Degroies Education Survey to Be Made Public June 3 at National Conference • More than 650 delegates from AAJE, will discuss the implica- all parts of the United States tions of the report. will gather in New York City from June 3 to 5 to review the findings of a history-making sur- vey of Jewish education in the country conducted by the American Association for Jew- ish Education. The nationwide study, which exhaustively and authoritatively examines every.. major problem relating to the field, will be made public for the first time at the fourth national confer- ence on Jewish education spon- sored by the AAJE, to be held at Hotel Roosevelt. Samuel Rothberg of Peoria, Ill., and Michael A. Stavitsky of New- ark, N.J., are co-chairmen of the event which will mark the asso- ciation's 20th anniversary. The comprehensive report, seven years in preparation, is based upon thousands of inter- views, reports, questionnaires A special session marking the 20th anniversary of the Asso- ciation will be held Thursday evening. Addressing the meet- ing will be Dr. George Stod- darc14 Dean of the School of Education of New York Uni- versity, and Dr. Horace M. Kallen, professor emeritus of the New School of Social Re- search, vice-president of AAJE. As part of the 20th anniver- sary celebration, delegates will honor 27 charter members of the association who are well- known locally and nationally for their efforts to improve the standards of Jewish education. Among those to be honored will be Philip Slomovitz of Detroit. Noted Scientists to Attend Stockholm Rally in August JERUSALEM (WJA) — Two nuclear physicists of inter- national standing have accepted the invitat'on to address the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Stolkholm next August on the subject of inter- national co-operation in nuclear affairs, Dr. Nahum Goldman, Congress president, announced here. They are Prof. Isidor I. Rabi of the United States and Prof. Amos de Shalit of the Weizmann Institute in Reho- vot. Replies are still awaited from Prof. Niels Bohr, the Danish Nobel Prize Physicist, and from a "famous Russian scientist." Two Moslems, one from Tuni- sia and one from Morocco, and a Polish representative are among the non-Jewish speakers invited to address the Plenary Assembly on the subject of "Cultural Pluralism," the right continued and expanded possi- bly to two Institutes a year. Boris M. Joffe, executive di- rector of the Council, pointed out that there are anti-discrimi- nation laws covering education in five states. The questionnaires filled out by the seniors lauded the Insti- tute and indicated that many of the seniors had been largely unaware of the Jewish com- munity facilities and of the many resources available to them. within the large Jewish communal family. During the social hour re- freshments were served by the Student Committee, under the chairmanship of Jerry Lax and informal talks continued. The s t u d e nt committee members were Jerry Lax, president, Oak Park High School; Henry She- vitz, vice-president, Mumford; Barbara Victor, secretary, Cass; Marsha Cousins, Sidney Fox, Howard Friedman, Gloria Gonek, Nancy Hearth, Susan Jacobs, Harriet Katcher, Judy Oppenheim, David Shevitz, and Howard Sulkin. 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Je wish Youth More than 100 Jewish seniors and research studies carried from Oak Park, Cass, Mumford, forward in 33 representative Central, and other high schools American communities whose in the community, participated Jewish population ranges from in a special Institute -where small (22,000 and under) to specialists discussed the prob- large (400,000 or more). Some lems of discrimination which 20,000 persons— educators, Jewish youth may encounter, teachers, rabbis, parents, lay- scholarship and vocational op- men and schoolchildren — par- portunities, opportunities for ticipated. Of this total, 11,550 Jewish self- expression and ob- were youngsters, from 11 years servance in the armed services, and up, attending weekday and and possibilities for Jewish ac- Sunday schools of all Jewish tivities on university campuses, denominations, whose attitudes at the Jewish Community Coun- towards their schools, teachers cil fifth annual Institute for and studies were carefully Jewish Seniors of High Schools, elicited by trained personnel. held Sunday evening at Ahavas Included in the overall sur- Achim. vey are the findings presented Dr. Samuel Krohn, Rabbi Max in individual reports from a Kapustin, Richard Salle and number of American cities, Seymore Brieloff addressed the including Detroit. participants. Harry Kobel, Institute chair- The massive study was- car- ried out under the direction of man, pointed out that although a commission of distinguished America is rooted in a great educators and laymen, headed democratic tradition, "there are from 1952-1957 by Dr. Oscar I. individuals and groups in our Janowsky, of the College of the country who are prejudiced and City of New York, and from who do practice discrinination 1957 to the present time by in employment, edueation, hous- Dr. Milton R. Konvitz of Cornell ing," and other areas. He University. The report will be stressed the need for Jewish presented to delegates at the high school seniors to know Conference's opening session, what to do if they should en- Wednesday, by its co-authors, counter discriminatory situa- Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, pro- tions. Jerry Lax, president of the fessor of education at the He- brew University, Jerusalem, and student co-ordinating committee Dr. Uriah Z. Engelman, director of the respective high schools, of the research department of expressed the gratification_of the AAJE. Philip W. Lown, of West students for the "important in- Newton, Mass., president of formation being made available to us through the Institute." Leonard Antell, student coun- selor at Cass Technical - High School, a guest at the Institute, stated that the specific informa- on Jewish subjects made and Workmanship! tion available to the seniors at the gathering is unavailable to them from other sources and is "very necessary." Consequently, he suggested that this project be • Drapes • Lamp Shades • Curtains of minorities to pursue their own way of life. Prof. Martin Buber will speak for Israel if his health permits him to at- tend. 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