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Foster Project
Continued from Page 5
The Orchards can place
Jewish children on a tem-
porary basis if no Jewish
foster families are available,
but the Foster Home Project
wants to find qualified
families to avoid emergency
placement.
The project is hiring a social
worker to recruit and be in-
volved in the training of
families. Levin would like to
see the monthly meetings ex-
pand to include more Jewish
social service professionals,
Jewish organizations and out-
state Jewish groups.
Attendees at the monthly
meetings have included Rab-
bis David Nelson, Chaim
Bergstein, Elimelech
Goldberg and Richard Weiss,
representatives of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and
Jewish Family Service, and
county social service and com-
munity mental health of-
ficials Drs. Mel Kaufman and
James Rosenfeld.
Setting up a Jewish net-
work, Levin says, will prevent
Jewish kids from falling
through the cracks. Rabbi
Bergstein brought last year's
Oak Park case to the atten-
tion of Patrick Babcock, state
director of DSS, and helped
win the commitment to a
Jewish network. The
youngsters, who were being
taken to church by their
foster family, were ultimate-
ly placed with a Jewish
family.
"Placement outside the
home is usually the worst
thing that can happen to a
kid," and is usually the result
of physical or sexual abuse, or
abandonment, Levin says.
The state is trying to make
the best of a bad situation by
placing the child in foster
care, but the natural family
retains its say over the child's
religion. "A youngster in
foster care cannot be forced to
attend religious services or
practice religion," says Levin.
A network of Jewish foster
families will insure the pro-
blem does not arise again.
Dr. Rosenfeld, director of
the child and adolescent
clinic for Oakland County
Community Mental Health,
said he would like to see
Jewish children eventually
matched with Jewish foster
families of similar religious
background. But the key now
is to recruit Jewish families
for any child who needs a
Jewish foster home.
In the future, he says, the
state may be pressured to
review cases of Jewish
youngsters placed with non-
Jewish families. "As these
children get older, many will
want to know what their
background is," Dr. Rosenfeld
says. Opening the files will
take policy changes at the
highest levels.
Dems To Back Israel;
Urge Peace Accord
Washington (JTA) — The
Democratic Party platform
reaffirms support for a special
relationship with Israel and
calls for the Arab-Israel con-
flict to be solved through
negotiations based on Camp
David Accords.
The platform, adopted
Saturday in Chicago, emerg-
ed in its pre-convention form
without any mention of the
Palestinians. Yet Democratic
parties in seven states have
called for self-determination
of the Palestinian people, and
have sometimes urged the
creation of a separate Palesti-
nian state.
Though not mentioned in
the 35,000-word campaign
document, any movement for
a Palestinian state raises an
issue that could threaten the
party with emotional conflict
and could force a confronta-
tion at the convention in
Atlanta.
Supporters of Massachu-
setts Gov. Michael Dukakis,
who had a three-to-one major-
ity on the committee, easily
defeated any pro-Palestinian
Jesse Jackson:
Pro-Arab planks.
measures, as well as other
positions advocated by the
Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Jackson, who has urged his
supporters to maintain party
unity, said in a television in-
terview Monday that he had
not yet decided whether to
seek a floor fight at the
Democratic National Conven-
tion in Atlanta next month on
some of the issues he pressed