Friday, July 19, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Rabbis Sent Out to Protestant Youth
Camps To Tell What Judaism Is

"We've never seen a rabbi.
What's he like?" This and other
expectant questions are being
asked by thousands of young
people gathered in more than 100
week-long Protestant You th
Camps in all parts of the country.
To these youth camps, the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews is sending 37 rabbis to
instruct the young people on the
fundamental concepts of Judaism

A rabbi wno was interned in
the Dachau concentration camp in
Germany said after a week In one
of the youth conferences, "I was
skeptical whether this was the
right approach. But I see now
that the creation of goodwill is
possible, and it depends upon the
right leadership. Y o u cannot
imagine how much courage and
hope you have given me. You
have made me believe again in
the basic goodness of men."

and other phases of inter-group

Truman Told JWV
Can Furnish Volunteers

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Over
4,000 members of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States
marched on Washington this week
in a demonstration of protest
against British policies in Pales-
tine and a delegration from their
group, calling at the White House,
told Presdent Truman that If Bri-
tain insisted on U. S. military aid
in Palestine they would recruit
for him "a full division" of Jew-
ish volunteers for service in the
Holy Land.

JWB Sponsors
National Jewish
Youth Institute

those who were active In the
regional and community Institutes
by the nine regional sections of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, including leaders of Jewish
centers; Jewish youth councils and
regional Jewish center youth coun-
cils.
The participants will be a cross.
New York—Culminating a year-
long series of regional and com-
munity institutes at which young
people throughout the country
dealt realistically with the ques-
tion, "Jewish Youth Faces the
Future," the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board (JWB) is sponsoring
a national Jewish youth institute
at Camp Wel-Met, Narrowsberg,
N. Y., from August 30 to Septem-
ber 5 to help create a greater un-
derstanding of the role of Jew-
ish youth in the Jewish commun-
ity, the 'Jewish community cen-
ter and the JWB.

section of American Jewish youth
and will include young men and
women, students, workers, veter-
ans, club leaders. The young peo-
ple will share in the preliminary
planning and will take key roles
in the Institute's procedures by
serving as workshop chairman and
activity leaders.

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concerning the attitudes, interests,
needs and thinking of Jewish
young people affiliated with the
288 Jewish community centers and
YM and YWHAs, the institute will
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RABBI LEON FRAM

relations so that they may have a
better understanding of their
neighbors.
The Detroit Round Table of
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
of the National Conference of
Christians, ,and _ Jews has sent
Rabbi Leon Pram of Temple
Israel, Detroit, to instruct in a
camp at Jumonville, Pa., July 13-
20.
The young people whom the
Round Table members are meet-
ing are representative of the boys
and girls taking part in the Youth
Camp activities all over the
nation. They are most interested
and enthusiastic about the "Build-
ing Bridges of Understanding"
course conducted by the National
Conference of Christians and Jews
and taught by the rabbis. Other
classes are taught by Negro min-
isters, and laymen, and white
Protestant ministers.
Through the 'Building Bridges"
course the young people are chal-
lenged with the necessity of_ liv-
ing in harmony with members of
other faiths, races and culture
groups. More than 3,000 young
people are participating in the
classes.
When ' weather permits, t h e
classes are held in the open with
15 minutes of each lesson period
devoted to general discussion.
"The one question asked re-
peatedly," Rabbi Wernick,
Round Table member, said, "was,
'Why do the Jews own the larg-
est stores?'
"I explained to the classes that
this was the wrong way of com-
ing to conclusions and gave them
the general picture of Jewish life
in the larger communities, show-
ing them that the Jew does not
dominate the commercial or fi-
nancial fields. I gave them the
facts as explained in the Fortune
Magazine Poll, 'showing that in
the national picture there is no
monopoly except in the needle In-
dustry."
From all indications, the course
pays dividends in goodwill. These
National Conference of Christians
and Jews sponsored classes are to
enthusiastically received that it :3
often necessary to divide them
into two or three teaching group.
One high school student who
attended a class taught by a rab-
bi felt so keenly the need of do-
ing something active that she
called together informally Catho-
lics and Jews living in her block
at home. They intend to work
during the winter for better un-
derstanding and greater mutual
respect.

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