THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 5, 1982 1

South Miami Beach Elderly Are Shut-In,
Trapped by Fear of Crime and Decay

Conservative Rabbi Stresses Mother's
Welfare in Making Abotion Decision -

NEW YORK — The
plight of South Beach, an
area of Miami Beach where
the population has been
mostly Jewish, elderly and
poor since the late 1940's,

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Conservative rabbi who has
testified on the abortion
issue as an expert on Jewish
religious law says the fact
that the abortion question
remains unresolved "is as it
should be" because "the is-
sues are elusive and com-
plex and neither side should
claim exclusive wisdom or
morality."
According to Halakha,
Rabbi David Feldman de-
clares, abortion is not tech-
nically murder but he also
holds that abortion does
constitute the taking of a
potential life and accord-
ingly is not warranted ex-
cept in grave situations.
Rabbi Feldman made his

was the topic of a feature ar-

ticle last month in the New
York Times.
The recent rise in the
Miami crime rate left per-
manent scars in South Be-
ach-, an area of 1.74 square
miles, extending from 21st
St. to the south end of the
beach. Problems connected
with crime and an urban
renewal effort that has been
in a 10-year state of limbo
have combined to devastate
the neighborhood, accord-
ing to the Times.
The south part of Miami
Beach was the first part de-
veloped and was originally
envisioned as a restricted
resort area. A hurricane, a
terrible real estate market
and the Great Depression
forced developers to change
course. By 1947, the area
was half Jewish, most of the
population consisting of
refugees from Europe and
Russia.

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The 1970 census listed
the South Beach popula-
tion at 42,000, noting that
nearly 30,000 residents
were Jewish. In South
Beach today, according
to the Times, there are
15,000 elderly Jews, 6,000
refugees from the Cuban
boatlifts of 1980 and
13,000 refugees from sev-
eral countries in Latin
America.

While statistics show that
the crime rate is actually
down this year, fear keeps
the elderly inside. Many
residents are choosing to
live as shut-ins, a problem
being faced more often by
Miami's various social
agencies.
With buildings being
razed for redevelopment,
but no new buildings under
construction, rents in the
area are low, and con-
sequently, attractive to the
elderly often living on fixed
incomes. The feeling among
city officials seems to be
that the old people will
eventually die off and there
will be redevelopment, the
Times reported. "It's the
kind of thing you look back
on after nine years and say,
how could that have been
allowed to happen," Miami
Beach city manager Robert
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comments in connection
with his appointment as
chairman of the Committee
on Medical Ethics of the
Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New
York. He has served on the
committee for nine years,
most recently as its co-
chairman.

"The fetus does not
have the 'right to life'; it
has the right to be born,
but that right is relative
and is secondary to the
absolute right of the
mother to her life, to her
health and to her essen-
tial welfare," he de-
clared. Rabbi Feldman is
the author of "Marital
Relations, Birth Control

and Abortion."

He contends, "the thrust
of Jewish legal and moral
provisions is that among the
conflicting interests of say
mother, father and fetus,
the interests and welfare of
the mother are primary."
Feldman also said, ac-
cording to Jewish law as in-
terpreted by the committee,
the living will, a document a
person signs in advance
asking that no "heroic
means" he used to keep him
alive, is contrary to
Halakha.

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TEL AVIV (JNI) — The
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chestra (IPO) had a three
day special concert tour of
Spain in October, highligh-
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The Spanish newspaper
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Barcelona International
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