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Communal Spirit: A Pledge for Renewal, Reinforcement
Communal Spirit:
-A Pledge for Renewal and Reinforcement
By MANDELL L. BERMAN
President, Jewish Welfare Federation
This season of Rosh Has- ments and our lack of them.
hana is the traditional time We find, in the gratifications
to review our past year's ac- of the past year's service and
tivities — our accomplish- in our yet-unfulfilled ambi-
tions, incentive to pledge our-
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MANDELL L. BERMAN
are reminded of our own ori-
gins. We identify with their
difficult lingual, cultural and
economic adjustments, and
are glad that Federation's co-
operative structure gives
them support during this dif-
ficult transition.
and with groups of senior
citizens.
We expect that, in its re-
port to the division, the sub-
committee will give direction
to the long-range planning of
services which will be needed
by this increasingly large
segment of our population.
It sometimes seems a slow,
careful, and deliberate plan-
ning process, this Federation
examination of current ser-
vices, future needs. and soc-
iological and demographic
trends. But as proven by the
special poverty allocations
made to JFCS this spring,
Federation showed that it can
also act quickly when urgent
community needs so require.
Detroit's response to the
infamous attack upon Israel
on last Yom Kippur was a
proud example of the quick
action possible to us in time
of emergency. Within a short
time, our community trans-
mitted millions of dollars to
sustain Israel's humanitarian
services, which themselves
parallel those of Federation
agencies within our own
neighborhoods. A special
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During this past year, too,
our Health and Welfare Bud-
get and Planning Division
worked with citizens con-
cerned with the needs of im-
poverished Jews and with the
Jewish Family and Children's
Service, the agency which
gives service to the needy.
The result of that study de-
termining the extent of that
need, (a study which investi-
gated in great detail 200
case histories), was an addi-
tional allocation of Federa-
tion monies for immediate
use in direct financial aid
through the Jewish Family
and Children's Service.
While Federation agencies
supplied the mechanisms to
care for immediate needs and
on-going p r o g r am s, the
Health and Welfare Division's
specially-appointed Subcom-
mittees on Aging was meet-
ing with those agencies which
give service to elderly to as-
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sess current programs and 28—Friday, Sept. 13, 1974
services, The Jewish Home
for Aged, Federation Apart-
ments, the Jewish Center,
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ty Workshop are addressing
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themselves to this problem
along with professionals in
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gerontology and geriatrics,
selves to a greater effort in
the year ahead.
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Our desire to improve the
Oak Park Center
quality of Jewish life is the
corner post of our work. With
that same goal as the basis
for their early endeavors, our
predecessors in the organ-
ized Jewish community began
communal efforts to help in
did needy almost 75 years
ago, just before the turn of
the century, with the found-
ing of United Jewish Chari-
ties in 1899.
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community to the forefront of
organized American Jewish
community life. We have only
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to look around our city to see
the happy results of their
planning.
The major factor in these
communal achievements is
what we have come to call
the "Federation idea" — a
combination of response to
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ing the communal body uni-
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fied. Only a -central organi-
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zation such as ours and over
200 such others around the
country can make the most
efficient and effective use of
community monies and re-
sources in service and agency
programs.
During the past year, we
have once again confirmed
the vitality and viability of
that Federation idea. The as-
similation of citizens new to
Detroit, the Soviet Jews who
are making our community
their home, is a prime ex-
ample of the Federation idea
in operation. Our agencies
provide these new members
of our community with oppor-
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