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population, stating that whatever
the disputed figures might be
"there is a small but steady, sig-
nificant decline."
. The trend is significant because
"there is a difference between a
group that perceives itself as
shrinking and dying and a group
that sees itself as strong and
growing," he said.
"Jewish poverty may not be
that acute in the 1980s — it is just
something we trot out at Cam-
paign time," said Richard L.
Wexler of Chicago, quoting a
Chicago Federation volunteer.
Wexler told a crowded meeting
entitled "Jews on the Edge" that
many Jews, as well as non-Jews,
don't believe that Jewish poverty
is becoming a major problem.
Dr. Conrad Giles of Detroit
opened the session by saying that
750,000 American Jews and
thousands of Israelis are suffering
from poverty, with problems that
contribute in a mounting number
of cases to drug and child abuse.
Wexler described Chicago's ef-
forts to reach an estimated 37,000
Jewish poor. A new program of
joint services and outreach aided
an additional 8,000 persons in
Chicago in the last two years and
Chicago Federation agencies now
budget $12-14 million to aid the
poor.
Dr. Martin Greenberg, execu-
tive director of the Association of
Jewish Family and Children's
Services, told the audience more
than 50 percent of the Jewish poor
being aided by Jewish agencies
are single persons. Ten percent of
the singles are under age 30, half
are between 30 and 60, and 40
percent are over 60. Only 25 per-
cent are affiliated with a
synagogue.
Dr. Greenberg said that 54 per-
cent of the people aided had
chronic financial problems (where
their personal income could not be
increased through training or
other efforts). He said that finan-
cial problems are always accom-
panied by other problems, such as
drug abuse, depression and other
health troubles.
He said that agencies must in-
creasingly take an advocacy role
for the Jewish poor. The family
must be assisted in entering the
job market and in learning to live
with a reduced income level.
Gerald S. Ostrow of Pittsburgh,
a vice president of JWB, reported
on a survey of 65 Jewish commu-
nity centers nationwide. Ninety-
one percent reported that their
members were experiencing diffi-
culty because of the economy, and
58 percent reported a decline in
membership. Some 40 percent re-
ported a drop in programs requir-
ing additional fees.
Ostrow said that the centers re-
ported a 60-70 percent increase in
requests for reduced fees for cen-
ter memberships and summer
camp fees.
John L. Greenberg of Detroit,
president of the National Associa-
tion of Jewish Vocational Serv-
ices, stated that economic prob-
lems affecting Jews have not gone
away with the end of the national
recession. According to an
NAJVS survey in September
1983, there was an 18-percent in-
crease, or 30,000 additional re-
quests, for assistance in the prev-
ious 18 months.
He said that an April 1984 sur-
vey showed no change, in high
Jewish unemployment one year
into the national economic re-.
covery. A summer survey, yet to
be released, confirms that there
has been no improvement in
Jewish unemployment.
"A major change in the
economy has been masked by the
recession," according to Green-
berg. "That is a permanent loss of
jobs in the smokestack industries
and a permanent loss of middle
management jobs."
Greenberg warned that Jewish
unemployment is not a short-term
problem, and he called for a na-
tional "base-line" study of the
situation, continued monitoring,
a national policy committee, re-.
training programs and dissemi-
nation of existing programs.
Some delegates to the CJF Gen-
eral Assembly heard an im-
passioned Sabbath plea from
Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut of Toron-
to's Holy Blossom Temple. Speak-
ing to a huge audience in a section
of the Sheraton Centre's ballroom
after Sabbath morning services,
Rabbi Plaut spoke for 45 minutes
without notes about "Jewish Fu-
ture Shock."
Rabbi Plaut, who also serves as
president of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis, stirred
controversey within his audience
by suggesting the Jewish federa-
tions and the CJF have to broaden
their scope and aid non-Jewish
indigents and immigrants. Al-
though he admitted that current
resources are limited, he said,
"We have not yet begun to tap the
potential resources within our
community."
Detroiter Mark E. Schlussel
opened the meeting on "Jewish
Education and the Family." "Too
often, Jewish education is limited
to children between the ages of 5
and 13," he said. "Too often we are
adopting the path of the nuclear
family around us. Grandparents,
aunts and uncles no longer have
the role they once did."
Schlussel, who is president of
the Jewish Education Service of
North America, called for a
Jewish educational prbcess that
encompasses the entire family,
including those affected by di-
vorce or single parenthood.
Several panelists described how
their local Jewish federations
were implementing new pro-
grams. Hilda Hillman, president
of the Jewish Family - and _Chil-
dren's Service in Baltimore, said a
major problem is getting agencies
to work together. Schlussel
labeled the phenomenon as
"agency chauvinism."
Named to JDC post
New York (JTA) — Dr. Saul
Cohen, president of Queens Col-
lege, the largest in the City Uni-
versity system, is resigning to be-
come executive vice-president of
the American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee. (JDC)
Cohen who has headed Queens
College since 1978, will succeed
Ralph Goldman, who will retire
next March.