Elie Wiesel renowned author and scholar, will lead a celebration of the people of Israel at the United Jewish Appeal gala 40th anniversary banquet Dec. 9, in the New York Hilton Hotel. He is the newly appointed chairman of President Carter’s Committee for a Holocaust Memorial. Wiesel’s appearance at the banquet will combine a tribute to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Premier Menachem Begin of Israel and the people of Israel as they carry on their search for a just and lasting peace with a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Jewish lifeline.
Other events at the UJA national conference Dec. 7-10 include three plenary sessions open to the public. There will also be a series of lifeline workshops on such topics as campaigning, budget and allocations, Project Renewal, Soviet Jewry.
“An Expression of Support and Solidarity: The Destiny of Soviet Jewry, 1978-79” is the opening plenary session Dec. 7. Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency chairman and chairman of the historic Brussels Conference on the human rights of Jews in the Soviet Union will lead this session. The second UJA David Ben Gurion Award will be presented at this session to the Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience.
The second plenary session, “Project Renewal and the Jewish Agency Lifeline,” will be held Dec. 8. Akiva Lewinsky, the new treasurer of the Jewish Agency, will make a definitive presentation of the human needs and aspirations behind the lifeline programs sustained by the Jewish Agency 1978-79 budget. The presentation will include an in-depth account of the aims, dimensions and current status of Project Renewal.
The Sixth Annual Louis A. Pincus Memorial Lecture, “Camp David and After” will be held Dec. 9. Four distinguished scholars will lead this public forum. They are Prof. David E. Apter, Yale University; Prof. Martin Peretz, Harvard University, and editor of The New Republic; and Prof. Richard E. Pipes, Harvard University. The moderator will be Prof. Michael L. Walzer, Harvard University and chairman of the UJA Faculty Advisory Cabinet.
On Dec. 7, Baron Guy de Rothschild will be the guest of honor at the national leadership dinner. There will also be a tribute to Simcha Dinitz, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. Chaim Vinitsky, the UJA director general in Israel, will be honored at a special reception later that night.
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