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accuracy of our recent evaluation of the Hebrew leacher shortage. at the Congregation B
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It is true, the picture we limed was a discouraging one but Presidential Toast to
since it was based on facts there was nothing we could do about ner at 6:3
day,
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it. Let there be no mistake—if the tragic dearth of -.Hebrew August
teachers is not overcome by an American Jewish community berg
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that is generally alert to every emergency ? our Jewish educa- Day' Southfield and 9 1/2 Mile
tional structure may not survive another decade.
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Dwelling on the Hebrew teacher shortage at the recent
g Ares' nt Day'
annual conference of the American AsSociation of Jewish Educa-
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tion, Philip L. Lown, president, cautioned the parley that the
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prospects are that the shortage will grow increasingly grave in
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the years ahead." To meet the situation, he said, "we would' have
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to inject the teaching system with approximately five hundred
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teachers a year," but since the annual crop of qualified teachers
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is "only a little more than one hundred, of whom only one half
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remain in the field up to five years, while 75% drop out after
five years," it is obvious that the problem is a tragic one.
We could of course create facilities for turning out more
teachers annually, but that would only solve half the problem.
The basic problem is not alone to create a cadre of teachers
but how to keep them in our school system once they entered it.
To accomplish that would require a community-wide reorienta-
tion toward the Jewish teacher as a man and as a professional.
Mere palliatives will not do. The_ shortage of teachers is more
related to the condescending attitude in the community and
congregation toward the teacher than even to the economic factor.
A profession that offers neither dignity nor security will not lure
the competent.
- There is no single answer to. the problem. It is obvious,
however, in the words of my good friend Dr. Samuel Margoshes,
that "as matters stand, there is not enough inducement for the
Among t servic rendered
gifted Jewish youth to train for the career of a Jewish teacher.
the Nat' al Jewish Welfare
This goes for his salary, social position in the community, peni-
d is distribution of a
sion, etc. If the congregations, with their schools, are really
•sh Calendar for Members
interested in attracting really worthwhile young men and women
med Forces.
to the profession of Jewish teaching, they must make it worth-
2 calendar,
f the
whole for the teacher from the point of view of both compensa-
ferent in
tion, tenure and place in the community. It is an old adage that press,-
the public can get what it is ready to pay for. This applies to format from those issued in pre-
Jewish teachers as well as to rabbis, doctors and other pro- vious years. It contains, however,
fessionals."
all the relevant material.
Included are a number of pray-
If we are to lure competent teachers to our Jewish schools
we must create a climate of widest acceptance for the teacher ers, JWB directories, a diary
and his profession apart from meeting his need for decent accompanying the calendar dates,
remuneration and security in illness. and retirement. A profession lists of civic holiday
built on sand cannot possibly attract the steady, the competent festivals.
nor even the dedicated.
Since its
tion, JWB has
distributed , 00,000 copies
Intermarriage Puzzle
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According to mixed -marriage statistics in the state of Iowa its tale
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Postal, JWB's ector
the rate of intermarriage among Jews has reached the alarming
figure of 44% in the last eight years. Iowa has an estimated of its , reau of pub4 nforma-
tes:
population of 1Q,000 Jews. Whether the high Iowa ratio reflects tion,
a'national trend is purely speculative. More likely it is condi-
ment of the calendar is
tioned by local factors. The mean national average of intermar- but
e phase of our total reli-. -
riage among Jews is 7% . . . Interestingly enough Israel too gi
and mora pro
has its intermarriage 'problem, but of another kind. There—and
out by
gove
this is called from a recent colubn by A. Alperin in the Jewish
orized a
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Day-Morning Journal-the problem is of a totally different
serving
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character, involving intermarriage between Eastern European
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and Oriental Jews, with recently converted Jews, with the Bnai
Israel of India and with members of religious sects that are
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not recognized by the rabbinate' as Jews, such as the Caraites.
Insurance Soc .
A survey in Israel in 1957 showed that 13% of all marriages dur-
ing the year were mixed and that 11% of the mixed marriages
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eceiv-
ended up in divorce. Most mixed marriages involve Ashkenazim ed a $ , om the Equi-
and Sephardim. These marriages are more likely to be success- table Life Assurance Society of
ful when the husband is a western Jew and the wife of an the United States as part of the
oriental country. Oriental women, the men say, make more firm's $125,000 program of finan-
devoted wives. Where the wife is of European origin, such mar- cial support to '125 independent
riages are likely to break up both because the husband does not colleges and universities, Dr.
trust her and because she in turns looks condescendingly on the Samuel Belkin, president of the
spouse. These mixed marriages however are most successful in university, announced.
kibbutzim, where there are no outside factors influencing the
marital relationship.
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TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A multi-
stage space rocket which will
carry scientific instruments in
its nose cone is already under
construction.
The instrument-bearing space
probe, designed to collect
weather data, will be _ Israel's
third rocket launching. A sec-
ond missile already on the
launching pad is set to be fired
some time after tomorrow's
elections.
The second rocket is expected
to penetrate 100 miles into
space, about twice the height of
Shavit II, Israel's first rocket
launched on July 5.
Meanwhile it was disclosed
that a large West European
country has asked Israel to sell
it a large quantity of meteoro-
logical rockets. Neither the
name of the country nor the
number of rockets was revealed.
Israel has not yet officially
considered the request. How-
ever, it was learned, Israel may
derive great income froth the
sale of rockets if the large quan-
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