Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1979 — Page 5

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What Makes Federation Top Professionals Tick

(Third in a series) NEW YORK (P-0) - Interesting sidelights on the officialdom in Jewish Federations were brought into focus by the review of the work of the Council of Jewish Federations and recommendations for revisions and future planning. IT WAS REVEALED, for instance, that 45 per cent of local federation top professionals are Conservative, 30 per cent Reform and only eight per cent Orthodox. However, when it came to synagogue affiliation, one fourth were unaffiliated, 38 per cent belong to Conservative congregations (seven per cent less than claimed they were Conservative) and 22 per cent were affiliated with Reform congregations (eight per cent less than those who claimed they were Reform), while 12 per cent belong to Orthodox congregations, almost half again of the eight per cent who said they were Orthodox. There was no explanation in the report for the discrepancies.

JERUSALEM — Proponents of a bill to legalize prostitution won a Pyhrric victory when amid an uproar the Knesset voted 20 to 19 in favor of the first reading. But the law now goes to Committee, whose chairman David Glass is a member of the National Religious Party (Orthodox). He promptly announced that his committee would have no opportunity to debate the measure in detail in the next two years before the end of the present Knesset term. Under the bill, adult women would have the right to engage in prostitution. It stipulated that the women would be free from police interferHusband Murders Battered Wife HERZLIYA, Israel — The battered wives home here (P—O, July 27) made news in a tragic way as Carmela Ashkenazi, 25, was stabbed fatally by her husband who resented her leaving home to find security from his attacks.

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As to fluency in language, 57 per cent are fluent in Yiddish, and 24 per cent in Hebrew. WHEN IT CAME to women in top professional jobs they were, to all practical purposes, non-existent. But in public relations and community relations they composed about half of the personnel. It was pointed out that among the younger professionals there was a more even distribution between male and female. The figures though show that out of 105 executive directors (some are called executive vice presidents) only four are female. When it comes to assistant executive directors nine of the 43 are women. The female professionals answered “yes” by 67 per cent to the question of whether they feel discriminated against. Twenty-seven per cent answered “no”. The biggest one complaint was in salary and fringe benefits. AS FOR COMPENSATION, the analysis shows that the

ence and that their “business” would be conducted under regulated health conditions. Mrs. Sarah Doron, of Likud, said that since prostitution could not be eliminated, the present attitude of “half turning a blind eye and half-har-assing” the women was ineffective and hypocritical.

mean salary of the top professional executive was $34,000. For assistants the figure was $24,700. When the lay leaders were asked their views about salaries paid the top executives, 44 per cent said that the remuneration was higher than professionals with similar qualifications in other fields. Thirty-three per cent felt that the salaries were about the same as in other fields and 10 per cent felt that they were lower. Federation Purview Is Broadly Widened NEW YORK — There was a clear implication in the threeyear survey of Federations and their future obligations - opportunities that the purview has been widened almost to practically the same extent as that of the rabbinate. The report states that “the Council of Jewish Federations has a responsibility to identify and anticipate change and to help communities cope with them as quickly and as effectively as possible.” A previous paragraph states: “There are notable developments in Jewish birth rates, family size, vocational changes, organizational affiliation, suburbanization, synagogue membership and Jewish school enrollment, intermarriage, with a growing sense of vulnerability to the social changes occurring in North America.”

Legalized Prostitution Wins Pyhrric Victory

Project Renewal Gets Promises Of Action

JERUSALEM - Conceding that Project Renewal has encountered “start-up” problems, The United Israel Appeal (UIA) stated this week that “the growing pains have disappeared and Project Renewal is moving ahead with vigor and determination.” The report said that “the most serious problems were resolved” at the recent Jewish Agency Assembly. It blamed jurisdictional disputes between the Jewish Agency, the government and the municipalities over precise division of authority and responsibility for the delay and said that “lack of coordination between involved Cabinet Ministers as well as the Treasury’s failure to provide funds to finance local steering committees were “other difficulties which began to im-

pede Project Renewal’s progress.” The UIA, which is the conduit for funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal, complained about the government’s apparent failure “to live up to its partnership agreement.” The UIA reported that at the Agency sessions, Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Yadin related that interministerial channels of communication have begun to function, thus ensuring cooperation within the government itself. The UIA noted that local steering committees are functioning in 21 of the first 30 slum neighborhoods, and that many of the 34 overseas Jewish communities which have been twinned with communities in Israel have launched aspects of their programs.

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