42 Friday, June 6, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JPS Chief Jerome Shestack to Address
AJCommittee Dinner Honoring the Berrys
Jerome J. Shestack, inter-
national attorney and Phila-
delphia civic leader, will
address a dinner honoring
communal leaders Louis
and Harold Berry 6:30 p.m.
Thursday at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, sponsored by the
Detroit Chapter of the
American Jewish Commit-
tee.
Father and son, the Ber-
rys will be honored "for
their leadership and gener-
osity, Jewish communal en-
deavors and philanthropy."
Shestack is a member of
the board of governors of
the AJCommittee and chair-
man of its committee on in-
ternational organizations.
Currently serving his
third term as president of
the Jewish Publication
Society of America, Shes-
tack was an initiator and
major participant in the
development of two semi-
nars for lawyers on the
legal and political prob-
Hyman
Bookbinder,
Washington representative
of the AJCommittee, ana-
lyzed the impact of the eco-
nomic crisis on the Jewish
community in a speech pre-
pared for delivery this week-
end at the 77th annual
meeting of the National
Conference of Jewish Com-
munal Service at Grossin-
ger's Hotel in New York.
Bookbinder stated in
part:
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The most critical items
on American Jewry's
agenda have been signifi-
cantly and even ominously
affected by the economic
crisis. As individual
Americans, Jews are, of
course, not immune from
the effects of inflation and
recession.
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He is a member of the
boards of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary, Hebrew
University, Gratz College
and the Federation of Jew-
ish Agencies of Philadel-
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For reservations to the
dinner, call the AJCommit-
tee, 965-3353. The public is
invited.
AJCommittee's Bookbinder
Analyzes Effect of Economy
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How much are individual
Jews hurting? There are
countervailing factors at
work. Because Jews gener-
ally are better educated and
better employed, with in-
comes and resources above
the general average, it is
tempting to assume that
Jews are better able than
non-Jews to cope with infla-
tion and to avoid unemploy-
ment. For many this is quite
true. But the geography and
demography of American
Jewry point to special prob-
lems.
Some examples:
• A third of all Ameri-
can Jews live in New York
City with its 11.5 percent
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soaring welfare burden, its
shrinking tax basis, its vir-
tual bankruptcy at a time
when social services require
more rather than less fund-
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sizeable Jewish popillation
have similar problems.
• There are, proportion-
ately, significantly more
aged among the Jews than
in the country generally. (14
percent compared to 10 per-
cent). With their meager
incomes and resources,
older people are hurt more
by any given level of infla-
tion than younger people.
• The recession has hit
particularly some of the
principal occupations and
businesses in which Jews
are disproportionately
represented: education
and other public employ-
ment areas; social serv-
ices; garment and retail-
ing trades; construction
and housing; investments
and insurance.
• This year's college
graduates face one of the
bleakest outlooks in many
years. Jews are substan-
tially "over-represented" in
college graduating classes
and will thus be dispropor-
tionately hurt by the bleak
prospects. With post-gradu-
ate work becoming a must
in one area after another,
and with costs skyrocketing,
many Jewish graduates
may have to forego graduate
work and ,find their future
prospects even grimmer.
• Thousands of social
and anti-war activists of the
last decade are now trying
to "re-enter" the social and
economic mainstream. Jew-
ish youth were heavily rep-
resented in this "anti" gen-
eration — and many of
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As a Jewish community,
moreover, we have become
acutely conscious of the
impact that the economic
crisis has had on the ability
of the community to meet
its social goals — both those
considered "Jewish" and
those thought of as "univ-
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Federation-United Jew-
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affected. Contributions
this year continue to re-
flect great commitment
and sacrifice. But a signif-
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of realistic goals set last-
year — to say nothing of
the tremendous needs in
Israel and in Jewish com-
munities generally — is
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