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WHO THE ACTORS ARE ALEPHBET SOUP UJA The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was created in 1938 as an amalgam of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). the United Palestine Appeal (UPA) and the...
...Jews in other f ore ig ^countries, and refuge^vj in the United States a JDC The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded in 1914 as American Jewry's response to the urgent needs of East European Jews caught up in chao: of World War I, It was also involved with the fledgling Jewish community in Palestine...
...LCBC The Large City Budgeting Conference was established in 1948 in order to provide some way for local communities— in this case the larger ones—to get a handle on budgets of national agencies which wanted Federation support...
...It is one of the two corporate members of the^i|^ from which it E^^P^| funding and it provides ar^^^Ku bve^^kstol for Rehabilitation througlf Training, which sponsors voc^Hal trainin^faciiities worldUIA The United Israel Appeal (founded in 1925 as the United Palestine Appeal) is the primary beneficiary of the UJA, and one of its two corporate members...
...Our Jewish friends have demonstrated that it can be made a success...
...umbrella organization for local community relations councils...
...The first Jewish Federation was established in Boston in 1895...
...the United Palestine Appeal (UPA) and the National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees...
...and is, a consolidated effort on behalf of Israel...
...AIPAC The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a registered lobbying organization, operating in Washington to interpret and defend Israels interests...
...Professional direction is provided by the Executive Vice Chairman (Irving Bernstein) and a professional staff headquartered in New York...
...It is a beneficiary of the UJA...
...CJFWF Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (1932...
...NJCRAC National Jewish Relations Advisory Council (1944...
...A full explanation of the structure and politics of the Jewish Agency would require many pages...
...JWB The National Jewish Welfare Board is the umbrella agency for Jewish community centers around the country, and also the authorized agency for dealing with the welfare needs of Jewish military personnel...
...In the instant context, the important point is that the Agency is the channel for UJA allocations to Israel...
...The Jewish Agency This is the biggie...
...The UIA allocates its funds to Israel, where they are administered by the Jewish Agency for Israel, which also receives funds from Keren Hayesod (UJA's counterpart in 69 foreign countries) ^^^^^k NYANA The New York Association for New Americans (formed in 1933 as the National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees) serves nearly half of all iQ^MBJants States...
...umbrella organization of local federations and welfare funds in the United States and Canada...
...membership is organizational, including most central representative bodies from over 60 countries...
...GA The General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds has become the central meeting place of American Jewish leadership...
...It receives additional funds from Keren Hayesod (UJA's equivalent in other countries), and expends, in the areas of immigrant absorption, settlement, higher education, youth care, and other social welfare services, a sum that totaled over $500 million in 1976/77, and—because of declining revenue—is projected at $457 million in 1977/78...
...WJC World Jewish Congress (1936...
...It is staffed by CJFWF, but is technically an independent group...
...HIAS The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society aids Jewish immigrants in all countries outside Israel...
...It was...
...The GA moves from year to year to different cities, and is attended by over 2,000 delegates from local Federations...
...represents Jewish interests before international bodies...
...Setting an Example In 1906, at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, the General Secretary of the (non-sectarian) Baltimore Federated Charities, urging upon the delegates a concept that later developed into the United Fund, said, "This is no untried scheme...
...The new incumbent is Leonard Strelitz of Norfolk, Virginia, who has just succeeded Frank Lauten-berg...
...It is a beneficiary agency of the UJA...
...UJA Structure The UJA is led by a General Chairman and 17 National Chairmen, as well as by the chairmen of its several divisions and separate departments...
Vol. 2 • June 1977 • No. 8
