THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10 Friday, March 14, 1980
Essay Predicts Drop in Jewish Gifts to Charities
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NEW YORK — Jewish
charitable contributions in
the United States are likely
to decline in the years
ahead, with serious conse-
quences both to Jewish
health and welfare agencies
in this country and to social
services in Israel.
These conclusions were
reached by Prof. Steven
Martin Cohen, of Queens
College, in a feature article
in the 1980 American
Jewish Year Book. The new
edition, Volume 80 in the
annual series, has just been
published.
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Year Book, the authoritat-
ive record of events and
trends in Jewish life, is pub-
lished jointly by theAmeri-
can Jewish Committee and
the Jewish Publication
Society of America. Its
editors are Milton Himmel-
farb and David Singer. Mor-
ris Fine is editor emeritus.
In his article, "Trends
in Jewish Philanthropy,"
Prof. Cohen traces the
consistent increase in
annual campaigns in
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Another reason for pes-
simism, he adds, is that
"younger Jews have been
shifting away from those oc-
cupations that have been
characteristic for federation
stalwarts; they are entering
the salaried professions
rather than becoming inde-
pendent entrepreneurs.
"The resulting shifts in
type of work (from business
to professions) and sources
of income (from self-
employed to salaried) mean
that younger Jews will less
often enter the pool of
potential multimil-
lionaires, that group which
has most generously sup-
ported federation drives- in
the past. The shift in source
of income also means that a
smaller fraction of total
family income (even if it
remains at a high level) will
be of the disposable
variety."
A third reason, the
author continues, is the
increase in "alternative"
Jewish households: sing-
les, childless couples, and
divorced or separated
individuals. Since Jewish
communal participation
may -be heightened by
marriage and is almost
certainly increased by
the presence of children
in the home, then the re-
duction of the proportion
of conventional Jewish
households means that
"Jewish giving will even-
tually suffer."
To cope with these nega-
tive factors, Prof. Cohen
suggests that Jewish feder-
ations, in their own self-
local Jewish com-
munities in the U.S. from
the mid-1960s to the mid
1970s. In 1975, he reports,
this trend was reversed
and the total amount
raised nationwide
plummeted by $185 mil-
lion from 1974. Since that
time, he continues, the
amount raised has re-
mained fairly constant,
notwithstanding the
eroded value of the dollar
due to inflation.
Prof. Cohen maintains
that one of the main reasons
for a pessimistic outlook for
Jewish philanthropy is the
lesser attachment to the
Jewish community by to-
day's younger Jews, as dis-
tinguished from their elders
when they were young.
Present-day younger Jews,
he reports, are generation-
ally removed from the im-
migrant heritage and, "like
members of other ethnic
groups, less frequently
undertake expressions of
religious or ethnic attach-
ment such as Jewish charit-
able giving."
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ensity to give, i.e., conven-
tional households.
Professor Cohen suggests
also that because of the
changing Jewish occupa-
tional picture, fund-raising
efforts should be shifted
from being constructed
around business circles to a
concentration on the profes-
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community, or they may
choose to focus fund-raising
efforts on those families
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tourism to Israel increased
by 14 percent during
January 1980, following the
record for the year set in
1979 when 300,000 U.S.
tourists visited the country.
During January tourism
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