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Friday, August 16, 1963
Long Reach, California
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Three
Portrait of a
Community
LONG BEACH, Calif. (JTA)
— The 4,350 Jewish families of
Long Beach emerge from a re
cent scientific study as a gen
erally and typically prosperous
and integrated Jewish commun
ity, with equally typical diver
gencies as between affirmation
and practice of Jewish customs
and values.
The study was made for the
Long Jewish Community Federa
tion by Dr. Fred Massarik, direc
tor of research for the nearby
Los Angeles Federation-Council.
The study, made in 1962, also
covered Jews in Lakewood and
Los Alamitos, in an area direct
ly south to Los Angeles.
It shows a Jewry typical of
American Jewry in the increas
ing number of American-born
members, about 75 percent of the
adults having been bom in this
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country. Eight out of 10 families
own their own homes, and near
ly half of the household heads
are self-employed. Some 40 per
cent of the breadwinners are in
professional or semi-professional
fields.
About seven percent of the
married couples involve non-
Jewish mates without conversion,
and two percent are mixed mar
riages with conversion. Dr. Mas
sarik said the inter-marriage rate
was “slightly higher” than in
most American urban centers.
Conservatism I/rads in
Synagogue Affiliations,
Orthodox Under 5 Percent
Conservatism Judaism Is the
dominant choice of the Jewish
families studied. About half are
members of congregations — a
total which Dr. Massarik said was
somewhat above the average for
Western United States Jewish
communities. The families with
congregational membership were
asked to indentify their congre
gational loyalties. About 42 per
cent called themselves Conserva
tive; 30 percent said they were
Reform; slightly less than five
percent were Orthodox. About
one in five among the non-af-
filiated called themselves “just
Jewish.”
The high rate of membership
did not correlate with attendance
at services. Slightly more than
25 percent said they never at
tended services and about the
same number said they went only
on the High Holy Days. Only one
in five attended services at least
once a month.
Anti-Semitism data matched
well with reports of getting along
with non-Jews. On the whole,
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the survey found, Long Beach
Jews regarded anti-Semitism as
a slight problem “or indeed as no
problem.” The great majority of
breadwinners—nearly eight in 10
—-—said that being Jewish made
no difference in their occupa
tional lives.
In one of every four house
holds, relationships with non-
Jewish neighbors were character
ized as “unusually pleasant,
while an additional half consider
these relationships to be reason
ably pleasant.” “Somewhat less
than five percent suggest that
such contact has been occasion
ally or somewhat unpleasant,”
the survey reported, while
slightly over two percent of those
questioned said they had so little
contact with non-Jewish neigh
bors “that they could not ex
press an opinion as to the quality
of these relationships."
The contrast between private
practice and public attitudes is il
lustrated in the fact that, in a
community in which half the
families are not affiliated with a
synagogue, and of the affiliated
30 percent are Reform, 23 per
cent of all families said they
thought that facilities in the
Jewish Center should be kosher
and only 13 percent favored non-
kosher facilities. The others
opted for dual facilities or had
no opinion.
Jewish parental concern that
their children receive the best
education available is basic to
Jewish family history. Long
Beach Jewish parents — them
selves lacking much Jewish edu
cation — indicated they wanted
their children to have a better
Jewish education. For instance,
nearly three out of every 10 male
adult Jews had not had a Bar
Mitzvah. Among Jewish males
20 years and older, one in five
had no Jewish education. Only
three in 10 Jewish household
heads with any Jewish education
whatever had been exposed to
formal Jewish education as chil
dren. Nevertheless, seven in 10 of
such parents want the Jewish ed
ucation of their children extend
ed after Bar or Bas Mitzvah, al
though the community apparent
ly has no facilities for secondary
Jewish education.
Parents in Long Beach also
were asked what they considered
the most important goals of Jew
ish education. The top prioritv
was given to "imparting an un
derstanding of Jewish history and
culture,” almost 70 percent giving
priority to this aim.
Development of Jewish identi
fication was listed as of top im
portance by 25 percent of those
responding. Learning about Jew
ish life in the United States
scored a high ranking with 30
percent. Learning about Jewish
life in Israel, on the other hand,
was listed of top importance by
only 8.7 percent. Learning the
Hebrew language was consider
ed of key importance by less than
six percent of those responding.
Learning about Yiddish language
and culture ranked as of key im
portance with slightly more than
six percent of the adults.
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ST LOUIS, (JTA)—A grant of $49,173 has been awarded by
the U S. Public Health Service to the Jewish Hospital here, to sup
port the second year of the hospital’s training center for coordinated
home care and other out-of-hospital health services.
The Center provides training for professional health personnel
in the principles and practice of medical and rehabilitative care for
the chronically ill. It is one of four such centers in the nation.
The year’s schedule includes seminars for physical therapists,
occupational therapists, social workers, vocational counselors, nurses,
nursing school teachers and practicing dentists. These seminars will
explain how methods of long-term care can be applied in the pa
tient’s own home, in nursing homes and in homes for the aged. A
multi-disciplinary seminar will also be held.
Other plans call for conferences with medical, dental hospital
administration and social work students.
CINCINNATI JEWISH HOSPITAL
CINCINNATI, (JTA)—Dedication ceremonies were held here
this week for the recently completed five-story addition to the
School of Nursing of the Cincinnati Jewish Hospital which, together
with the remodeling of existing school facilities, was built at a total
cost of $1,000,000.
The new addition, which includes 114 dormitory beds with liv
ing quarters for some men students, brings the school’s capacity to
333 beds. Also included are four classrooms, a lecture room seating
120, and a recreational area on the roof.
PHILADELPHIA EINSTEIN CENTER
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—The Albert Einstein Medical Center
has received six grants totaling more than $560,000 from the Na
tional Institutes of Health, Dr. P. F. Lucchesi, executive vice-
president and medical director, has announced.
Included are five Career Development Awards, totaling almost
$500,000, and a grant of $61,280 for continuation of dental research
program in transplantation of living teeth from one person to an
other.
The career awards were granted to the Center’s research labo
ratories for five research scientists; physiologist Clem Russ, bio
chemist Harold Perky, biochemist R. J. Suhadolnik, microbiologist
Henry C. Reeves, and microbial-biochemist Murray Strassman. The
awards are made to outstanding medical research scientists whose
work shows promise of resulting in significant contributions to
science.
Dr. Ralph R. Mezrow, an Einstein staff oral surgeon, is direct
ing the tooth transplant project, which will be covered by the
$61,280 grant for the next three years. Dr. Mezrow has succeeded
in transplanting 36 teeth, some of which have functioned for more
than three years.
It was also announced that Dr. Harold J. Isard, a radiologist,
was re-elected chairman of the center’s medical board.
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