THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
44 Friday, August 29, 1980
22 Students End 7-Week Service to the Poor UNICEF New Year
Card from 1300s
Society for Service's (AJSS) help those less fortunate
30th summer of secular so--- than myself," Deborah
Friedman said during a
cial -work.
press conference. The high
The
returning
students,
who
paid
$450 each
to par- school senior was one of 17
ticipate in the summer pro- mainly-Jewish youth work-
gram, said they had no illu- ing with needy residents of
sions about having solved Goldsboro, N.C.
Her group worked
the major economic and so-
cial problems of our times. closely with Operation
But they expressed satisfac- Bootstrap, a veteran
1 tion in providing badly grassroots community
needed services to a small action program, repair-
number of disadvantaged ing 14 deteriorated
homes of elderly and
people.
"I was glad to be able to poor residents who were
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Twenty-two high school
students returned to New
York Tuesday after seven
weeks of renovating other
people's homes and helping
in community projects in
two southern towns as part
of the American Jewish
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Meat Dealers Assoc.
Starting Sun., Aug. 31st thru Thurs., Sept. 4th
79c lb.
TURKEY DRUMSTICKS
99. pkg.
POTATO PANCAKES
Less Than 2 Weeks to Rosh Hashana
SINGERS KOSHER MEAT MARKET
FRANKLIN KOSHER MEATS & POULTRY
13721 W. Nine Mile, Oak Park
Philip Swarin
LI 7-8111
32390 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills
855-1020 Ben Smith, Don Barder
PASADENA KOSHER MEATS
and LOUIS COHEN & SON
DEXTER DAVISON KOSHER MEATS
19835 W. 12 Mile Rd., Southfield
557-7677 Feldman Brothers
24721 Coolidge, Oak Park LI 3-8860
Allan Al Cohen, Joe Felstein, Michael Cohen
DEXTER DAVISON KOSHER MEATS
KOSHER MEAT & POULTRY
25760 Coolidge, Oak Park
LI 8-6800 Feldman Brothers
25254 Greenfield, Oak Park
967-3907 Jack Miller
COHEN & SON KOSHER MEAT MARKET
HARVARD ROW KOSHER MEATS
26035 Coolidge, Oak Park
LI 7-4121 Jack Cohen
21780 W. 11 Mile, Southfield
356-5110 John Katz
Lincoln Kosher Meat & Poultry
Unde r supervision of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis
While quanti ties last and we also reserve right to limit quantities.
968-7450 Zalman Kohen, Alex Greenberger
BRAND OPENING CELEBRATION
August 31, 1980
Detroit Area Retail Kosher
• Meat ',Wars Assoc.
.
of
LINCOLN
KOSHER MEAT & POULTRY
(Formerly Carl's)
The Greenbergers' and Kohens
invite you to join them for cake and coffee
and browse through their selection of
fine products to celebrate their
GRAND OPENING
We look forward to seeing our old friends and customers
and meeting the new ones as well.
Lincoln Kosher Meat & Poultry
26020 Greenfield Rd.
Oak Park, Mich.
(Lincoln Shopping Center
for the most part em-
ployed by the town's to-
bacco industry.
AJSS has carried out
work projects in over 20
states, aiding poor rural
blacks and whites in Maine,
Vermont and Minnesota,
impoverished migrant
workers in Texas and Ohio,
flooding victims in Connec-
ticut, and elderly citizens in
Delaware and Iowa.
Modeled after the Ameri-
can Friends Service Com-
mittee's past social action
program, the organization
was started in 1951 to give
"idealist young Jews" a
chance to carry out "service
to humanity," one of the
fundamentals of Judaism,
said Henry Kohn, chairman
and founder of AJSS.
"We're interested in giv-
ing young people the chance
to serve," Kohn added. In-
terested students are inter-
viewed by AJSS counselors
to see if they can fit into the
program, but Kohn said
nearly all who apply are ac-
cepted.
Steve Goldman's initial
reaction to the living
conditions of poor blacks
in Jeanerette, La., was
one of disbelief. The New
Jersey student said it re-
minded him of slavery,
since he witnessed the
sight of beautiful manors
, overlooking run-down
shacks occupied by
sugar cane farmworkers.
"It was amazing to see
how it still goes on,"
Goldman said of the sharp
contrast between poor
blacks and wealthy white
farm owners. "It's pretty
sad."
The 12 student workers of
Jeanerette were often
greeted with hostility and
suspicion by the residents
(which was not the case in
Goldsboro), the students
said. The political climate
in the town was tense as a
result of the radical at-
tempts of Sister Anne
Catherine, the director of
the Southern Mutual Help
Association, to improve the
living conditions of the
farmworkers.
"These poor people were
anti-government and pro-
war," said another student,
adding that the group was
instructed to do their job
quietly and then leave
whenever they met hostil-
ity. The Jeanerette group
worked with the association
in rebuilding homes, and
they also worked in a rec-
reation program for black
youths.
"We've served every poor
group in America," regard-
less of race or religion,
commented Kohn. And for
the students involved, he
said, "it has been a life-
shaping experience."
NEW YORK — This
year's Rosh Hashana card
from UNICEF is a gold
menora reproduced from a
14th Century Sephardic
manuscript by coutresy of
the National Library of Por-
tugal in Lisbon where the
illuminated book is now
preserved.
.
To give everything to
religion is not piety but
folly: it impoverishes a man
so that he must come to de-
pend on charity. We need
show no compassion for
such a man, for he belongs
to those described by the
sages as "pious fools who de-
stroy the world."
— Maimonides
UNICEF card
Carrying a traditional
New Year's message in both
English and Hebrew, the
cards are available in pac-
kets of 10 with gold-foil
lined envelopes.
This multi-national offer-
ing symbolizes the basic pol-
icy of the United Nations
Children's Fund, a non-
political humanitarian
organization which consid-
ers all children deserving of
aid without discrimination
on the grounds of race, sex,
creed, nationality or politi-
cal belief. Because of this,
UNICEF has always been
able to provide humanita-
rian aid to victims on "both
sides" of conflicts in the
Middle East, East Africa,
Indochina and other areas
of military or political tur-
moil.
Helping to spread thi
philosophy is one c
responsibilities of th_ 43-
national UNICEF com-
mittees in North
America, Europe, Asia,
the Middle East, Au-
stralia and New Zealand,
which also raise funds tki
supplement the volun-
tary government contri-
butions to UNICEF.
On her visit to the United
States earlier this summer,
Israel's First Lady Ophira
Navon, who serves as hon--
orary chairperson of the Is-
raeli committee, met with-
UNICEF- Executive Direc-
tor James P. Grant, U.S.
Committee President C.
Lloyd Bailey and other-
leaders of both the chil-
dren's fund and the Ameri- -
can national committee.
At an informal luncheori
meeting, they discussed
UNICEF's child care pro-
grams around the world and
the common interests of the `\
U.S. and Israeli commit-
tees.
The UNICEF Rosh:
Hashana cards may be or-
dered by mail from the U.S.
Committee for UNICEF,
331 East 38 St., New York,
N.Y. 10016. There is an
extra charge for personal
imprints.
Shown at a UNICEF meeting are, from left, Israel
Ambassador to the United Nations Yehuda Blum; U.S
UNICEF Committee President C. Lloyd Bailey;
Ophira Navon, wife of the president of Israel; UN-
ICEF Executive Director James Grant; and Norma
Levitt, U.S. UNICEF vice chairman.
A Prize-Winning
e k
This ceramic jar for ceremonial washing of the
hands was created by a student of the Bezale
Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.