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 FIRESTONE JEWELRY Wholesale Diamonds & Jewelry ' :Remounting Jewelry & Watch Repairing, SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG. 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile (313) 557-1860 ■ =11•=11M ■ ■ 11111111•11111111. Detroit Area Retail Kosher 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. 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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.