22 Friday, March 22, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS BUMPING 4- PAINT LOCAL NEWS Town Meeting Speakers Give Education Priority BY ALAN HITSKY News Editor PROMPT & EXPERIENCED SATISFACTION ASSURED insurance estimates accepted expert color match, foreign & American TOWING & RENTAL CARS AVAILABLE La Salle Body Shop Inc. 28829 Orchard Lake__Road, Farmington 48018 MAX FLEISCHER BETWEEN 12 & 13 Mile Rd. 40■1■1111., Its what you've been waiting for! professional treatment of a cut, sprain, fever, or minor injury, find out how prompt and personalized that attention can be. Treat your problem with Express Care. It's called EXPRESS CARE. And it's Providence Hospital's new concept of no more waiting for minor emergency care. Next time someone in your family needs Another healthy idea from Providence Hospital. CAR Providence Hospital 16001 W. Nine Mile P.O. Box 2043 Southfield, MI 4W37 Atone 424-3:333 !Ail( 4 p.m. to 11 p.m • Monday titre Frttlav 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. -Saturday and Sunday Use the Et»cr,,,cncy Entrance" 01985 Providence Hospital RD 553 7111 - Increased funding for Jewish education and continuity were the keynote themes of all 14 speakers who took advantage of the Jewish Welfare Federation's unique "Community Town Meeting on Budgeting Priorities" Wednesday night. Federation President Joel Tauber lauded the audience of 150 for their input before the budget- ing process begins for allocations from the 1985 Campaign. Education was the main theme of the speakers from the floor. Leonard Wanetik told the two- hour meeting at the Jewish Community Center that "by un- dercutting day school education we are undercutting our future. Tuition is now $3,000 per year. With this tuition we have excluded many. As tuition con- tinues to go up, we will exclude more." Wanetik lauded the earlier re- marks by James August, who chairs the conference of Division Chairmen for the Jewish Welfare Federation, but added that Fed- eration must increase its expendi- tures for Jewish education. His words were echoed by Barry Levine, Harry Freind, Ronnie Schreiber, Michael Maddin, Dr. Bill Beres and Dr. Dan Guyer. Levine, education director for Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, and Freind requested funding from the Allied Jewish Campaign. Freind said the 1,100 students at United Hebrew Schools are supported by $900,000 in Campaign funds, while Beth Abraham Hillel Moses and Cong. Beth Shalom "have roughly 40 percent of that enroll- ment and get nothing." Schreiber commented that educators should not have to fight over funding. He advocated "counting the number of students here, figure out how much it will take to educate them and estab- lish a system to do it." He said, "Soviet Jews risk their lives to educate their children as Jews. We must do the same." Norman Naimark made two brief statements during the meet- ing, advocating funding for a gen- eral outreach program aimed at young Jews and for increasing aliyah. Avrum Borenstein called for Federation-funded mortgage loans to stabilize the Oak Park neighborhoods. He argued that the Jewish community will have to spend $100 million if it is forced to replace all the synagogues, Jewish institutions and stores that are now located in Oak Park. Milton Marwil immediately commented that Hebrew Free Loan will provide up to $4,000 in interest-free loans for this pur- pose, "but we wouldn't mind a Federation subvention" to in- crease the size of the loans. Increased funding for the "50 percent of the 75,000 Jews in De- troit who are single" was re- quested by Jerry Stein. He said the SPACE program of the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women is mandated not to be a social organization, B'nai B'rith youth programs have little continuity into the adult programs, and the singles programs at the Jewish Community Center are under- staffed. "The need," he said, "is not $5,000 but $150,000 for coor- dinators and staff to get our sing- les together. Otherwise, we will be assimilated." Hillel Foundation programs at area colleges were endorsed by two speakers. Millie Rosenbaum, in the briefest statement of the evening, said, "The University of Michigan Hillel is doing more than ever before and needs a good allocation to keep it up." Robert Oppenheimer, outreach worker at Wayne State Hillel, said the pro- grams at Wayne, Oakland and Michigan State "are grossly un- derstaffed." He said there is a "hole in Jewish communal pro- gramming after kids reach 18." Michael Hochheiser sought funding for Parents for Torah for All Children (PTACH), which provides Jewish educational pro- gramming for mentally-impaired children. Avrum Borenstein argued for Federation-backed mortgage loans to stabilize Oak Park. "We have a $50,000 budget, but we barely make it," he told the audience. "Thank God we only have a few kids, but our expenses are high." A request for funding of the his- torical research projects of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan was made by Stan Meretsky. Michael Maddin, a Hillel Day School parent and president of the Fresh Air Society, made a strong statement on behalf of both edu- cational and camping programs. "It's no secret that the community is shrinking," he pointd out. "We can't continue to do things the way we are right now. We have to do even more." The public's comments were preceded by three ten-minute pre- sentations on funds available from the Allied Jewish Campaign and where the dollars are cur- rently spent. Federation President Joel Tauber presided as Robert Naftaly, Martin Citrin and August spoke. With less than two weeks before the conclusion of the 1985 Allied Jewish Campaign, $17.6 million has been pledged. Campaign co- chairman Naftaly said the Cam- paign will be just shy of its $22.5 million goal if the 7,000 former contributors remaining to be con- tacted give the same amounts they did last year. He added that $750,000 — half the Detroit goal— has been raised separately for Operation Moses to resettle Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Citrin, a past president of Fed- eration and immediate past president of the Council of Jewish Federations, described overseas needs, focusing on the Joint Dis- tribution Committee and the