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 1132/5 ilzmn 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 nzrizn rtzle: rur25 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 41, Mr. & Mrs. Miklos Foltyn & daughter Audrey wish a healthy & happy New Year to all our friends and relatives nzrizn 7t1t0 7132)5 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 4