THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

By BORIS SMOLAR

and
York,
Chicago
Philadelphia, the move was
an innovation of great im-
portance. It provided for the
first time relaxation and
fresh air for children of
hard-working Jewish
families, combined with an
atmosphere of Jewish cul-
ture and education in green
summer places away from
hot and noisy cities.
At that time, it was a dar-
ing experiment to take chil-
dren away from several
weeks from their parents,
most of whom were working
long hours in dirty sweat-
shops without ventilation,
lived in poor tenement
houses, and had to seek a
breath of fresh air in the
evenings on the roofs of the
dilapidated buildings where

(Editor-in-chief emeritus, JTA)
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)

NEW YORK — Some 60
years ago, when the Work-
men's Circle established the
first residential summer
camps for pupils of its Yid-
dish school systems in New

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they lived. There was no
air-conditioning in those
years. Nor were there re-
frigerators. Milk and other
foodstuffs were kept in
primitive ice boxes, with ice
delivered by an iceman.
With the march of time,
summer camps idea in a
Jewish atmosphere grew
with every year. Today,
there are close to 200 resi-
dent camps for Jewish chil-
dren of school age. More
than 70 of them are under
the auspices of Jewish
community centers, YM-
YWHAs, Jewish federa-
tions and other communal
institutions affiliated with
the JWB. Approximately 90
other camps are under the
auspices of various other
Jewish groups and institu-
tions — the three Jewish
religious branches, philan-
thropic organizations, edu-
cational institutions, and
ideological movements.
There are also individual
congregations that main-
tain summer camps for
children of their members.
It is estimated conser-
vatively that today there
are about 90,000 children
spending their summers
in residential Jewish
camps, most of which
have two camp periods a
summer. This is in addi-
tion to about 95,000 chil-
dren attending Jewish
center day camps. The
average cost of maintain-
ing a child two weeks in a
summer camp is around
$300 a week.
Because of economic con-
ditions, there has been a
downward trend during re-
cent years in the registra-
tion of children in camps as
compared with the early
1970s. This decline has
halted in a significant
number of communities.
Registration has gone up,
but reports from some camp
executives indicate that
theN is still a substantial
number of parents sending
their children to camps who
are asking for financial as-
sistance. This is especially
the case with middle class
families with more than one
child going to camp. Parents
whose income is from
salaries alone are finding it
difficult to meet camp fees
and other expenses relating
to sending their children to
camp.
There is an ever-
increasing number of chil-
dren from single-parent
families both in resident
and day camps. A survey by
the Jewish Welfare Board
has established that chil-
dren from single-parent
families now constitute the
largest group among new
campers. Ten years ago,
children from single-parent
families constituted only 10
percent of the camper popu-
lation. Today they consti-
tute about 40 percent in the
resident camps, and in the
day camps the percentage is
even higher.

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Preparations for UN-Hosted
Palestine Meeting a 'Failure'

GENEVA (JTA) — West-
ern diplomats have marked
as a "complete failure" the
European Regional Pre-
paratory meeting for the
United Nations sponsored
conference on Palestine to
be held here at the end of
August.
Even UN officials agreed
that the meeting, which just

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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Jewish retarded adoles-
cents and adults are being
helped to develop a sense of
self-worth and accomplish-
ment in a program created
to enable them to function
as full members of the
Jewish community, accord-
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closed, did not hold good
omens for the conference.
Most major West European
countries did not attend the
preparatory meeting and
none would provide a
chairman, an office that
eventually went to Malta.
The conference adopted a
number of resolutions
upholding the rights of the
Palestinians, "The need to
stop Israeli occupation" and
"the need to ensure Palesti-
nian prisoners in Israel
POW status."
The conference also
endorsed the claim that the
"PLO is the only represen-
tative of the Palestinians."

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