112 Friday, September 21, 1979 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Readying Community for Active 5740 Federation Dedicated to Services in All Areas, Support for Israel and Aid for Russian Jews By GEORGE ZELTZER Among the special efforts expanded on their behalf were the enlarged budgets and addition of staff to Reset- tion and its agencies take additional strides in serving If any quality explains the strength of the Jewish increasing numbers of elderly persons in our tlement Service and Jewish Vocational Service, the in- the People, it is optimism. community. crease in personnel (largely volunteer) to the Jewish Com- Throughout centuries of oppression, the Jew always Hopes are high for an October occupancy date for the munity Center's English language program and a line of has found the courage to look to the future and then, going second Prentis Tower at Jewish Federation Apartments. credit made available by United Jewish Charities to He- One better, to work toward that future. Motorists driving by the site on 10 Mile near Greenfield brew Free Loan for its assistance to newcomers. Nowhere is that faith and commitment seen more have observed with interest the progress on the handsome We must not overlook the very active and even crucial new building el°Q'.1 v than in the observance of the High Holy Days. of 100 units. roles played by Sinai Hospital and Fresh Air Society in the i ltever the past year has been, we anticipate a better At the same time, the adjacent Jewish Commta total process of resettlement and acculturation. Their role We reflect, and we plan. Center is undergoing an expansion and facelift with an eye here is another illustration of a greater involvement within Looking back upon a year of communal to serving a larger clintele. The extensive Jewish commu- the entire Jewish community by the Federation family of ndeavor, I am reminded of that Jewish characteris- nity in the area, and especially the many senior citizens agencies. '-- .c. We can well be proud of our achievements and, who nearby or are bused to the Center, will benefit In return, we are beneficiaries. Among them- from live - es, of our ability to learn from our experience in the new facilities and enhanced programming. selves, the Russians already began to solicit contribu- :onfronting challenge. I am most pleased that here, and in several other in- tions for the Allied Jewish Campaign, realizing as Certainly, when we speak of challenge, we must give stances (notably the dredging of the major lake at Camp they did so that the services at their disposal could not ziority to the resettlement ofJews from the Soviet Union. Tamarack-Ortonville and the initiation of a Jewish Voca- have been possible without the Campaign. At this time last year, we committed Detroit to stretch tional Service satellite workshop in Oak Park), we have In that respect, they are like our parents' generation .Ur . resources in accepting 500 Russian Jews as part of a been fortunate in enlisting the cooperation of the United who have given so much to our community. noon-wide effort: The task is far from over. We know that our challenge Foundation. Its assistance with our capital requirements Reflecting on our own be- in the coming year will be even greater, with the expected has made a major difference this year in our agencies' ginnings as an immigrant reunification locally of additional hundreds of Soviet Jews. ability to move ahead and complete important projects. community, we accepted Continuing growth in the level of allocations by Our responsibility will be, first, to provide for their vital our responsibility. We needs and, then, to reach out and draw them into our United Community Services to those agencies we didn't know for certain if Jewish civic life. jointly fund is another key factor which enhances they would come and, if they Thus, we respond to shifting needs in the tradition of a their capability for improving needed programs and did, whether we could do an vital, strong community. As our population has changed reaching out to more families and individuals. adequate job of absorption over the years, so have our structures and programs. In Oak Park, the nutrition program conducted at the on such a large scale. The completion of Detroit's year-long Jewish civic center continues with great success the kosher meals But, a year later, I can Education Study, with its important recom- report the actual arrival mendations for our educational institutions, was one subsidized by Federation. In less than a year, 10,000 kosher of 500 men, women and of those achievements which will require further luncheons have been served. Yet another service for senior adults, the day program children — perhaps more creativity and perseverance to implement. at the Jewish Home for Aged, has proved to be very much in by the end of this month. Thee is a recognition that experimentation will be demand among those who live independently but ap- Except for a few still com- necessary as we involve more synagogue and day schools f A, ing from Poland and and other agencies in our planning with the communal preciate interesting activities, hot meals and warm com- panionship, with shuttle service available. Some 50 per- Romania, the majority system of past decades, the United Hebrew Schools. sons took part in the program last year. GEORGE ZELTZER are from the largest cities Federation now has the task to define and delineate That senior citizens also have much to give to the in the USSR: Kiev, the all-important guidelines and standards governing community is demonstrated by their involvement in the na, Moscow, Leningrad. these new relationships and linkages between formal and Senior Service Corps, organized by the Jewish Vocational It has not been easy, for them or for us. There are too informal programs in Jewish education and culture. Service. In the past 12 months, 51 of these volunteers gave —many variables — housing, language, job, social adjust- Movement will be gradual, but it is assured. Now, more of their time and skills to Federation member agencies, ment, children's education. Nevertheless, the success ::stories are.nurneroUs, thanks to the desire and dedication of than ever, we are aware of the importance of a strong thus relieving staff for other duties. educational and cultural experience to the future of Jewish our Federation resettlement agencies, community organ- . We remained sensitive to other needs. The recent life. We must be up to that challenge. , izations, lay and professional leaders, many other indi- opening of the JVS satellite workshop in Oak Park, Just as the education study evidenced our con- viduals and, of course, the immigrants themselves. cern for Jewish youth and teen-agers, so did Federa- mentioned earlier, and the construction of day camp facilities at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield point to the recognized necessity for bringing a geographically dispersed community into the Federation family. By MOSHE RON Rosenzweig. The couple circle and a circle visiting The Jewish News Special from Tira and others. Exciting new pilot projects also were approved and will emigrated to Israel in 1964. Jewish and Arab villages. Israel Correspondent The municipality of be tested this year. Separate Jewish Community Founda- TEL. AVIV -- Dr. Rachel - Rachel studied the Old Union organizes summer Herzliya has organized a tion grants will help fund independent-living apartment -0:4,weig was born a Testament and Jewish camps for Jewish and Arab joint summer camp with programs for the elderly and for retarded persons, and will hristian and her studies at the Hebrew Uni- youths. It will hold a 12-day the Arab municipalities make possible the identification of the Jewish needs of ista Gut. To- versity in Jerusalem and course for 40 Jewish and of Baka el Garabiya and mentally handicapped individuals living in the inner city. -- ?rganiza- earned her PhD. She is the Arab teachers, instructors Tira with the aid of the Funds for these demonstrations come from United and social workers on the Israeli Education Minis- Jewish Charities, Federation's senior agency, which this ■ 1 wants mother of three children. problems of Jewish-Arab try. During the summer year will complete its eighth decade of service to the Jewish era t i n e ke eo I She has published works co-existence. Sy. gi? ct krabs • months 450 Arab and 500 community. of her father-in-law, has It is appropriate that during this anniversary year we A number of Jewish and Jewish children were in 'Protes- taught Hebrew to new im- wx..alQgy in Germany migrants, as well as the Old Arab professors will lecture this camp. Every morn- will be placing special emphasis on the UJC Endowment d became acquainted Testament and Jewish his- on political and scientific ing they are taken to it by Program. Already, Charities holds some 300 endowment the Old Testament. tory. She lectures in a semi- problems, among them Dr. buses and stay in the funds, the newest established only last month at the inau- gural meeting of the Holocaust Memorial Center Capital her professors was nary preparing teachers for Yigal Ilam, lecturer on camp until afternoon. and Endowment Fund. Zionist history at Tel Aviv inhold Mayer, a primary schools. The managers and in- The Holocaust Memorial Center, whose idea origi- University, Dr. Sarni ran who tried to to anti-Semitic ten- She, together with Jeraissi from Nazareth, structors in the camp are nated with Shaarit Haplaytah, local survivors of the Nazi Arab teacher Nimer Mayid Elhagi from Shafr Jews and Arabs. The rela- period, will be constructed as a wing of the Jewish Commu- in Christianity. Assmir from Haifa, heads Amr, Dr. Mussa Kreini tions between Jewish and nity Center at Maple and Drake. Its importance to lur thider his influence the Union. This organiza- from Yassif, Dr. Alex Arab children are very community — and to the general public — cannot hj hrista started to take an good. In the day rooms we emphasized. Zakhor — remember — is a watchword ot ,,ar rest in the Jewish tion tries to decrease the Netzer from Raanana, found drawings and writ- involvement in this undertaking. antagonism between Yehiel Keller and Hava pil e and the _state of Is- Perhaps zakhor is at the root of much that we do. On ings of the children about 1.: She read the works of Jews and Arabs in Israel. Katz from Tel Aviv, Prof. peace between the two the national and international front, as well as at home, we '-:Jewish philosopher It holds meetings be- Benjamin Yanuv from peoples. respond to challenges with the special memory that only riz Rosenzweig. Later tween different circles of Herzliya, Edna Zarizki from our special people could have. the two peoples. Haifa, Dan Baron from Re- married his son, the During a festive celebra- , Ever sensitive to our government's foreign policy vivim, Peter Elias Shakur tion in the camp, attended ,2economist Raffael There is a united youth from Iblin, Rushdi Fadila by the mayors of Herzli- shifts, our community relations agencies and the Jewish Community Council play a continuing role in ya and the Arab villages, expressing and protecting our vital concerns with re- Jewish children demon- spect to issues of peace in the Middle East and the strated the Shabat rituals security of Israel. and Arab children those of We are committed to the success of Project Renewal in the Ramadan feast. The Israel, just as we are committed to the renewal of life for our Jewish and Arab mayors kissed and blessed the chil- brethren from the Soviet Union, to the remnant Jewish dren. This seems to be the communities of Eastern Europe and North Africa and to renewal of purpose on behalf of our youth and our aged, our best way to pave a bridge of troubled and our handicapped. peaceful co-existence and In the coming year, we will live up to those promises friendship between Jews too, for such is the nature of this Jewish community of and Arabs in Israel. Detroit. Our optimism will not fail us. President, Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit 1. Friendship for Jews, Arabs Cemented by Convert '