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LOCAL NEWS

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10 Friday, November 21, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Emery Klein and Graham Landau accept a check for the Cohn
Fund from Sadie Cohn, Judge Avern Cohn and Rita Haddow.

Hebrew Free Loan
Establishes Cohn Fund

The Hebrew Free Loan
Association has received a
gift of $25,000 to establish
the Irwin Cohn Family Fund.
The gift was made in his
memory by Mr. Cohn's wife
Sadie and children Avern and
Joyce Cohn and Rita and
John Haddow.
As lenders of last resort,
the Hebrew Free Loan Asso-
ciation makes many loans to
families and individuals who
otherwise would be disqual-
ified from conventional modes
of credit_. The Cohn Fund will
enable HFLA to grant loans
to people with special circum-
stances where they could not
meet HFLA guidelines.
In accepting the gift, HFLA
President Emery I. Klein
paid tribute to Irwin Cohn,
who served on the board and
as a benefactor of the agency.
"The oldest members of the
board remember his vitality,
his devotion to our cause and
the compassion he displayed
for his less fortunate fellow
Jews in our community," said
Klein.
When Mr. Cohn died two
years ago this month, Judge
Cohn recalled of his father
that "No one who ever came
to him for assistance was
ever turned away." Besides
his involvement with Hebrew
Free Loan, he was chairman
of the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation's Allied Jewish Cam-
paign in 1960 and a recipient
of Federation's Fred M. But-
zel Memorial Award for
community service in 1961.
He also was active in many
other JWF agencies and tra-
ditional causes, especially the -
Lubavitch Foundation of
Michigan.
The Hebrew Free Loan
Association, organized in
1895, is the oldest agency
under the aegis. of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and re-
ceives funds from the Allied
Jewish Campaign. Its philos-
ophy is based on the Torah
prohibition against exacting
interest from the needy, and
it acts as a safety net for
those who have no one else to
rescue them from economic
difficulty.

HFLA makes from 15 to 25
loans per month, with the
average loan around $1,000.
Usually, applicants face un-
foreseen problems such as
temporary unemployment.
The association also grants
free loans to single parents,
widows, students needing
funds to complete their
schooling and those who need
capital to help start a small
business. Many Russian im-
migrants were enabled to get
their start here with loans
which they have since repaid.
Among their needs were im-
mediate medical or housing
expenses, and even bar
mitzvah and wedding costs.
Confidential interviews are
conducted on Sundays by
teams of HFLA volunteers,
who act quickly on applica-
tions. Only a few questions
are asked, and funds are
usually disbursed within a
week after the applicant's
interview.

HFLA Appoints
Ruth Marcus

Ruth M. Marcus has been
appointed executive director
of the Hebrew Free Loan
Association of Detroit.
Mrs. Marcus, who has been
with the HFLA four years,
previously served as director
of the Detroit Zionist Federa-
tion, as business manager of
Habonim Camp Tavor and as
a teacher in the Akiva Day
School enrichment series.
Since Mrs. Marcus came to
Detroit eight years ago with
her husband David and three
children, she has been active
in the Jewish community on
a volunteer level. She is a
member of the board of direc-
tors of Congregation B'nai
Moshe and a member of
Hadassah and the Woman's
Auxiliary of United Hebrew
Schools. She has held numer-
ous offices in her synagogue
sisterhood, including the
presidency, and is now a vice
president of Michigan Branch
and a national board member
of Women's' League for Con-'-,
servative Judaism.

