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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.