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Should The Community
Help The Homeless?
LISA POWERS
Special to The Jewish News
A
nn Arbor — Some
3,500 Washtenaw
County residents are
reported homeless by the
Shelter Association of Ann
Arbor. The association
believes this figure is one
third of the actual number of
persons who are in need of a
permanent place to live.
While individual Jews
assist local homeless shelter
programs and soup kitchens,
the homelessness issue is not
a high priority of the organiz-
ed Jewish community.
"The Jewish community is
one that looks inward and
passionately takes care of its
own," said Earl Jordan, ex-
ecutive director of the local
Jewish Community
Association-United Jewish
Appeal. "The issue of
homelessness hasn't emerged
as something which demands
the JCA-UJA's time and at-
tention."
Jordan added that the
organization's resources are
limited. For this reason there
are many important issues
that have, until now, gone
wanting. "It's certainly not
that we're insensitive!' he
said.
Not everyone agrees with
Jordan's analysis.
"That attitude is symp-
tomatic of the way the Jewish
community relates to doing
work for the rest of the com-
munity," said Mike Appel
who, with his wife Ruth
Kraut, spends 10 hours a
week volunteering for com-
munity groups, including
those that deal with
homelessness.
"The community doesn't
consider helping the general
community a part of being
Jewish. They see themselves
as having a 'Jewish life' and
`another life, " Appel said.
"I have been disappointed
that the Jewish community
has not shown any leadership
on the issue of homelessness!'
Kraut said.
She said that once a month,
Beth Israel Congregation and
New Jewish Agenda, to which
she and Appel belong, provide
volunteers for the Hunger
Coalition's free meal service.
"That's good, but I was
disappointed when an
ecumenical effort to set up a
winter shelter program end-
ed up with no local
synagogues being involved.
Beth Israel was asked to par-
ticipate, but they put off their
decision for so long that I
.
guess a de facto decision was
made (not to participate)."
A Beth Israel spokesman
could not be reached for
comment.
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
each have one shelter for the
homeless. In the winter
shelter program, volunteer
organizations each host the
homeless for a night. The
Shelter Association provides
bedding and transportation
for people who cannot be ac-
commodated at the regular
shelters.
- Rabbi Robert Levy of Tem-
ple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor's
other Jewish congregation,
said temple members agreed
to participate in the program,
"but by then all the necessary
slots were full. They had more
offers than were actually
needed!'
Rabbi Levy said that over
time, the organized Jewish
community is becoming in-
"This year has
shown important .
progress."
creasingly amenable to social
activism. "This year has
shown important progress,"
he said.
One example is Beth Israel
and New Jewish Agenda's
volunteer commitment to the
Hunger Coalition, which pro-
vides a free meal for 70-90
people once a week.
On the fourth Monday of
each month, members of the
two organizations get
together to cook, serve and
clean up after the meal at the
First Congregational Church
on State Street.
One recent Monday, three
women from Beth Israel and
another lady who "just likes
to help out where I can,"
spent the afternoon cooking
stew over an ancient cast-iron
stove.
They said they enjoy
volunteering, as much for the
satisfaction of helping others
as for the pleasure of con-
veresation when they get
together.
_ Enid Galler, a Beth Israel
member, has volunteered for
the Hunger Coalition for
about three years. While she
acknowledges that the
homeless problem is over-
whelming, she doesn't know
how beneficial it would be to'
get the organized Jewish com-
munity to become involved.
"I'm not sure it would help
if temples became more in-
volved, but I can see how in-
dividuals can accomplish a
lot," she said.