Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1943 Page: 5 of 8
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January 7, 1943
THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICI
Eexcutive Director Informs City
Concerning Proposed Home for Aged
1. This home for the aged will take in old men and women of
the Jewish faith who are alone and without financial means or have
Adath Emeth
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Home For Aged
no children to help them.
2. We shall take in men and women of the Jewish faith- who
will be able to contribute financially to this home. But in general the
investigating committee will decide about each case individually.
3. Non-contributing guests will be attended to regardless of
any conditions that may arise.
4. »The home will be charged with the responsibility of caring
for both types of guest equally. The status of the guest will be
kept strictly confidential.
5. This home will have syna-
gogue for daily and holiday serv-
ices. • Under these circumstances
all guests will be able to lead an
orthodox religious life. This
home will have a fleishik and
.
milechik kitchen and dietary
laws will be strictly observed. All
guests must agree with the of-
ficials of the home in observing
the rules in keeping this home
strictly kosher.
6. In its early stages this home
will be a home and not a hospital
or convalescent home. We shall
take in normal, healthy old peo-
ple. The home physician shall
examine all applicants before en-
trance into the home. However,
if some applicant who is a partial
invalid or who has a chronic
malady that -is not contagious
wishes to stay in this home, it
might be possible by agreeing to
the following terms:
a. The applicant will not in-
13. The home will also ac-
commodate visiting rabbis, cantors
m’shulachim or pious persons
wishing lodging and food in a
kosher place.
14. All guests in the home will
fill out application Blanks and
mutual consent of children and
parent or parents shall be had be-
fore applicant may enter.
15. In case where children
cannot be contacted, applicant
will sign affidavit that no legal
action can be taken against the
home, for applicant's entrance in-
to this home.
16. All officers of the home
will render services without pay
<«• compensation of any kind.
17. In its early stages the ex-
ecutive director will render serv-
ices without pay or compensation.
18 Officers and board memb-
ers will serve for the term of one
year.
19. The executive director will
terfere with the happiness or the be elected for a term of one year.
lives of the other guests.
b. The home will furnish only
routine medical attention, room,
board, maid and janitor service.
' c. That the applicant will fur-
nish the nurse to give applicants
constant nursing and attention.
' d. If the arrangement is found
unsatisfactory the guest will
willingly move out of the home.
7. As the home grows we
shall add a convalescent ward and
if practical a hospital ward.
8. The home shall furnish
medical and nursing service. The
home doctor shall examine guests
periodically. A nurse who will
also be a dietician, will be a
member of the home personnel.
9. In case of severe illness or
need for an operation among
non-paying guests, the home shall
assume financial responsibility.
10. In case of severe illness
or need for an operation among
contributing guests, the guest or
family will assume financial re-
sponsibility.
11. The home must institute
plans for keeping guests enter-
tained and happily occupied in
every respect.
12. The home shall have a
complete efficient staff: An ex-
ecutive director, a home matron,
a mashgiach (to attend to Kash-
ruth), a trained nurse and dieti-
cian, 2 maids and janitor, office
secretary and receptionist, and
entertainment and occupational
committee composed of board
members and any person of the
Jewish community willing to help;
home physician who will examine
the guests and administer medical
needs.
20. All officers of the home
must be inclined to orthodoxy.
21. All members of this or-
ganization must be of the Jewish
faith. Non-Jews can be contri-
buting members but will not have
the power to vote.
22. Membership dues shall be
$3.00 or more per year. Names
may be placed in the Golden
Book for $5.00 or more. Charter
members of $100.00 or more will
receive a deed on the home for
the amount.
23. In cases of non-contribut-
ing guests who are in need of
small personal items, the home
will furnish them with a small
allowance.
24. All applicants will have to
be accepted by the investigating
committee, regardless of prestige
or influence.
25. In case of a death “may
God forbid,” the body must be
taken to the final resting place
from the home and not from a
chapel. All funeral services will
be uniform for all guests, and
the chevrah kadishah of the home
will take charge with the mem-
bers of the family of the deceased.
26. All organizations or indi-
viduals are welcome to come in
and inspect the home with per-
mission of the executive director,
during visiting hours.
27. When constitution will be
compiled and ratified, then it will
be made public.
I hope this information will
give the Jewish public a clear
and better understanding of this
home for the aged.
Cantor Max Landman,
Executive Director.
At the Board meeting of Con-
gregation Adath Emeth, held Dec.
29, 1942, the resolution was pass-
ed that the Congregation go on
record as favoring the establish-
ment of the Old Age Home re-
cently organized in Houston.
Furthermore, this resolution be
made known to the public.
It was pointed out that the
new home would be an Orthodox
Jewish Home where the Religious
Dietary Laws would be strictly
observed, and where the Orthodox
Jewish Religion and Ritual will
be professed, observed, and prac-
ticed. The board looks with favor
toward the new Old Age Home as
a sister institution since Orthodox
Judaism will be manifested and
be paramount.
We sincerely hope that this
new home will have a long and
very successful life and that as
the years go by it shall prove
itself to be a tribute to the en-
tire Jewish Community of Hous-
ton, and of Texas.
Such an institution can certainly
add to the spiritual life of our
community. It can prove itself
to be an inspiration to the youth
of Judaism, when they see real
evidences of the simplicity, the
beauty and the Morality of a
truly Religious Life, especially
among elderly Jews and Jewesses.
We hope that all Jewry will
support this home and we wish
this new home all the luck in the
world in their great endeavor.
Submitted by the Board of
Trustees of Congregation
Adath Emeth.
S.W. ZIONISTS...
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was the site of the New Year’s
Eve Party given by Cyrus Adler.
434, A Z. A., this year. The
party, undoubtedly the largest
and most successful social event
to occur during the- club’s history,
was deemed a huge success, with
every member of the club attend-
ing.
Dancing was the main feature
of the affair. The ballroom,
which had been granted ex-
clusively to the dub, was elab-
orately decorated in New Year's
Eve style.
During the evening Barney
Moller, a valuable A. Z. A, memb-
er who was leaving the next day
for Chicago and then for the Navy
was presented a man’s traveling
kit by Lester Rosen, president of
the club, while members and their
dates crowded about him.
Seymour Wexler did the lion’s
share of the work in arranging
the affair. He also was chairman.
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PLIGHT OF ORPHANED
REFUGEE CHILDREN WORSENS
Geneva (JPS) — The position
of Jewish refugee children in
France whose parents were de-
ported to Eastern Europe becomes
increasingly alarming, according
to reports from former unoccupied
France. Since the Nazi occupa-
tion of the entire country neither
the American Red Cross nor any
other relief agency has been able
to take care of the children and
to provide food for them, with the
result that they are literally starv-
ing.
The Vichy authorities have
ordered the removal of the chil-
dren to institutions and it is sus-
pected that they are planning to
deport them to Eastern Europe.
taken up and discussed.
The question of the dissident
rabbis and the method of offset-
ting their propaganda was taken
up and discussed. Many of the
executive committee felt that the
time for action was at hand to
show the strength of the Zionists
in this country and were confi-
dent- that a vote would show a
predominant Zionist tinge to the
thinking of American Jewry. A
committee was set up to study
ways and means of offsetting the
work of those dissident rabbis in
Texas, five of the state's rabbis
being among the 90 who declared
that Zionism was opposed to re-
ligious Jewry. Included in the
committee are: A. L. Geller and
L. A. Freed of Houston; J. Swiff,
Galveston; Ben Mark, Corpus
Christi; Ed. Goldburg, San An-
tonio; Morris Catchman, ex-of-
ficio.
A glowing report of the fine
accomplishments of the Region
was brought in by president Mor-
ris Catchman and the members of
the Executive were impressed
with the new spirit engendered
throughout Texas. Under the
able guidance of Herman Getzoff,
the executive director of the
Southwest Region, it is expected
that Zionism in the four states
included in the Region will be
recognized as among the strong
factors in the communal life of
the area.
A heartening report was given
by A. L. Geller, Regional chair-
man of the Jewish National Fund,
who is correlating the work of
the JNF in this area. Nearly a
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hundred thousand dollars has
been subscribed toward the
$2,500,000 JNF Loan already and
more is expected before the
month is over. Mr. Geller also
announced that he has been able
to arrange a tour for a prominent
national figure who will address
the various districts in behalf of
the J. N. F. activities. The tour
will begin in February. M. B.
Resnick, field director tor the
J. N. F„ reported on the recent
J. N. F. National Conference
which was held in Detroit
Ben Mark, dynamic Zionist stal-
wart, had charge of the program
planning and brought to the at-
tention of the assembly the fine
work of the Corpus Christi Dis-
trict. A long range program plan
was agreed upon by the Execu-
tive. The question of youth in-
terest was also discussed and a
fund was voted to the Youth
Commission in this behalf.
A luncheon prepared by Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Catchman was served
at the Center with Mrs. Catchman
and Mrs. A. L. Geller as hostesses.
thodox. Those who
their own homes naturally
as they wish, and of
we have placed in private !
we have been able to
Orthodox environment
the request is mads.
We wash to indicate,
the service of the Jewish •
Bureau does not oeese wti
extension of financial aid.
old person, no leas than a
person, is an individual wi
own emotions and
the case worker and the
visor of the Jewish Welfare
eau always are available to
cuss and plan on a sound
details at these problems
our aged men and '
are some medical
volved. and these, too,
careful thought and
Whenever there are
attempt to secure their
cooperation and social fa
We feel, too, that it i
a serious mistake to place
our aged people in one ;
giving them all the
care. Good profeasional
workers now believe
people should not be
their Individuality and
ence, and of their
rights to plan their lives as
see fit It is the function of
workers to help these aged |
to formulate their own ]
to render whatever
necessary.
And. finally, upon the
our experience in the
of Houston over a period of 1
years, we are firmly
that there arc no needy
people in the city who
properly cared for. If
any, the Jewish Welfare
stands prepared to extend to
every financial and social
required according to
need, thus enabling them to
out their remaining
curity and in
their own choosing.
In light of the above i
tions, we of the Jewish
Bureau call upon the.
m unity Council of
Houston also to make
its position in reference
proposed Home for the
the Jewish community <
ton. Similarly, we
me Sterne Wolff
to state its position.
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White, D. H. Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1943, newspaper, January 7, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1102900/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .