Federation Apartments Assure Senior Citizens'
Dwellings; Ground Breaking Slated Sunda y

Jewish Community Center was de
I ber of elderly people has Increas- ' usually remained in neighborhoods ' doors and stair lifts.
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cided upon as the most convenient
though no applications will be for- ed, these agencies have kept pace where rents are low, but gett in gSince one of the Federation find- for the future residents of the
malized prior to the spring of 1970. by expanding their programs for to the services they need is incon-
building. Not only was it near
It is expected that the building will this age group. It was noted, how- venient. The Jewish Welfare Fed- ings
was
that there
was
a greater
than
married,
there
will
be al transportation and shopping, but
be ready for occupancy by the ever, with the advance in modern eration study concluded that what number of single elderly people , it afforded the senior citizens the
medicine and changes in family these retired people needed was larger number of efficiency type opportunity to take advantage of
end of 1970.
1 units with screened off kitchen the many cultural and social activ-
Jackier stated that he has ap- life, the traditional approach to convenient, low-cost housing.
pointed a special committee of his serving the aged would not suf-
In the planning, it was recog- and bed areas. Each unit will have ities of the Jewish Center.
board, headed by Leslie Rose, fice.
A study conducted by the Jew- sized that the elderly often take a private bath and furnished kit-
October 1968, the Oak Park
which will establish the criteria
short cuts in the preparation of chen
A appliances.
nonprofit corporation was set City Council paved the way for the
for selection of tenants. It is ex-
pected that this will give priority ish Welfare Federation found that their own meals; therefore, in the
to applicants with the greatest there was an increasing population interest of preserving their health, up in mid-1968 by the Federation future building by rezoning the
as required by federal govern- property from single dwelling ,,o
need and ability to utilize the new of elderly people in relatively good one hot, kosher meal' will be
facility. The final 'screening corn- health who were living alone on served in a central dining room ment regulations to take the nec- high-rise apartments. As a non-
mittee will make its selections modest budgets. They did not each day. Many other conven- essary steps to negotiate a low-cost profit housing development, the
without knowledge of the identity need the services of the Jewish iences for the aged residents will loan through the U.S. Department apartment would be exempt from
Home for the Aged and moving in be incorporated into the building, of Housing and Urban Develop- property taxes under a state law
of the applicants.
which provides for financial reim-
Federation Apartments are a with married children was no including grab rails in the bathment.
After reviewing several proposed bursement to local municipalities
product of the growing concern longer an acceptable solution. tubs, panic buttons in each unit
which communal agencies have in They were sometimes neglectful connected to a central switch- sites; the present location adjacent for services rendered the building
the needs of the aged. As the num- of their own nutritional needs and board, lower light switches, wider to the Oak Park branch of the and its occupants.

Book Fair Spotlight on Topics of Jewish Interest

Rabbi Roland , B. Gittelsohn, Region, Women's American ORT.
A review of doctors in litera-
ture, advice on how not to be a president of the Central Confer- at 1 p.m., Nov. 13. Coffee and cake
ence
of Amercan Rabbis, will be will be served.
Jewish mother and a discussion
Arona Lipman McHugh was
of the "sexual revolution" are featured at the Book Fair at 8:15
born in Boston
among the items on the agenda of p.m., Nov. 13. Author of "My - Be-
and now lives
loved
Is
Mine."
he
will
speak
on
the 18th annual Jewish Book Farr
with her family
opening Nov. 8 at the Jewish Cen- "The Sexual Revolution: Fiction
in New Y o r k.
or Fact?", co-sponsored by the
ter.
She attended Suf-
The fair, which will conclude Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith
folk
and Colurn-
Council
and
Women's
Council.
Nov. 16, will feature a number of
b i a universities
Rabbi Gittelsohn earned an hon-
authors who have written on Jew-
and
was one of
orary doctor of
ish themes. For most of the talks.
the first of
divinity de-
the public is invited without
the: distinguished
$111111° ‘ 1"11.17 gree from the
Charge.
writers who have
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".* Hebrew Union
been associated
College
and
hon-
On Nov. 11, at 8:15 p.m., Sinai
orary ScD from I Mrs. McHugh with the Writers
Hospital will co-sponsor the ap-
Workshop
at
the
University of
the Lowell Tech-
pearance of Dr. Morris Fishbein,
author of "Morris Fishbein. MD."
i nological Ins t i- Iowa. Mrs. McHugh is the author
which Walter C. Alvarez of Book
t u t e. He now of the novels "A Banner With a
serves as spirit- Strange Device" and the "Sea-
Week has called the "most re-
ual leader of coast of Bohemia."
markable biography" ever writ-
Mrs. McHugh's "The Luck of
Temple Israel,
ten.
the Van Meers" is a journal of
Born in 1889, the eldest son of
Boston.
Gittelsohn
the
two centuries of an unusual
German immigrants—who wanted
Rabbi Gittelsohn also has au-
par-
thored "Modern Jewish Prob- Jewish family of wealth and cul-
him to be a rab-
ture
in Europe.
bi—Fishbein be- 1 /
lems," "Little Lower Tran the An-
* *
-
came fascinated
• gels." "Man's Best Hope" and
The Yiddish Committee will pre-
with medicine ?:
"Consecrated Unto Me."
sent Eliezer Greenberg, interna-
*
and entered a t
On Nov. 12, Rabbi Eugene B. tionally known Yiddish poet at
pioneer pre-med
course at the
Borowitz, professor of education 7:30 p.m., Nov. 12.
Greenberg is the winner
and Jewish thotight at the New
University
York School of Hebrew Union Col- of many literary awards, including
of Chicago. Con-
the 1953 Poetry
1751';."
•
.
lege-Jewish Literature of Religion.
tinuing his stud-
Award of the
will speak on "The Crisis of Jew-
ies at Rush Med-
Jewish
Book
ish Ethics," at the 10 a.m. session
ical College, he
Council of Amer-
Fishbein
of Sisterhood Day, cosponsored by
received his MD
ica,
the
1965
Detroit area sisterhoods.
in 1912.
Poetry Award in
Dr. Fishbein began his career
Rabbi Borowitz has written "A
Israel
and
the
as a writer when he joined the New Jewish Theology in the Mak-
Fichman Prize.
American Medical Association as i,n g," "A Lay-
His most re-
editor of its journal, and for 37 man's Introduc-
cent book, co-
years he was the AMA's spokes- tion to Religious
authored
with
man on controversial medical is- E x i s t e n-
Irving Howe, is
sues. He has lectured and pub- tialism," "H o w
A
Treasury
of
-
lished more than a score of books. Can a Jew Speak
Greenberg Yiddish Stories."
Dr. Fishbein will speak on "Doc- of Faith To- .
He has also authored "Streets and
tors in Literature."
d a y?" and his
*
Avenues," "The Long Night,"
newest book,
"Eternal Thirst" and many others.
Violet Weingarten, author of "A " Choosing a Sex -
Greenberg was born in Lipkan.
Loving Wife," will speak on "How
Bessarabia, and lives in New
Not to Be a Jewish Mother" at a
Dr. B o r o-
York.
A contributor to literary
luncheon meeting at noon. Nov. witz received his.h-
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Borowitz
13. This meeting, for which reserv- bachelor' s
ations are requested, is co-spun- degree from Ohio State University
sored by the Detroit Council of and was ordained by Hebrew
Pioneer Women.
Union College. He holds two doc-
Mrs. Weingarten, a native of tor's degrees, one from Hebrew
Union College and the other from
S a n Francisco,
lives in Mount
Columbia University.
GENEVA (JTA) — The rapid
Kisco, N.Y. The
As national director of educa-
tion for Reform Judaism, Dr. exodus of Jews from Poland has
mother of t w o
daughters, s h e
Borowitz gave leadership to all strained the financial resources of
educational programs of the the Joint Distribution Committee
wrote "You Can
Union of American Hebrew Con- to a point where it will have to
Take Them With
gregations and served as editor curtail its relief operations in
You," a guide to
Israel and other parts of the world
of its books, curriculum and
traveling with
unless additional funds are imme-
periodicals.
children in Eu-
A noon luncheon, for which diately forthcoming. Louis D.
rope, which was
reservations are required, will be Horowitz, director general of the
serialized in the '-
New York Post. Mrs. Weingarten followed by a talk by Gwen Gib- international relief agency, said
She also authored "The Nile: son Schwartz, co-author of "The an additional $1,000,000 ; was re-
quired for refugee needs in 1970.
Father of Egypt," reprinted in Jewish Wife."
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•The JDC's budget for 1969 amount-
England, and in Arabic; "The Jor-
Arona McHugh, author of "The ed to $23,000,000.
dan—River of the Promised Land,"
Horowitz made his assessment
and "Life at the Bottom" for the Luck of the Van Meers," will i
at the close of the 23rd annual
Citizens Committee on Children of speak on "Jewish Roots and
Branches
in
American
Litera-
New York, a report on what it is
JDC overseas conference here.
ture," cosponsored by Michigan Ile said, "the final outpouring
like to live on ADC welfare.

publications in the United States,
Israel and Latin America, Green-1
berg is the editor of the literary
and cultural monthly "The Zu-
kunft." He is the author of six
books of literary criticism on the
Yiddish poets Jacob Glatstein, H.
Leivick and Moishe Leib Halpern.
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Gwen Gibson Schwartz, a free-
lance writer who has contributed
to .numerous leading national
magazines, will address Sisterhood
Day. Nov. 12, at 1:15 p.m.
Mrs. Schwartz was born and
educated in Oklahoma and started
working as a reporter for the
United Press in Oklahoma City in
1952. She worked for UP through-
out the West and in Washington,
D.C., before join-
ing the Washing-
ton bureau of the
New York Daily
News. With the
N e w s, Mrs.
Schwartz was a
columnist a n d
reporter as-
signed primarily
to the White
House and Con-
Mrs. Schwartz
gress.
In 1960, on moving to New York
City, she joined the New York
Herald Tribune as a staff writer
and reporter. While with the Tri-
bune, she was a frequent panelist I
on the TV program "Women of
the Press." A former vice presi-
dent of the Women's National
Press Club, she resides in Man-
hattan with her husband, Sidney
Schwartz, pianist - composer - con-
ductor. They have one daughter.
Brief excerpts of "The Jewish
Wife" appeared in the October
and November Ladies' Home
Journal.
* * *
Detroit-born author Leo Litwak,
a short story writer, whose work
has appeared in O'Henry and
Martha Foley anthologies, will

speak at 8:15 p.m., Nov. 9.
Born in Detroit in 1924, Litwak
was educated at the University of
Michigan, Wayne
State University,
N e w School for
Social Research •
and C o 1 u m-
b i a University.
He taught at
Washington Uni-
versity in St.
Louis, Stan-
ford and, cur-.
rently San Fran-
cisco State

"

lege. He is thez 1.
son of Isaac
Litwak, noted in
the Michigan la-
Litwak
bor movement.
Litwak's first novel, "To the
Hanging Gardens," was published
in 1964. On Sept. 19, Doubleday
published his "Waiting for the
News," whose locale is Detroit in
1939. Litwak will discuss "The
Impulse for Social Justice—Does
it Exist Among American Jews?"
This event is co-sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress.

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Young Adults to Chat
With Rabbi Potok

Young adults are invited to hear
Chaim Potok in an informal ses-
sion at 7 p.m., Nov. 12, in the Allen
Lounge of the Jewish Center.
Author of "The Chosen" and
more recently, "The Promise,"
Rabbi Potok will speak at 8:45 on
"Love, Hate and Rebellion."
Following the session with Rabbi
Potok, the Young Adult Lounge
will take place at 8:30, and Israeli
dancing for young adults at 8:45.
Light refreshments will be served
at the Potok session, for which
there is a nominal admission fee
to those Who are not Planning
Committee members.

Exodus of Palish Jews a Strain
on JDC's Finances. Says Director

48 Friday, October 31, 1969

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

in September imposed a life or
death priority for JDC and left
it with no alternative but to find
the large sum of money needed
to care for the refugees and
other hundreds of Jewish trans-
migrants from Eastern Europe
and the Middle East whom we
care for in Vienna, Rome and
Paris while they await their mi-
gration papers."
Norm% itz said that unless the
money can be found, JDC would
have to freeze its current world-
wide health and welfare programs
at a "dismally inadequate level.
We will have to say no to in-
creasing the distribution of food,
clothing,, fuel and medicine to
elderly Jews in Romania; we will
of Polish Jews that began early I have to say no to the handicaped

in Israel, to the deaf, crippled and
retarded children; we will have to
say no to social investments that
would help migrants from North
Africa to adjust to cold, grey
climates in the industrialized so-
' ciety in Europe; and we will have
to say no to urgently needed re-
pairs of school buildings in Iran
that are ready to fall down on the
children's heads." Horowitz said.
Horowitz noted that Jews have
been departing from Poland at
a rate of 1,000 a month since
last September. Mainly they are
Jews who applied for exit permits
before the Sept. 1 deadline set by
the Warsaw regime last spring.
He said that, according to recent
estimates, there are fewer than
18,000 Jews in Poland.