Friday, December 28, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Amended State Ado r tion Law
To Expand Service of JSSB
- Score of Jewish Children Adopted Among 1,000 in Wayne
County Each Year; Probate Court Action, Year's
Waif and Parents' Signature 3 Most Vital Changes
Hadassah Institute
At Center on Jan. 9
Education Sessions to Hear
Address by Mrs. Samuel
W. Halprin
Page Fifteed
Hebrew Union College Angel, Palestinian,
Honors Morgenthau Cites Danger in
Pan-Arab Move
Fourth Generation Zionist
Visitor in Detroit on
Special Mission
Hadassah will hold an educa-
tional institute at the Jewish
Executive Director, Jewish Social Service Bureau.
Leon Angel, fourth generation
Community Center on Wednes-
Palestinian, who was a guest in
The new • adoption law passed by the 1945 Michigan day-, Jan. 9, on the subject
Detroit for several days last
Legislature offers greater protection to both • the natural "Speaking as American Jews and
week, expressed the view that
Zionists," under the leadership
an\l adopting parents. • It will not, and cannot, however, of Mrs. Morris Adler and Mrs.
the Pan-Arabic movement is a
supply more children for adoption than have been avail- M. A. Wayne, chapter education-
more dangerous occurence than
able in the past.
al chairmen, in conjunction with
the rise of political Arabistrt in
About 1.000 children are being the JSSB to prospective adopting Mrs. Harry L. Jones, program
Palestine.
adopted in Wayne County each parents and to the community chairman. Members of all Senior
Here together with Benjamin
year, including about a score of generally.
Hadassah groups will attend.
Hausman, uncle of Cantor H. J.
Jewish children. Over 70 per cent
Registration will take place
Adler of Cong. Bnai David, on a
"We cannot supply more ba-
of the children are being adopted
at 10:30 a.m. From 11 to 12:15
special mission from Palestine,
bies-
than
there
are
available
for
by relatives, mostly step-fathers.
three separate panel discussions
Mr. Angel, whose great-grandfa-
adoption.
But
we
can
make
sure
Only 377 children were adopted
will be held on the subjects, "The
ther settled in Palestine with a
those
are
adopted
in 1945 by families not related to I that
placed
in which
suitable
homes,
so are
as- Nature of the Jewish Problem,"
HENRY A. MORGENTHAU, group of Sephardic Jews whose
them. There are many times as ,
former
Secretary of the Treasury, families escaped from the Span-
, to promote the best welfare and "Zionism and the Arab World"
and "An Analysis of the British meets DR. DAVID PHILIPSON, ish Inquisition, stated that the
many
families
wishing
to
adopt
happiness
of
both
the
adopting
children.
dean of Reform rabbis, at the Arabs in Palestine have become
Policy," as follows:
parents and the child."
. The Jewish Social Service Bu-
Central Group, Mrs. Adolph Hebrew Union College in Cin- more keenly nationalistic. He
reau. fikr example, has about 50
applications on hand, with only
Ehrlich, president; discussion cinnati. The occasion was the expressed the view that they are
one child available for adoption
Serve-A-Camp Group
at the moment.
leader, Mrs. Harry L. • Jackson; 70th anniversary observance of now more nationalistic than re-
participants, Mesdames Simon the college at which Mr. Mor- ligious.
3 Important Respects
Reviews Year's Work,
Diamond, Julian Tobias and genthau was awarded the hon-
The new adoption law amends
But he stated that he does not
orary degree of Doctor of He-
Maurice Perlman.
the previous law in three impor- Thanks Contributors
believe that the Arab boycott
brew
Letters.
tant respects:
Huntington Woods and Russell
threats carry any serious dangers.
In reviewing the year's activ-
It provides that no child may
Woods, Mrs. Theodore Bargman Palestine May Be
Mr. Angel, whose family is a
Greatest
ities
of
the
Detroit
Serve-A-
be placed in a home for adoption
and Mrs. John Frazer, presi-
famous group of importers of
purposes without a prior order of Camp project, Mrs. Delia I. Mey- dents; discussion ,leader, Mrs. Producer of Magnesium
foodstuffs, bakers and petroleum
ers, chairman of the committee, Max Frank; participants, Mes-
the Probate Court.
JERUSALEM (ZOA) — That agents , in Jerusalem, said
that
praised,
the
generous
response
Secondly, a waiting period of
dames Jack Berger, B. W. Col- Palestine can become the world's one of his duties in this country
one year is provided before the - of organizations who have con- man and Harry Landsman.
greatest producer of magnesium is to try to get American firms to
adoption becomes final, to make tributed.
University Group, Mrs. David
This committee serves the Cooper, president; discussion —the "metal of the future"—if it turn over agencies to Jews, in
sure that the child develops nor-
view of Arab attempts to take
mally. During this period either needs of men stationed in Ha- leader, Mrs. Morris Adler; - parti- makes use of its vast resources, away agencies
from Jews in Pal-
the court or the adopting parents waii and surrounding Atolls with cipants, Mesdames Raphael Alt- is claimed by Dr, A. Homer, M.A., estine.
may conclude that the adoption Honolulu as the main base.
man, Lewis R. Barak and H. B. Sc.D., F.R.I.C., who was the sci-
of the particular child is not de-
According to Mrs. Meyers the Keidan.
entific member of a group of Jewish National Fund Plans
sirable.
Serve-A-Camp project has sent
At 12:30, all groups will meet British engineers who in 1917 $3,000,000 Housing Projects
For Adoption Only
through the year large shipments for a joint luncheon, arranged submitted proposals to the Brit-
JERUSALEM (ZOA) — Plans
The third change provides that of gefilte fish and other canned by Miss. Saul Benyas and her ish Government for the develop- for
a $3,200,000 housing project
foods,
dried
salami,
cards,
sta-
the natural parents may sign a
committee. All reservations at ment of Palestine.
to
alleviate
the housing shortage
release of a child for adoption tionery, games, toilet articles, 75 cents, must be in the Hadas-
in Palestine and provide dwell-
only to a licensed child place- Passover holiday supplies a n d sah office, TY. 7-8216, by Friday,
MANILA—Morton I. Netzorg, ings for Palestine's Jewish ex-
ment agency and in the presence books.
Jan. 4.
leader of the Jewish Relief Com- service men and for incoming
of a court official.
The following organizations
In the afternoon, the "March mittee in the Philippines, ac-
These rules should eliminate or have contributed through t h e of Time" film on Palestine will knowledges receipt of 24 bales refugees, have been completed by
Jewish National Fund. Prep-
reduce the practices of- unscrupul- year to the Serve-A-Camp proj- be shown, and the guest speaker of used clothing and 14 bales of the
arations are already under way
ous persons engaged in so-called ect:
will be Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin shoes sent here by the Joint Dis- for the construction of the first
"black marketing" of babies.
Zedakah Club, $150; Temple Beth of New York, former national tribution Committee.
project in the Haifa area.
El
Sisterhood,
$100;
Nat'l
Council
of
The Jewish Social Service Bu-: Jewish Women, $100; Detroit Section president of Hadassah who has
reau, the only licensed Jewish Women's Division of American Jew- for years held positions of im-
Congress, $100; Eva Prenzlauer
child placing agency in Michigan, ish
Maternity Aid, $50; Cong. Shaarey portance in Hadassah and in the
has recently restudied its own Zedek, Sisterhood, $50; Jewish Worn- World Zionist Organization,
European Welfare Organization,
policies in the field of adoption. en's
$50; Temple Beth Jacob Sisterhood, being a member of the Actions
PIN
A special committee, under the Pontiac, Mich., $50; Rovner Progres- Committee.
chairmanship of Miss Clarice sive Verein, $25.
David Horodoker Club, $30; Mother's
Freud, presented certain recom- Club,
One of the larger Hotels near Ocean, Lincoln Rd.
$30; JNF Ladies Aux., $35; Mr.
mendations to the Board, which and Mrs. A. Ldwenstein, $28; Detroit
Charmingly furnished rooms with, private baths. Solarium,
League, NHJC, $25; Carolyn Friend-
Coffee Shop, Tropical Gardens. Tennis, Handball Courts adjoining.
approved them at its December ship
Club, $25; Laundry Ladies Social
By HAROLD SILVER
Local Brevities
meeting.
4 Adjoining Counties
The area from which adoption
applications are accepted was en-
larged to include, in addition to
Wayne County, the four adjoin-
.ing counties of Macomb, Oakland,
Washtenaw and Monroe.
Although a familY, under pres-
ent circumstances, might have to
wait months, maybe years, be-
fore it can have a child, applica-
tions will be investigated as fast
as the available staff permits.
The JSSB will investigate the
following factors, on which re-
port is required by the court in
all adoption cases:
1. The physical and mental
health, emotional stability and
personal integrity of the adopt-
ing parents and their ability to
promote the child's welfare.
Physical Condition
2. The physical and mental
condition of the child and his
family background.
3. The reasons for the child's
placement away from his parents
and their attitude toward the
proposed adoption.
4. The suitability of the adop-
tion in the light of the respective
racial, religious and cultural
backgrounds of the adopting par-
ents and the child, as well as the
child's own attitude toward the
adoption, where older children
are involved.
Where a family selects a child
independently of an agency, the
Jewish Social Service Bureau
will offer its professional serv-
ices, in making the above inves-
tigation, and if the findings are
favorable, the child will be placed
in that particular home.
Jaffe's Comment
Benjamin E. Jaffe, president of
the Bureau, in commenting on
the board's approval of the com-
mittee report, stated: "Our re-
vised policies, taken in connec-
tion with the new adoption law,
should enlarge the usefulness of
Club, $25; Kvutzah Ivrith Ladies Aux.,
$25; Radomer Ladies Aux., $25; Young
Women's Bicur Cholem,. $25; Golden
Rule Aid Society, $25; Aesculapians
Ladies Aux., $25; Equality Club, $25;
Home Relief Society, $25.
Youth Education League, $25; He-
brew Ladies . Aid, $25; Pioneer Wo-
men's Org., $25; Sisters of Zion Miz-
rachi, $25; Infants Service Group, $20;
Galician Society of Detroit, $15; Brith
Sholem Ladies Aux., $15; Louis Mar-
shall, Women's Club, $10; Cong. Gem-
uluth Chassodim, $10; Bnai Zion La-
dies Atix., $10.
$3,000,000 Tel Aviv Housing
Plan for Ex-Servicemen
TEL-AVIV (ZOA)—The mu-
nicipality of Tel Aviv has ap-
proved a project to build 1,000
rooms for ex-servicemen and new
immigrants at a cost of $3,000,000.
Of this $800,000 will be obtained
from the government as a loan
while the balance is to be raised
through bank mortgages through
the Jewish Agency and other
sources.
Bulgarian Bank Returns
Confiscated Valuables
SOFIA, (JTA)—The Bulgarian
Agrarian Bank, at the request
of the Jewish Consistory, has de-
cided to restore to the Jewish
owners all the property and ef-
fects deposited in • the bank by
the Commissarjat for Jewish
Questions.
OSIAS ZWERDLING of Ann
Arbor was a delegate at the his-
toric conference of the United
Jewish Appeal held last week in
Atlantic City. He addressed one
of the sessions.
* * *
JULIAN WISAN, director of
youth activities of the National
Council of Young Israel, will meet
with the youth committee and
club leaders of the Detroit organ-
ization on Sunday, for a discus-
sion of activities. Plans will be
formulated for the program to be
followed in Young Israel's Center,
Dexter at Fullerton.
* *
ALUMA, new Zionist organ-
ization formed on Dec. 14, was
addressed by Abraham Cohen of
the Council staff. The meeting
scheduled for Dec. 28 'will not
be held due to the Habonim con-
vention Oneg Shabbat.
a
CAPT. JACK SKLAR has been
honorably discharged from the
U. S. Army Dental Corp. and is
resuming practice at his former
location 12956 Grand River.
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