Friday, December 16,1977
The Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Greater Hollywood
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Women Attend leadership Assembly 'Torah IS Wave Of the Future'
The major Jewish Women's or-
ganizations combined efforts
with the Jewish Federation of
South Broward for a leadership
assembly. Rep. Elaine Bloom ad-
dressed more than 150 women
from the 13 contributing or-
ganizations on "The Role of the
Volunteer Worker in Today's So-
ciety."
"My background in Jewish
communal work has helped me
with my political career. My poli-
tical interests developed while I
was working with legislation for
the Community Relations Com-
mittee at the Federation," ex-
plained Rep. Bloom.
REP. BLOOM noted, "While
not meaning to sound feminist,
women's organizations accom-
plish more than men's organiza-
tions. This can be attributed to
the fact that women are better
organized and better trained. The
work must continue," she added.
Workshops were held prior to
Rep. Bloom's address. These
sessions included: How to con-
duct a meeting, led by Nancy
Seng; Leadership Development,
led by Alma Hofstadter and
Adele Beckerman; Membership,
led by Sylvia Berman; How to
fund-raise in an organization, led
by Vivian Herz; Speaker
Training, led by Marcy Levin;
How to best use the major media,
led by Sheila Rosen; and Per-
sonal Power, led by Francena
Thomas.
Organization exhibits were on
display to explain the purposes
and actions of the respective
groups.
To illustrate the organization
overview given by Shirley
Cole, Ann Leffel (pictured)
shows that the volunteer
woman is a real, involved per-
son and not a plastic person,
regardless of the clothes and
accessories that are worn.
Speaking to members of 12 major Jewish women's organiza-
tions at the first annual Leadership Assembly held in conjunc-
tion with the Jewish Federation of South Broward Women's
Division was Florida Representative Elaine Bloom (center).
Discussing her topic of "The Role of the Volunteer Worker in
Today's Society" are Phyllis Kraemer, Women's Division
president (left), and Nancy Brizel, vice president of Community
Education.
ATLANTIC CITY (JTA) -
"The new recognition in Israel
and elsewhere that Torah is the
wave of the future for Jews,
paves the way for Orthodox
Jewry to broaden its influence on
Jewish life the world over," Rab-
bi Pinchos Menachem Alter,
chairman of Agudath Israel in
11srael, told 3,000 delegates at-
tending the Agudath Israel fifty-
fifth national convention at the
Sheraton-Deauville Hotel.
Alter, who is also a member of
the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah
(Council of Torah Sages) in
Israel, alluded to Agudath
Israel's participation in Prime
Minister Menachem Begins
government coalition, when he
said: "Never before has Torah
Jewry in Israel faced such oppor-
tunity to thrive spiritually
because of a new climate of good-
will."
A STATUS report on the
agreement between Begin and
Agudath Israel live months alter
it led to a coalition for the Likud,
was made public for the first time
by Rabbi Menachem Porush,
Agudath Israel Knesset deputy
and chairman of the Knesset
Committee on Labor and Social
Betterment.
He noted that the demands for
rights for Orthodox Jews were
"systematically being met by the
Begin administration."
Reading from a dossier of docu-
ments, Porush cited such pnn
vious controversies as auto,,-
sies, work on the Sabbath, anO
conscription of religious girls into
the armed forces, as examples of
problems nearing solution.
The veteran Orthodox leader
continued: "Despite its preoccu-
pation with security and the
economy, the government has
not abandoned the religious
agenda."
IN A MESSAGE to the con-
vention. Begin stated: "I wish to
inform you dear friends and
teachers that the collaboration
with your colleagues in Eretz
Yisrael is genuine and hearty. It
is self-understood that the coa-
lition agreement will be observed
in language and spirit, please
God."
In his keynote address, Rabbi
Moshe Sherer, executive presi-
dent of Agudath Israel of
America, criticized the American
Jewish leadership "for lagging
behind their Israeli counterparts
in recognizing the religious in-
gredient of the needs of the
Jewish masses."
He cited the "snail's pace" of
the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies in meeting its respon-
sibilities towards Jewish edu-
cation.
SHERER charged that al-
though there are many who now
are slowly recognizing the value
of Jewish education, "it is incon-
ceivable that soaring assimilation
through intermarriage will wait
for creeping decision-making."
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meeting of the Leadership Development Committee of the Jew-
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Weiss (left) and Merv Weinstein discuss Pollack's topic, "Jews
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