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sisters, cousins and parents.
The pick-up-and-go mentali-
ty of today's mobile young
families erases the idea of an
extended family of grand-
parents, cousins and uncles,
and with it, the holiday
family get-together.
All of this strikes Mr.
Baruch and others at
Shaarey Zedek as harmful to
the future of Jewish life in
Detroit.
What's more, Mr. Baruch
said, synagogues are not
providing the help that these
families need.
So when the synagogue
needed more space for its
nursery, Mr. Baruch, Rabbi
Irwin Groner and nursery
director Janet Pont laid out
what they wanted: a family
parenting center that will
serve Jewish families under
the guidance of a synagogue.
"Fifty years ago, if a Jew-
ish family had a problem,
where did they go? To see
the rabbi,". said Mr. Baruch.
Things have changed, he
said, and the synagogue has
been replaced by community
centers and others who pro-
vide the same assistance
without Jewish input.
"The Jewish community
has not been looking to the
synagogue for support," he
said. "The continuity of the
synagogue is dependent on
young families."
In planning the center, Mr.
Baruch studied the problems
faced by today's young Jew-
ish family. His research was
primarily anecdotal, draw-
ing upon his experiences in
talking to families about
their problems. He and con-
sultant Dr. Helene Kalson
Cohen also visited similar
projects in Los Angeles and
Cleveland. There are at least
a half-dozen Jewish paren-
ting centers in the United
States.
The new nursery will ac-
commodate as many as 240
children, according to Janet
Pont; who heads the Shaarey
Zedek nursery, Beth Hayel-
ed.
Decisions about staff and
programming still have to be
made, said Dr. Cohen, who
will direct the center. Staff
will not necessarily be train-
ed social workers and the
programming will be de-
veloped after a study of the
community's needs. A corn-
mittee of 24 of the congrega-
tion's lay members will also
submit ideas for the center.
Center policy on tough
family issues, like how to
help intermarried couples
raise their children, are still
unresolved. Mr. Baruch
noted that even though
Shaarey Zedek does not ap-
prove of intermarried
,
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couples in their ranks, the
parenting center would
welcome them and inform
them of the challenges they
face in raising a Jewish
child. The center will be
open to any Jewish family,
not just members of Shaarey
Zedek.
The idea, said Mr. Baruch,
is not to take a stand on the
correct approach to Jewish
law, but how families will be
affected by particular situa-
tions, like the problems fac-
ed by intermarried couples
in holiday observance. Br-
inging those families to the
synagogue, he said, would
connect people with ques-
tions to people with answers.
"We want to attract both
the parents who already
have a relationship with the
community and those who
don't," said Dr. Cohen, who
earned her doctorate in edu-
cational administration and
social policy at Harvard
University. She added that
the center has to grapple
with the problem of bringing
in unaffiliated Jews. Still,
she said the center will
benefit everyone. "Most
people don't know that there
are answers to their ques-
tions."
For Cheryl Davis, the idea
of a Jewish parenting center
is appealing. She said her
husband, who is not Jewish,
would better understand
how and why she wants to
raise their daughter as a
Jew if only he could hear
about other intermarried
couples.
"If it was somebody else, it
might work a little better,"
she said. ❑
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Most employees avoided
interviews, saying a memo
was circulated advising
them to refer all inquiries to
the corporate communica-
tions department.
"We just can't talk," said
one employee, who was sit-
ting outside the Outer Drive
entrance, taking a cigarette
break. "But it is business as
usual."
One man, who said he has
worked for several years in
the hospital's cardiology
department, blamed Detroit
Mayor Coleman Young for
Sinai's financial
troubles."All of the people
with any money have moved
out of the city," he said.
A group of orderlies on
break said they weren't wor-
ried about layoffs, which,
they said, were out of their
hands.
In the obstetrics wing,