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New UJA Campaign
To Aid Soviet Jews
ELIZABETH KAPLAN
Features Editor
In the beginning there was one —
"We Are One," the United Jewish Ap-
peal's familiar campaign theme.
Now, Detroit area residents may
have the opportunity to contribute to
a second UJA campaign that agency of-
ficials say is unprecedented.
And indeed the project, "Passage to
Freedom," bears an unfamiliar goal:
helping Soviet Jews resettle not only
in Israel, but in the United States.
The UJA board of trustees
authorized the national "Passage to
Freedom" earlier this month. UJA of-
ficials are now discussing details of the
campaign, including when it should
start and a dollar goal, with federation
officials from around the country.
Federations in San Francisco and
New York already have announced
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their intention to join the "Passage to
Freedom" campaign.
Martin Kraar, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit, said he is considering the
proposal, but will not make a decision
on whether to participate until local
Federation and Allied Jewish Cam-
paign leaders can study the report of
a UJA special committee overseeing
the project.
The committee was established to
"work out the scope, timing, goals,
strategies and other details" of the
campaign, according to a UJA memo.
UJA officials said they expect the com-
mittee, which is headed by Marvin
Lender, UJA national vice chairman in
charge of major gifts, to complete its
work in the next three weeks.
Meanwhile, Morton Kornreich,
UJA national chairman, Martin Stein,
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Maple-Drake Home
For Aged Is Planned
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
The Jewish Home for Aged and
the Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit are studying a plan to build
a new facility for the elderly in West
Bloomfield to replace Borman Hall in
Detroit and Prentis Manor in
Southfield.
The Home for Aged received a cer-
tificate of need from the state of
Michigan last Friday that would
allow it to replace Prentis Manor. A
certificate of need to replace Borman
Hall is expected in April or May.
The Home's task force on opera-
tions and Federation officials are stu-
dying a new facility. Alan Funk, ex-
ecutive vice president of the Home for
Aged, said action will have to be
taken soon because the certificates of
need are valid for 12-18 months. "But
we are not going to start building
tomorrow;' he said.
The Home is considering a new
facility in excess of 200 beds to be
built on the Jewish Community Cam-
pus site at Maple and Drake roads.
The Home's Fleischman Residence
and the Jewish Federation Apart-
ments' Hechtman unit are located on
the campus.
The proposed facility may not
have as many beds as Borman and
Prentis now contain, Funk said. Bor-
man Hall has 212 beds and Prentis
Manor has 100.
The Home's task force has been
working for five months "to assess the
most effective way to deliver long-
term care," Funk said. The task force
will try to complete its study for a new
facility by the time the certificate of
need for Borman Hall is expected.
"The Jewish Welfare Federation has
been tracking this as well so that it
won't be a big surprise," Funk said.
He refused to speculate on costs
for the structure, saying it will depend
on challenges the Home will make to
state rules. The Home wants to create
a facility with mostly private rooms,
while state regulations allow only
40-50 percent single occupancy.
"The state allows more square
footage for horses than it does for the
elderly," Funk said. "We are going to
challenge this as well."
Money for the project will come
from a private endowment campaign
and communal funds. Funk said the
Home could have a bond issue based
on the fund-raising because Medicaid
will pay 80 percent of the interest for
the bonds.
"We are planning to move ahead;'
he said. "Whether it will be one move
or phased in — just which way is be-
ing massaged right now."
GROWING MENACE •
Neo-Nazi elements se
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within the teenage skinhead phenomenon.
And they are coming closer to home
for Jews in Oa d County
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