Record-Breaking Campaign Anticipated as Workers
Get Into Action for Allied Drive Opener on April 1
In an effort to have a record-
breaking report on the official
opening of the 1971 Allied Jewish
Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund
next Thursday, volunteer workers
are attempting to reach every
prospect assigned to them.
Martin Agronsky, internationally-
known television commentator,
will be the speaker at the opening
dinner. A reception at 6:15 p.m.
will preceed the dinner, at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
The campaign leadership is an-
ticipating a report which will ex-
ceed anything that Detroit has
done in the past and is indicative
of the inspiring giving during the
pre-campaign period and a re-
sponse to the very real crisis in
Israel.
The campaign cabinet will
Vandals Burn
NY Synagogue
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worshipers who come to the syna-
gogue from low-income housing
projects flanking it, are feeble and
partially handicaped persons who
would be forced to worship in
their own homes until the syna-
gogue's interior was repaired. The
nearest synagogue which t h e
younger congregants would attend,
he explained, is six blocks away,
a walk the could not sus-
stain.
Noting that the latest vandal.
ism was the ninth he personally
had reported to police in the
last two years. Goldman also
disclosed that two other syna-
gogues in the Lower East Side
had been ransacked the same
evening that fire partially de-
stroyed his congregation's struc-
ture. Only minor damage was
inflicted on the others, he re-
ported.
Goldman said the worshipers
of Cong. Beth Haknesses had
struggled for 18 years to maintain
mortgage payments and prevent
_,-the synagogue from being fore-
- closed. On Feb. 4, he said, mort-
age burning ceremonies had been
held in the synagogue, presided
over by its spiritual leader, Rabbi
Morris . Shisgal, and attended by
Mayor John Lindsay and Harav
Moshe Feinstein, father-in-law of
Rabbi Shisgal. "That was a joyous
day," he said bitterly.
He described the reactions of
the congregants to the news of the
fire as that of disbelief. "The rabbi
was just dumbfounded. When he
heard he couldn't speak for a few
moments," he said. "One of the
elderly congregants who is par-
tially crippled called me at my
home and cried, asking what he
was to do now, as the synagogue
had been practically a home to
him."
Goldman disclosed that the po-
lice had found no clues to the
identity of the vandals. In re-
sponse to the increased attacks
on synagogues in the area, he said,
police were increasing the number
of cars patrolling the streets, but
were otherwise "helpless." "They
told me that the best thing would
be to station a man in each syna-
gogue," he revealed. "But they
also added that they just don't
have the manpower."
-
meet at 10 a.m. Sunday at the
Jewish Center to • review pro-
gress and make final plans for
the general solicitation period
of the campaign, Meyer M.
Fishman and Max M. Shaye,
chairmen, announced.
"Social welfare budgets? Frozen.
The allowances of $10 each per
month to unemployable persons
and of $32 per month for the eld-
erly not eligible for social security,
are locked at that below-subsist-
ence level.
"Health budgets? Frozen. Where-
as the practical optimum of hos-
pital occupancy is 85 per cent,
the corridors and wards bulge
with a 13 per cent occupancy in
general hospitals, 117 per cent in
mental hospitals. If the 1,200 new
beds needed annually could be-
come reality, no money is avail-
able to operate them.
The crisis is formidable.
"CRISIS YISRAEL! A crisis to
which we must respond by sus-
pending some of our own personal
desires — by being courageous
enough to freeze some things in
our way of life.
"Whatever pledge we make to
the 1971 Allied Jewish Campaign-
Israel Emergency Fund will not
equal the sacrifices the people
of Israel are making daily. So
we must make our pledge the
greatest we possibly can.
"The final staggering blow is
that, today, 94 per cent of Israel's
tax revenue is devoured by de-
fense needs. Only 6 per cent is
left for housing, health, education
and other welfare needs.
"Today, one out of every four
Jewish families live' in slum con-
ditions. But even among families
living in recently-built public hous-
ing, one out of every three - must
live two -or more persons to a
single room. One out of every 10
families live three or more to a
During the five weeks of the
official campaign, which closes
May 5, it is hoped that every po-
tential contributor will be reached
by a personal solicitor.
"We are appealing to every Jew
in the Detroit area. The responsi-
bility of helping Israel in its crisis
as well as the needy at home lies
with you," the chairmen said.
"The survival of Israel rests on
the shoulders of everyone. Make
it your responsibility. Only you
can do your part in bearing the
burden of 'Crisis Yisrael," they
pointed out.
The educational services section
of the campaign will hold its an-
nual brunch meeting, 12:30 p.m.
Sunday to hear Irving Tukel, Mid-
eastern affairs analyst. The meet-
ing will be at Stouffers in the
Northland Shopping Center. Dr.
George Barahal is chairman.
In an analysis of existing needs,
Fishman and Shaye issued this
statement:
"Today, 94 per cent of Israel's
taxes are swallowed up by mili-
tary demands. With only 6 per cent
left for all Israeli health, educa-
tion and welfare needs, those
services have had to be frozen at,
or even lowered from, 1967 levels
— and these were not adequate
even then.
"Housing budgets? Frozen. Only
housing for immigrants is even
considered. As for that 25 per room.
cent of the population living in
"Under such conditions, health
substandard and slum housing,
suffers. School progress suffers.
those- -young couples desperate for
Personality and personal rela-
apartments in public housing, and
tionships suffer.
soldiers returning from military
service . . . they wait.
"Education budgets? Frozen.
More than 6,000 qualified youth
had to be told this year that there
was no room for them in the uni-
versities. Over 12,000 children des-
My kids give me orders and
perately in need of pre-kinder-
my mother-in-law gives me
garten training to close the "cul-
orders. For the best • in ad-
ture gap" could not get it, and
now may never catch up. One-
vertising why don't you give
third of all primary school chil-
me your order? Call •
dren needing the extra classes of
Murry Koblin Adv..-
the "long school day" program in
5 4 8 - 5 6 0 0
order to reach their age/grade
levels were denied. them.
My
Wife Gives
, Me Orders!
"There are 6,500 young couples
waiting for public housing today.
Every month, 200-300 more get in
line behind them. And every month
that line is lengthened by young
men and women returning from
military service. They move into
the homes of their parents, crowd-
ing already overcrowded dwellings
even more . . . and they wait.
ture. For Israel will never aban-
don her open immigration policy;
and every new baby, increases the
pressure for housing.
"CRISIS YISRAEL! We must
not abandon Israel while the grind-
ing demands of defense deny her
fulfillment of the most elementary
needs. Your pledge to the 1971
Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel
"The problem can only grow Emergency Fund must be much
more acute in the foreseeable fu- larger than last year's."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 26, 1971-5
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