Report Community Council Aid to Urban Projects Outlined in Season-End tions as "deplorable" and is In a season-end report to the sequently reviewed by other Coun- effort three years ago, has expand- ed into a nationwide operation in- executive committee of the e Jewish cil committees. Funding, in most instances, was corporating more than 300 religi- Community Council of Metropoli- tan Detroit, Lawrence Gu- I made available through endow- ous jurisdictions. The project seeks bow, council Judge president, summariz- em- ed urban and inner-city projects to ment funds of the United Jewish to establish a climate of equal em- Charities upon recommendation of Ploy ment opportunity among busi- which the Council will give finan- the Jewish Community Foundation. nesses which supply goods and cial and other support during the Suburban action centers, which services to religious institutions and agencies. Nearly 100 Jewish season ahead. will receive Council support dur- The Council's program in this ing the year, aim at informing 1 institutions and organizations in area was initially developed by the the white community about the ; Detroit participate, with Council urban affairs subcommittee, chair- nature of urban issues and en- helping to fund and coordinate the Project. ed by Mrs. Julian Krolik, and sub - couraging greater citizen parti- * 3 * cipation in activities related to a wide range of urban problems. Community Is Asked Experiment May Be Key The centers were developed at to Determining Unborn the - initiative of the Interfaith to Back Field Workers Action Council. in Table Grape Strike Baby With Tay-Sachs As an extension of the Center for The Jewish Community Council NEW YORK — The fatal Tay- Sachs disease, a condition that be- Urban Studies at Wayne State. a has called upon its affiliated or- falls babies whose parents are of program in studies in religion and ganizations to support the efforts East European Jewish descent, is urban culture has been created of agricultural workers in their the subject of research under way with ;Council support to bring the drive to organize for collective bar- by a team of Washington area spe- resources of the university to bear gaining with California table grape cialists. upon, contemporary problems of g rowers. religion and urban society, and to The action was taken at the last The researchers:—Drs. Roscoe 0. provide training opportunities for Brady, Edwin Kolodny and B. \V. religious leadership in the dyna- meeting of the Council's executive committee and endorses the activi- Uhlendorf of the National Institutes mics,of urban culture. ties of the United Farm Workers of Health, and Dr. Cecil Jacobson A third funding o eration re re- Organizing Committee (UFWOC) of George Washington University sents L the second annual renewal of —are looking for a newly pregnant a four-year, S50,000 commitment under the leadership of Cesar Chavez. woman from a family that carries to HEOC to meet the direct finan the rare genetic disorder. Having cial needs of inner city high school Specifically. the Council has ask- already delivered one Tay-Sachs graduates enrolling in Wayne ed each of its affiliates to request baby. she will have the opportunity State. The HEOC plan will aid that their membership refrain to participate in an experiment students, for whom no scholarship froM buying California table during her second pregnancy. help ; is otherwise available, in grapes, and that they write to Con- For the woman who already completing their education for pro- gressional representatives urging has had one Tay-Sachs baby, the fessions or careers. an extension of the National Labor odds are one in four that her next Relations Act to include agricul- Besides the scholarship grants. baby also will be afflicted; the tural workers. the services of the cultural, em- odds thus favor the next child ployment, health and referral re- While the activities of the being normal. However, some sources of Jewish community l'FWOC under Chavez have been couples prefer to stop having agencies will remain available directed toward the California children rather than face a sec- to scholarship students for assist- table grape and wine industries. ond, similar tragedy. ance in noneducation problems. the results of their efforts, if Among the agencies which have I The researchers believe they can successful, will have a direct- already provided services arc determine, during pregnancy, impact on the very sizable farm Shiffman Clinic of Sinai hospi- whether an unborn baby is, in tact, labor force employed in the state tal, ; Jewish Vocational Service afflicted with Tay-Sachs. If their of Michigan, said the Council and Community Workshop and test showed that the woman was statement. Testimony taken at the Jewish Family and Children's carrying a sick fetus, she might recent public hearings on the Service. seek a therapeutic abortion (legal working and living conditions of in only some states), then quickly The Projett Equality program, the migrant labor force in Mich- try again for an unaffected baby. treated in getroit as an interfaith igan have described these condi- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8—Friday, June 13, 1969 Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.—Goethe. some cases worse that the con- ditions imposed on urban slum dwellers. Chavez and the UFWOC have re- ceived the support of a number of rabbinical groups, including the California Board of Rabbis, partly because Chavez himself has emer- ged as a practitioner in support of peaceful and nonviolent tactics to achieve significant social change. CARS TO BE DRIVEN To any state. Also drivers furnish. ed to drive your car anywhere. Fully insured and I.C.C. licensed. 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