THE JEWISH NEWS
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Report Cites Success
of Child Care Program
Sharp Decrease in Foster Home Applications Brings About
Re-Evaluation of Requirements, Says Statement
of Jewish Children's Bureau
Friday, February 26, 1943
$25,000,000 Goal Is Set
Bnai Brith
By United Jewish Appeal
To Receive
Raised to Be Used for Immediate Needs
Bond Award First of $9,100,000
Joint Distribution Committee, National Refugee
Service and United Palestine Appeal
$ I ,000,000 Quota Exceeded;
Emphasizing that 1943 will be a "year of greater oppor-
Efforts to provide a unified child care agency in Detroit
Victory Rally Will be
tunities and greater responsibilities" for relief, rescue and
through the Jewish Children's Bureau are described in the
resettlement of Jews, William Rosenwald, Rabbi Abba Hillel
Held on March 15
second annual report of the bureau, submitted last week by
Miss Clarice Freud, executive director.
Celebrating the successful con-
Describing the importance of foster homes in caring for clusion of its $1,000,000 War Bond
the children placed in charge of the bureau, the report states
that "although there has been a
sharp decrease in foster home-
aplications, we have not lowered
our standards of what we expect
of foster parents, but rather have
re-evaluated these requirements."
Degree of Jewishness
The degree of Jewishness in
foster homes is described in the
report as follows: Of the 60 foster
homes in use, all observed Jewish
practices in some degree, and of
these 58 families attended serv-
ices on Holy Days, 10 were strict
Sabbath observers, 14 belonged
to- synagogues on a year-round
basis, 45 observed the dietary
laws strictly.
Miss Freud reports that the
home finding committee under
the chairmanship of Mrs. Harry
M. Shulman has undertaken to
contact families in order to in-
terest them in becoming foster
parents.
Lists of names obtained from
the United Hebrew Schools, the
Fresh Air Camp and the Volun-
teer Bureau of the Office of
Civilian Defense are used for
this purpose.
Receiving Home
A receiving home for tempor-
ary and emergency placements
has been purchased on Savery
Ave. with funds of the United
Jewish Charities. The living
room furniture, beds and bur-
eaus were donated by the Jewish
Children's Home.
Over a period of 12 years, an
average of four children a year
were given for adoption, the re-
port states.
Dr. Irving Posner, pediatrician,
makes regular physical examina-
tions of the children at the North
End Clinic. Dr. Posner has been
carrying full responsibility for
the children's medical program
since Dr. A. Max Kohn and Dr.
Meyer Teitlebaum have entered
active service with the army.
Dr. Leon Katzin and Dr. Abe
Perlman provide dental services
for the children. A panel of psy-
chiatrists provides the psychi-
atric service.
Case Committee
The case committee functions
under the chairmanship of Rabbi
Morris Adler.
During the summer, 45 child-
ren received a total of 230 weeks'
care at Fresh Air Camp and an
additional 28 weeks of care was
provided by the University of
Michigan Fresh Air Camp for
four children.
The Mental Hygiene Clinic of
the Jewish Social Service Bureau
continues to offer psychological
examinations for the children
and the Jewish Vocational Serv-
ice provided vocational guidance
and counsel for adolescent child-
Jewish Youth LeEtgue
Book Drive Sunday
The Army and Navy Commit-
tee of the League of Detroit
Jewish Youth is in the midst of
a book-gathering campaign for
men in the service. Books will
be collected this Sunday in areas
from Virginia Park to Ford and
Byron to Broadstreet.
This camgaign is being dedi-
cated to Sgt. Meyer. Levin's
memory, and the committees
have been named the Meyer
Levin Brigades.
The committee in charge of
the book drive consists of Ruth
Applebaum, Clara Leach, Lillian
Greenhut, Rodelle Broder, Belle
Josselson, Sylvia Lerman, Lela
Schechter, Udis Leniman, Ruth
Lesser, Shirley Roven, Bertha
Belkin, Lucille Hirch, Helen
Bruson, Rebecca Cooperman,
Lorraine Velick, Mildred Altman,
Martha Gleicher.
ren. Part time work has been
obtained for a majority of these
children.
Free Membership
The children under care of the
Jewish Children's Bureau are
making use of free memberships
offered by the Jewish Commun-
ity Center. A club has been
formed for' adolescent boys and
leaders have been obtained by
the Center for a few groups of
the bureau's pre-adolescent child-
ren.
In the early months of 1942 an
experimental group work project
was undertaken by a former Jew-
ish Children's Bureau student
under the supervision of Dr.
Fritz Redl of the Wayne Uni-
versity School of Public Affairs
and Social Work. The student,
Miss Selma Horwitz, invited eight
children offering serious prob-
lems to form "The Puppet Club."
Those children were, for the
most part, unable to build rela-
tionships with groups. The pur-
pose of the club was to gain
diagnostic material to aid the
case worker in treatment.
The Joint Committee
Dr. Redl and Miss Horwitz are
writing a book based on the rec-
ords of "The Puppet Club," and
it has been accepted for publica-
tion.
The Joint Committee on Child
Care consists of three lay repre-
sentatives and the executive from
each of the following agencies:
Jewish Welfare Federation, Jew-
ish Children's Bureau and the
Jewish Social Service Bureau.
The following types of cases
are brought before the joint com-
mittee:
1—When the two agencies
(Jewish Children's Bureau and
Social Service Bureau) cannot
reach a full agreement;
2—When community opinion or
community backing is desired for
the plan agreed upon;
3—When questions of overlap-
ping jurisdiction with other
agencies or communities is in-
volved;
4—Cases illustrating deficiency
in community resources;
5—Cases presenting unusual or
interesting aspects of the work.
Pisgah Lodge Starts
2d Phase of Drive
drive, Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council will hold a victory rally
at the Jewish Community Center
on Monday evening, March 15.
Harry Yudkoff, president of
the Council, announces that the
$1,000,000 quota has been exceed-
ed, with the cooperation of all
local lodges, and that a citation
honoring the Detroit Bnai Brith
will be issued by the U. S.
Treasury Department on March
15.
Drive Directors
The bond drive was directed by
Mrs. Lillian Aaron, president of
Pisgah Auxiliary, and Max Gold-
hoff, treasurer of Pisgah Lodge.
The following served as chairmen
of their respective groups:
Max Goldhoff, Pisgah Lodge;
David I. Rosin, Louis Marshall
Lodge; Harry Paskowitz, Theodor
Herzl Lodge; Sam Hersch and A.
W. Keats, East Side Lodge; Mrs.
Max Madorsky and Mrs. Jerome
Helfman, Pisgah Auxiliary; Miss
Zena Faxstein, Business and Pro-
fessional Auxiliary; Mrs. Lebo-
witz, Theodor Herzl Auxiliary;
Mrs. A. W. Keats, East Side
Auxiliary and Mrs. Milton Cross,
Louis Marshall Auxiliary. The
junior Bnai Brith groups, A.Z.A.
and junior girls also participated
in this drive.
$175,000 From Bowlers
Pisgah Bnai Brith Bowling
League sold $175,000 in bonds.
Milton Weinstein, president, ex-
pects the league to hit its quota
of $200,000 or $100 for each of its
200 bowlers.
A.Z.A. members sold $21,000 in
bonds. Their quota was $7,500.
Young Judaeans Elect
Miss Gould President
Junior Menorah Young Ju-
daean Club elected the follow-
ing officers at a meeting at the
home of Dorothy Fushman, 2455
Tyler Ave.: Sedelle Gould, presi-
dent; Sharon Wacks, vice-presi-
dent; Ilene Gutman, secretary;
Dorothy Fushman, treasurer;
Betty Harrison, program chair-
man; Barbara Weiss, scrap book;
J.N.F. chairman, Janice Stein-
gold; Youth Aliyah chairman,
Sorena Feurman; Keren Hanoar
chairman, Betty Harrison; hos-
pitality, Janice Steingold.
The girls will participate in a
Keren Hanoar pageant at an
Oneg Shabat of Senior Hadas-
sah on March 20.
Pisgah Lodge, under the lead-
ership of Isadore Starr, has in- AL MILLER
augurated the second phase of its
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membership centennial drive.
Near Santa Barbara
The goal is 850 new members.
Delicatessen, Appetizers and
Reports on the progress of the
Dairy Products
drive will be submitted at Pis-
gah's meeting on Monday at the
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Jewish Center.
Silver and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairmen of the
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, announced that a national quota of $25,000,000
had been set to meet expanded
needs of the Joint Distribution
Committee, United Palestine Ap-
peal and National Refugee Serv-
ice in the current year.
JDC to Get Half
The first $9,100,000 raised will
be divided among the three agen-
cies in order to enable them to
carry on their activities in the
early part of the year.
The balance of the funds raised
will be distributed by an allot-
ment committee.
In accordance with the agree-
ment reconstituting the United
Jewish Appeal for 1943, the in-
itial sum of $9,100,000 is to be
divided as follows: to the Joint
Distribution Committee, $4,840,-
000; to the United Palestine Ap-
peal, $2,760,000; to the National
Refugee Service, $1,500,000.
Praised -by Lehman
The importance of the United
Jewish Appeal as the channel for
raising funds for overseas relief
and rehabilitation, for the de-
fense and up-building of Pales-
tine and for assistance to refu-
gees in the United States was
emphasized in a message sent by
Herbert H. Lehman, director of
the Office of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation Operations, to the
Women's Division of the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York.
Mr. Lehman stressed the fact
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that "such drives as yours are
urgently needed in a world de-
vastated by war," adding that it
Mlawer Umgegend Verein will was "a privilege to send my best
celebrate its ninth anniversary at wishes for the full success of the
the annual banquet on Sunday United Jewish Appeal."
evening at Pereira's, 9925 Dexter.
Arrangements for the banquet,
LITTMAN'S PEOPLES THEATRE
at which the organization will
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review its contributions to Jew-
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ish and general causes, are being
made by Israel Burnstein, chair-
On account of the Anti-Nazi Protest
man, and Joe Greenbaum, co-
Rally, the Performances on Sunday
chairman.
Will Commence at 6 P. M.
The banquet program has been
Sunday to Midnight
arranged by Mrs. A. Shanbom
of the entertainment committee.
Angelo Rivera will be presented
in a group of songs, accompanied
by his daughter, Dolores. Miss
Starring Mischa and Lucy German
Shirley Kallman will give sev-
eral recitations.
Reservations for the dinner can
be made with Joe Greenbaum,
With the late Boris Thomashevsky,
one of the Greatest Actors of All
TO. 6-2873, or Israel Burnstein,
Time on the Jewish Stage
TR., 2-4053.
Mon. & Tues., 7:30 to Midnight
H. H. Bierman is president of
the Verein and I. Levinthal is
Adults, 45e; Children, 15c Tax Inc.
secretary.
Banquet on Sunday
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March 3
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NOTICE:
The Annual Business Meeting of the
RESETTLEMENT SERVICE
will be held on Monday evening, March 8, 1943,
promptly at 7:30 p. m., in the main . auditorium of the
Jewish Community Center, Woodward at Holbrook.
All contributors to the Allied Jewish Campaign and all Jewish
contributors to the Detroit Community Fund and the War Chest of
Metropolitan Detroit are cordially invited to attend.
FRED •M. BUTZEL, President
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