Turkish Parliamentarian
Sir Sassoon Eskell a resi-
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cation and community responsi- , enrolled in Jewish education in ; concluded that Jewish educa dent of Baghdad at the turn of
an international scale while also bility for Jewish education.
1 the free lands outside of Israel tion on the elementary level i
s the century, served in the Turk-
stimulating j o i n t efforts for
ish Parliament before World.
T h e arrival of additional and the United States attend "completely inade uate for in
teacher training and organizing delegations Tuesday increased day schools. This figure, how- telligent participation in Jew
War I. and was Minister of
assistance for smaller Jewish the number of participating ever, reflects the 7,000 students ish life."
Finance after the establishment
communities.
Jewish communities in the con- attending day schools in North
The delegates stressed that of Iraq as an independent state.
A survey released to the dele- ference from 28. to 32.
Africa and Iran where no other. the elementary school
gates showed that half of the
schooling is available for Jewish should be more than "a corn-
es t i m a t e d 1,573,000 Jewish Urge Day Schools . children. munication of information and
WE'LL CLOSE FOR VACATION
youths of school age in the free
AUG. 20th AND
Otherwise, only South Amer- must create opportunities for
countries of the world, outside
ica. whose 12,000 Jewish stu- Jewish experiences."
REOPEN AUG. 27th
Israel, receive some kind of for-
A resolution characterizing dents are about evenly divided Efforts to extend the present
mat Jewish education. But in the Jewish all-day school as between day schools and sup- number of hours of weekly in-
many cases, the study showed, "the crucial point" for the con- plementary Jewish education, struction and to concentrate on
Certified Master
Watchmaker
the majority of pupils get no tinuity of Diaspora Jewish life has more than one third of its teaching about contemporary
and Jeweler
more than the equivalent of third was presented at the conference. students enrolled in Yeshivot or Jewish life as well as the his-
18963 LIVERNOIS UN 1-8184
grade or fourth grade Jewish
The resolution, which was their equivalent.
tory of the past were also rec-
education.
prepared by a group of edu-
V OPEN THURSDAY to 9
ommended.
In the United States, the
The study showed there are cators participating in a work-
report declared, there were —
40,000 day school students
only 163,000 Jewish youths of . shop on Jewish day school edu-
cation.
also
urged
that
Diaspora
school age today in the Euro-
enrolled in 290 schools in
pean countries where Jewish ' communities be encouraged to
102 communities. More than
give
maximum
support
to
day
90
per cent of these are un-
education is allowed — less
der Orthodox auspices, with
than 9 per cent of the number schools.
the total enrollment repre-
of school-age Jewish pupils in i - The focal point of Jewish
Strictly Kosher Meats — Poultry
Europe in prewar years. In the day school education:* the edu- renting less than 10 per cent
United States, the figures i cators declared, "must be the
of the 600,000 American
Have You Tried Our
showed. there are 600,000. study of the sources of Judaism youngsters engaged in some
pupils. The data showed there , ; and the c u 1 t u r e of Israel form of Jewish education.
SEASONED
are 25,000 Jewish teachers in through the generations and in
Dr. William Brickman. pro-
the world, 17,000 of them in the Hebrew language wherever fessor of education in the Grad-
, p o s s i b 1 e." The participants uate School of Education of the
the United States.
deo
•stressed that such educational University
of
Pennsylv;....nia,
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Criticism that Jewish educa-
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institutions must be established urged financial support of
tion in countries outside Israel.
in
accordance
with
the
laws
of
Yeshivot by the organized Jew-
particularly in the U n i t e d
States. was being conducted "in the respective states and na- ish community, but insisted
tions
to
provide
graduates
with
there
must be no "unnecessary
a vacuum" was voiced by Rabbi
WE DELIVER — UN 1-4770
Benjamin M. Kahn of Washing- recognized degrees of scholar- control" of their administra-
ship.
Member Detroit Kosher
tion.
curricula
or
"internal
ton. D.C.. national chairman of
In a report on day school at- spirit" by the secular leader-
Meat Dealers Association
the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tions. at the World Conference tendance. it was noted that 53.6 ship of the community.
This Shild Is Your Protection
per cent of the 189.000 youths
Another conference workshop
on Jewish Education.
Rabbi Kahn. addressing one
of the seven workshops of the
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Jewish students on American
college campuses, if they had
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any Jewish schooling at all, are
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"products of an educational
system that functions almost
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completely outside the home
and in a context generally ir-
relevant to the problems and
structure of Jewish community
life."
Rabbi Kahn, who spent 22
years in campus work, told the
delegates: "Jewish education by
itself was not the answer to
motivating youth toward cre-
ative Jewish life. as the content
1
of education is irrelevant to
the problems of the Jewish
community, thus making Jewish
education a sterile proposition."
The workshops conducted
on college studies were the
Your savings are invested locally—
first effort by the different
help folks in this area buy homes—
Jewish communities to dis-
provide employment for local people
cuss on an international scale
the problems of Jewish youth.
who build these homes, equip and
There are 250,000 Jewish stu-
maintain them.
dents in American colleges
and at least 150.000 in other
free world countries outside
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of Israel. The concensus of
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the reports from campuses in
consistent with safety.
other countries was similar
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to that . from the United
States.
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T h e participants in work-
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shops on teacher t r a i n i n g.
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headed by Dr. Samuel Blumen-
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agreed that there was no hope
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of achieving any sizable in-
crease in teacher recruitment;
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until the Jewish communities
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elevated the economic and pro-
an Agency of the U.S. Government
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fessional status of school teach-
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ers. They recommended the
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establishment of a teachers
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institute.
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conference will deal with day
1
schools, secondary and youth
education, adult education. the
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VIENNA, (JTA)—Two boys,
14 and 16 years of age, were
apprehended by police in the
town of Horn after they were
caught damaging tombstones in
the town's Jewish cemetery. The
police said the boys were "play-
ing" in the cemetery and dam-
aged the gravestot_es "without
any religious or political in-
tentions."
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