Eighty percent of the nation’s 5,720,000 Jews live in 12 metropolitan centers and 50 percent of this number live in New York, Rabbi Daniel L. Davis, director of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues, reported yesterday.
In a report to the Federation’s annual Assembly of Delegates, Rabbi Davis cited the figures as the basis for the continued concerns of synagogues in New York City. He mentioned the mobility of the Jewish population, changing neighborhoods and rising synagogues and operational costs which, he said, deprive low income Jewish families of many congregational services.
Harry K. Gutmann, Federation president, told the delegates, representing 101 Reform temples in the metropolitan area and eastern Connecticut, that the Federation was opening in September in Manhattan the first Jewish Counseling Center in the United States to deal with family and individual problems. In the Center, methods of preventive psychiatry will be applied to marriage counseling, intermarriage, interracial marriages, juvenile rebellion and drug addition.
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