THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 8, 1979 29 An Open Letter To Detroit Jewry • American Jewry is being challenged today, more than ever, to retain its Jewish identity. We believe Yeshiva University is unique in its proven ability to develop resources to answer this challenge. We want to tell you about some of them. ► Intermarriage, a 45% drop in Jewish School enrollment, the increasing appathy of the Jewish family, are eroding the quality of Jewish life. Yeshiva University has produced 14,000 alumnai, living viable Jewish lives, and actively part of their Jewish communities. Jewish schools need skilled teachers and administrators. Yeshiva Uni- versity continues to produce more American Jewish educators than any source outside of Israel. Informal. Jewish education is now accepted as a necessary tool to de- velop Jewishly aware youth. In 25 years, Yeshiva University's encampment programs from California to Australia and study-tours to Israel have reached 23,000 alienated young Jews. Jewihly sensitive staff are a must for our community agencies. Yeshiva University has America's only school of so _ cial work which includes the study of Jewish issues as an integral part of its curriculum. It's 2500 graduates now work in Federations and other Jewish agencies throughout North America. With extensive undergraduate and graduate programs in Law, Ac- counting, Psychology, Medicine, Jewish Studies, and more: With pioneering research in geriatrics, mental retardation, cancer, diabetieS, and other sci- entific and social science diciplines: Yeshiva University is American Jew- ry's proud contribution to western life. As you know, Irwin and Sadie Cohn will receive Yeshiva University's Heritage Award at a dinner at Congregation Shaarey Zedek on the evening of Wednesday, June 13. We hope you will join us in honoring them and Yeshiva University. DR. LEON FILL General Chairman - MANDELL-L. BERMAN ALAN E. SCHWARTZ Dinner Chairman Honorary Chairman CO-CHAIRMEN: Norman Allan, Louis Berry, A. Howard Bloch, Avern Cohn, William Davidson, Henry Dorfman, Sam Hechtman, Justice Charles Levin, Mark Schlussel, Robert Steinberg, Freida Stollman, Max Stollman and Philip Stollman. The Detroit Friends of Yeshiva University 2310 Cass Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 962-4272