88 Friday, September 21, 1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
MR. and MRS. LEON FELD & SHERRY
Boris Smolar's
of Southfield
wish their family and friends a
year of good health and happiness
Between You
. . . and Me'
MRS. MORRIS (GERRY) FELDMAN
wishes all her relatives and friends
a happy and healthy New Year
THE FRIEDMANS'
EARL, ADELE, HELENE & MIKE
wish their family and friends a
healthy, happy New Year
ADELE and HERBERT GOLDSTEIN
wish all their family and friends
a year of good health, happiness,
peace and prosperity
Happy New Year to all our
friends and relatives
THE GOLDSTEIN'S
Suzi, Shel, Kim and Kevin
Best wishes to our family and
friends for a happy,
healthy New Year
Jeanette and Wm. Simon Gottlieb
MR. AND MRS. REUVEN HERMAN
and RONNIE
wish all their family and friends
a very healthy and happy New Year
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Mr. & Mrs. Sam Tukel
wish all our Relatives
and Friends A Healthy New Year
We wish our relatives and friends
A Happy and Healthy New Year
Harvey, Brenda & Jeff Vinton
To all our Friends & Relatives
We wish you a Happy, Healthy &
Prosperous NEW YEAR
LOVE
BOBBI COHEN
JERRY CHESS
IDA DIAMOND
Wishes her Family & Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
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The MICHAEL FORDONSKI FAMILY
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
Editor-in- Chief
Emeritus, JTA
' (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
CHANGING OF THE GUARD: The changing of the
guard at the Council of Jewish Federations last week — the
retirement of Philip Bernstein as executive vice president
and the installation of Robert Hiller, leading figure in
Jewish communal work, as his successor — marks the
determination of the CJF to intensively widen the scope
and influence of the Jewish federations and their central
body.
It took more than two years to process a program to this
effect — the brainchild of Phil Bernstein. A special CJF
committee, headed by Raymond Epstein of Chicago, the
eminent community leader and former CJF president,
cleared the recommendations of the program with some
1,500 community leaders throughout the country. The car-
rying out of these recommendations — which is no small
task — will now fall on the shoulders of Bob Hiller who has
a rich record of accomplishments in Jewish community
work as executive vice president of the Associated Jewish
Charities and Welfare Fund in Baltimore, and earlier as
executive vice president of the Pittsburgh Jewish Federa-
tion.
Hiller will serve as full-time top CJF executive for two
years. Three years hereafter he will serve as part-time paid
consultant, if he so chooses. He will be assisted by Carmi
Schwartz and Darrell Friedman, associate executive vice
presidents. Charles Zibbell, the able assistant to Bernstein
for many years, will likewise serve as associate executive
vice president.
Schwartz, who has been the executive vice president of
the Jewish federation in Metropolitan New Jersey and
Newark, is expected to succeed Hiller.
CJF PRIORITIES: Hiller, Schwartz and Friedman
were selected for their CJF positions with the understand-
ing that their highest priority would be to carry out the
basic recommendations of the CJF expanded program. This
program was adopted last June at a special CJF General
Assembly in Denver — the first special assembly ever held
by the CJF in the 47 years of its existence.
The new program emphasizes that the central purpose
of the CJF is to enhance the survival and enrichment of
Jewish life. It places top priority on the CJF services to
build the strength and achievement of each community
federation. It also aims to extend cooperation among na-
tional and overseas agencies on a consensus basis. It
endorses collective actions in Washington and by federa-
tions elsewhere through the CJF, on community federation
concerns.
Priority is also being placed by the program on build-
ing of the financial resources of federations in campaigns —
with UJA-CJF partnership — in endowment funds, gov-
ernment grants and other sources. The program includes a
vast variety of other responsibilities — educational, cul-
tural, religious, economic, inter-group, family, child care,
-aged services — local, national and international.
Bernstein, who during his 35 years of service brought
great strength to the CJF and the federations, will not be
permitted to divorce himself entirely from Jewish com-
munal work of which he is today the foremost expert. He
will be drafted by the CJF for special endeavors.
AGENDA FOR U.S. JEWRY: On the eve of his re-
tirement, Bernstein — with his immense experience in
organized American Jewish community life — outlined an
"agenda" for American Jews, reflecting his thinking of the
basic obligations of American Jewry. His agenda will, I am
sure, be studied and re-studied by Jewish lay leaders, com-
munity professionals and by all those interested in the
march of Jewish life in this country.
He suggests to "radically alter" our present communal
agenda and turn from concentration on individual Jewish
families in trouble and get at the causes of divorce and of
intermarriage — and prevent them. He also advances
suggestions on how to infuse Jewish homes with beauty,
mutual respect, and unbreakable bonds that will provide
the family with the stability and values the members need
so urgently, now more than ever. He also has basic sugges-
tions on improving Jewish education.
In dealing with the present state of the synagogue,
Bernstein establishes that American Jewry has many
strong synagogues, actively involving hundreds of
thousands of Jews, but it also has far too many weak ones.
There are too many rabbis and officers of synagogues, he
says, who are deeply troubled by the erosions of their con-
gregations, not only in numbers, but in commitment. He
does not believe that these erosions are the concerns of the
synagogues alone.
Bernstein's four pillars for building such a community
are: 1. The Jewishness of the Jewish home and family; 2.
Jewish education of the highest excellence; 3. Vigorous and
vital synagogues; 4. Comprehensive, unifying and achiev-
ing Jewish community organizations.
TO OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
A Peaceful, Healthy &
Happy New Year
ZEE AND RAY BERNSTEIN
To All our Relatives and Friends
A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous
New Year
Gloria and Marvin Bookstein
Peggy and Lori
To Our Family and Friends
May happiness and joy be with
you and yours throughout the
coming year.
Harold, Trudy and Alan Feldman
A Healthy & Happy New Year
To all our. Friends and Relatives
Seymour, Sylvia, Lynn, Jim
and Mike Furman
May the New Year bring
Good Health and Happiness to
our Family and Friends
PHYLLIS & JOEL GURSTELL
Michael & Stacy
Mania of Debonaire's Hair Studio
13701 W. 11 Mile, Oak Park
wishes all her customers, family and friends a
happy, healthy New Year
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Mr. & Mrs. Miklos Foltyn
& daughter Audrey
wish a healthy & happy
New Year
to all our friends and relatives
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ABRAM & FANNIE GARDIN
and their families
wish all our family and
friends a Happy, Healthy &
Prosperous New Year
Mr. & Mrs. Leon Halpern
wishing a Happy, Healthy,
and Prosperous New Year
to all of their
Friends and Relatives
May the New Year
bring you peace
good health and happiness
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Karp
and family
,
Best wishes to our family and friends
for a year of good health,
happiness, peace and prosperity
Barbara & Iry Nusbaum
Arthur and Robby
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