Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago a woman in her late 80s who lives in an old-age home contributed her entire savings of $100. In New York City a nurse walked across the street to the United Jewish Appeal with a $1,000 check from a patient who was waiting to be examined. In Paterson, N.J., a woman came into the U.J.A. office to say that although her husband had given, she was donating her engagement ring. In Miami 92-year-old Mayshie Friedberg spent 100 hours during the week selling bonds. In Portland, Ore., children went out into the streets to hawk buttons...
...some cases, their lives. No event since the Nazi holocaust has so shaken them, so convinced them that it is now or never for Israel, for Judaism, for themselves. "The Auschwitz theme is back again," says Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the Interreligious Affairs Department of the American Jewish Committee. "The issue of Jewish survival is again at stake. You can't have Judaism without Jews. The war assumes a metaphysical importance beyond the importance of individual Jewish lives." Clifford A. Straus, who is organizing bond rallies in Miami, made the same point: "We're scared...
...year. Since the outbreak of war, $175 million has been pledged, of which $100 million has already been given in cash. At a meeting last week between officials of Israel Bonds and Israel Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, a goal of $642 million was set for March 1974. The United Jewish Appeal announced a campaign to raise $750 million for Israel; the U.J.A. of Greater New York collected $25 million in one 48-hour period in the first week...
...handling volunteers in Boston. "Some of the older people who call give me hell when I tell them they can't go." Volunteers are carefully screened by psychologists and social workers to weed out drug users and cranks. "We want to make sure they are committed to the Jewish situation and social justice," says Naomi Seligman, a psychiatric social worker at Brooklyn Community Counseling Service. "We don't want them because they are adventurers, although that may be a factor in the motivation of many acceptable candidates. I'm very impressed with these kids...
Parents who only yesterday were worried about their kids' boredom and indifference are now frantic about their commitment. Alan Weisberg, 21, president of the Jewish Student Union at Brooklyn College, was urged by his parents to stay home. What about school, law boards, the danger? Replied Weisberg: "How can you equate a job or profession with the survival of the Jewish people and Israel?" Discussion ended. Stuart Rosenberg dropped out of Indiana's Earlham College to return to the country where he spent a year studying. "My going over," he said, "doesn't really matter a drop...