ZOD Board Outlines Ambitious
Program with Emphasis on Youth
An ambitious program, em-
bracing eight public meetings
and a number of parlor meet-
ings in homes of members, is
planned by the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit. There will
also be leadership training and
Hebrew courses.
Albert Elazar, chairman of
the program committee, out-
lined plans for the coming year's
program, at the first meeting
of the year of the new board,
at the home of Leon Kay, ZOD
president.
Milton Marwil and Dr. Louis
Kazdan were named by Kay as
co-chairmen of the youth com-
mission whose coming year's
plans call for extensive work
among the local youth groups.
The formation of a number of
new clubs is contemplated.
Other committee appointments
include Aaron Kurland, publi-
city; Rabbi Morris Adler, public
relations; Rabbi Leon Frain,
chairman of Zionist Council del-
egation; James I. Ellmann,
chairman Community Council
delegation; Abe Rosenzweig,
chairman Jewish National Fund
Council delegation;. Walter Field,
chairman Zionist house commit-
tee; Ben Weiss, chairman mem-
bership committee; Harry Cohen,
chairman budget and finance
committee.
Kay congratulated Louis Berry
and Abe Kasle for their efforts
in behalf of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
A message was read from
Daniel Frisch, ZOA president,
commending the former ZOD
president, Morris Jacobs, for
his activities in behalf of the
Zionist cause.
Members of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit will receive
a 10 per cent discount on books
of interest to Zionists purchased
at the Marwil Book Co. operated
by Milton Marwil. The following
are currently available:
"Israel" by Rufus Learsi, "Hebrew
Self-Taught" by Zevi and Ben-Ami Scharf-
stein. - Trial and Error" by Dr. Chaim
Weizman!). 'Birth of Israel" by Dr. Jorge
Garcia Granados. "Shalom Means Peace"
by Robert St. John, "Herzl" by Pessin,
"Complete Poetic Works of Chaim Nab-
man Bialik.'"*The Zionist Movement" by
Israel Cohen. "This is Israel" by I. F.
Stone . "The Little Tractor Who Traveled
to Israel". ''Palestine Year Book."
Welfare Allocations Should Reflect
Rounded Community, Avrunin Says
By AVRUM SCHULZ I NGER
Jewish News Staff Writer
William Avrunin, associate director of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit, aired his views recently on the
problems confronting small Jewish communities in their wel-
fare budgeting.
Pointing out the importance of welfare fund appropria-
tions reflecting the development of a well-roUnded com-
munity personality, Avrunin fo-
cused on a new shift in empha-
sis in allotting welfare funds by
American Jewish communities
when he said, "As the situation
stabilizes itself in Israel . . . it
is not only necessary but inev-
itable that we will be giving in-
creasingly greater attention to
building and enriching Jewish
community life at home, in
America."
He went on to note that the
largest Jewish communities have
been spending less than 20 per
cent of thir welfare funds lo-
cally and regionally, while the
smaller ones have spent less
than five per cent close to
home.
Relation to Agencies
-
In going through the problem
of budgeting welfare funds, he
touched on the importance of
the contributor understanding
his relation to the welfare
agencies before effective budget-
ing can be achieved.
By his analysis, the welfare
agency is an instrument set up
by the contributors to fulfill
their comm on philanthropic
aim. As such, it is under the
control of its contributors as a
transmitting agent.
Avrunin then struck at the
root of the budgeting problem,
"Is there enough of a relation-
ship between the way an agency
program is evaluated and the
w a y it is financed?" Is the
proper emphasis placed on bar-
gaining between agency parti-
sans? Is money alloted in cor-
rect proportion to the services
performed and people served by
the agency?" he queried.
Community Causes
To answer these questions,
Avrunin divided into five cate-
gories the definitions and iden-
tities of causes supported by the
Jewish community and noted
the machinery set up to serve
them.
1. To provide economic as-
sistance to needy Jews,
wherever they may be.
2. To prOvide health services
for Jews, including an op-
portunity for the training
and professional develop-
ment of Jewish doctors.
3. To defend Jewish equal
rights and status.
4. To contribute to the devel-
opment of Jewish cultural
life, to help financially,
formal Jewish education,
cultural movements, etc.
5. To support religious insti-
tutions.
Not all of these areas of Jew-
ish development, Avrunin stated,
are controlled by the 300 or
more welfare funds operating
in the United States and Can-
ada. Many projects are financ-
ed by individuals and groups
following their special interests.
Financial limitations alone pre-
vent a mass undertaking. More
important., welfare funds can
only support those activities
and institutions on which its
contributors agree.
Contributors' Responsibilities
Avrunin then listed the rights
and responsibilities of the con-
tributors to the agencies: "The
responsibility to learn more
about them to make them in-
creasingly useful to us, to exer-
cise the right to do something
about the agencies and their
services considerably beyond the
right to criticize, the area of
getting the agencies to carry
out our will—the program for
which we are raising money. We
have applied our greatest ener-
gy to fund raising, this makes
budgeting important, for we
cannot be satisfied to regard a
`good' community as one which
raises a lot of money without
regard to how it is allocated,"
he declared.
He went on to cite the neces-
sity for checks to insure that
agencies allocate funds for the
purposes for which they are in-
tended.
Among his warnings on pit-
falls to welfare budgeting Avru-
nin brought out that many com-
munities follow the example of
other groups in allotting money,
or look to a previous year's
budget for guidance. In these
instances, he stated, the com-
munity runs the risk of perpet-
uating the errors of others.
3-Year-Old Taken by
Dad, Now in Israel
—International Photo
Three-year-old Steven Horo-
witz is shown here with his
mother, Mrs. Edythe Horowitz,
28, of Brooklyn. N.Y., who
charges that her husband kid-
napped the boy and had flown
with him to Israel. The mother
said that the father, a manu-
facturer, was to have taken
the boy to the movies on the
day he was permitted to see
him, but instead he took him
to Quebec where they took a
plane for Rome and from there
to Israel.
Rabbi Fram, Ellmann, to Join Panel
At Zionists' Parley This Weekend
Rabbi Leon Fram, of Temple
Israel, and James I. Ellman, past
presidents of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit, will join Celia
Adler and others in the proceed-
ings at the mid-summer week-
end conference of the Michigan
Zionist Region, in South Haven,
this Saturday and Sunday. -
Rabbi Fram and Ellman will
participate in a symposium on
"The Future of American Jewish
Youth," Sunday afternoon at
Oakland Park in South Haven.
Ellman will be chairman of
the youth festival, which will
include Hebrew and Israeli sing-
ing and dancing by a chorus
from Camp Sharon in Bucha-
nan, Mich. Other symposium
participants will be Prof. Julius
Stulberg of Western Michigan
College, Kalamazoo, and Prof.
Samuel M. Levin, of Wayne Uni-
versity.
Celia Adler will be the star of
Saturday night's opening rally
at Central High School in South
Haven.
Morris M. Jacobs, regional
president, will be chairman of
the Saturday night session,
which will also feature an ad-
dress by Dr. Sidney Marks, ex-
ecutive director of the Zionist
Organization of America.
The Sunday morning session
at the First Hebrew Congrega-
tion of South Haven, will include
discussions on Zionist and He-
brew education and program-
ming, led by H. B. Shaine, of
Grand Rapids.
Membership discussions will be
chaired by Abe Riskin of Flint.
There will also be a discussion
on fund raising for Israel, led
by David J. Ross, president of
Berrien County District.
High Holiday Tour of
Israel Starts Sept. 20
A High Holiday tour to Israel,
leaving New York September 20
and returning October 19, is be-
ing sponsored by Hapoel Hamiz-
rachi of America. The tour will
travel by DC-4 airplane, and
30 Americans Help
will include a comprehensive
sight seeing-tour of the entire
Found New Colony
county. Rosh Hashana will be
NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty spent in Tel Aviv, Yom Kippur
young Americans, comprising in Tirat Zvi.
the first General Zionist group
Sign in one of the top ranking
from the United States to settle
in Israel, joined with seventy movie producer's office: "The
Israeli youths in founding a new theater box office counts the
agricultural colony near Naza- cash, not the applause."
reth, as yet unnamed, the Jew-
ish Agency announced.
THE JEWISH NEWS—
The American settlers belong
Friday, July 29, 1949
to the General Zionist pioneer
training group, composed of
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In conclusion, Avrunin said:
"We will have a lot of talk
about building Jewish culture in
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