The Charlotte Jewish News - November, 1995 - Page 4
Jewish Family Services
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The following individuals purchased donation cards in September through Jewish Family Services:
In Honor Of:
David Soldinger
Heidi Rotberg
Alan & Lorraine Gordon
Philip Naumoff, M.D.
Rose Weisman
In Memory of;
Barnet Goldberg
Father of Marilyn Dix
Mother of
Dr. Edward Green
For;
Bar Mitzvah
Speedy Recovery
Naming of Daughter,
Avalon Solange Lena
Retirement from Medical
Practice
Speedy Recovery
From;
Alan and Ruth Goldberg
Allen and Marcelle Oxman
Robert and Anne Yudell
John and Judy Crosland
Debra Foster/Michael Jaffa
Mike and Marilyn Tuckman
Hugo & Helga Rosenberger
From;
Michael and Heidi Rotberg
Mike & Marilyn Tuckman
Mom, Nadine, Laurie and
Danny
Milt and Judy Tager
Gerald and Fay Sinkoe
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Infants to Elderly
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“Caring for ottiers with com
passion, understanding, honesty
and dependat)ility is the purpose
of Chailotle Care Services.”
—Jonnie Shelton, President
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563-7611
Carolina Place Mall
541-8232
Adrienne Rosenberg
The mood of the country on
all levels is to lower costs and to no
longer provide the governmental
safety nets to vulnerable popula
tions. The aim is to lower govern
ment costs by slashing social “en
titlements.” Thus, we hear about
block grants and going to families
and die [Mivate sectarian community
for funding. In the areas of subsi
dized housing, the elderly, children,
legal services, physical health and
mental health provisions, refugees
and legal immigrants, the working
poor, and public education will be
affected.
The reality among others is
that if the block grant programs go
into effect in Fiscal Year 19%, North
Carolina would be one of the big
gest losers among the 50 states.
That’s because the formula for fig
uring the size of the block grant to
each state penalizes this state be
cause it has low unemployment, low
incomes, and has not aggressively
sought federal funds in the past five
years. The state would lose $209
million over the next five years in
cash welfare payments, as much as
12% of its current spending. Most
other states would lose 6% to 11%.
As a result of these cuts and
.with the knowledge that Jews in fi
nancial need in our community will
then turn to community agencies for
help in greater demand, the Federa
tion has, at the request of JFS, ap
pointed a Welfare Reform Task
Force to address the options avail
able to the entire Jewish community
in the areas of community aware
ness, information gathering, policy,
and advocacy. The Task Force is
co-chaired by Lx)is Benjamin and
Marilyn TUckman. Other members
include Vicki Hopkins, Seth D.
Levy, Adrienne Rosenberg Staff,
Elaine Schefflin, Tammy Seigel,
Alene Strause and Leslie Winner.
In reality, Jewish continuity
planning which does not address the
centrality of Hesed (kindness) and
Tzedakah (righteousness) and sup
port programs which carry out our
responsibility to help those who are
hurting (children, elderly, disabled,
financially strapped) will be empty
ofttie vital meaning of Judaism. The
centrality of Judaism is not brick and
mortar but regard for others.
Currently there are 26 Jew
ish persons living in subsidized hous
ing in Chariotte. These are elderly
and disabled individuals living on
Hxed incomes. If subsidized hous
ing costs go up by $50, they will
have to limit the medications they
buy. Thus, they get poorer. There
will be more children at risk and in
need of scholarships to ti& into the
Jewish community from the JCC, the
Temple religious schools, the pre
school, and the day school. JFS and
the Blumenthal Home, which are
mandated to serve all Jewish senicM^,
will Hnd that many of our clients are
older, more infirm or strapped fman-
cially, and have fewer options. The
Blumenthal Home currently has 22
Chariotte residents, 14 of whom are
on Medicaid. The state does not re
imburse nursing homes at full costs
for Medicaid now, so any cuts will
hurt the Home even more. Many of
these persons went in as private pay
but then had to go on Medicaid
when ^ir own funds were depleted.
The punitive refugee and inunigrant
bills would limit the number of Jews
coming from the former Soviet
Union, dius throwing Jews back into
anti-Semitic systems. The Commu
nity Tzedakah Fund, administered
by JFS, would not be able to be
supplemented as much by commu
nity agencies, thus limiting what we
can offer people. Managed care is
already limiting health care for
people in the community, a middle
class nightmare in some situations.
This article is too short to list
all of the possible ways7ews will be
totally affected. To learn more, I will
be glad to provide you with a paper
I recently wrote on this subject if you
will just call me at 364-6594. How
ever, I want each of you to know
that, while we have fewer pockets
of poverty in our community than
in the general community, in no way
should any of you assume that
present “welfare reform” cuts will
not hurt fellow Jews!
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