THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November )4, 1944
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Intercultural Education
Program Viewed by Center
,
Zion Only Haven
For Refugees,
Lehman Avers
Jewish Center Assists Community Institutions and Agencies
in Growing Project; Collaborate in Planning Christmas
Palestine Still Will Offer
and Hanukah Observance in Schools
Only Refuge, Even After
Fall of Nazis, He. Says
"Increasingly the Jewish Community Center is called
upon to assist community institutions and agencies in the
NEW YORK (JPS)—Even af-
growing program of Intercultural Education," reportS . Her-
man Jacobs, executive director of the Center, in a statement ter the demise of Nazism, Pales-
tine still will offer the only
to The Jewish News.
haven for thousands of European
According to Mr. Jacobs, • "one of the most recent in- Jews, Herbert H. Lehman, direc-
stances emanating from t h e
tor 'general of the UNRRA,
.
Beard of Education is a request
for collaboration in suitably ob-
serving the Christmas and Hanu-
kah holidays in elementary
schools for a two-fold reason.
First, the aim will be to present
the special significance of this
dual festival-time. The second
purpose will be to interpret to
the total school group partici-
pating in and witnessing the
celebrations the distinctive sign-
ificance of Hanukah with its
message of tolerance, religious
liberty and dedication to spirit-
ual ideals."
Enthusiastic Response
An enthusiastic response to
this program already has been
evidenced by the principals and
teachers of several schools. It
is,hoped that as this type of joint
endeavor succeeds in fulfilling
the purposes ascribed to it by
the public school leaders and the
Center, the popularity of the
method and type of program will
extend throughout the school
system.
In the van of local public edu-
cation leaders stands Dr. Marion
Edman, a nationally-known edu-
cator and authdrity in the field
of education for better intercul-
tural relations. For an extend-
ed period Dr. Edman has stud-
ied' the problem and conferred
with educators and social work-
ers, including Mr., Jacobs; Miss
Florence Cassidy, secretary of
the Nationalities Division of the
Council of Social Agencies; E.
Louis Neimand, assistant direc-
tor of the Center; Isaac Franck,
executive 'director of the Jewish
Community Council, and others.
Holds Class at Wayne
Closely related to the same
idea is a proposal also preFented
to Mr. Jacobs by Dr. Edrnan on
behalf of her Wayne University
class in Intercultural Education.
The class is composed almost en-
tirely of teachers who are inter-
ested in this field of work. It
already has delved into a variety
of cultures represented in the
cosmopolitan population of De-
troit. Last semester, the Cen-
ter participated in the work of
the class through a display of a
Jewish exhibits and a lecture by
Mr. Neimand on Jewish culture
and religion.
A special function proposed as
a demonstration in the methods
which teachers might employ in
their respective schools will . be'
a Christmas-Hanukah dinner
and party to take place at the
International' Center of the
YWCA. Members of the Inter-
national Club, founded by Dr.
Henry Hitt Crane, will also at-
tend. With an audience thus
composed of prominent lay and
professional leaders of various
fields of endeavor and with in-
fluence in shaping public opin-
ion, the occasion will furnish an
especially favorable setting for
improving mutual understand-
ing.
Assist Girl Scouts
Another request for assistance
was recently presented by the
Detroit Girl Scouts, Inc. through
the Scout Executive, Miss Cath-
erine Richards and. • her . staff.
Here the purpose Initially is • to
equip leaders ,with material and
methodst for;,coping with
dents of anti-Jewish feeling and
action expressed and taken by
girls and certain adult volun-
teers.
Leaders of the Girl Scout pro-
gram have conferred with staff
and board representatives of the
Center and have laid a broad
basis for intercultural program-
ming through Leader Training,
Scout meetings, exchange pro-
grams and other devices.
Two elements stand out bold-
ly in the phenomenon of inter-
cultural relations between the
Jewish Community Center and
the general community. First is
the earnest desire shown by
leaders in education and group
work to correct distortions, re-
place ignorance and, prejudice
with fact, and emerge with
heightened understanding and
pleasant respect for the Jew as a
citizen and protagonist of a great
ethnic culture. Second is the
inclusiveness of thinking and
planning shown by the Center
which comes to this work as a
result of a life-time interest and
with a considerable record.
Intergroup Programs
For the past several years, the
Center has arranged and con-
ducted intergroup programs and
partid. Young people from the
Center, have participated in sym-
posia with church and Negro
youth of several churches and
Ys and Presbyterian youth have
been Center guests in a pre-
Passover Seder and other special
functions. Numerous conferen-
ces with Christian leaders have
preceded and followed such in-
tergroup functions.
Child, Adult Programs
Often, Center staff members
have given talks and arranged
concerts and dance recitals with
Jewish- content and motifs before
adult and children's groups in
various branches of the Public
Library, public schools and
churches. -
A potent service in education
of Christian leaders was contri-
buted through the Center when
it arranaged exhibits of Judaica
for two state-wide Summer con-
ferences of church school work-
ers, held at Adrian and Olivet
Colleges under the aegis of the
Detroit Council of Churches. The
exhibits, featured annotated
books, children's ceremonial 'arts
and crafts made in. the Center
craft shop, with the piece de
resistance being choice silver
items culled from the collections
of ceremonial objects owned by
Charles E. Feinberg, Henry Mey-
ers and Harvey H. Goldman.
"Supplementary reports to the
public will be made by the Cen-
ter", • concluded Mr. Jacobs, "be-
cause soundly conceived inter-
cultural work is crucial to the
security of any minority group
and the Jewish community will
surely cooperate in it and follow
its development with deep in-
terest".
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New Book on Freud
NEW 'YORK (JPS) — A new
voluthe on the father of psycho-:
analysis has just been released
by the Harvard University Press.
The book, "Freud: Master, and
Friend," was written: by _Dr„ :
Harms Sachs of -Harvard Uni2-
verSity, one of two survivors of
Freud's first six principles.
Hanaith Program
For Patients at
Eloise Arranged
Hanukah services and a social
party Will be provided for 100
Jewish patients at Eloise State
Hospital on Dec. 11 by the -Hos-
pital Visiting Council whose
functions are to coordinate serv-
ices for Jewish patients at Eloise
and Ypsilanti state hospitals by
Detroit Jewish organization's, to
plan their ° religious and social
pointed out in a message to
Bernard Flexner on the latter's
election as chairman emeritus
of the board of directors of the
Palestine Economic Corporation.
"Although, as you know, I
have never been a Zionist," Ex-
' Gov. Lehman stated, "I have for
many years been deeply inter-
ested in the development of Pal-
estine. During the past several
years, particularly, it has served
as a haven for many thousands
of refugees who had no other
place to which they could • go.
Even now, when the Nazi curse
is rapidly coming to an end,
Palestine will still offer the only
refuge for many thousands of
our persecuted co-religionists."
DISRAEL Custom-Fittej HATS
Lehman, Relief Aides
Hold Parley in Paris •
PARIS (JPS) — Herbert H.
Lehman, director general of the
UNRRA and former governor of
New York, conferred here` with
a delegation representing the
Co-ordinating Comm ittee of
French Jewish Relief Organiza-
tions. They outlined _proposals
for immediate relief to the Jews
of France and stressed especially
the plight of Paris Jewry. Leh-
man will proceed shortly to
Brussels, Belgium, to confer
with relief officials there.
Free Port Refugees .
Allowed $18 a Month
OSWEGO, (JPS) — The. "free
port" refugees at Fort Ontario
here will be permitted regular
recompense for their labor at
harvesting and fruitpicking in
this vicinity, which is threaten-
ed, by a scarcity of help. Their
small earnings will not deprive
them of the small government al-
lotments to the "free porters."
programs and to: ' provide them:
with kosher food.
Rabbi Max J. Wohgelernter,
Chaplain at -Eloise, is chairman
of this council. :
Organizations participating in
the Hospital -Visiting Council are;
.Home Relief Society, Young
Women's Bicur Cholem, Temple
Beth El Sisttrhood, House of
Shelter Ladies Auxiliary, Hadas-
sah, Temple Israel Sisterhood,
Eloise Psychiatric Department,
Neugarten Medical Aid Society,
Primrose Benevolent Society,
Bnai Moihe Sisterhood, Hebrew,
Ladies' Aid, - Jewish Social. Sent!.
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