•

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Fob. 2, 1973—I5

Goren Wants State
to Provide Free
Religious Services

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Chief
Rabbi Shlomo Goren urged
the government to provide
religious services free of
charge to Israeli citizens.
Addressing the Managers
Club here, the Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi said he thought
such services as marriage,
burial and kashrut should be
provided by the state, al-
though not divorce which in-
volves expenses on both
sides.
According to Rabbi Goren,
the free services would im-
prove the Image of religion
in all matters connected with
public life.
Rabbi Goren alai., said he
planned to raise the "Who is
a Jew?" question with the
political parties with a view
to amending Israel's Law of
Return so as to stipulate that
conversions to Judaism must
be made in accordance with
Halakha — religious law. He
said he would ask the vari-
ous factions to waive party
discipline and permit a free
vote on this matter.
Rabbi Goren revealed that
shortly after the Six-Day War
be commissioned a team of
engineers to survey the Tem-
ple Blount area, the site of
the ancient Temple. He said
be hoped the findings would
be published shortly.
Contrary to the generally
accepted halakhic view, Rab-
bi Goren maintains that Jews
may walk on certain areas of
the Temple Mount. The area
contains two major Islamic
shrines, the El Aksa Mosque
and the Dome of the Rock
(Mosque of Omar).
Jewish worship there has
been prohibited by Israeli au-
thorities.

o

The time has come .. .

The time has come to move towards action in support of maximum

Jewish Education in our community.

The time has come for the Jewish Welfare Federation to phase out its

endless surveys and face up to its obligations to
DETROIT'S HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS.

The time has come for the Federation's leadership to stop their attempts

to sidestep and ignore the Association of Hebrew
Day Schools in Metropolitan Detroit which speaks
for our Day Schools.

The time has come for the Detroit Jewish Community to recognize that

our on-going series of communications to this com-
munity are an expression of frustration, the exaspera-
tion and the pain caused the Day Schools of Detroit
by the failure of Federation to come forward with
meaningful financial support.

The time has come for spokesmen of Federation to stop the pretense that

their proposals requiring the disolution of the second-
ary departments of our three independent schools-
Akiva, Beth " Yehuda and Hillel—while completely
ignoring the elementary grades have any validity,
merit, or in any way contribute to the support of

these schools.

Widows Share
Social Security Hikes

Most —but not all— aged
widows and dependent
widowers will get increased
payments from social secur-
ity starting next month, ac-
cording to Sam F. Test,
social security district mana-
ger of the Detroit-Northwest
Office.
Under the new social se-
curity law, increases will go
to 89 per cent of the
3,500,000 widows who get
monthly payments based on
their late husbands' social
security records, according
to Test. "About 2 out of 5
widows will get 21.2 per cent
more than they were get-
ting," he said. "About half
will get increases ranging
from about 1 per cent to 21
per cent.
The 21.2 per cent increase
will be paid to women who
started getting widows bene-
fits at 65 or later. "They are
women whose deceased hus-
band did not take retirement
benefits until age 65 or over
or had died before becoming
entitled to retirement bene-
fits," Test said. Previously,
a widow's benefit could be
no more than 82 1/2 per cent
of the amount that would
have been payable to her
husband at age 65."
Smaller increases will be
paid to widows who first got
checks before 65.
Widows who get no in-
crease under the new law
will be mostly sole survivors
whose husbands would have
qualified for minimum re-
tirement ba. papp.,
•

•

) 1.4,'•

4,

The time has come to recognize that we, the officers, directors, parents

and supporters of the schools joined in association,
have made repeated efforts as an Association to
meet, negotiate and reach an understanding with
the Federation Leadership.

The time has come for justice, for equity, for support of maximum

Jewish education as provided to almost 1,100 children
in Akiva, Beth Yehuda and Hillel Day Sfhools.

The time has come for the Federation Leadership to demonstrate the

same magnanimity, generosity and breath of spirit
towards the Day Schools, our tool of survival HERE,
that they have so nobly demonstrated on the National
and International stage.

Association of Hebrew Day Schools

Third of a series of communication, to the Detroit Jewish
Community

•

• ••

o V to? 1,4

