Page 4-THE NE WS~October. 1981
L’Chaim
By. L. Louis Ablert, ACSW.
Director Federation
Social Services
The hot and lazy days of sum
mer have come and gone. The
children are back in school and
those long awaited vacations are
finished. It's the time of the
year when many people start to
think about jobs: changing
jobs, moving into job market
for the first time, or getting
back to it after a break. The
feeling is strong to make a
change or to start something
new and exciting. So what to do
about it.
You conscientiously spread
out the Sunday newspaper and
look through the Help Wanted
ads. Not too much of interest it
seems. Your friends are suppor
tive but don’t have too many
suggestions. Perhaps you even
respond to some of the ads:
make some telephone calls, fill
out a few applications. Most
employers don’t brother to res
pond at all, so that after two
weeks the feelings of frustration
and anger have begun to build.
Another two weeks go by and
nothing develops, so you begin
to think that looking for a job
wasn’t such a good idea. Maybe
things will be better in the Spr
ing....
Looking for a satisfying job
is hard work. It takes a lot of
organized effort and cannot be
done in an hour or two every
few days. Before even beginning
to search several important
decisions must be made. These
fall into the general category of
defining your job requirements.
First, are you seeking full or
part time employment? If part
time then what hours and days
are best for you. Would you
consider working some nights
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this area can be a real asset in-
your search.
Second, are you seeking a
“job’’ job or a position that fits
into some career plans. The
answer to this will surely point
in some'directions more clearly
than others. Are you working
mainly for the income or is the
nature of the job experience im
portant also? Many time they’re
of equal importance.
What geographic area of
Charlotte would you like to
work in? Downtown, southeast
Charlotte, near the University
of North Carolina or maybe in
the nearby towns or cities. Some
people are more willing and/or
able to commute a distance to
work than others.
Third, what about transpor
tation. Do you drive and have
access to an automobile? If not,
can you arrange a ride or would
public transporation work out.
Fourth, what is the Minimun
salary that you will accept? Of
course, nobody has problems
with accepting a maximum
salary. You will want to exclude
some companies on the basis of
salary if you have definite re
quirements. It’s often helpful to
think in terms of a salary range,
rather than a specific amount.
Answering these questions
will provide you with a bare
outline of the general
characteristics of your new job.
At this stage you can begin to
see the size of the job market
that is open to you. If you’re
now looking for a part time job
on Tuesday and Wednesday
that’s located in' southeast
Charlotte and pays $25,000 a
year, then it may be time to re
examine your expectations and
see if there is some room for
flexibility. If things are looking
pretty good at this point, it’s
time to assess your skills and
vocational interests. Many peo
ple put themselves down and do
not recognize the valuable skills
and experience they have
developed over the years.
Volunteering for community
organizations certainly counts,
in looking over what you have
done and what you can now do
in a paying position.
For further information and
assistance call Lou Albert,
366-0357.
For The
Record
By Norman 01shiuuk:{r
RefkHMl Director
Anti-Defamation League
A very special wish to all of
the readers of this column for a
happy, healthy, productive and
meaningful new year.
Slips of the tongue, ig
norance, humor or bigotry? 1
have just responded today to
three unrelated incidents involv
ing a T. V. Evangelist, a County
Administrator and a candidate
for the State Legislature. Each
incident occured in different
parts of our region but by coin
cidence all came to the attention
of the ADL at about the same
time.
The first statement made by
the evangelist was as part of his
introduction of a guest on his
TV program who had put her
life together as a result of a
religious experience. He said,
**She had become not only a
drug addict, a prostitute,
became a lesbian, the filth of
the world, and then Jewish.
Almost a hopeless situation.”
The second was a self in
troduction by a county ad
ministrator prior to giving a talk
to a group of professionals. He
told how he grew up in the
State, was in the service and
came back to a prestigious State
school for a degree in ** Jewish
Engineering.’ He went on to
define his studies further as
business administration.
The third incident was a state
ment made during a campaign
speech by a candidate running
in the primary for his Party’s
nomination. He said that
“...we’d be better off if only
Christians were elected” to
public office..
The statement were not fun
ny. Minimally, they were insen
sitive. Possibly, they were in
dicative of outright hostile at
titudes towards Jews. It’s hard
to accept in 1981 that such
stereotypes would still be ut
tered by individuals who are
currenty in positions of respon
sibility or who desire to have a
leadership role in their com
munities and in government.
Even if one sees such
statements as slips of the
tongue, the message given is
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operated at and by a Lubavitch
summer camp for boys, was
dedicated near here at Camp
Gan Israel.
The principle speaker at the
dedication ceremonies for
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was Robert Hardesty, chairman
of the Board of Governors of
the U.S. Postal Service. Com
menting that this was the first
time in the history of the U.S.
postal system that a “Hebrew
name appears in a postmark in
America, “Hardesty said the
Hasidic camp post office “sym
bolizes recognition of creativi
ty.**
TimeShMring Hotel Group
to Expand
TEL AVIV (Jerusalem Post)
— Robert Danial, the 22 year
old vice-president of the Inter
national Time Ownership
Group, is planning to form a
chain of “time-sharing” hotels
in Israel.
During the past year, prices
of a time-sharing room (which a
person can use for one week
each year) have increased con
siderably. If the price for a
room in the off season one year
ago was $1,0(X), it now $1,500;
if the high season then cost
$3,900, it in now $4,4(X).
“And the average price in the
in between season has risen
from $2,200 to $3,(XX),” Danial
says. “A room in a con
dominium has risen from
$66,000 to $70,000.” Part of
the hike, of course, is due to the
devaluation of the dollar, but a
generous portion is due to the
fact that the time-sharing
scheme has caught on. So far 40
percent of the buyers have been
Americans, 20 percent English,
15 percent French, and the rest
scattered. If the “time-sharer”
does not care to come one year,
he exchanges with some else.
Fanner Judge Fined
For Denying The Existence of
The Holocaust
BONN (JTA) — A former
judge from Hamburg was fined
6,(XK) Marks by a court in Kiel
for claiming that there were no
gas chambers during Hitler’s
regime and no Jews were
murdered by the Nazis. The
man, Wilhelm Staglich, author
of a recent pamphlet “The
Auschwitz Myth”, made both
claims in a letter to a federal
court judge.
After he was found guilty,
Staglich, who was in trouble
recenty for making disparaging
remarks about German police,
was quoted by a German weekly
as saying: “It cost me 450
Marks to insult policemen,
while insulting Jews drew a fine
of 6,000 Marks. That’s typical
of the German judicial system.”
Pr-Arab, Anti-Israel Articles
Widespread In Mexican Media
MEXICO CITY (JTA) —The
Central Jewish committee
published in a local daily. Ex
celsior, a statement condemning
a large number of pro-Arab and
pro-Palestinian articles and car
toons in other local media
which the statement calls
“openly poisonous” against
Israel and opposed Jewish
rights to Jerusalem.
The statement said one of the
' journalists is a Communist
member of the Mexican Parlia
ment, Graco Ramirez, who ac
cused Israel of “genocide”
against the “Palestinian people
in Lebanon” and demanded
that the Mexican government
halt oil shipments to Israel.
Similar declarations were
published by the local branch of
the Arab League and a group of
Mexican leftist politicians, in-
tellecutals and writers suppor
ting the “just cause” of the
Palestinians. The Central
Jewish Comihittee said these
declarations contained even the
signatures of some Jewish anti-
Zionists.
Police Battle With .
UltM-Ortbodox
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Police fired tear gas to disperse
a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews
in the city’s religious Mekor
Baruch quarter when they tried
to prevent police from removing
the body of a suspected murder
victim. The crowd feared that
an autopsy would be performed
on the body, in violation of
halacha.
French Official Orders Action
Against Anti-Sanitic Literature
PARIS (JTA) — Interior
Minister Gaston Deferre has
asked all the country’s regional
governors and police chiefs to
apply all available laws to pre
vent the dissemination of anti-
Semitic literature. He called on
the government appointed
governors to bear in mind the
“dangerous and obnoxious”
character of this type of
literature and, if necessary, to
use their authority to ban its
distribution.
Research Conducted To
Combact Gaucher’s
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Research efforts are underway
to combat Gaucher’s disease, a
little known progressive and as
yet incurable inherited genetic
disorder that strikes approx
imately one in every 2,5(X)
Ashkenazi Jews.
As estimated one in every 25
Jewish people are ■ otherwise
healthy carriers of the recessive
disease causing gene. When two
carriers have children, there is a
one in four chance that a child
will receive the recessive gene
from each parent required to
cause the disease. In the New
York metropolitan area alone,
more than 1,(XX) Ashkenazi
Jews suffer from Gaucher’s and
over 120,000 are carriers of the
Gaucher gene.
Patients with Gaucher’s
disease lack sufficient amount
of glucocerebroside, an enzyme
needed to break down and
eliminate a particular fitty
substance in cells. The result is a
rapid proliferation of abnormal
blood cells containing the fatty
substance which accumulate
within the spleen, liver, bone
marrow and lung causing
sysmptoms which inclu-
deanemia, increased suscep
tibility to infection, abnormal
blood clotting and bone pain
and fractures.