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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 14, 1986 Page 15 History Naomi R. Adir, a former school teacher and JBI board member, reads from the large-print Torah. Mrs. Adir is legally blind. Vision-impaired people benefit from new easy-to-read Bibles Continued from page 14 adoption laws, which the Child Welfare League of America en dorsed. The Federal Children’s Bureau adopted her “Standards for Children’s Institutions.” The International Save-the- Child Fund acclaimed her proce dures for rehabilitating juvenile delinquents. France used her “Juvenile Court Handbook” as the basis for its national system. The Federal Council of Churches chose her “Handbook of Stand ards for Jails” as their corner stone for national prison reform. M iss Kaufman also compiled a survey of crime statistics in Georgia that was praised by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School and the American Institute of Crimi nal Law and Criminology. She went on to direct the Atlanta Family Welfare Society from 1930-37. During this period President Herbert Hoover ap pointed her to his White House Conference on Child Welfare. She later managed Atlanta’s Social Planning Council. Experts from around the country lauded her metrowide program of recre ational facilities and her “Report of Health and Welfare in DeKalb and Fulton Counties.” Throughout her career, Miss Kaufman maintained an active role in Atlanta’s Jewish commu nity. She worked with the Atlanta Zionist Council and for the At lanta Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. She also gave instruction in citizen ship to many classes of Jewish immigrants. Her faith, indeed, was an asset to her work. As she explained in a speech to the NCJW, ‘“Social work’ is an art and takes skill and training; but we know it also pre supposes a certain philosophy of life. That philosophy the Jewish people preeminently have. The supreme importance and dignity of the human being as such is fundamental in its teaching, which says, ‘Man is little lower than the angels and therefore to be ap proached with reverence and re spect.’” Atlanta named Rhoda Kaufman its 1944 Woman of the Year in Welfare Work. Even after offi cial retirement in 1945, she stayed busy, publicizing the United Na tions and its efforts to build world peace. When she died in March 1956, the Atlanta Journal eulogized, “Her compassion for others stands as a monument to a life of unsel fish endeavor.” Rhoda Kaufman, in short, made Georgia an early leader in cost- effective social work. The Jewish Braille Institute of America has published an Eng lish translation of the Five Books of Moses in large print for visu ally impaired readers. Published in five spiral-bound volumes, the large-print Torah is now available for free distribu tion to individuals who are un able to read standard-size type. A large-type edition in Hebrew, also designed for those with vision problems, is now being typeset in Israel, complete with vowels and cantillation marks. Barbara B. Friedman of New York, is chair man of the project. The English edition, totaling 600 pages, follows the Jewish Publication Society of America’s 1962 translation of the Five Books of Moses. Special paper was used to reduce glare, a major problem for the visually impaired. The large-print Torah will not be available for purchase but will be distributed free to visually im paired individuals who request it. Funds for the project were raised in a nationwide campaign sparked by a $75,000 challenge grant from the Abe Wouk Found ation, established by novelist Herman and Mrs. Wouk. 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