- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 32
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains follow-up thank you letters and notes from an informal survey conducted about the Walk. The survey numbers record respondents' opinions on the length of the walk, attendance of the Festival, next year's date, which route was walked, and whether the shuttle bus was used.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting the activities of the Walker Recruitment Committee, including meeting minutes, notes of Walk Co-ordinator Rosie Sosnowicz, notices, guidelines to the Committee from Toronto Jewish Congress/United Jewish Appeal, school presentation schedule, enrolment table for schools, training session outline, news release, radio spot, and PR meeting minutes.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting the activities of the Walker Recruitment Committee, including agendas, meeting minutes, committee to-do list, notices, 1989 post-Walk summary report, school lists, sponsor book drop-off planning, and communications to newsletters.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 18
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence regarding a special Operation Exodus Haggadah for Passover 1990 which included an insert, created by the Walk for Israel Committee, with a fifth question to be asked at Passover seders that year. The question relates to the year's campaign theme, Operation Exodus, which focussed on the emigration of Soviet Jews from the U.S.S.R. to Israel.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a letter regarding UJA's development of the Soviet Aliyah theme, and a copy of the proposed agreement between JAFI and the Government of Israel, Meeting of the Coordinating Committee, 30 October 1989. This document discusses the government of Israel's plans for absorbing approximately 100,000 Jews emigrating from the Soviet Union.
- Related Material
- Series 17-1-18 (1992), file 18, includes an "Operation Exodus" quiz from 1990.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 21 May 1990
- Physical Description
- 259 photographs (238 negatives)
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the Walk and Festival 1990, including the starting line, the ham radio operators' room, midway rides, a clown, crowd shots, the Walk with Israel cake, the barbecue table, people along the route, the registration table, a juggler, and two special marshalls: the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. The colour prints are of a group of youth, the Pink Panther greeting walkers (possibly Reena individuals), and a checkpoint table manned by a clown. There are 5 black and white 8x10 prints of the midway rides, a clown, a performer, and an audience. As well, there are three photocopied photographs of a display about community aid, the pony rides, and a father and daughters on the merry-go-round. Groups represented (by signs) are the Sephardic Youth Alliance, the Business and Professional Women's Network, and the TJC committee, SNAC.
- Notes
- 6x6 negatives were created by Graphic Artists Photographers.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- File
- 28
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains records documenting the organization of the Festival in 1990, including entertainment, parking, displays, the petting zoo, and police coverage. Records include Polkaroo use guidelines from TVO, correspondence, organization lists, invoices, the security services agreement, an insurance certificate, and outgoing memos.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1990 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-16
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1989-1990
- Physical Description
- 16 cm of textual records
- 259 photographs (238 negatives)
- Admin History/Bio
- The 1990 Walk for Israel, called "Operation Exodus," helped launch the UJA campaign of that name for 1990. The theme was Soviet aliyah, reflecting the tens of thousands of Soviet Jews leaving the USSR since the late 1980s. Each checkpoint was planned to inform participants about a different phase of the emigration-absorption-integration process.
- The 1990 walk, which took place on Monday, 21 May, was chaired by Elaine Lightstone and David Engel, with coordination by Federation staff member Rosie Sosnowicz. Recruitment at this time was carried out in day schools across Toronto, where volunteers made presentations to student assemblies in which the personal story of one young Soviet 'oleh' (immigrant to Israel) was shared. In addition to the Recruitment Committee and the overseeing Walkathon Committee, there were committees for the following functions: sponsorship, checkpoints, food, and the festival. Public relations and advertising, carried out by an ad-hoc Publicity Committee, included the design of hats and shoelaces as giveaways to participants.
- The fifteen-kilometre route made a square along Sheppard Avenue West, north on Yonge Street, east on Steeles and Clarke, and south on Bathurst to the BJCC, where the festival was held in the north parking lot. The festival featured games, rides, a petting zoo, live entertainment, and plenty of food.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-sub-series contains textual records and photographs from the 1990 Walk for Israel and the festival. The files are arranged by function in this order: Walk oversight (the Cabinet Committee and chairs), recruitment of participants and volunteers, logistics, publicity and design, corporate sponsorship, finances, the Walk event itself, the Festival and post-event evaluation and follow-up.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions