THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, March 19, 1982
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for Recognition of MDA
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Operation Recognition, a
group seeking to get the In-
ternational Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) to rec-
ognize the Magen David
Adorn, Israel's emergency
medical service, will open
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Rabbi Rubin Dobin, of
Miami Beach, chairman of
Operation Recognition, said
that this decision was made
after he met here last week
with Jacques Mureillon, the
ICRC's director of principle
and law in Geneva.
Mureillon told Dobin that
at the ICRC's 24th interna-
tional conference in Manila
last November, the dele-
gates voted 50-44 with five
abstentions against con=
tinuing a working commit-
tee that was dealing with
the problem of the Red
Cross emblem.
The Israeli group has not
been admitted to the inter-
national group on the
grounds that the ICRC rec-
ognizes only the Red Cross,"
and the Red Crescent of the
Moslem countries.
San Francisco
to Build Statue
for Holocaust
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
— San Francisco has been
added to the list of cities
with Holocaust memorials
on public property. The
planned $750,000 memorial
will be financed by public
contributions.
The San Francisco Recre-
ation and Parks Commis-
sion has approved a site in
front of the Palace of Honor
in Lincoln Park, which
overlooks the Golden Gate
Bridge.
Rhoda Goldman, chair-
man of the project, said the
memorial monument will
be in the form of a sculpture.
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COMMUNITY CURRENTS: Competition between
Jewish institutions engaged in taking care of the aged and
those engaged in child care is expected in requests for
allocations from the Jewish federations. This is anticipated
as d result of the reduction of federal aid for social needs and
the projected transfer of federal funds for such needs to
individual states. It will be "the aged" versus "the young'
in seeking priorities in the budgets of the federations, ex-
perts visualize.
Both categories of aid deal with helping the neediest
elements — elderly Jews in poverty and children of needy
Jewish families. They will become more dependent on
community assistance. But no community can provide
fully the needs of the poor without government help.
There is general agreement that the number of poor
Jews today lies somewhere between a minimum of 400,000
and a figure perhaps twice that. Most of the Jews who live
in poverty are over 65 years of age. Elderly Jews constitute
today about 18 percent of the entire Jewish population.
Their percentage is higher than among the general popula-
tion; and it increases from year to year. The larger their
number grows, the larger the number of neediest cases
among them.
CHILD CARE PROBLEMS: The situation in the
field ofJewish child care is similar to that of the care for the
aged,
The total number ofJewish children is decreasing due
to the decline in. the Jewish birthrate, but the number of
children in need of communal care is increasing. This is
especially the case with children of separated parents when
mothers must go to work; disturbed children in the larger
cities; children in day-care, which is the second largest
service; foster family care; and service to children in their
own homes.
Free lunches for children in the Jewish day schools
may be cut, and government aid to feeding children in
summer camps may be abandoned. The Child Nutrition
Program will be drastically reduced by Washington. Simi-
larly, the system of food stamps, which is of great impor-
tance for children, may be modified. It hardly needs saying
that finances will be the great problem for Jewish institu-
tions involved in child care.
JEWISH COMMUNITY BONDS: A suggestion was
made at a Jewish meeting of experts in New York — at
which themew perspectives of financing Jewish social work
were discussed — that the Jewish communities explore
experimentally the issuance of long-term, low-interest
Jewish bonds to be repaid over a period of 30 years.
The suggestion sounds unrealistic. However -the or-
ganized American Jewish community has a long and proud
record of creating emergency funds for the assistance of
needy Jews. One of the great achievements of the Jewish
federations in recent years was the creation of an endow-
ment fund to meet urgent needs and special projects, out-
side of the regular federation budgets.
West Bank Tension Rises
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Tension heightened on the
West Bank over the
weekend after Israel
cracked down on the pro-
Palestine Liberation -Or-
ganization National Gui-
dance Committee and shots
were fired last Friday night
at the home of a leader of the
Village Leagues, a group of
moderate Palestinians who
cooperate with the Israeli
authorities.
Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon's order last week
outlawing the National
Guidance Committee —
which has in face been inac-
tive for the past 18 months
— was seen as a warning to
Jordan to stop interfering in
West Bank affairs.
The Jordanian govern-
ment announced officially
last week that Village
Leagues leaders who did not
cease their collaboration
with the Israelis within one
month would be tried for
treason in absentia and exe-
cuted.
Most of the incumbent
West Bank mayors are
either PLO members or
sympathizers who boycott
the civil administration.
The committee's larger
forum consists of 24 mem-
bers representing local
municipalities, vocational
organizations, welfare and
charitable groups, student
bodies and the Moslem re-
ligious establishment.
Meanwhile, unrest
tinued on the West Bank. ri
tourist bus carrying Ameri-
can pilgrims was stoned
near Ramallah. Two of the
Americans were injured. A
melee erupted in Hebron
where several score suppor-
ters of Israel's Peace Now
movement demonstrated in
sympathy with two local
Arab families who said they
were being harassed by
Jewish settlers in town.
Friendship, love, and pi-
ety, ought to be handled
with a sort of mysterious
secrecy.