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The Walk for Israel at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center:
`Move to Israel, then you can criticize it," doesn't work for a whole
generation.

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are facing decreasing enrollment
at United Hebrew Schools and
financial concerns at Detroit's
three major day schools — Akiva,
Yeshiva Beth Yehuda and Hillel
— which are not likely to
disappear in the 1990s.
The Federation's Aronson
agrees Jewish education will be
an important issue for the local
community in the 1990s and
again the key word is quality, he
said, adding that he looks forward
to more related programming
through J.E.F.F. and the Jewish
Center.
Part of this Jewish education
will include redefining our
relationship with Israel.
Many younger Jews today do
not feel the same strong ties to
Israel as previous generations, he
said. "Now, we must make it a
priority to get our youth to Israel
in large numbers. The Federation
must take a big, big role in that."
Aronson cited the need for
"more direct links between the
people of Detroit and the people of
Israel" and a new attitude toward
aliyah.
"We want to increase aliyah,"
he said. "But at the same time the
attitude of some Israelis that
`move to Israel, then you can
criticize it,' doesn't work for a
whole generation of people."

Will The Money
Keep Rolling In?

The same generation faced
with redefining its relationship
with Israel will be addressing in
the 1990s another critical issue —
dealing with its elderly
population.
Fourteen percent of Detroit's
estimated 65,000-member Jewish
population is over age 65 and
getting older. Once defined as
aged 70-85, Jewish elderly has

expanded to ages 70-95 as Jews
live longer, healthier lives,
according to Alan Funk,
executive vice president of the
Jewish Home for Aged.
Funk, who called caring for
Detroit's Jewish elderly "an issue
of the 1990s and beyond," said an
increasing number of Jewish aged
are seeking outpatient,
supportive care outside of nursing
homes.
Support for such programs
means more money.
Funds to support the Detroit
Jewish elderly, including the
Jewish Home for Aged, the
Jewish Federation Apartments
and outreach programs, come
from the Allied Jewish Campaign
and federal agencies.
While federal funding to most
social service agencies seems
always to be in jeopardy, Funk is
confident he will see in the 1990s
more federal and state dollars to
cover the cost of care for the
elderly. He also is optimistic that
the government's long-term
health insurance will help pay for
services.
As part of its "reality
programming," the Federation
will address such questions as
how much — if any — it can
increase its funding to programs
for the elderly, along with other
groups, like Jewish educators and
social service groups, expected to
request more money.
Certainly more money will be
needed for what Aronson views as
one of the Federation's most
challenging programs in the
coming decade: resettling Soviet
Jews.
"To do the job right you have
to spend money, and the only
place that will come from is
increased Campaigns," he said.
"Detroit is a leadership
community. And we're going to do
our part." I