Would ,you 1;14:// tropit one set 1{4 State Grants JFS Funds To Pay Rents Probably the finest. ... we took $495.00 off of the M.S.L.P. (Manufacturers Suggested List RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITERR Price) he Michigan State Housing Development Authority has granted the Jewish Family Service $108,145 to help people who face homeless- ness. Through the Transi- tional/Permanent Housing Grant, JFS will be able to provide up to 12 needy Jews and gentiles with money to finance their first and last month's rent, security deposits and mov- ing expenses. Recipients of grant monies will be relo- cated to apartments near 10 Mile and Greenfield roads. T ...we gave you the matching tropiteme umbrella absolutely FREE, a $286.00 M.S.L.P. How about a trepiteni certificate redeemable for 4 replacement cushions. (See a salesperson for details.) In stock only while supplies last! Mid Summer sale now in progress. Come and see us. We want your business! NOW - Between Beck &Wixom Rd. 48700 Grand River - 348-0090 LIVONIA- Just West of Middlebelt 522-9200 - 29500 W. 6 Mile Rd. BIRMINGHAM Across from 555 Building 644-1919 - 690 S. Woodward CASUAL & OUTDOOR FUNITURE Rt/S77CS Completely Casual for Over 46 Years The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit invites Grandparents, Parents and Children to A ME AND MY GRANDCHILD EXPERIENCE! P LASER VISIONS ° Oa the exciting light and sound show brought to us by the Cranbrook Institute of Science . Thursday, July 15 7:00 p.m. Shiffman Hall ° Maple/Drake Building TH E DET RO "It's going to mean that we can put someone in a safe, secure apartment." Reuben Rotman STORE HRS: Mon., Tue s ., Thurs., Fri 10-8 • Wed., Sat., 10-6 • Sun., 11-4 16 ‘1 Tickets: $4.00 Adults $2.50 Children (Under 12) Tickets availalbe at Maple/Drake and JPM Buildings, or by calling 661-1000, Extension 345. The money will go specif- ically to people who are employed, but cannot afford rent, or to people who are between jobs and lack funds necessary to secure housing. The two-year grant pro- gram also will help JFS provide counseling services for persons struggling with emotional problems that hinder their ability to hold down a job and maintain permanent housing. This is the first time JFS received the grant, though there has been an ongoing need for affordable housing within the Jewish commu- nity, staff members say. Last year, the agency served 60 homeless people and provided money to 27 who were changing their place of residence. Some of those aided were recently divorced women who couldn't find affordable housing on their own. Other recipients of JFS aid included economically dis- advantaged elderly. The grant will enable the agency to better serve clients who "are living very close to the edge," said JFS Director of Clinical Services Arlene Goldberg. "Sometimes JFS social workers find people between jobs. They're not going to be able to make it — particularly in single family households," she-= said. "JFS's problem has been finding the money to pay for these people's first and last month's rent. That can amount to up to $1,000 — a big chunk of money to give to one family. This grant gives us that little extra so we can give people an extra chance to make it." JFS received the grant last April. So far, JFS has placed one family in an apartment, and staff mem- bers have chosen six other candidates for grant money: Reuben Rotman, JFS director of community resource development, said the grant also allows JFS to leverage its community financial assistance dol- lars. "It's going to mean that we can put someone in a safe, secure apartment — someone who otherwise might be living in a shelter or a rooming house," he said. • Moscow Battles Over Aliyah 7\ Jerusalem (JTA) —` The di- rector-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Shimon Sheves, has returned from a —1 three-day trip to Moscow where he reviewed the work of the various agencies there handling Jewish immigra- tion to Israel. Mr. Sheves was apparently trying to resolve turf battles —\ that have arisen in Russia 1J between the Jewish Agency and Lishkat Hakesher, or the Liaison Bureau, which for years worked clandes- tinely in the former Soviet ) Union on behalf of the Israeli government. He is expected to issue rec- ommendations in the next c few weeks that could lead to (\ a change in operations. The Jewish Agency, meanwhile, has in the past few years greatly expanded its work with immigrants there since restrictions were relaxed and the floodgates opened.