Kosher Food for Elderly Funded at JCC Morris Branch c Dr. Conrad L. Giles, chairman of the Jewish Welfare Federation's Task Force on Community-Based Services for the Non-Institutionalized Elderly, has announced that the Jewish community has received signific- ant funding from the Area Agency on Aging 1-B for the 1983-1984 fiscal year. A kosher nutrition program will begin Monday at the Jewish Com- munity Center-Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch in Oak Park. It will provide 80 lunches a day, Monday through Friday, for Jewish persons age 60 and over. Donations for the lunches are accepted, but not required, and all funds -are returned to the program to provide more meals. The meal program at the Jewish Community Center represents the cooperation between public and private sectors in Oak Park, according to Mayor Charlotte Rothstein. "The availability of kosher meals at the Jewish Community Center 3 Noteworthy .National-Scale Anniversaries: Youth Aliya, Bnai Brith and Brandeis U. will supplement the current meal program at the Oak Park Community Center," she said. "It will also create an opportunity to more appropriately serve a segment of the elderly Jewish community in settings which offer the option of individual choice." The Area Agency on Aging 1-B, under the direction of Sandra Re- rninga, is charged with the responsibility of allocating Federal monies received from the Older Americans Act; and State appropriated funds received from the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging to a six-county area. The Oakland-Livingston Human Services Agency is the contractor for the Area Agency on Aging 1-B nutrition program. Other Federation programs which won funding from the Area Agency on Aging are a grant to the Jewish Family Service which will provide additional homemaker and social work staff to work with aged clients, and a program developer and outreach worker (Continued on Page 8) DR. CONRAD GILES An Appeal to the Youth Not to Separate from the Community THE JEWISH NEWS of Jewish Events A Weekly Review Editorial, Page 4 Commentary, Page 2 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIV, No. 7 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue. 40c October 14, 1983 Econoy Hits New Coalition, May Cause a Cabinet Shuffle ministers who approved it have had second thoughts. According to the plan, the bank shares backed by the government would revert to the value they had on Oct. 6, before the latest series of devaluations of the shekel. They would be linked to the U.S. dollar and investors who hold them for five years could redeem them at the Oct. .6 price plus three percent annual interest. Economists warned Wednesday that this would mean the payment of 140 billion shekels ($1.7 billion) to holders of bank shares, with serious effects on the wildly-inflationary economy. Demands that the plan be canceled or modified were heard at a stormy session of the Knesset Finance Committee on Wednesday and prospects that it will be approved by the Knesset-seem dim. The bank shares collapsed because holders were cashing them in a pell-mell rush to buy dollars and other foreign currencies when sharp devaluation of the shekel appeared imminent. Trading in bank shares was immediately suspended. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange remained Senator Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) will be the keynote closed Wednesday for the fourth speaker when the United Jewish Appeal East Central- consecutive day. Exchange Midwest Leadership Conference meets in Southfield next sources indicated that trading will weekend at the Michigan Inn. not be resumed before next week, More than 400 Jewish communal by which time, it is hoped, the leaders from the 11-state region will issue of bank shares will have meet at the Michigan Inn, Oct. 21-23. been settled, one way or the other. They will discuss challenges facing the American Jewish community, Meanwhile, Tuesday's panic Israel/Diaspora relations and the buying abated. Householders who plight of Jews in distressed areas. jammed markets to fill their lar- A regional Women's Division ders before the 50 percent price $5,000 champagne/tea reception is set hikes decreed by the government for Oct. 21 at the home of Carolyn JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Shamir's two-day old coalition Cabinet was embroiled in an internal dispute Wednesday over the wisdom of its earlier decision to shore up sagging commercial bank shares in order to protect tens of thousands of investors who stand to lose heavily after the value of the shares collapsed over the weekend. The decision was taken despite strenuous opposition by Finance Minister Yoram Aridor in the early hours of Tuesday morning,who, rumors said, might be replaced by former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. The ministers were fatigued after an all-night marathon session dealing with the economic crisis. They yielded- to the arguments of Agudat Israel MK Avraham Shap- iro, chairman of the Bank of Israel's advisory board, who, in a dramatic 4 a.m. appearance, insisted that government intervention was in the na- tional interest. But leading economists within and outside the Treasury are now warning that the measure wilkdefeat attempts to deal with the economic crisis and many Weicker Here for UJA . (Continued on Page 5) ewish Book Month October 30-November 30,1983 4,...140 Jewish Btx31,4 C C.A3 IS East 26th Street New Vol*, NY I 0010 wirittim anoi *Itammiti4 bts Blar/iteJ. poWt.ht>4 tss, the frte3s3a PutskOaxa Sf44-4.0. Passroc. SEN. WEICKER (Continued on Page 11) Jewish Panorama at Book Fair The 32nd annual Jewish Book Fair, in which the Jewish Community Center, as its major sponsor, enrolls three score of cooperating organizations, will be an occasion for historical review of Jewish experiences, on the current as well as global and traditional bases. 'Every aspect of Jewish history will be covered by the 24 eminent authors of current best sellers who will appear on the programs commencing with the opening night, Nov. 12, and continuing through Nov. 20. Rita Rochlen and- Delores Silverstein have been an- nounced as this year's over-all chairmen of the Jewish Book Fair and its administering committee representing the many participating organizations. Detroit's Jewish Book Fair is believed to be the largest of its kind in the country. All types of Judaic books are displayed and sold, including children's novels, travel, art, music, history and philosophy, in hard and soft cover. (Continued on Page 8) Delores Silverstein, Rita Rochlen