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. 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