THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, July 31, 1981 Canada Reform Jewry Doubles in 10 Years Bloom qe?- gloom Registered Electrologists By BEN GALLOB (Copyright 1981. JTA, Inc.) Come in and let us remove your unwanted hair problem and improve your appear- ance. Ask For Shirtee or Debby. Appt. Only • 358-5493 11 Agile between Evergreen & Southfield In the tradition of IRVING'S FURNITURE Let me personally take care of all your needs The number of Reform Jews in Canada has doubled in the past decade but such Jews still account for only around' eight percent of Canadian Jewry, far below their United States coun- terpart, according to Maurice Miller, the new president of the Canadian Council of Liberal Congre- gations, the Canadian region of the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations. , Miller also told the Cana- dian Jewish News that Re- form affiliation by young Jews — age 16 to 30 — tri- pled in the past fouryears. He said there are now 17 Re- form congregations in Canada, representing about 6,600 families or some 23,000 Jews. In the past decade, 10 Re- form synagogues have been many young people left Quebec. He said one. of Montreal's three Reform synagogues,. Temple Beth Sholom, had to close be- cause of dwindling mem- bership. Miller said there are no Reform congregations, in the Atlantic provinces. However, the Toronto area has a Reform community of about 5,000 member families. The west Canada congregations, he said, are young and relatively small, with an average of 60 to 200 member families each, • many' of them having reset- ,5icha IRVING'S FURNITURE 3065 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD IN KEEGO HARBOR ACROSS FROM THE KEEGO THEATER • PHONE 681-3900 10 MINUTES FROM MAPLE & TELEGRAPH OPEN MONDAY. THURSDAY E. FRIDAY FROM 9:30 AM to 8:30-PM TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM CLOSED SUNDAYS JULY & AUGUST - By LORI GOODMAN Joint Distribution Committee AFULA — "Watching a kibutznik age is like look- ing through an open win- dow. His loneliness, is transparent to says" Eli Dror, director of the ESHEL Home for the Aged. "All the kibutzniks can sense his iso- lation and anxiety." In the early 1970s con- cerned members of kibut- zim and moshavim in the Jordan' Valley appealed to the government to find a place for their elderly who had no families to look after them or who were too physi- cally or psychologically ill to care for themselves. "Although the kibbutzim DIAMONDS ALL SIZES & SHAPES AT MICHIGAN'S LOWEST PRICES 4ar UM SALE - ends Aug. 8th SAVE 40-50% DIAMOND STUD EARRINGS AND PENDANTS REG. SALE $ 125 160 225 325 420 650 1,000 2,000 3,400 $ 59 89 129 199 279 389 649 1,200 1,899 NEW YORK — The American Jewish Congress has praised Representative William Lehman (D-Fla.) forleading an effort in the .06 .10 .15 .20 .25 .30 .50 1.00 $ 160 220 250 350 450 550 860 2,095 (ST) CreativeJev\elers 2'4173 Northwcstcril H ∎A ∎ . Some of the old-timers are from families who set- tled this area generations ago and literally built it up, says Dror. "About one-third came from European coun- tries occupied by the Nazis." In the two-story build- ing, four residential wings, each containing a dining room and lounge, house 80 infirm residents, 80 requiring nursing care, 20 psycho-geriatric cases, and 25 ambulatory elderly. The average age of the residents is 78. A 76-member interdiscipli- nary staff consisting of doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists and nurses look after the needs of the residents. In the future, Dror would like to expand the services of the home. "We desper- ately need an additional 30 beds for those who require more attention than the in- firm but not as much super- vision as the nursing patients," he says. In addition to its support of homes for the aged, ESHEL created and main- tains a wide variety of community services in all parts of the country to en- able the elderly to remain in their' homes and com- munities without being in-, stitutionalized. * * * 1 4Kt. Pendants bti Daily 10-6 Thurs. 10-8 and moshavim are self- contained communities, they could not provide the companionship or medical facilities needed by the aging members of their group," Dror stresses. And that, he notes is why they turned to ESHEL (Associa- tion for the Planning and Development of the Aged). In 1974, the association established a home in Afula in cooperation with the ,UJA-federation sup- porad American Jewish Joint Distribution Com- mittee (JDC) and the Is- rael Ministries of Health, Labor and Social Affairs. The home provides resi- dential, medical and re- habilitative services for 205 elderly citizens from Beit Shean, Afula, Migdal HaEmek and a dozen rural municipalities in the Jor- dan Valley and surrounding area. The 15 municipalities, representing a population of 130,000, provide supervi- sion, para-professional staff trainingsand financial sup- port to the residence. Representatives from the home, the municipalities, ESHEL, and the Ministries of Health, Labor and Social Affairs have formed an ad- missions board which re- views cases presented by local health and welfare agencies. Sc uthticid , at 12 Mile Rd.. Franklin Plaza MI 48034 $ 89 119 149 199 249 319 599 1,299 356-2525 Visa Mastercharge tied from Montreal and To- ronto. Miller also reported there is a shift to more traditional observances in some Reform congregations, attributing that development to the strong youth component of Canadian Reform Judaism. "There is a growing desire among some young people to keep some of the old tra- dition," he reported. He said that while prayer texts were standardized, each _Cana- dian congregation "can set its own guidelines on how it will conduct services." AJCongress Applauds U.S. Transfer of Funds friom UN ESHEL Home for Aged Gives Elderly Kibutzniks Special Care Tell me what you're looking for . . . the exact furni- ture, the name, the specific pieces. Let me see what I can come up with . . . and how much money I can save you. SIZE (TOTAL WT.) .06 .10 .15 .25 .33 .50 .75 1.00 1.50 started, most of them in the Toronto area. Three Reform congregations on the prairies — Winnipeg, Cal- gary and Edmonton — were established in the past two years, as was the Baycrest Terrace Temple in Toronto, made up of 60 elderly resi- dents of the Baycrest home. Miller said other Re- form synagogues less than 10 years old are lo- cated in Vancouver, Windsor, Kitchener, and other cities. He said that, as president, he hoped to visit every Canadian community where a Re- form congregation exists "to find out how each is getting along." Miller said that while On- tario and western Canada Reform Judaism has been growing, Reform member- ship in Montreal was stag- nant for several years and declined after 1976 when Dollmaking is a favorite activity for these two resi- dents of the ESHEL Home for the Aged in Afula. The finished products will be sold at an annual bazaar held at the home. House of Representatives to eliminate a grant of $500,000 to the United States Decade for Women Voluntary Fund and trans- fer the money to the State Department's Agency for International Develop- ment, where it will be used for women in developing countries. Henry Siegman, execu- tive director of the Jewish Congress, wrote to Rep. Lehman to express "deep appreciation"'of the Miami legis'lator's action: "The UN Decade for Women has been con- taminated, since 1975, by the equation of Zionism with racism. It was further compromised during the 1980 Confer- ence in Copenhagen with the unconscionable and grotesque elevation of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization. "We applaud the with- holding of funds from any program associated with the travesty that the UN decade for Women has be- come. Such action by our government is a Clear, effec- tive way to put the United Nations on notice that the American people strongly object to the exploitation of the international women's movement by the PLO and will not contenance it." Bar-Ilan Center Aids Diaspora RAMAT-GAN — Small Jewish communities in var- ious parts of the world are acquiring some of the prac- tical knowledge and dedi- cated personnel essential to their continued existence through Bar-Ilan Univer- sity's Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Educa- tion in the Diaspora. As- part of this prograni, the Lookstein Center (named after the univer- sity's late chancellor, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein) has announced an agreement with the World Sephardic. Union for Sephardic young people from abroad to be trained for future commu- nity roles through three years' study scholarship leading to degrees at Bar- Ilan. Money is the fringe bene- fit of a job you like.