THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

10—Friday, February 13, 1970

2 Serve in Canada as Deputy Mayors

MONTREAL (JTA) — Orthodox
Jews have been chosen to serve as
deputy mayors of Canada's two
largest cities—Montreal and Tor-
onto. Gerald N. F. Charness. 38,
was elected by the Montreal City
Council as deputy mayor of Can-
ada's largest city. Alderman David
Rotenberg was named deputy
mayor of Toronto.
Charness, who represents a pre-
dominantly Christian constitutency,
has been a council member since
1960 when he was elected the coun-
cil's youngest member. He was
re-elected in 1962 and 1966. The

council consists of 52 members,
of whom 47 are Catholics four
Jewish and one Protestant. He
attends all civic functions at which
he arranges to have kosher meals
for himself and his wife. Since
1960, the council has avoided meet-
ings on the Jewish Sabbath or
Jewish holidays, except for urgent
reasons. The Montreal city char-
ter has been amended to provide
exemption for members from at-
tendance at specific unavoidable
meetings for those who cannot
attend because of their religious
commitments.

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(Copyright 1970, JTA Inc.)

(Copyright. 1970, JTA, Inc.)

COMMUNAL CURRENTS: The Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds is now busily engaged—under the leadership of its new
president Max M. Fisher—in the work of guiding the activities of the
organized Jewish communities throughout the country along "priority"
lines.
With the Jewish communities growing stronger from year to year,
they are faced more and more with diversity and innovations in their
programs. The need for establishing priorities without affecting the
building of a strong Jewish community has, therefore, been under
discussion for some time. General guidelines were presented at the
CJFWF's assembly last November. They are now being stressed by the
CJFWF in stimulating the communities in their 1970 programs.
Highest priority is, naturally, given to fund raising. The Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds last year raised S266,000,000, a substan-
tial part of which went to support Israel's human needs. This year
Israel's needs are much greater. The struggle of attrition launched by
the Arabs to wear down the Israelis strongly affects Israel's financial
ability to meet its obligations in the fields of education, social welfare
and aid to immigrants. More funds must therefore come now from
American Jewry.
More funds will be needed this year also for programs in the com-
munities in this country. Changes are taking place in American Jewish
life which require the communities to develop and apply the most
advanced methods in serving their increasingly complex local needs.
Spiraling inflation is increasing the costs of maintaining Jewish insti-
tutions. Serious shortages in trained staff impede and prevent essential
service and require the financing of special training. In addition, Jew-
ish education will require more funds this year than ever before.
All this makes it clear why fund raising is given the highest pri-
ority. Israel's desperate needs make it especially imperative for the
communities to raise more funds this year. And all indications so far
point to the fact that more will be raised.
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ACCENT ON YOUTH: Next to the priority on increased fund
raising for Israel and for home needs, the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds places high on the agenda the work of involv-
ing Jewish college youth and faculty members in the activities of
Jewish communities and their agencies across the country.
One of the serious concerns of the American Jewish community is
the alienation of so many of its college youth. Their minimal relation-
ship with Jewish life, reflecting often their rejection of most forms of
contact with the established community, is a cause of profound dis-
quietude. About 75 per cent of the more than 350,000 Jewish students
today are attending colleges and universities located in metropolitan
areas where there are Jewish communities and large Jewish centers.
The CJFWF, seeking to involve these young people—as well as the
several thousand Jewish professors—more closely and meaningfully in
Jewish communal affairs, has set up a committee on college youth and
faculty. It has also invited Dr. John Slawson to assist in developing
plans to serve and involve college youth and faculty, and to help com-
munities to initiate programs geared to their special local circum-
stances.
JEWISH EDUCATION: Jewish education is set as another priority
in the CJFWF program for the communities for 1970. The CJFWF is
now setting up a new task force on Jewish identity and will lead in new
approaches to Jewish education and culture.
The Jewish federations have given money for Jewish education for
years—some larger sums and other comparatively small sums. But
this has been done mainly as a matter of responding to requests from
the local Jewish schools. Now the federations are beginning to define
their special role and responsibilities for Jewish education in contrast
with individual school responsibilites. They are beginning to set criteria
with a view toward lifting the quality and the impact of Jewish educa-
tion.

Friedman Resigns as Chief of Washington HA Bureau

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Milton
Friedman, Washington Bureau
chief of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, has been appointed direc-
tor of special projects of the Na-
tional Republican Congressional
Committee.
Friedman, 45, joined the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency staff in 1949
after wartime
service in the
European theater
with the United
States Army and
work on Virginia,
'Wisconsin and
Washington news-
papers and radio
stations.
During his 21
years with JTA,
he covered most
of the major news
Friedman
developments of
Jewish interest in Washington. He

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Announcement of the appoint-
ment of his successor as JTA
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ence of drug use in the Jewish
community was de plored by
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of the Federation of Jewish Phil-
anthropies of New York, in an
interview with the New York
Times last week.
Heyman cited some figures and
reports from the federation's af-
filiated agencies indicating the
heightened use of drugs by Jew-
ish youth age 12 to 21. He said
that "The full extent to which the
Jewish community is affected is
not known because Jews have
traditionally turned to private
care." As a result, available rec-
ords "do not paint a complete
picture."
What is known, however, is
that among the city's 60,000
"visible addicts, with the figure
mounting steadily toward the
100,000 mark," a maximum of
12,000 are Jewish.
Heyman said one Brooklyn high
school with 5,000 students is 75
per cent Jewish, and 80 per cent
of the Jews have experimented
with drugs.
There are a growing number of
incidents of drug use in Jewish-
sponsored camps, both among
campers and counselors, and
among teens in Jewish day schools.

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