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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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FROM CAMPUS TO CAMP
Hillel's Program for Jewish Students in Uniform
quads, along the campus, or down college campus. At the presen t
the streets. These youngsters, writing, 118 universities are in
who will number 150,000 by the the Hillel orbit. On the other
end of 1943, are all part of the hand, the Jewish Welfare Board
Editor's Note: How the conversion of the American college campus
was very ready to take the re-
into training camps for students in unform has altered Jewish armed forces. They receive basic
life on the campuses and how the Bnai Brith, through its pay; they are under rigid mill- campuses where its ow agreement
Hillel Foundations and Counselorships, is serving the student
discipline. But they are back er was available. The agreement
trainees, from the theme of this study by Dr. Sachar, who in school for the concentrates! made it possible for two great
developed the Hillel wartime program, which is superimposed training that will weld them into national agencies to cover vir-
upon its normal fabric of service.
an indispensable part of the spe- tually the entire college area.
cialized staffs that are so des- and to bring much appreciated
Few institutions have been leges themselves were not per; perately needed in a war that has service to thousands of Jewish
changed more radically by the 'flitted to lapse into a wartime become largely technical. trainees.
war than the American college. non-essential. Their teaching
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Jewish life on the American
The Hillel program for the
Students are in the primary mil- staffs and their superb technical
itary reservoir and consequently facilities could be admirably in- campus has, inevitably, been as trainees is a highly diversified
all the physically fit have been tegrated into the war effort. radically transformed. In pre-war one. Of course, the young people,
subject to call. At the close .4' Hence, it was planned to send days, there were more than 105,- under strict military discipline,
the school year, in the summer back to the colleges tens of 000 Jewish students registered in have only a limited amount of
of 1943, virtually all the able- thousands of young people, an American universities, approxi- free time. Their leisure is usu-
bodied men about 18 had been ideal quarry for officership ma- mately 11 per cent of the total ally concentrated in the period
siphoned out, and were scattered terial and for technological train- registration. They comprised the between Saturday afternoon and
most strategic area from which Sunday after mess. But even in
through the training camps of ing.
future Jewish leadership could be this narrow span it is possible
America and on the fighting
The American college campus drawn. To sustain the Jewish to do a great deal for youngsters
fronts of the world. Yet the co! is now a military camp. Gone are
loyalty of these privileged young who are completely uprooted,
the nonchalant and the ambling people and to train them for pounded all week on the anvil of
ways of yesterday, the long files community responsibility, B'nai concentrated routine, and almost
Greetings of the Season!
of happy-go-lucky boys and
B'rith, America's oldest and larg- poignantly grateful for the hos-
crowding the cloistered college est Jewish service organization, pitality that brings wholesome
walks, the horseplay of fraternity provided guidance and stimula- Jewish companionship.
and sorority rushing, and the tion, through the Hillel Founda-
Regular religious services are
other carefree concomitants of tions and their carefully develop- available
for those who want
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terspersed with the colorful col- dynamic personalities, and admin- In most cases, such a special
umns of Wacs and Waves, istrative skills, were to be util- service interferes too much with
come swinging through the ized to create a kind of kehillah the military routine, and there-
on the campus. For 20 years, the fore the religious exercises are
"normal" years between the wars, generally held on Sunday morn-
HOLIDAY GREETING'
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tural and religious values vital very welcome break in routine,
and relevant for the college gen- and B'nai B'rith's Hillel Directors
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The transformation of the great lengths of resourcefulness
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expedient to send military chap-
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ent that the Foundations had
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Areas of jurisdiction we re
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quickly cleared with the Jewish
Welfare Board officials. A series
of conferences resulted in a grat-
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ifying cooperative arrangement. It
was agreed that the long experi-
ence and the specialized facilities
Detroit and Chicago
which the Hillel Foundation pos-
sessed, admirably fitted Hillel to
assume the largest responsibility
for the Jewish trainees on the
BARBECUE and
By DR. A. L. SACHAR
National Director of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations
to devise attractive techniques so
that the holiday periods may be
aesthetic and refreshing. Tile
largest opportunity for original-
ity is of course offered during
the Passover season. But Purim
carnivals and Chanukah festivals
are not far behind and, above all,
the regular Oneg Shabbat, has
become a memorable tradition on
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