BIG GIVEI^. Back in 1973 during Yom Kip- pur War some people pledged more than they could handle at the time and they have taken several years to pay that pledge, but only 3 or 4 still have anything owing and they are making regular payments. In the past couple of years it is very rare for a pledge to be written off, but sometimes it happens when somebody dies or goes bankrupt or has enormous and unusual expenses such as il lness. When that happens we should be understanding; after all, isn’t that what tzedakah is all about. I STILL FEEL THAT EVEN WITH ALL THE GIVERS MOST OF THE MONEY COMES FROM A FEW. Sure about 2/3 of the money comes from some 40 major givers, but that’s less of a percentage than in most com munities our size. That means that $200,000 is given by non major givers - that’s a lot of giv ing. I WANT TO GIVE MY MONEY TO UJA NOT TO THE FEDERATION. There is no more separate UJA fundraising. UJA is a national organization while Federation is the local organiza tion. Of course Federation does a lot more than raising money, but a major job is fundraising and the majority of the money raised goes to UJA which, in turn, sends it on to Israel. WHAT I REALLY CARE ABOUT IS ISRAEL. HOW MUCH OF MY MONEY WILL GO THERE? Out of the money raised in 1978 the Federation sent 76P out of every dollar to Israel thru UJA. In 1977,77.8 was sent. The reason for the drop is that Charlotte is a growing com munity and needs to keep more here at home to meet it’s own needs. Still, the percentage to Israel is extremely high for this size community nationally, and we are proud of that. I’M VERY UPSET WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS WHICH GET MONEY. I’LL GIVE ONLY IF ALL MY MONEY GOES TO ISRAEL. I’m sorry to hear about your upset. Could you tell me about it and I’ll try and help you to talk with some of the organizations of Ederation leadership about it? As for sending your money right to UJA and Israel, yes, it can be done either by filling out a special pledge card, or I’ll give you a stamped envelope in which you can mail a check right to UJA. (NOTE: always ask for the dollar ambunt of the intended gift so we can check with UJA and have the donor billed by them if he doesn’t come through.) ALL THE FEDERATION DOES IS SEND MONEY TO ISRAEL. HOW COME YOU DON^T SPEND MORE IN CHARLOTTE AND IN THIS COUNTRY? llie Federation does spend a large amount of money locally and nationally. Out of the 1978 campaign, here’s the way it was allocated: B.B. Hillel - Chapel Hill & Duke - 5,500 Jewish Community Center • 45,000 N.C. Hebrew Academy - 20,- 000 Blumenthal Home For the Aged - 17,500 B.B.Y.O. Youth Service Appeal - 1,200 Charlotte Clergy Association - 100 • Co-operative Prog. Judaic Studies - 1,000 Crisis Assistance Ministry - 225 Greater Carolina Assn. of Rabbis - 150 Jewish , Children’s Service, Atlanta - 300 N.C.C.J. - 200 American Jewish Committee- 800 American Jewish Congress - 250 Anti-Defamation League - 2,000 H.I.A.S. - 1,000 NJCRAC' 200 No. American Jewish Students App. - 150 Amer. Assn. for Jewish Education - 250 American Jewish Archives - 50 Dropsie University *125 Jewish Braille Institute - 200 Jewish Chautauqua - 175 Joint Cultural Appeal - 450 United Lubavitcher Yeshivot -75 Torah Umesorah - 100 National Tay Sachs - 200 Jewish Reconstructionist Found - 200 Jewish ITieological Seminary - 750 Reform Jewish Appeal - 750 Synagogue Council of America - 100 World Council of Synagogues - 150 Diskin Orphanage - 100 Fed. Council of Israeli Inst. - 200 V B’nai B’rith Russian Resettle ment - To Date - 3,000 North Carolina Advisory Board - 1,000 WHO DECIDES HOW THE MONEY GET’S ALLOCATED? ISN’T IT A COUPLE OF THE BIG GIVERS? Charlotte’s system of allocations has been written up nationally as a model for others. In no way is it done by a hand ful. Almost every member of the Federation Board studies one or more of the organizations and recommends how much should be given. The Allocation com mittee spends hours visiting places like the Home and Hillel and having their represen tatives come to special meetings to present their budgets. When the Committee makes a recommendation to the Federa tion Board it can still be overruled and often it is when the Board votes to give an in crease. When the committee makes a decision to increase the amount (Continued on Page 8) Arab Lobby (Continued from Page 1) about the ability of the American people and their elected representatives to exer cise their national sovereignty and traditional independence in the formulation of foreign policy. To understand what has been happening, • the Anti- Defamation League is conduc ting a study of the sources and uses of such power and the overall extent and impact of Arab influence in the U.S. ADL has completed the initial phase of this project. The Arab Thrust When the Saudi Arabian cam paign was launched to win ap proval by the U.S. Congress of the sale of the F-15’s, the Saudi Embassy in Washington issued a secret seven-page memoran dum of instructions to its American lobbyists suggesting that the “economic advantages of the Saudi-American relationship” be stressed in their efforts. The Saudi thrust for the F-15’s was a major battle in the Arab war for American public opi nion that has been going for many years. At stake in this Arab effort is the course of Un ited States foreign policy in the crucial Middle East. In the last decade, the Arab campaign has escalated and accelerated. The intensified effort has taken place, essentially, in two stages: the first escalation took place after the Arab defeat in the Six- Day War of 1967, the second in the years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. With the drastic quintupling of crude oil prices impost on the United States and the rest of the world by the Arab- dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), billions of dollars in oil earnings piled up in Arab treasuries. A portion of these so- called petrodollars has been deployed by the Arab oil regimes in the U.S., and in coun tries around the world, to promote Arab political goals in their 30-year war against Israel- a war in which American Mid dle Eastern policy is, as noted, the prize to be won. One aspect of the deployment of this new Arab “money weapon” on the American front has been the purchase of American opinion-molding in fluence and expertise to serve the Arab cause. Today, the American Scene is alive with a plethora of these opinion- molders and other advisors- most notably top-level experts and influential public figures, many of them former U.S. government officials with powerful connections. Other American servants of the Arab cause include law firms, veteran Capitol Hill lobbyists, public relations experts, producers and propaganda, specialists in public and economic affairs, in vestment counselors, public opi nion analysts, and commercial middlemen. When required by law, they have registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as agents of Arab regimes and, in some cases, several such regimes. f^’yD^pun')!in>x^ "iOHOt fMVif r»o« tm ro^iAUMiTr* Pony Express Harry Lerner and Bob Abel, co-chairpersons of the 1979 Federation Campaign, presented a check for $122,000 to Sol Kline and Ronald (joldstein, UJA “Pony Express” Co- Chairmen for the Southeast. Pony Express is the name for a unique UJA effort in which business leaders donate their time, skill and private planes for one day to go from city to city personally collecting funds donated to UJA. In 1978, for the second con secutive year, the Charlotte Jewish Federation collected more than $600,000 in pledges of which $460,000, went, thru UJA, to Israel. The total dollars sent to UJA in December in cluding Pony Express were $164,000, David Brenner and Harry Lerner at Dreidle Factory. (Photo: Linda Laughlin) YOURS TRULY NEEDLEPOINT . ' ^ at the home of: ' ; ' Lyhn'Lerher' 3802 Columbine • Open every Tutiflday f , 9 to'5 ' )v Come see a great trunk showing of hundreds of beautiful hand-painted can vases! Bring your friends and start a great new project in ’79. All proceeds go to local Jewish charities. Yiddish Institute At Wildacres May 3-6, 1979 Little Switzerland, N.C. Sponsored by the Charlotte Jewish Community Center. A unique happening will take place from May 3-6, 1979 at Wildacres, a picturesque moun- taintop retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of- western North Carolina, when the first Yiddish Institute at Wildacres presents guest lecturers; workshops in language, poetry, music and literature; programs of folksing- ing and theatre skits. The Yiddish Institute is open to women and men interested in increasing their knowledge of Yiddish and in enriching their cultural ties with a language that carries within it the spirit of human individuality. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Yiddish was the tongue of martyrs and saints, of dreamers and cabalists - rich in humor and in memories that mankind may never forget, for Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all! The idiom of. hopeful humanity.” Interested? For further infor mation contact: Baila Pransky - 366-5564 or Leo Hoffman - 365- 1037. CAROLINA MARKING DEVICES 516 S. Mint Phone 377-3443 Shipping Room Supplies . Rubber Stamps Made to Order Corporate and Notary Seals GREENSPON AND ASSOCIATES, INC. . Life Insurance Planning Group Insurance Pension Plans Business Insurance STAN GREENSPON DAN COBLENZ GEORGE TAYLOR HARRY SWIMMER PHONE 376-7434 JIM WIDENHOUSE PONTIAC • BUICK and OPEL DEALER Drive a little, save a lot - Red Carpet Service ■ Pick Up and Delivery G.M.C. trucks up to $12CX). discount 938 Chestnut St. Kannapolis, N.C. Phone 938-1181 Charlotte phone 333-1174