THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, May 20, 1983
CJF Studying Mobile Jewish Families
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Editor-in-chief emeritus, JTA)
(Copyrigh• 1983, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK — Jews in
the United States are today
highly mobile. This high
mobility disrupts ties with
members of the family who
remain in the original
community, It also affects
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Jewish community de-
velopment in all its aspects.
Many of the Jews who set-
tle as newcomers are not in
a hurry to be identified.
They don't renew their con-
tributions to Jewish fund-
raising campaigns; they
abstain from being affil-
iated with synagogues, al-
though they were members
of synagogues in their old
place of residence; they are
not sending their children
to the Jewish schools in the
new community; they evade
activity in Jewish com-
munal life in which they
were involved before.
The Council of Jewish
Federations is now initiat-
ing action to deal with this
problem. It has appointed a
committee to deal with de-
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mographic issues and their
implications for campaigns
The Jewish Vocational
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Service and Community
The committee has Workshop is taking applica-
prepared two pilot proj- tions for its displaced
ects. They aim at develop- homemaker program for in-
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
about mobile Jews — a
kind of "bookkeeping" population of Tel Aviv. is
on Jews moving from one getting older and poorer,
community to another. marrying less, having fewer
The communities from •children, - and divorcing
where families and indi- more frequently, according
viduals have moved, or to the Central Bureau of
Statistics.
are in the process of mov
The total population of
ing, will inform the coin- .
Tel
Aviv was 329,500 at the
munities where the
mobile Jews take up new end of 1981, a drop of 1.6
residence with a view to percent from 1980. An
contact them there for exodus to the suburbs has
been going on for about a
communal affiliation.
The CJF looks upon the decade, and Tel Aviv now
minimization of an indi- contains only 8.3 percent of
vidual's Jewish identity-and Israel's total population,
the losing of his affiliation compared with 11.6 percent
and contributions as a loss in 1972.
Tel Aviv families are also
not only to the particular
less
affluent than their
Jewish community but to
all of American Jewry, and counterparts in Haifa and
as weakening the entire Jerusalem.
Other symptoms of eco-
American Jewish commu-
nity. It will, therefore, nomic malaise were a
marked decrease in build-
recommend to all federa
tions to consider the con- ing starts over the past five
certed and continuous years and a 15 percent de-
inter-community approach cline in the number of retail
to the demographic changes businesses operating in the
as one of the highest city. Wholesalers, banks
priorities on their agenda. A and insurance companies,
code of ethical conduct will however, are growing in
be developed by the CJF — number.
which will be adhered to by
all federations — concern-
ing the mobility of Jews
through joint community
NEW YORK — Walter
action to identify them and Wisniewski and Jack Re-
involve them.
dden, who covered the mas-
The second pilot project sacre in Beirut last Sep-
deals with those who have tember for United Press In-
ternational (UPI), have
made "a partial move."
Some partial movers been named winners of the
argue that they still con- Hal Boyle Award for best
sider themselves members daily newspaper or wire
of their old community and service reporting from
therefore claim that they do abroad by the Overseas
not have to be affiliated Press Club.
Newsweek magazine and
with community life in the
new community. They CBS News were also cited
claim that they are still for Middle East coverage.
making contributions to
their old community and
feel that they have no obli-
gation in their new place of
residence.
The problem of "Jews on
the move" and the challenge
that this problem presents
was discussed at the CJF
General Assembly last No-
vember and is on the agenda
of the quarterly CJF board
meeting which will take
place in New York at the
end of this ,summer, In the
meantime, Carmi
Schwartz, CJF. executive
vice president, is engaged in
moving ahead the two pilot
projects..
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