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Paie Sixteen
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, January 28, 1966
1 CJFWF Surveys Jewish Participation
In Anti-Poverty Programs
habilitation procedures, in gener
al, and a differential work ad
justment project in particular.
This program is being financed
by the Vocational Rehabilitation
Administration.
The Jewish Community Center in
Washington, D. C., is sponsoring
; NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
participation in anti-poverty pro
grams throughout the country is
reviewed in a survey conducted
by the Council of Jewish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds showing
that Jewish agencies and Jewish
communal personnel are becbming
Readily involved in a wide range
of local projects initiated in the
nation’s war on poverty.
S Stressing that the information
was “a sample” of what was
being done and not a complete
report, the survey reported on
anti-poverty projects in more
than 20 cities and by several na
tional Jewish groups. Among the
projects in which Jewish partici
pation was cited were the Neigh
borhood Youth Corps, Head Start
programs, community action, Mo
bilization for Youth, College
Work-Study programs, rehabilita
tion programs for the aged, man
power projects, work-training
programs, aid to the handicapped
and other projects.
In New York, a large number
of affiliates of the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies are in
volved in many of the major fed
erally-sponsored projects. Partici
pating in the Neighborhood Youth
Corps, which provides work train
ing opportunities, are the Federa
tion Employment and Guidance
Service, the Educational Alliance,
the East New York YM and
YWHA, the YM and YWHA’s of
the Bronx, Washington Heights-
Inwood and Williamsburg, the
Jewish Child Care Association,
the Hillside Hospital, the Jewish
Hospital of Brooklyn, Maimonides
Hospital and the Home and Hos
pital of the Daughters of Israel.
The employment service also
provides “screening” procedures
for selection of work trainees.
The Educational Alliance, Rec-
jeation Rooms and Settlement
and the day camp for Chassidic
Children of the YM and YWHA
of Williamsburg were participants
in the Neighborhood Youth Corps
summer program of the Office of
Economic Opportunity.
The East Tremont YM and
YWHA and the Bronx River VM
Did YWHA, the Recreation Rooms
and Settlement, Hillside Hospital
and the Jewish Board of Guar
dians — Coney Island Mental
Health Center are taking part in
Head Start programs. The As
sociated YM-YWHAs of New
York are participating in research
programs for Head Start.
The Educational Alliance is
providing use of its facilities and
staff and the Beth Israel Hos
pital is providing medical services
for New York City phases of the
Mobilization for Youth project.
The Educational Alliance is work
ing on a maintenance project
with University Settlement. The
Jewish Community Services of
Long Island and the Jewish Child
Care Association are working on
the college work-study program
in New York. The Federation Em
ployment and Guidance Service is
aiding in a rehabilitation program
for the aged.
In addition, Maimom'des Hospi-
.tal is participating in the city
manpower program. Montefiore
Hospital, the Jewish Home and
Hospital for the Aged and the
Daughters of Israel Home and
Hospital are working on the city’s
HARYOU working-training pro
grams for Negro youth in Har
lem.
^fewark, Boston, Chicago
Communities Report
Active Participation
« A wide range of such participa-
""tion was similarly reported in
Other major Eastern communities.
r The Jewish Vocational Service of
Essex County has developed a
project to provide job training op-
portunities and experience for 500
youths a year between the ages
of 16 and 21 in the Greater New
ark area. The JVS will administer
this project for Career Orientated
Preparation for Empl o y m e n t
(COPE). The project will bring
together community agen c i e s
which will ..offer supervised work
training experience.
Young people who successfully
complete the program will either
be placed in industry or helped
to choose suitable additional edu
cational and vocational training.
The estimated cost is $150,000 to
operate COPE annually. The total
annual budget, including wages
to the enrollees for a full year,
will be about $500,000. The Fed
eral Government will pay 90 per
cent and the agencies 10 percent.
Dr. Benjamin B. Rosenberg,
executive director of the Com
bined Jewish Philanthropies of
Boston, is a member of a special
United Community Service com
mittee which serves as liaison
among Boston’s voluntary agen
cies for anti-poverty activities.
Dr, Rosenberg and several CJP
trustees serve on the advisory
board on health programming of
Action for Boston Community De
velopment. Another CJP staff
member serves on the anti-pov
erty committee of United Com
munity Service, administering
programs in suburban towns and
cities of Massachusetts.
Beth Israel Hospital of Boston
provided services to pre-kinder-,
garten children in Head Start as
part of the community’s anti-pov
erty program. These services were
provided through the Beth Israel’s
comprehensive medical care pro
gram for children, including a
clinic based in the Jewish Mem
orial Hospital. This program was
a winner of the 1965 William J.
Shroder Memorial Award.
The Revere Jewish Community
Center in Boston received approv
al from the Massachusetts State
Health Department on an appli
cation to operate a day-care cen
ter and is applying for permission
to operate under the Child De
velopment Provisions of the anti
poverty program. Members of the
center’s board are represented on
the local Community Actions
Council.
The Jewish Family and Com
munity Service of Chicago direct
ed an Operation Head Start pro
gram at the Virginia Frank Child
Development Center, serving 22
children all of whom were Amer
ican Indians. Jewish Community
Centers in Chicago have cooper
ated with Neighborhood Youth
Corps projects, aiding 18 young
people.
Los Angeles, Miami,
Philadelphia Widely
Involved In Programs
Professional staffs of Jewish
agencies in Los Angeles are wide
ly involved in such programs.
Milton Goldberg, executive direc
tor of the Jewish Big Brothers
Association, is chairman of the
Los Angeles Community Agency
Advisory Committee. That com
mittee acts as a professional ad
visory group to lay organizations
in the community action pro
grams.
Morris Grumer, executive of
the Jewish Vocational Service of
Los Angeles, is a consultant to
the Employment and Training
Unit of the Community Action
Program. The Jewish Family
Service is participating in a co
operative youth study center
sponsored by the University of
Southern California financed
under the anti-poverty program.
Mrs. Myrtle Atlas, president of
the JFS, is a representative on
the lay board of the project.
In addition, the Los Angeles
Federation-Council and affiliated
agencies have provided work
training jobs to several teenage
youths enrolled in the Neighbor
hood Youth Corps. The Cedars-
Sinai Hospital, the Gateways
Hospital and Vista Del Mar are
participating in a college program
to provide opportunities for col
lege students.'
In Miami, Alvin Cassell, a local
Jewish community leader, is pres
ident of the Economic Opportun
ity program for that city. In ad
dition, the Miami Jewish Voca
tional Service has submitted a
Easy Supper Highlight Casserole
Noodles or rice are well-known underliners for creamed fish,
but some breakfast cereals are surprisingly good, too. One of the
better examples is shredded wheat. Besides being a nutritional
bargain, this cereal, like other breakfast cereals, is inexpensive,
convenient, adds flavor and texture.
When being served in this manner, you simply crush shredded
wheat biscuits, either the round, oblong or spoon size, and stir
the cereal into melted butter.. Season with a little salt. Spread
into a pan and cover with a piquant tuna or salmon sauce, such
as deviled tuna casserole. The crisp cereal provides good contrast
in texture.
Deviled Tuna Casserole
Vi cup butter or margarine
Vi cup finely chopped onion (
2 tablespoons flour
Vi teaspoon salt
1V4 cups milk # .
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon prepared
horseradish
1 tablespoon prepared
mustard
2 cans (7 ounces each) tuna,
broken into chunks
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
2 tablespoons chopped
pimiento
1 Vi cups crushed shredded
wheat
Melt 2 tablespoons butter or margarine in saucepan. Add onion
and cook until tender. Blend in flour and V4 teaspoon salt. Add
milk; cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Stir in lemon
juice, horseradish, and mustard. Fold in tuna, eggs, and pimiento.
Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter or margarine in fiy pan.
Stir in shredded wheat; sprinkle with V* teaspoon salt. Spread
one-half of the shredded wheat over bottom of a 1%-quart
shallow casserole. Cover with tuna mixture. Sprinkle remaining
shredded wheat around edges of casserole. Bake in hot oven
(400*F) until hot and bubbly, about 16 minutes. Yield: 4 to 6
servings.
project approved by the local
community action organization
for a work habituation and ap
prenticeship program. Two of the
Greater Miami Federation agen
cies are working with Neighbor
hood Youth Corps trainees.
A number of federally-backed
programs are being implemented
at the Work Adjustment Center
of the Jewish Employment and
Vocational Service of Philadel
phia. The Center has been pro
viding rehabilitation services to
persons with physical, emotional
and mental handicaps since 1957
and almost all of these thus aided
have been poor. More than 60 per
cent have been recipients of pub
lic aid and wards of the court.
One of the federally-supported
programs is a study of the effects
of vocational and family casework
services as means to improve the
trainability of the long-term job
less. Funds are provided by the
Office of Manpower, Automation
and Training of the U. S. De
partment of Labor. Another pro
gram is one to devise procedures
to prevent youths with various
types of handicaps from dropping
out of school. Youths from Gratz,
Edison and Benjamin Franklin
High Schools are being helped.
Funds are allocated by the U. S.
Vocational Rehabilitation Admin
istration directly to the JEVS.
A third program involves de
veloping. and testing procedures
and techniques and to isolate dif
ferential features for disabled
persons 45 years and older. The
program seeks to determine the
extent to which older handicapped
persons can be helped with re-
a teenage social service corps for
Jewish boys and girls who have
completed the tenth grade. The
corps will provide 30 young peo
ple the chance to put in practice
Jewish values learned at home
and in religious schools. The
young people will work with 30
other youths recruited by the
minister or civic association in the
“poverty pocket” to which they
will be assigned after completing
orientation sessions. Two students
from Howard University’s grad
uate school of social work will
serve as advisors.
Letter to Editor
Dear Mr. Rosenberg,
I keep track of matters related
to the Press, for a book some
day, hence .this:
Usually, your articles are lab
eled as to source—the JTA, Seven
Arts, etc. But there was no credit
on the article in your October 8
issue by the Army chaplain in
Viet Nam. That interested me.
Was the piece distributed by the
JTA, by the Army Press Rela
tions, or by whom? I hope you
do not mind checking this and
letting me know. It was of course
a worthwhile piece, giving one
view.
Sincerely yours,
Harry Barnard
Wilmette, Ill.
The Southern Israelite gets
around . . . The source is the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
which coordinates matters uis-a-
ris the Armed Services and the
American Jewry!
Koffee Klatch
f. by VIDA
H GOLDGAR
Discussion of a
Discussion
“First of 'til, let’s establish
what we mean by assimilation.”
* • •
“Judaism today has become a
culture of organizations!”
* * *
“Judaism in America today is
nice and easy."
* * *
“l think we should emphasize
how much fun it is being a
Jew."
• * *
“Why do we live in self-im
posed ghettos?”
* * *
A rabbinical practice session at
Hebrew Union? Not on your
life! All the above were part of
one of the most fascinating ses
sions I’ve attended in a long
time. The scene: A Hadassah
board meeting when the educa
tion program was thrown open
for discussion.
Once again I was impressed by
how today’s Jewish women are
thinking. Helen Hokinson, with
her stereotype of the club wo
man, wouldn’t have felt at all
at home there.
That first statement called for
a considerable amount of discus
sion . . . Yes, what do we mean
by assimilation. The word is
bandied about so much lately
that I think it’s time we stopped
to analyze it. Most often, upon
hearing it used, I think the thought
immediately gets confused with
intermarriage, Unitarianism, or in
other words, just plain leaving
Judaism. My dictionary, as its
primary definition, says “To
make alike, or cause to resem
ble.”
Even that is up in the air. I
see a world of difference be
tween “being alike” and “resem
bling.”
Doesn’t assimilate, in the sense
of American Jews, also mean
only that we speak the same
language, dress the same, live in
the same type houses, and par
ticipate in the larger commun
ity? And is this bad?
In the older European settle
ments of our forefathers, Jews
were certainly distinguishable
from others. Not so today. And
why should we be in these ex
ternal ways . . . it’s our interior
that counts.
And I don’t really believe it
makes us less Jewish!
Is a rabbi any the less a rabbi
because “off-duty” he wears a
sports coat? And because he’s
clean-shaven? Hardly!
For that matter . . . our self-
imposed ghettos, I’m convinced,
are more for convenience than
pure clannishness. It’s certainly
a lot easier to set up carpools,
gather with your friends, attend
meetings together, ensure your
children meeting other Jewish
children, if you live in the same
neighborhood.
The gal who emphasized the
fun of being Jewish had a very
valid point, as did she who claim
ed it is easy to be a Jew in this
country. Discrimination is at a
minimum . . . Sure there are
some places we are not particu
larly wanted . . .some clubs we
can’t join . . : but who needs ’em.
For the most part it is simple by
comparison to the lives our
grandparents or great grandpar
ents led.
Fun? You’re darned right. It
can be fun if we emphasize the
right things. We’ve never had it
so good. Cannahari!
Maybe I’ve sttrayed a bit from
the track this week, but, while
our little assemblage didn’t settle
any earthshaking issues, it was
still a far cry from discussions
about toidy training, leaky dish
washers, new recipes. I teas
proud. ci Q66