THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
AJCongress Will Seek at Least 25,000 Jobs "—Friday' April 12, 1968
Katriel Katz Survives Crash
for Ghetto Youth in New York City by July 1 Ex-Envoy
LONDON — Katriel Katz, Isra- London Airport shortly after
NEW YORK — The American
Thwish Congress has launched a
ci.tywide job-finding campaign for
ghetto youths, believed to be the
fist in the nation by a voluntary,
rinn business group, in response to
- ncommendations of the President's
Advisory Commission on Civil Dis-
orders.
At a meeting with Mayor John
Lindsay in City Hall, the AJC an-
nouncnd it was enlisting 25.000 of
its members in the metropolitan
area in a carnPaign to find summer
and permanent jobs for young
people age 17 to 22.
David Haber, chairman of the
organization's New York Metro-
Problem of Narcotic Use Among
Jews Is Subject of AT Parley
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Fed-
eration of Jewish Philanthropies
of New York announced plans for
an all-day conference next month
on the growing problem of nar-
cotics use and addiCtion among
Jews. -
Howard R. Rhine, a New York
attorney who is chairman of the
federation's committee on nar-
cotics, said that the May 5 con-
ference was called to dramatize
for the Jewish community the fact
that narcotics use and abuse was
becoming a specifically Jewish
problem and to consider creation,
under federation auspicies, of a
Jewish-sponsored facility to make
available to the Jewish user treat-
ment facilities which combine
Jewish social work and religious
resources. The cornmittee was set
up under auspices of the federa-
tion's commission on synagogue
relations of which Rabbi , Isaac
Trainin is • director. Rhine said
that more than 100 experts would
attend the conference, including
doctors, officials of government
treatment programs, psychiatrists,
rabbis and representatives of vari-
ous federation agencies.
He quoted Father W. L. Dam-
lam Pitcaithly, director of the
Samaritan Halfway House, a
private treatment facility in New
York, as declaring that some
20 per cent of persons receiving
treatment there were Jews.
Rhine also said that statistics on
narcotics use by Jews were hard
to get, partly because Jews are
able to afford private treatment
and hence are often not in a
situation requiring referral to
public institutions.
Indicating that as little as 10
years ago narcotics abuse was rare
among Jews, Rhine said there was
little doubt that narcotics use is
high among Jewish college stu-
dents, as it is among college stu-
dents generally. He said that the
conference was expected to pro-
duce some specific information on
Scientists Study Link
the distribution of narcotic users
among Jews and the degree to
of Hormones, Emotions which specifically Jewish prob-
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The lems had a role in the pressures
relationships between • human emo- to which narcotics use is a re-
tions and hormone secretions is sponse..
being studied under a two-year
He said there was now no treat-
extension of a four-year federal ment facility under Jewish aus-
grant to the Einstein Medical Cen- pices and that the Jewish com-
ter. The National Institute of munity had done nothing to grap-
Mental Health has granted the ple with the problem. He pointed
program a $120,000 grant, accord- out that Catholic and Protestant
ing to Dr. Pascal F. Lucchesi, groups have long sponsored such
P xe cuti v e vice-president and - medi-
facilities and that officials of such
cal director of the medical center. t reatment centers often call Jewish
Dr. Samuel •J. Ajl, research di- i nstitutions when a Jewish person
rector, said the study would seek comes to them for help. He said
to determine "levels of endocrine that when a rabbi encounters this
secretions and their production problem among his congregations,
rates in individuals subjected to he should have a Jewish facility
three different emotional states." for referral, rather than to have
According to Dr. Harold. Persky, to go to a Government agency or
who heads the investigation, the to another religious gfoup. Another
approach is an effort "to determine objective of the conference, he
the pattern of endocrine levels- in said, will be to formulate plans
blood and urine and of endocrine for an education program on the
production in a group of men" who problem for synagogues, Jewish
will be subjected to "anxiety, de- centers and similar federation in-
pression and hostility."
stitutions.
politan Council, said each member
was being asked "to find at least
one work onnortunity for one job-
less youth by July 1.
"We believe every individual
and every o-oani7ation in our so-
ciety — not only the business com-
munity — has a personal responsi-
bility in helping solve the nation's
urban crisis," Haber told the
ma von
He cited' the advisory com-
mission finding that 500,000
unemployed consisted in large
part of "Negro males between
the ages of 18 and 25." The com-
mission urged "immediate ac-
tion to create 2,000,000 new jobs
over the next three years" plus
"on-the-job training by both pub-
lic and private employers."
The American Jewish Congress
leader said he hoped the project
would become "a prototype of a
national citizens campaign aimed
at reaching the jobless youth with
time on his hands — the alienated,
unmotivated, poverty youth most
likely to set our cities and our so-
ciety aflame."
Haber proposed creation of a
central city agency that would co-
ordinate the job-finding efforts of
public and private agencies and
find "new techniques for recruit-
ing hard-core and hard-to-reach
jobless youths."
Other projects of the American
Jewish Congress in the poverty
area include:
The participation of more than
1,000 women members of the
American Jewish Congress as
volunteers in remedial-instruction
and other educational projects in
ghetto areas in Detroit, Cleveland,
Chicago, San Francisco and New
York City.
Gordon said the aim was "to
avoid the 'dialogue' syndrome —
in which Negroes and Jews merely
talk to one another — and to
concentrate on working together
on specific projects of mutual
concern."
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BETH
YEHUDAH
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el's former ambassador to Poland
and the Soviet Union, was among
121 passengers who survived the
cr2F1-t 1 —.re Monday of a BOAC jet
airliner bound for
Tel Aviv and Aus-
tralia. Katz, who
is chairman of the
, Yad Vashem in
Qr ki_>= Jerusalem, was
:r7.7 "hospitalized with
a broken leg and
a broken wrist
but was other-
wise reported
well and in good
Katz
spirits.
The plane, which had an unspeci-
fied number of Israelis among its
passengers, crashed in flames at
taking
off. Four passengers and a crew
member were killed.
Whoever that has inherited
money from his father and desires
to lose it should hire workmen and
not watch them while working.—
Hullin 85
Julius J. & Belle Platt
Wish to thank their sisters,
nieces and nephews (Mr. & Mrs.
Dave Barrons', the Kaplans',
Kays', Mr. & Mrs. Sam Silver-
mans', the Gantz', Browns' and
Ross') for the beautiful surprise
wedding anniversary party they
gave on March 16th in our
Day School Movement
in Detroit
honor,
REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
Jan. 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
Dr. Martin Luther King
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so
tragically bound to starless midnight of racism and
war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality."
Michigan Regional Office
Anti-Defamation League of
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