CENTRAL KENTUCKY
ASSOCIATION

CKL’fixJA

 

JEWISH

 

 

October, 1985

Vol. VIII No.7

 

COUNCIL OF JEWISH FEDERATIONS
54th General Assembly

CKJA TO BE REPRESENTED AT G.A.

Five representatives from the Central
Kentucky Jewish Association will be in
attendance next month when the Council of
Jewish Federations holds it General
Assembly in Washington, D.C.

The theme of the assembly is “The
Coming of Age of North American Jewry:
Strengthening our Jewish Affirmation”.

WorkshOps and plenary sessions will
deal with Jewish education, leadership
deveIOpment, Jewish television programming
and political involvement. While the
Council does not back specific political
positions, it does endorse the idea of
active involvement in politics.

Attending from CKJA will be GLORIA KATZ,
CKJA President; JACK MILLER, CKJA past
president; DAVID WEKSTEIN, former president
of CKJA and present chairman of its
Community Relations Committee; GAIL COHEN,
former president of JCA and present chair
of the 1986 CKJA-UJA Campaign; and JUDY
SAXE, CKJA Administrator.

Miller is a member of the Council's
National Board and is on the group's Small
Cities Steering Committee and its Resolu-
tions Committee.

The General Assembly, which runs from

'November 13 through 17, will also deal

with the issues of Soviet Jewry and other
endangered Jewish communities; Ethiopian
Jewry; the heritage of Sephardic Jewry;
and European Jewish communities four
decades after the Holocaust.

The Opening session, at the Kennedy
Center, will feature a musical in Yiddish
and English entitled “The Golden Land“,
which is a look at the changing life of
Jewish immigrants over the last 100 years.

The Council of Jewish Federations is
an association of two hundred federations,
welfare councils and community councils
serving eight hundred communities and
5.7 million Jews in the United States and
Canada.

The Council, established in 1932,
strengthens the work of its member groups
in several ways: developing programs,
serving as an exchange for successful
ideas, establishing guidelines for fund
raising and Operations; and providing
joint national planning for local, re-
gional, national and international needs.

 

 

RELIEF FOR MEXICAN
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

The Joint Distribution Committee is
working with the Jewish community of
Mexico City to provide relief in the wake
of the recent devastating earthquake.

As in past emergencies (Cambodia, 1980;
Italy, 1981; Lebanon, 1982; and Ethiopia,
1984) this action parallels that of
Catholic, Protestant and non-sectarian
agencies.

Contributions may be sent to:

Mexico Relief, JDC, Room 19h2, 60 E. Aan
Street, New York, NY 10165.