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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1985 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
postorials, opinions, etc
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The Year At The UN
The 40th session of the United Nations Gener-
al Assembly concluded December 18, and the consensus
opinion prevailing at the world organization is that the
past few months were more productive and more
balanced in tone than previous years.
This development is the result of several factors, and
the United States’ strong stand on numerous positions
at the UN is chief among them. Vernon Walters,
successor to Jean Kirkpatrick as chief U.S. delegate to
the UN, has stood firm on moral grounds and denounced
those hypocrites that permeate the UN halls.
Furthermore, there has been a general decline in the
oil power of the Arab states and a change of allegiance
in many countries who had at one time lined up behind
the Arab bloc to denounce Israel. Also, the Soviet Union
was the victim for the first time of Arab terrorism this
past year, as Soviet diplomats in Beirut were kidnapped
and one of them was assassinated by Moslem
extremists.
Before concluding this year’s session, the UN took
two bold steps toward combatting terrorism. First was
the UN General Assembly’s unanimous resolution
condemning “as criminal all acts, methods, and
practices of terrorism whoever and whomever com-
mitted, including those which jeopardize friendly
relations among states and their security.”
Secondly, the UN Security Council, with the U.S. and
the Soviet Union in an unusual agreement, called for the
release of all hostages wherever and by whomever they
are held. The 15-member Security Council also
condemned all acts of hostage taking and kidnap-
ping without refering to any specific instances.
However, before adjourning, the General Assem-
bly adopted a series of anti-Israel resolutions concluding
with a statement that condemned Israel of “war-crimes”
on the West Bank. This is an outrage and reflects the
continued inability of the UN to control extre-
mist nations in the world organization.
It was not the most successful year, but the session
which began with much pomp and circum-
stance with the arrival of the heads of many states was
not an altogether unsatisfactory session.
ADL Will Pay Legal
Fees For Soviet Pit
ters
Corn. From Page 1
than accept an offer of
probation. They began serv-
ing 15-day sentences Dec.
13.
Spokesmen of the Wash-
ington Board of Rabbis have
repeatedly stressed that the
hope of those who went to
jail was to focus atten-
tion on the persecution of
Jews in the Soviet Union
and not on their own
imprisonment.
Leavy also ' mica ted that
the committees will offer
similar services to anyone
proseci y for demonstrat-
ing outsit e the South Afri-
can Embassy. None of the
hundreds of anti-apartheid
protestors arrested to date
has been prosecuted, some-
thing which has prompt-
ed charges of “selective
prosectuion” by the convict-
ed rabbis and their at-
torneys.
An appeal of the District
Court’s refusal of bond for
the rabbis pending an appeal
of their convictions was
rejected last Friday, accord-
ing to Dan Goldstein, an
attorney for one of the
groups of rabbis convicted
this month.
Two other groups of
Soviet Jewry protestors are
scheduled to be tried next
month and might also
consider opting for jail,
although no decisions have
been made, according to
spokesmen for the Washing-
ton Board of Rabbis.
Goldstein, who is also
chairman of the ADL’s Balti-
more Law Committee, and
Edward Levin, a counter-
part in the ADL’s D.C.
office, will coordinate the
program to provide the legal
costs for arrested protes-
tors. This will be the first
time the committees —
which include some 80 attor-
neys as members — will be
involved in the defense of
individuals facing criminal
prosecution, Leavy said.
Meanwhile, Jewish
groups are seeking to use
the conviction of the rabbis
and the imprisonment of the
five to stimulate heighten-
ed Jewish involvement in
the Soviet Jewry issue
throughout the country, a
Soviet Jewry activist said.
He said a telegram cam-
paign has been launched to
express support for the
rabbis and their cause to
Attorney General Edwin
Meese.
Longevity Forecast For American Jews
BY BEN GALLOB
[Copyright 1985, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.]
of the facilities were designed to provide
institutional care.”
Residents of housing facilities in the
New York area for senior citizens,
sponsored by the Jewish Association for
Services for the Aged (JASA), who were
found in a JASA survev to have enioved
an “extraordinary increase in leongevity
will have an even greater increase in life
expectancy, according to a JASA offic
cial. He also predicted a parallel growth in
old age dependency.
More data on JASA programs appears
in a progress report for 1985 which also
surveys other JASA services in New York
City and on Long Island, including case
work, senior centers, home care, adult
education and public affairs programs.
The forecast was made by Bernard
Warach, JASA executive director, re-
porting on a survey of more than 2,000
residents in JASA-sponsored housing in
New York City. Two-thirds of the elderly
Jews are more than 75 years of age and 20
percent are older than 85, for exceed-
ing the.city-wide norms of 40 percent and
eight percent, respectively. Warach
reported that the average age of all JASA
residents is 79.
According to the progress report, the
lack of affordable housing in the New York
metropolitan area is a special hard-
ship for the elderly. With the vacancy
rate for rental housing remaining rigidly
at two percent, Carl Glick, JASA presi-
dent, and Warach said that one-third of
elderly householders in the area “spend
almost 40 percent of their income on rent,
a figure that they and the housing
authorities consider excessive.”
For this reason, they reported, “JASA
has pursued development of housing for
the elderly, with supportive services, as a
prime objective” since its start in 1968.
The findings are given in “Suppor-
tive Services in Housing for the Elderly:
Emerging Needs and Problems,” a report
on the elderly residents of seven such
JASA housing facilities in Brooklyn,
Queens and Manhattan. JASA is a
member agency of the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies of New York. The
report stressed the need for supportive
services to ensure the well-being of the
elderly tenants.
Glick and Warach said the key to the
JASA housing problem is the provi-
sion of social service staff at all JASA
housing facilities. They said daily group
activities are also available, along with
lunch programs, at five of the seven
facilities. JASA operates a total of 24
senior centers offering kosher hot lunch
and activities throughout New York City
and on Long Island.
The report also found that 60 percent of
the residents live alone as widows and
widowers. The JASA survey found that
only 21 percent had living children. Many
of the children of the elderly residents live
more than an hour’s drive from the
housing project where their parents live.
They said all JASA housing facili-
ties have safety features and round-
the-clock security service. Government
subsidies enable residents to have to pay
in rents no more than 30 percent of their
income. At market rates, the mostly
one-bedroom apartments would be far
beyond their financial means.
Warach said this meant that a majority
of the residents cannot depend on their
children to come to their aid quickly in a
crisis. With 21 percent of the resi-
dents estimated to be physically dis-
abled, Warach declared the supportive
services offered by JASA become cru-
cially important. These include social
work, activities, lunch programs and home
care, he reported.
Warach predicted that, based on
current national life expectancies, JASA
housing residents will rise from the
present average age of 79 to 85 or even
more. He called this “a significant
measure of a benign, secure environ-
ment which provides a range of sup-
portive services at the choice of the
residence.”
Warach stressed that the JASA
objective to help the elderly to maintain
normal lives in their own residencies
remained the major policy for JASA
planning of community facilities “but none
But there is a negative side to that
expectation, Warach pointed out, declar-
ing that since greater longevity will
produce an increase in disability, “ways
and means must be found to provide
See Longevity Page 14
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