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cent), and other (3 percent).
Ninety percent of the re-
spondents said they have
never had a Christmas tree
in their home. Eighty-eight
percent said they usually at-
tend a Passover seder.
Eighty-five percent usually
light Chanukah candles.
Seventy-four percent fast on
Yom Kippur. Thirty-six per-
cent light candles Friday
night. Thirty-three percent
participate in Purim
celebrations or services.
Twenty-three percent use
separate dishes for meat and
dairy. Eighteen percent
usually participate in the
Israel Independence Day
celebration. Twelve percent
refrain from handling money
on Shabbat.
Cohen called these figures
on ritual observance "the
familiar three-tier pattern.
It is so much like the United
States composite and Detroit
is no more or less observant"
than any other older major
U.S. city.
Cohen emphasized that
the overall study "is more
than just a census. It is a tool
for making important policy
decisions." As an example,
Ukeles pointed to the 20,400
persons that the study in-
dicates live outside the core
Jewish community. Aronson
said finding these people and
offering Jewish services is
one of the major problems
presented by the study.
The study, Cohen said, in-
dicates that Jewish
Detroiters are mobile within
the community, but tend to
stay in the Detroit area:
"There is a small but
steady in-migration which
helps maintain the popula-
tion balance," offsetting the
out-migration of some
Detroiters. He added that
the Southfield - Oak Park -
Huntington Woods area
continues to have the most
Jews, "indicating a tremen-
dous Jewish communal in-
vestment in this area."
But the pattern of mobility
within the Detroit area
follows the national trends.
Patty Becker of the Federa-
tion Planning Department
said that in the 1950s, when
Dexter Avenue was its
center, the Jewish commun-
ity was concentrated in 12
square miles. At the time of
the 1963 study, the commun-
ity covered 20 square miles.
It is now spread over 100
square miles.
Federation's Aronson said
the challenge of the new
population study is to pro-
vide services for more Jews,
to boost the Allied Jewish
Campaign, and to reach out
to families — "young and
old."

"We are finding Jewish
populations with needs, that
have identities as com-
munities. We have to learn
how to reach out to them."
He pointed to the Shir
Tikvah congregation in Troy
as an example. While many
Jews in Detroit believe there
are no Jews east of Wood-
ward Avenue, he said, Shir
Tikvah's members in Troy
and Rochester feel they are
not members of the commun-
ity west of Woodward. Aron-
son said overcoming that
thinking is the challenge.
He said Federation is
greeting the study "with
tremendous enthusiasm. It
gives us opportunities for
planning that we haven't
had until now." ❑

Staff writer Kimberly Lifton
contributed to this story.

Absorption
Budget Soars

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Jerusalem (JTA) Absorp-
tion Minister Yitzhak Peretz
has demanded the govern-
ment revise its entire
budgetary projections and
provisions for immigration
and absorption.
Peretz, addressing a joint
session of the Knesset Fi-
nance and Aliyah corn-
mittees, said the recently
decided absorption budget
was obsolete because of the
soaring Soviet immigration.
Peretz appeared before the
joint session to urge addi-
tional allocations for absorp-
tion, including housing and
the creation of jobs for the
immigrants. The minister,
who represents the ultra-
Orthodox Shas party, received
broad support from the
legislators.
Michael Kleiner of Likud,
chairman of the Aliyah
Committee, said the
government would have to
think in terms of a $250
million to $300 million ab-
sorption budget for this year.
Ariel Weinstein, a ranking
member of the Finance
Committee, suggested work
begin immediately on a re-
vised budget for absorption
and housing, to be available
by May.
A prediction made to the
joint session, that some
100,000 Soviet Jews would
come to Israel this year, was
essentially corroborated by
Simcha Dinitz, chairman of
the Jewish Agency and
World Zionist Organization
Executives.
Dinitz told the government
agency coordinating body
that the current rate of 7,000
Soviet immigrants a month
is likely to rise to 9,000.

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