Friday, September 7, MS

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle

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AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH PROBLEMS
AND POTENTIALITIES

returning veteran and to usher I lance as "battle fatigue." Many, the American Jewish community,
in one phaso and undoubtedly the perhaps most of these young men including the facilities of the
most important department of will return quickly to good health Bnai Brith Vocational Service
Hillel's post-war program.
under the ministrations of pa- Bureau, and the individual stu-
By RABBI HARRY KAPLAN
The Hillel War Service Depart- tient parents and relatives and dent. But equally important will
Director Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at Ohio State University
ment, in its bulletins, literature the friendship of understanding be the Hillel director's role as a
With partial demobilization under way, thousands of
and conferences has already laid counselors.
personal and psychological coun-
veterans are resuming their college and university educa-
an effective ground-work for
selor. The returning veteran will
It
is
already
apparent
that
one
tion.. The impact of these returning veterans is giving
meeting the needs of the soldier of the most challenging fields in
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shape to the post-war campus. In this timely analysis of
turned student. The discerning Hillel's post-war program will be
the problems confronting Jewish veterans who have gone
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Hillel director will not, as some the development and expansion of
back to college, Rabbi Kaplan, head of the Bnai Brills
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Hashonah
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Hillel Foundation at Ohio State University and director
do, regard the returning veteran an effective counseling program,
of Hillel's war service department, pre-views the post-war
as a problem. He will recognize, both for the returning veteran
campus, with special reference to Jewish students and to
in his realism and understanding and the continuing civilian stu-
the role which the 118 Hillel units will play in meeting
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of youth, that most young veter- dent bodies. These counseling
their problems—THE EDITOR.
ans will adjust successfully and needs will increase rather than
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In the optimistic days of the finally international conflict it- without too much strain to the diminish in the post war world.
1920's, a student movement was self, Hillel continued and broad- duties and responsibilities of Veterans and younger students
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state university, which has now the American college student. in the shop and office or on the ance in job-placement, vocational
developed into the national and Far from being weakened by the campus.
problems and proper choice of
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international program of the Bnai decline of male enrollment at But it would be folly to as- careers. Hillel can thus continue
Brith Hillel Foundations. The rav- the colleges, Hillel began a strik- sume that the war-searing ex- as the effective bridge between the
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ages of the first World War were ing period of war service to over periences would leave our youth vocational guidance resources of ti
not completely erased by 1923, 12,000 army and navy trainees on un touched. Many will return
when the first Hillel unit was the campus. At the same time its more mature, more seasoned and
launched at Illinois.
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL!
normal civilian student program less tolerant of some of the fri-
America, however, had already continued unabated, serving un- volities and superficialities of col-
settled into its period of pros- ceasingly the growing registra- lege life. Still others will be im-
perity, to be interrupted only by tion of girl students, whose num- patient of the standardized and
the tragic collapse of 1929. A less bers increased rather than de- formalized patterns of both re-
ligion and education. A not in-
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during the trying days of the and pray may truly be the post- not only the physical wounds of
great depression. Even greater war years. V-E day has already war, but will show the effects of
and MITTENS
might have been its trials and set in motion the processes of par- the psychological inroads of years
of
conflict,
privation
and
struggle.
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tribulations, as the clouds of an- tial demobilization, redeployment
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other world war appeared over and reconversion. V-J. day, and It is estimated by some reliable
the international horizon and as may it come speedily, will hasten authorities that almost half of •
America itself entered into the and stimulate this transition from the war disabilities will lie in
that muchly misunderstood field
second world conflict and con- war time to peace time.
classified by the expert as psy-
flagration.
SINCERE WISHES FOR ROSH HASHONAH
The effect on the college cam- cho-neurotic and by official par-
But the youthful vigor of Hil- pus is already noticeable. The
MAY YOUR NEW YEAR BE PROSPEROUS
lel was not weakened by depres- returning veterans already con-
sion nor crippled by war. Be- stitute a sizeable section of the
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tween the early thirties and the student body. The G. I. bill of
From
war-torn years of the forties, Hil- rights will further encourage the
lel expanded from a small chain return of thousands of young
of 13 student centers to a na- men from the camp and battle-
S. P. CO.
tion-wide movement of
118 field to the campus. Hillel direc-
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