The spring quarterly board and national committee meetings of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (CJF) will be held June 6-9 in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel. Jewish communal leaders and Federation executives from North America–in the continuing wake of the Yom Kippur War–will assess major concerns and priorities of their communities at home, overseas and in Israel.
The CJF’s four days of in-depth planning sessions are geared to provide opportunity for increased involvement on the part of a wider number of communities in CJF actions and deliberations. Participating will be more than 150 representatives from some 55 Jewish communities throughout the United States and Canada, with a large contingent from the Western area.
Focus will be on the comprehensive range of community needs and responsibilities–from social welfare needs, to overseas needs, to Jewish education and communication–essential to strengthened Jewish communal service and that call for CJF and community action.
Among the highlights of the meetings will be a report on the 1974 accelerated community federated campaigns of the United States and Canada which, as of the end of May, have raised a total of more than $666 million for local, national and worldwide Jewish needs, an increase of 103.6 percent by the same contributors in the previous year. Focus of the Campaign Services Committee will also center on the lessons of the recent campaign with emphasis on maximizing gains, plans for launching advance gifts for the 1975 campaign, and national resources available for increased solicitation effectiveness.
There will be a report on current trends, patterns and problems of emigration for Soviet Jews to Israel, as well as community experience in receiving and servicing those coming to this country made to the Committee on Overseas Services which will take up as well key issues of absorption, housing and education to be deliberated by community representatives at the forthcoming Jewish Agency Assembly meeting in Jerusalem. June 16-21.
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