16 Friday, July 30, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Elderly Among Hardest Hit of Jewish People
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A New York expert on
Jewish poverty has warned
that the elderly, represent-
ing the largest group among
the city's 272,000 poor Jews,
have been hardest hit by the
Reagan Administration's
cuts in funding for social
programs and that they face
even more "draconian" de-
privations in federal fiscal
years 1983 and 1984.
Rabbi David Cohen,
executive director of the
Metropolitan New York
Coordinating Council, on
Jewish Poverty, examined
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the impact of the Reagan
Administration slashes in a
recent issue of the Young Is-
rael "Viewpoint." Cohen
cited information on poor
Jews in a study by Bernard
Warach, executive director
of the Jewish Association
for Services for the Aged,
and Abraham Monk, social
work professor at Columbia
University, "The Status of
the Jewish Elderly of Grea-
ter New York and Recom-
mendations for Action,
1980."
That study estimated
that of the 1.8 million
Jews in New York City,
191,000 or 10.6 percent
were at or below the pov-
erty level. Some 81,000
were listed by Warach
and Monk as being
slightly above the pov-
erty level, for a total _of
272,000 poor Jews, or
slightly more than 15
percent of all New York
Jews.
The elderly Jews were de-
scribed as living on meager
fixed incomes, in a period of
severe inflation, "denied ac-
cess to the job market, fre-
quently isolated from
friends and family, and
often living in transitional
neighborhoods." These el-
derly Jews were estimated
as totaling 27 percent of the
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city's 272,000 poor Jews-, or
about 70,000.
The second largest group
is the recent immigrant
population, particularly
Soviet Jews, all of them
needing "a full range of ac-
culturation services," most
of it provided by Jewish so-
cial agencies with a variety
of sources of government
funding, much of it from
federal programs, now
shrinking, Cohen reported.
The third group are
within the Orthodox com-
munity, Hasidic Jews who
may be earning a middle
class salary but who must
deal with the extra costs of
kosher food and yeshiva
education for large numbers
of children, representing "a
huge and inordinate
economic demand" on an
apparently good income.
The fourth group is
made up of physically,
mentally and emotionally
handicapped Jews, who
total about 30,000, many
of them getting
Supplementary Security
Income (SSI), "indicating
the general condition of
poverty" among them,
Cohen reported.
In telephone comments to
the JTA, Cohen listed a fifth
category — single parents,
mainly women who are di-
vorced, widowed or aban-
doned who, suddenly bereft
of income, must cope with
the problems of all mothers
in raising their children. He
said the emergence of this
new category of Jewish
needy was relatively recent
and hard figures on their
numbers were uncertain
but he estimated the
number in New York City
at "several thousand."
Cohen said the single pa-
rents were being affected
painfully by the cuts in
training programs and on-
the-job subsidization of
employers under the Com-
prehensive Training and
Employment Act (CETA);
cuts in Section 8 rental sub-
sidies, in welfare and in food
stamp allocations. He said
all of the Administration's
social service cutbacks a
fected the single parer
"because they need he-. ±,
from every possible source.
He commented that where
normal families find it in-
creasingly imperative for
the mother to get outside
employment so that there
are two incomes to help
meet inflationary needs, the
single parent, particularly
women, have lost all in-
come.
He reported that
Jewish-community agen-
cies had started to make
"great strides in meeting
the needs of the Jewish
poor" as they began to
enroll them as be-
neficiaries of govern-
ment and private sector
programs "in social ser-
vice housing, employ-
ment, kosher senior and
day care centers,
neighborhood stabiliza-
tion activities" and other
programs "helping many
communities and
thousands of individuals
to survive."
He warned that the
Reagan Adminsitration's
"New Federalism" could re-
verse those gains, asserting
that "the demise of public
service employment prog-
rams, Title X employment
for older adults and reduced
funds for senior programs
and services have already
radically affected services
to the poor, including poor
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Franco-Yiddish
Dictionary Issued
PARIS (JTA) — The first
Franco-Yiddish dictionary
to be published was edited
in Paris this week.
The heavy tome, 4
pages containing 23,0L
words, has been edited by
the French Committee for
the Propagation and Survi-
val of the Yiddish Language
and Culture in France, a
non-profit organization
affiliated with teh Sorbonne
University.
The dictionary was drawn
up by a team of experts
under the direction of two
lecturers in Yiddish lan-
guage and culture at Paris
University Center for Con-
temporary Judaism, Noe
Gruss and Samuel Kerner.
The dictionary will go on
sale next month at a cost. of