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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 9, 1976

AJCongress' Shad Polier Dies in New York at Age 70

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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Shad Polier, vice president
of the American Jewish
Congress and leading civil
rights lawyer, died at his
home June 30 at the age of
70.
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aged by his wife, Justin
Wise Polier, a former New
York City Family Court
Judge who is the daughter
of the late Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise.
At the time of his death,
Polier was also a member of
the executive committee of
the Conference on Jewish
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the executive committee of
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than 10 years of the
AJCongress Commission
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Polier helped originate
concepts of law that have
become landmarks in
American Jurisprudence.
He was a member of the
World Jewish Congress ex-
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the board of the World Con-
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LEADERS IN JEWRY: Sime of the national Jewish
organizations are finding it difficult to name a successor to
their president when the latter completes his term of office.
Leadership personalities of national repute are no longer.
easy to find. This, however, is not the case with the Counci
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
Jerold C. Hoffberger, the present CJFWF president,'
has been active for years in his own community in Balti-
more, and on the national level. Prior to his becoming
CJFWF president, he was vice president of that important
representative body. He was also national chairman of the
Institute of Jewish Life. He served as national chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal and on the board of various Jew-
ish institutions and agencies, including the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency and the Associated Jewish Charities and
Welfare Fund of Baltimore.
His dee interest in Israel is best expressed by the fact
that he was chairman of the
Israel Emergency Fund, is a
member of the board of direc-
tors of the United Israel Ap-
peal, and serves on the board
of governors of the Jewish
Agency for Israel, holding the
chairmanship of one of its
most important committees
— the Immigration and Ab-
sorption Committee.
Needless to say, he is ac-
tive also in general humani-
tarian causes, especially in
Baltimore, where he is among
other positions, a trustee of
Johns Hopkins Hospital, a
member of the board and of
JEROLD HOFFBERGER
the executive of Sinai Hospi-
tal and chairman of the distribution committee of the Com-
munity Foundation of Baltimore, where he was named
"Man of the Year" several years ago.
FOSTERING JEWISH UNITY: In the CJFWF Hoff-
berger seeks to develop new and imaginative programs to
strengthen Jewish life. He has a great sense of Jewish his-
tory, Jewish ethics, Jewish ideals and Jewish social justice.
He personifies Jewish commitment. In taking the CJFWF
to the people, he visits various communities throughout the
country and meets with local leaders. He likes to listen to
local community leaders and obtain from them first-hand
information on what the needs of their communities are. He
seeks from them guidance on how he and the CJFWF can
best represent them.
Although one of the busiest businessmen in the coun-
try — he is the chairman and chief executive officer of Car-
ling National Breweries, chairman-director of the Balti-
more Baseball Club, chairman and director of the Fairchild
Industries, and director of at least a dozen other large in-
dustrial enterprises — he nevertheless finds all the time
necessary to give to the CJFWF.
THE "PRIORITIES" ISSUE: Hoffberger is deeply
interested in studying what priorities should be established
by the Jewish federations in allocating their funds. This is a
major issue in American Jewish communal life.
Hoffberger believes that the American Jewish comm
nity must always be prepared to respond to crises when
necessary but also sees a need for the organized Jewish
communities to develop greater sensitivity to shifting and
changing priorities as well as to respond to the routine daily
problems.
Hoffberger also believes in the need for strengthening
Jewish education and culture thereby enhancing the qualit -
of Jewish life. He is also advancing a larger program of
cruitment and training of young people for careers in Jew-
ish communal institutions. The increased interest of young
people in Jewish life, and their demand, for a greater partic-
ipation in decision-making and for more involvement in
programs, is most meaningful to him: and he is now enlist-
ing the support of the communities in this vital work.
Hoffberger considers the CJFWF the repository of
American Jewish responsibility to Jews everywhere and
also a center force in giving new dimensions to Jewish com-
munal work. To him, the CJFWF is the center address of
the Jewish commuaity of America. In addition to his efforts
in all the areas of activities in which the CJFWF is engaged,
he is now raising $1,000,000 for the CJFWF Endowment
Fund. He is leading this campaign quietly with a very sub-
stantial gift of his own.