:Page 12 - The Canadian Jewish Nev/s, Friday, December 6, 1974
Rhona Belitsky co-ordinates Family Aid, a volunteer team of 24 women formed . to act as a liaison between Jewish Family Service social workers and clients.
Volunteers, workers Join to create effective team
By ELLIE eOLEMAN
MONTREAL -
Jewish Family Services has forged a new tool to
- help its social workers serve .the community more effectively.
It: is a volunteer team of 24 women, each of whom is being assigned to a client for a 1/2 day per week, to act as a liaison
.between -the JFS social.
; worker .and tlje client in
■ his or. her hofne situa-
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Family Aid is the name of the. program. It* eg-, ordinator is Rhona BeTit.-' ; sky, an attractive mother • of two with 12 years.of volunteering experience : to draW upon.
At the request,of the
.former executive-direc-: tor at JFS, Saul Brown-st^in, Mrs. Belitsky has been organizing Faniily Aid since July. The volunteers are now prepared to begin their home visits.
"These volunteers are an extension of the ser-
. vices the social worker giveis," she said. "When social workers had fewer • cases.to handle they did. home visits.: Now that their caseloads are so heavy, tliey would like to be al)le to depend on volunteers to make those visits -- to take the client out, help her shop, give her some help in nutrition, or on how to budget •a little better . . . There are many people'who just' don't have the natural resources to pick themselves up and get involved in something or do what has. to be done in order for them to function.''^
Mi-s.fielitsky.,said.that in many cases an immigrant family benefits from the presence of a ;Caha-dian voluntefer who can explain the customs here and help them to bix.
"For example, a volunteer, can let immigrant parents know that in our Ganadian wayof life; it's all right to call.the principal should their child be '., having a. problem at school. Often, the children blend well into C&-nadian life, while the par-
'■ ents are left behind.v '
In addition to helping the client: directly, the volunteer, provides valuable feedback for the so - -cial worker. Often the ; volunteer picks up some- . thing significant while in a social setting with the
, client, a point the social workei- may have been trying to get out into the open for months, she said.
.  "I would like to stress that the volunteers will -not be going into any home
without the social worker first preparing the client." Mrs. Belitsky said. "There is constant supervision of tjie volunteer by the social worker and the volunteer may call the social worker for advice at. any time. Both discuss the goals they hope to accomplish with the client."
The volunteers will have a chance to share their experiences at group, meetings held every two ' weeks in the program's early'.stages, and once a month, after it has been in, operation for three oi" four . months.
To create a cohesive volunteer group, capable of airing its problems and giving support to its members, Mrs. Belitsky and JFS socia.1 workers^ arranged a series of four orientation sessions.
"The primary thrust is to give the volunteers the confidence to go into somebody else's home, which in itself is a hard thing to do for most people." she said. '.;
At the time of this interview,. two orientation sessions had taken place. Mrs. Belitsky said she could already feel the group evolving.
For the first session, the JFS director of professional services. Mer-vin Moss, explained the history and philosophy of JFS as well as the services It offers. The aim was to. give the volunteers a feelingofaffiliation with-the agency. . "1 must say that the women walked out of that first meeting very frightened," the volunteer leader recalled. . "1 did not call anybody back afterwards. I expected.about 1/2 to come back and 1 wouldn't have been disappointed, because Iwantr ed them to weed themr selves out.
"If they were frightened, it was better they realized it anddidV.'t con--tinue. But, lo and behold, the second orientation meeting took place and there was 100% : attendance. Nobody.had dropped out." •
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birth of each social order, there's new translation of Biby
, By jjfcAIggA LOUISE
TORONTO -
Holy Blossom Temple celebrated the publication of Rabbi   W. Gunther Plaut's Commentary on . Genesis with a lecture by Dr. Harry M.Orlinsky, world-renowned Biblical authority.-and a wine and cheese reception.: Representatives,of the community -- Jews, Catho-. lies and Protestants — attended. Among the invited guests   was . Dr. Bruce McLeod. minister of the Bloor Street United Church, formerlvmoder-ator of the United Church of Canada.
Dr. Orlinsky, professor of Bible at the New York School of the Hebrew Union College,, is; editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society's new translation of The Torah. He was the first Jewish scholar in^ vited to join a committee rewriting a Christian edition of the Bible ~ The Revised Standard Version of the Old Testament, published m 1952.
"We are in the fourth great age of Bible translation and Biblecommen-tary." Dr. Orlmskv began. He explained that after the birth of every new historical social order.
there follows "a new meaningful translation of the Bible and a new mean-, ingful commentary. Bible commentaries make the book teachable on both secular school and rabr binical school levels'." . : Lacing humor jwith his
_facts. this noted essayist
jjhen traced the development' of Bible translation and commentary from e'arliest times — when Jews lived in Israel and read the Bible in its original Hebrew vernacular.
"There will never be publications to equal these two translations in im^ portance." Dr. Orlinsky' declared: "The : Greek Bible is that of the early Church. The Aramaic version is consideredsa-
. cred by Jews."
The second great age
. of Bible translation derived, from the Latin "Vul-" gate" version of Roman times. Based on the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek origin'of the New . Testament, it received widespread use by the Christian communit-
■ les.
Surging with Christian protests against the Catholic Church and tumult from the dving feudal order. . the 16th and 17th centuries established a need for the third wave
of Bible translation and Bible commentary. Dr. Orlinsky said that people wanted to read the Bible in a language,they could understand. Luther! s German vernacular and Tindel's English were the most important versions to emerge. The King James Version is the eighth revisionof Tindel's English translation.
"Bible sales were meagre during the :18th and 19th centuries, known as ages of reason -and enlightenment," Dr. Orlinsky observed dryly. "But it took, a world war,. a world-wide ' depression and the rise of totalitarianism to prove that Lur ther and King James were no longer applicable. ■ "People wanted a new. translation which would arise from archeology and other scientific accounts they could understand,.", he explained. The arrival
of the American Standard Version for Protestants, in 1952, enjoyed boom ing sales. In 1970, the New American BJble was published for Roman Catholics — based on the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament; The British replaced The King James and the Revised Version of 1885, with the New English . Bible, also published in 1970.
It took a little longer for the Jewish Publication Society to organize because their last revision had come out in 1917. The Jewish version will be complete in three years.
"We are now into the ■ fourth great age of.commentary. Genesis by Rabbi Plant is the first commentary for the Jewish" community, based on the new Jewish version," Dr. Orlmskv concbided.
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