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A Ilied Drive Formula Adopted for 1963
Urgent Appeals to Community for
Stepped-Up Giving in Emergency
Needs Overseas, Local Obligations
After several hours of deliberations on
community needs and Detroit Jewry's obliga-
tions to overseas causes and Israel, a steering
committee of 30, selected at the annual
budgeting conference of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, agreed upon a formula for the
allocation of funds to be raised in the 1963
Allied Jewish Campaign.
The formula provides for adherence to the 1962
experience, with the addition - of a $20,500 sum
urgently needed for expanded educational needs and
for the care of newcomers from overseas who are
being resettled in Detroit. This is to be based on an
assured campaign income of $4,725,000. All sums
raised in excess of that amount are to go to the
United Jewish Appeal for the serious needs that have
been created overseas, in many lands where Jews need
assistance, and for the settlement of tens of • thou-
sands of newcomers in Israel.
The adopted formula retains the budgetary re-
quirement represented in the following set of figures
of income and allocations for 1962. The column on
the left is the regular fund; the middle column is the
special fund; the column on the right is the total:
Application of 1962 Budget Formula
Special Fund Total
GROSS PLEDGES
$4,704,429 5155,571 $4,860,000''
TOTAL
Campaign and
310,000
310,000
Collection
Reserve for
9,334
291,600*
Shrinkage
282,266
NET CASH
AVAILABLE FOR
.
ALLOCATION 4,112,163 146,237 4,258,400*
Overseas and
2,351,780
146,237
2,205,543
Israel
. 1,431,800
Local—Operating 1,431,800
250,000*
250,800
Local—Capital
National
224,020
224,020
Agencies
Based on an anticipated Campaign total of
$4,860,000.
Serving on the steering committee, under the
chairmanship of Hyman Safran, were:
Max M. Fisher, Charles H. Gershenson, Lawrence
Gubow, Mrs. John C. Hopp, Robert Kasle, Louis
LaMed, Jack 0. Lefton, Judge Theodore Levin, Mrs.
Philip H. Marcuse, Dr, Irving Posner, Mrs. Harold
A. Robinson, Phillip Stollman, Irwin Green, Mrs.
Lewis Grossman, Avern Cohn, Marvin Alexander,
David Safran, Max M. Shaye, Erwin S. Simon, Philip
Slomovitz, Louis M. Stern, George M. Stutz, Louis
Tabashnick, A. Alfred Taubman, Julian S. Tobias,
Stanley J. Winkelman, George M. Zeltzer, Samuel J.
Greenberg, Isidore Sobeloff and William Avrunin.
This committee's • unanimous decision was
reached after an entire morning's conference Sun-
day, at the Jewish Community Center. It was the
best attended budgeting session in the 14-year
history of similar communal planning conferences,
and the 250 participants, who represented all
elements of Detroit Jewry, aired the many prob-
lems facing American and world Jewries and the
State of Israel.
It developed in the course of the discussions that
in order fully to meet all the requirements it would
be necessary to allocate an additional $86,000 for
local operating costs, $10,000 more for national
agencies' needs, $150,000 more for capital needs and
$1,250,000 to the UJA for overseas and Israel activi-
ties. But the steering committee, yielding to realism,
adopted a formula which, the local leaders hope, will
be based on the minimum income. It is hoped that
the urgent additional needs will spur greater activi-
ties and will assist in raising the large sums needed
to fulfill Detroit's total obligations in the current
dire needs created by world crises as well as by
mounting local costs for expanded programming.
As president of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Max M. Fisher, who presided, outlined the objec-
tives of the budgeting conference and expressed
satisfaction over the spirit of amity which has
developed throughout the years in conununal plan-
ning for the annual Allied Jewish Campaigns. He
declared that as long as there is a single Jew
who is homeless, who is deprived of dignity as a
At Sunday's budget con-
ference, from the left:
Samuel J. Greenberg,
Max Fisher, Louis La-
Med, Judge Theodore
Levin, Hyman Safran,
Charles H. Gershenson,
Louis Tabashnick and
Jack 0. Lefton.
human being, the work of rescue and rehabilitation
will go on.
William Avrunin, associate director of the Fed-
eration, explained the background material that
aided the conferees in studying the local needs. He
sought to guide the gathering in avoiding pitfalls
in reaching an understanding of the existing prob-
lems and he pointed out that there will be needed
a minimum increase in income of 5 per cent for
current allocations.
Samuel J. Greenberg, who gave the report for
the health and welfare division of the Federation,
in the absence of the division's chairman, Alan
Schwartz, emphasized that there is an increase
in the number of newcomers in Detroit from over-
seas who must be resettled here. He described
several of the urgent cases and outline the needs
of a number of the agencies—Resettlement Service,
Hebrew Free Loan, Community Workshop, Jewish
Family and Children's Service—indicating the new
burdens that have been placed upon them.
Greenberg told of the allocation made for Detroit
of a number of families who are being brought to
this country by HIAS and predicted that this com-
munity may be called upon to care for 23 additional
family units next year.
Reporting for the education division, Louis La-
Med, its chairman, states that the community schools
are not geared to any one ideology but are designed
to fulfill the needs of as many groups as possible.
He said that since the United Hebrew Schools had
been designated to serve as the educational arm
of the Federation all but one school in the city now
are under its jurisdiction.
"The inclusion of the last one to join—Beth
Yehudah—has proven very successful and has re-
sulted in harmonious relationships," LaMed reported.
He also indicated that while at the outset there
were only two congregational schools in the United
Hebrew Schools set-up, there now are 10.
"Now," he said, "15 branches are bringing to-
gether children from all walks of life into this school
system." He reported that while there were 1,050
students in the schools in 1950, the student body now
numbers 4,100.
The annual budget, he reported, will exceed
$900,000, half of this sum to be covered by tuition
fees. The average educational cost per child is
$100 a year.
Describing the desperate needs that had arisen
for classroom facilities due to neighborhood changes,
LaMed emphasized that the time has come for
urgent action to improve the quality of teaching, to
train more teachers, to prepare more teaching mate-
rial. "'We must shift from quantity to quality," he
declared in an urgent appeal for priority for the
community's educational programs.
He also appealed for increased aid for the numer-
ous national educational agencies included in the
drive.
Jack 0. Lefton, as chairman of the community re-
lations committee, outlined the programs of civic
defense agencies. He praised the new approaches
made by the Jewish Community Council, described
the changes that have taken place and said that new
activities are in positive Jewish areas, broader com-
munity agencies having taken over actions that deal
with needs involving general defense, civil rights,
and other projects.
Supplementing Lefton's report, Stanley Winkel-
man, as president of the Council, commended the
Federation for its realistic relationship with the
Council.
Louis Tabashnick, chairman of the capital needs
committee, who, at the steering committee session,
conceded that his committee will adhere to the freez-
ing of the allocation to his committee at last year's
sum of $250,800, pointed to the numerous community
buildings that were financed with the capital needs
funds and pleaded for additional sums to make pos-
sible other structures that will be vitally needed in
the coming years, as well as for improvements of
existing buildings.
Tabashnick pointed to the numerous facilities that
were made possible as additions to the Home for the
Aged and Sinai Hospital, the several new Hebrew
Schools, the Jewish Center, the Jewish Family- and
Children's Service office building and the numerous
additions to Camp Tamarack. He urged the commun-
ity to be prepared for further planning for structures
that will soon be urgently needed.
The overseas and Israel needs were outlined by
Judge Theodore Levin. He emphasized that 200,000
newcomers in Israel require continued assistance.
He- told of the urgent housing and educational
needs for newcomers in Israel and described the
vital work of JDC's Malben in whose institutions
50,000 are receiving aid at this time.
Judge Levin also pointed to the influx of immi-
grants in France, to the aid given by JDC to Jews
in many lands, and spoke of the increasing needs
in this country to care for newcomers from Cuba
and other countries.
In his appeal, he included reference to UJA's 25th
anniversary, and expressed the hope that the event
will be marked by increased generosity to the major
fund-raising effort in this country.
Judge Levin, in his analysis of the overseas
needs, reviewed Detroit's contributions to the major
beneficiary, United Jewish Appeal, of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, and reviewed the new crises
that are adding to the burdens of assisting the
hordes who are escaping from persecutions and
are awaiting the opportunity for resettlement in
Israel. He spoke of the new tasks in behalf of
Israel as requiring increased financial aid from
American Jewry.
As chairman of the steering committee, Hyman
Safran summarized the needs and emphasized that
$3,500.000 actually is needed for Israel and overseas
assistance. He expressed the hope for increased in-
come to make possible larger allocations to these
causes by Detroit Jewry. --
Isidore Sobeloff, the Federation's executive vice
president, explained the manner in which income is
received from various categories and pointed out that
increased allocations depend entirely upon the greater
community responses.
A strong plea for action in the coming drive was
made by Charles H. Gershenson, the next campaign
chairman. He appealed to the community to back
up the campaign organization with most generous
support that is vitally needed in these critical times.
Participants in the budgeting conference discus-
sions included Phillip Stollman, Harold Berry, David
Safran, George Zelizer, Rabbi P. Wohlgelernter,
Avern Cohn and Dr. Jerome Hauser.
Stollman made a strong appeal for increased
devotion to the urgent needs of the United Jewish
Appeal. He took occasion, in his remarks at the
conference, to take note of the 25th anniversary of
Sobeloff's services in Detroit and to commend him
for his devotion and ability.