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Friday, Jan. 18, 1863
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Developments for Jewish Aged Women Gave $200 Million
r a In 15 Years to Jewish Needs
NEW ORLEAN8 (JTA) — The
New Orleans Home for the Aged,
the outcome of a six-year study
by the Jewish Federation of the
needs of the Jewish axed in New
Orleans was dedicated this week.
The modernistic heme was built
at a cost of 8800,000.
Irving Gerson, chairman of the
Home’s membership committee,
said that the Home had received
approval from the Federation to
conduct a membership campaign
in response to queries from mem-
community who wanted to assist
the various programs of the
Home.
The Home has a staff of 30 full
and part-time specialists in all
areas of geriatrics. Professional
guidance in social case work will
be provided through the Jewish
Family and Children’s Service
Department, a Federation depart
ment and from group workers of
the Jewish, Community Center.
Dr. Morton Salomon will be in
charge of the Home’s medical pro
gram. Bernard Stregevsky is ex
ecutive director.
BALTIMORE (JTA)— A new
pUot program of “day residence”
hau been started for aged men
and women at the Levlndale He
brew Home and Infirmary, ac
cording to an announcement by
Stanley Sagner, president of the
Home, and Joseph P. Folkoff, the
NEW YORK (JTA)—A variety
of projects intensifying efforts
for Jewish foster homes and edu
cating the community on child
foster care are now being carried
out in New York, Philadelphia,
Detroit and other cities by local
Jewish care agencies with the
aid of local Jewish Federations
and other Jewish organizations
interested in social work.
In New York, the Jewish Child
Care Association announced this
week that a project through
which an effort is bein made to
educate families in an entire
neighborhood to accept children
for Foster home placement is
being carried on by the National
Council of Jewish Women. The
pilot project according to Jacob
L. Trobe, executive director of
the JCCA, is a “tremendous con
tribution.”
The project is being carried out
in the Canarsie-Seaview section
of Brooklyn. At present, 15 Jew
ish families in the neighborhood
care for JCCA foster children. The
JCCA cares for a total of about
1,500 boys and girls from babies
to adolescents, annually. Most of
them are in foster homes. The
agency is a beneficiary of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthro
pies.
According to Mr. Trobe, t h e
National Council group will con
tact other leaders of the commun
ity, including rabbis, heads of sis
terhoods and local organizations,
and management and tenant
leaders of housing projects. It is
hoped that these leaders will ar
range programs focused on the
subject of the community and its
responsibility to children from
broken homes. Program material
offered includes an award-winn
ing film and speakers from the
child care field.
In Philadelphia, an intensive
campaign to provide “critically
needed” foster homes for Jewish
children was launched this week
by the Federation of Jewish
Agencies and the Association for
Jewish Children. In announcing
the campaign, In which appeals
for footer homes will be made
through synagogues, women's
groups and other organisations in
areas heavily populated by Jews
there, Samuel II. Levt, president
of the AJC. aald:
“We are appealing to the total
Jewish community because the
/^sociation has come to a critical
institution's executive director.
Under the prtgram, citizens
aged over 60 and otherwise qual
ified, come to the Home each day,
participate in such ongoing activ
ities as they prefer, or simply rest
in a lounge, then go to their
homes for the night. "This pro
gram,” said the Home officials,
seeks to provide the opportunity
for older people to undertake new
experiences according to their
own capacities and inclination.
Patterned after similar “day
other major
communities in the United States,
the Levindale program ig the /irst
of its kind offered by any social
agency in Baltimore. Manny Mal-
man and Marvin Schapiro aie the
co-chairmen of the pilot project.
Louis M Balk, the Home’s direc
tor of social activities, pointed
out that no pressures will be ex
erted on day residents to par
ticipate in any ongoing activities
while they are at Levindale.
MIAMI (JTA) — Construction
has been started this week on a
$1,000,000 Ablln Memorial unit of
the Jewish Home for the Aged
In Miami.
Completion of the addition,
which will provide an additional
118 beds for the Home, is ex
pected in about ten months. David
B. Fleeman, vice-president of the
Home, is chairman of the build
ing committee. Judge Irvin Cypen
point in its program. There are
no new foster homes available to
care for the children who are
continuing to come to our agency
for help. It is my hope that Phil
adelphians will open their homes
and their hearts to the children
desperately in need of their
care.”
These are youngsters, Mr. Levy
explained, who, owing to serious
family problems, need to be sep
arated temporarily from thetF
natural parents and to be placed
in foster homes. The problem has
nothing to do with adoptions, he
emphasized; as always, there are
many more couples seeking to
adopt children than there are
Jewish children available for
adoption.
“The situation affects one of
the basic functions of our agen
cy,” Joseph L. Taylor, executive
director of the association, said.
“Despite all the skills of our staff,
and all the efforts of our board
and friends, we find ourselves
hampered in carrying out the task
of foster placement, simply for
lack of enough homes.”
In Detroit, the Jewish Family
and Children’s Service issued a
report describing the special ef
forts made by the agency to pre
pare handicapped children to
make them acceptable for adop
tion. Such children include those
with either physical or mental
handicaps as well as those who
are more than two years old. Ex
perience Indicates that the older
a child, the greater the difficulty
of adoption.
David Goldberg, children’s de
partment supervisor, said that
during the past three years seven
such children were placed in
adoptive homes. They ranged in
age from two to fifteen at the time
of placement. In five cases, adop
tion was completed. The other two
children were nearing the close
of the probationary year.
is president. Baron de Hirsch
Meyer, is a vice-president and
chairman of the building cam
paign committee.
NEW YORJi. (JTA) — More
than $360,000 was raised at the
46th anniversary dinner here of
the Riverdale Hebrew Home for
the Aged attended by some 850
persons. The funds are to be used
for the expansion and construc
tion of a two-story addition to
the existing 102-bed infirmary of
the home. ,
Guest of honor at the dinner
was Solomon N. Petchers, Jew
ish communal leaddr, who was
presented with a bronze plaque in
recognition of “his outstanding
generosity and gracious service in
behalf of many worthy causes”
and for his “devoted work and
participation in the leadership of
the Home.”
BALBOA, Canal Zone— Ralph
M. Paiewonsky, governor of the
Virgin Islands, has accepted the
chairmanship of the reorganized
National Jewish Welfare Board
Armed Services Committee for
the Virgin Islands, it was an
nounced b Rabbi Nathan Witkin,
director of JWB’s Armed Forces
Service Center here and USO-
JWB Caribbean area director.
Governor Paiewonsky, the third
Jew to hold this office, will head
a committee that includes among
its members one of his Jewish
predecessors, Morris F. DeCastro,
and Rabbi Moses D. Sasso, of the
St. Thomas Synagogue.
Rabbi Witkin has just returned
from a swing around the Carib
bean on a special mission, made
with the approval of the mili
tary, to strengthen Jewish com
munity resources to meet the re
ligious and welfare needs of
American Jewish military per
sonnel on duty in this area or
who come to Caribbean commun
ities on leave for Jewish holy-
days and festivals.
During his Caribbean tour.
Rabbi Witkin also reorganized
JWB Armed Services Committees
in Port of Spain, Trinidad-To-
bago; Puerto Rico, Kingston, Ja
maica; Curacao, Dutch West
Indies, and visited the tiny Jew
ish community in Haiti.
Rabbi Simeon Maslan, a na
tive of Boston and a graduate of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish In-
NEW YORK (WUP)— An Is
raeli scientist, Dr. Perez Zadik,
M. D., of Haifa—following an ex
amination of the incidence of cer
tain types of cancer among orth
odox and non-orthodox Jews of
a similar social level — has re
vealed that certain ways and
norms of life enforced by Biblical
law have resulted in the preven
tion or restriction of the dreaded
disease.
In an article entitled “Cancer
and the Orthodox Jew,” appear
ing in the current issue of The
Hebrew Medical Journal, Dr.
Zadik points out that orthodox
men and women living a tradi
tional Jewish life according to the
Torah are rarely plagued by
cancer in the genital organs, the
skin, the lungs and the bladder
and, in the case of the woman,
in the breast.
In proving his case for his find
ings, Dr. Zadik cites the whole
some marital life of the orthodox
as prescribed in the Bible in the
matter of frequent births and
long feeding periods. These, he
says, show a favorable counter-
HARTFORD, Conn. (JTA
Women have contributed 200,000,-
000 dollars in separate gifts in the
15 years since the inception of
women’s divisions in the cam
paigns of the Jewish welfare
funds, Mrs. Beatrice Finkelstein,
secretary of the National Com
mittee on Women’s Communal
Service of the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds, reported at an inter-city
women’s institute of the New
England Region this week Par
ticipating cities included Hart
ford, New Haven, Providence,
Springfield and Worcester.
Women leaders at the institute
took part in several workshops.
At the session which considered
“Techniques for Evaluating a
Campaign,” Mrs. Raymond L.
Cohen of Providence pointed out
that the most meaningful evalua-
stitute of Religion, who is the
spiritual leader of Temple Eman
uel, Curacao, has assumed the
chairmanship of the JWB com
mittee in that community. Louis
Grinberg, president of the Jew
ish Religious Community in Port
of Spain, has taken on the chair
manship for Trinidad-Tobago
In Puerto Rico, the new JWB
chairman is Aron Levin, presi
dent of the Jewish Community
Center in San Juan. Associated
LOS ANGELES (JTA)— With
Federal, State and City digni
taries, Jewish and non-Jewish, in
attendance, a new radiation ther
apy and nuclear medicine wing
will be dedicated here this week
end at the Cedars division of the
Cedars of Lebanon-Mount Sinai
hospitals. This principal speaker
will be Dr Glenn T Seaborg,
chairman of the United States
Atomic Energy Commission,
Nobel Prize Laureate and form
er Chancellor of the University
of California.
The new structure will enable
the hospitals to maintain a lead
ing position nationally in the
treatment of cancer and related
diseases. A pioneer in use of the
cobalt bomb and ether radiation
techniques, the Cedars un t was
licensed in 1948 by the U. S.
Atomic Energy Commission as the
action to the rise of the disease.
While Dr. Zadik points out that
cancer of the male and female
genitals in very rare among Jews
in general, he brings out an in
teresting aspect as to lung cancer
Declaring that the frequency of
lung cancer is directly dependent
on the amount of tobacco smoked
and the methods of smoking and
inhaling, he makes much of the
fact that with religious Jews it is
different because of the fifty-two
sabbaths and the eight of ten
holidays a year during which they
interrupt the habit and thus al
low their lungs to relax and re
new' themselves with fresh air
Moreover, the Israeli scientist
says that the observance of the
Sabbath, bringing as it does a
respite from the weekly labors
and daily chores, tends favorably
and prophylactically to influence
the circulation and nervous sys
tems leading to a diminution of
coronary heart attacks which
have so greatly increased in the
civilized world.
The Semi-annual Hebrew Med
ical Journal is edited by Dr.
Moses Einhom.
tion is continuous evaluation “It
must be done at the beginning of
the campaign, during the cam
paign, and at the conclusion of a
campaign,” she said.
At the meeting which discuss
ed methods of soliciting and up
grading large gifts, Mrs. John
Sudarsky of Hartford warned
that reliance on telephone or mail
techniques was inadequate and
insisted that only personal solici
tation in the home was really ef
fective in obtaining these impor
tant contributions. Mrs. Mervin
M. Krevit of New Haven was
chairman of this session. Mrs.
Saul Feingold of Worchester told
the women at the education
workshop that though educational
programs have intrinsic value,
they are far more valuable to a
community when directly related
to campaign efforts.
with him in the leadership ot the
committee is Raboi Richard Bel-
son, spiritual leader of the Cen
ter and the part-time Jewish
chaplain at Ramey Air Force
Base. Felix Shalom, president of
the United Congregation of Is
raelites, Kingston, heads the com
mittee in Jamaica. A leading
member of the committee is Rab
bi Henry P. Silverman, who has
been the congregation’s rabbi for
28 years.
first radioisototope department in
a general hospital.
Since then, the department has
treated more patients with radio
isotopes than any other volun
tary hospital in the world and is
the largest user ol radioisotopes.
Thousands of patients with toxic-
goiter and various types of can
cer, and hundreds of patients
with advanced heart disease, have
been treated here with atomic
medicine. All facilities and serv
ices are available to both in
patients and outpatients, private
or clinic, with approximately 33
per cent of all patient care given
without charge every year.
Expansion of the department
will allow increased patient serv
ice and will also augment major
medical teaching and research
programs. For the past 10 years,
in addition to conducting a full
teaching service for Cedars in
terns and residents, the depart
ment has held postgraduate
courses in cooperation with the
USC School of Me Heine in radia
tion physics and clinical applica
tion of radioisotopes for hundreds
of practicing physicians and resi
dent doctors from other hospitals
as well as Cedars.
Chairman of the dedication
ceremony will be Norman Fein-
tech, executive vice-president of
Cedars-Lebanon Hospitals, and
the invocation will be delivered
by Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin. Other
program participants listed are
Attorney General Stanley Mosk,
who will bring greetings on be
half of Governor Edmund G.
Brown; Los Angele: City Council
president Harold A. Henry; Msgr.
Thomas J. O’Dwyer, director of
health and hospitals for the Cath
olic Archdiocese here; and the
Rev. Harry A. McKnight Jr., ex
ecutive director of the Church
Federation of Los Angeles.
berg of the New Orleans Jewish residence" plans in
Intensify Search for More
Homes for Jewish Children
Governor of Virgin Islands Heads
JWB Armed Services Committee
Israel Scientists Claim
Observance Restricts Cancer
L.A. Hospital to Dedicate
Nuclear Medicine Wing