THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, July 10, 1970
Ilerbert Salmis n Heads JFCS;Serviee to Needy, Aged Related
Herbert P. Sillman was elected tract on non-economic items and
president of the board of directors a two-year agreement on eco-
of Jewish Family and Children's nomic items. The board of dir-
Service at the meeting of the ectors ratified the proposed
board July 1. lie succeeds Arnold agreement with the union.
In his annual agency report,
Faudman, who has been president
Samuel Lerner, director, noted an
for the past two years.
Other officers elected w e r e increase in the number of families
Joseph Garson and Mrs. Joseph served in 1969. There were 2,285
Jackier. vice presidents, and families or individuals who were
Bruce E. Thal, treasurer. Elected seen, for a total of 14.127 in-person
to the executive committee, in interviews, plus 17,870 telephone
addition to the officers, were Mrs. contacts.
The agency provided home-
Jack Baroff, Mrs. Hugh Green-
berg, Mrs. Charles Lakoff and makers to 23 families with chil-
William M. Wetsman. Faudman dren and 22 aged families. In 1969,
also became a member of the ex- a total of 3.926 days' care was pro-
ecutive committee. vided by 18 full-time and parttime
Sillman a certified public ac- homemakers. Homemaker services
countant, is past president and provided for the family with chil-
current vice president of the Oak dren, where the mother is ill, out
Park school board. He has also of the home, or needs special care;
been past president and vice presi- or for the aged adult—or couple—
dent of the Oakland County Inter- living alone, who is unable to
mediate-Board of Education. He is maintain a household without out-
the first vice chairman of the side help.
In addition to homemaker ser-
Southeastern Michigan Council of
Governments and a member of the vices, during 1969 the agency pro-
executive and education commit- vided counseling to 284 aged
tees. He is also on the committee couples and individuals who were
of one hundred of the Metropoli- troubled by loneliness, boredom,
tan Fund. isolation from family, poor housing
Sillman has been chairman of or ill health. The agency has re-
the professional division of the located 35 families who were for-
Allied Jewish Campaign and is merely lived in the Dexter area,
currently pre-campaign chairman to new, better housing, as part of
of the division. the agency's special housing re-
At the board meeting Sillman location project. The project was
reported on the completeion of formerly funded by the Jewish
negotiations for a contract with Community Foundation and now
Local 1640 of Council 77, Ameri- is funded by proceeds from the
can Federation of State, County Allied Jewish Campaign. Joseph
and Municipal Employees Union Garson is chairman of the housing
AFL CIO. He indicated that a relocation committee of the board.
tentative agreement has been
The agency also has served
worked out for a three-year con-
more than 200 aged in nursing
-
Honoring an Editor
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1970, JTA. Inc.)
Detroit Jewry has been paying
tribute to the editor of The Detroit
Jewish News, Philip Slomovitz, by
establishing a forest in Israel in
his and his good wife's name.
Slomovitz is one of the talents of
the profession. He is the kind of
writer, who, you could wake up at
two in the morning and ask to
write a two column article about
the League of Nations—and he
would be able to do it. No matter
what the subject, it would be a
readable article.
Probably, if he had been in
Israel, they would have elected
him mayor like Gershon Agron,
editor of the Jerusalem Post, who
was elected mayor of Jerusalem.
But maybe a forest in Israel is
better than being a mayor.
Thomas Jefferson was always a
man who was strong for freedom
in everything, but one time he
said, "1 wish I were a despot."
The time he said that was when
he saw someone cutting down a
tree. That is the point of view
in Israel too. Trees are very
precious Things.
Editors usually are not much re-
warded. Horace Greeley was prob-
ably the most famous American
editor. The pen is mightier than
the sword, they say, but when
Greeley ran against Grant, the
soldier, Grant, won.
Somehow editors give a wrong
impression. One time, a mission-
ary asked Greeley to make a con-
tribution to missionary work in
order, he said, "to save people
from going to hell."
"There aren't half enough people
going to hell now'," replied Gree-
ley. Actually Greeley was always
working for humanitarian causes.
He was one of the chief advocates
of the cooperative communities, a
kind of American kibbutz, which
had a bit of a vogue in his day.
He was against slavery, but he
was also at least in the beginning
against the Civil War and after the
Civil War, he went on the bail of
Jefferson Davis. He was usually
on the unpopular side.
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an
American Jewish newspaperman
a little earlier than Greeley. Noah
could remember, as a little boy,
seeing Ben Franklin. President
Quincy Adams thought Noah the
ablest newspaperman in America
of his day. Noah too aspired to
political office, but got little. He
was consul of Tunis, but was re-
called. Later, he was sheriff of
New York, but here too, he got
little nachass. A yellow fever
epidemic broke out in New York
and the crowded quarters of the
New York jail threatened to bring
down all the inmates with the
dreaded "yellow jacket." So what
was Noah to do? A Jew can have
money or he can have no money,
but one thing a Jew has to have
is rahmonis. Without rahmonis you
are not a Jew So Noah called
the prisoners of the jail together,
and opened the doors and said to
the prisoners, "I am closing my
eyes, so if you leave now like
gentlemen, I won't see you leav-
ing." So they left.
Noah was criticized for it, but
it was a brave and fine act. In
those days, a great many of the
inmates of jails were there for non-
payment of debts. Today, they
don't send you to jail for that.
Later Noah sponsored the ill-
fated Ararat project around Buf-
falo as a haven for the oppressed
homes, through the nursing
home volunteer project, with the
the help of over 75 devoted vol-
unteers.
Rabbi Leonard Cahan was chair-
man of the nursing home volun-
teer project during the past year.
He was especially honored by Ar-
nold Faudman, past president of
Jewish Family and Children's
Service, at a tea to honor the
volunteers.
Rabbi Cahan, associate rabbi of
Adas Shalom Synagogue, will be
leaving Detroit for a position in
Oakland, Calif. He will be honored
in a synagogue farewell reception
July 20.
Lerner reported there were 52
children in placement in the agen-
cy in 1969, of whom 12 children
were in residential treatment
facilities, such as Bellefaire in
Cleveland and the Orchards in
Livonia.
Thirty adoptive homes were un-
der supervision, and there were
eight new adoptive placements
during 1969.
Also at the board meeting, Mrs.
Ben Schottenfels reported on the
agency's concern for disturbed
and alienated adolescent youth.
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Jews of the world. Noah has
been called the first American
Zionist.
The story of American Zionism
is little known. Charles Thompson,
the secretary of the Continental
Congress said that the real story
of the American Revolution would
never be known. Probably the
full story of American Zionism
too will remain an untold story.
Perusing a work dealing with
President Shazar of Israel, we
learned that one time on a visit
to America, he met with Victor
Berger in Milwaukee, then a lead-
ing figure in American Socialism
and Shazar induced in the latter
a change of mind about Zionism.
If the untold Story of American
Zionism were told, Editor Slom-
ovitz would have no inconsiderable
part. Come to think of it, he would
be just the right man to write
the history of American Zionism.
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