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Wayne State University's Hil- the students by the WSU Hillel time, and an enrollment of 12,-
000 is foreseen.
-
lel Foundation is being assured Foundation. *
Nathan King serves on the
individual quarters in the
board of trustees of the Relig-
planned Religious Center Build- Religious Center Formed
ious Center in Dearborn, which
ing, as a result of the formation at Dearborn U-M Branch
aims to provide religious facili-
A
Religious
Center
of
the
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
of a sponsoring committee that
for all faiths.
Copyright, 1962)
has undertaken to raise the Dearborn Campus, ministering to ties
Rabbi M. Robert Syrne is a
the needs of students of all
$128,000
sum
necessary
for
that
The Christmas Season
member of the board of direc-
Jewish organizations, watching the Christmas season with purpose from a small group, in faiths at Henry Ford Community tors and Harry L. Jones is
College
and
the
Dearborn
Cen-
special interest, fear self-appointed spokesmen who can embroil an appeal that is not to inter- ter of the University of Michi- secretary of the board.
the Jewish population in serious conflict with Christian neighbors fere with any of the major fund-
in one city or another over the issue of Christmas celebrations raising activities in the commu- gan, has just been organized.
A witness is not made the
There are 2,700 students,
in public schools . . . Such self-appointed spokesmen usually nity.
Judge. — • The Talmud, Baba
about
100
of
them
Jewish,
in
Laying
the
foundation
for
this
attempt to speak for all the Jews in the community when, in
Kama 90,
fact, they are merely voicing their personal convictions . . . Their task, the nucleus for such a com- the Dearborn area at the present
number is likely to be larger this year because of the Supreme mittee was formed at a dinner
Court decision banning prayers in public schools, thus indicating at the Standard Club, Monday,
that there is no place for religion in state schools . . . All Jewish at which Rabbi Max Kapustin,"
organizations of importance are against introducing the observ- director of the WSU Bnai Brith
ance of religious holidays in the public school — whether Christ- Hillel Foundation, and Dr. Wil-
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mas or Hanukah . . . However, it is generally recognized by them liam Haber, chairman of the
National
Hillel
Commission,
de-
that Christmas observance has been a deeply imbedded tradition
in the public school for many years, and that for many people scribed the vital needs for quar-
the holiday has assumed the aura of a national, as well as a ters that will properly provide
sectarian, event . . . Jewish objections to the school program are for the Hillel Functions.
primarily addressed to its Christological and doctrinal aspects - Dr. Kapustin explained that
IMPERIAL, CHRYSLER, PLYMOUTH,
. .. It is well to remember that, in these respects, the Christmas the major structure—the planned
program differs not only from school to school, but from class- WSU Religious Center—is being
VALIANT
room to classroom in any given school ... This is true principally provided for by a group of local
because the program is nearly always shaped by teachers, and citizens, and that it will fill the
not by the superintendent or the board of education ... Generally, needs of the Catholic, Protestant
the responsible major Jewish organizations prefer that the prob- and Jewish faiths, but that each
DI 1-7000
lem of Christmas -observance in the public schools should not group is to h a v e individual
18500
LIVERNOIS
2
Blocks
South
of
7
Mile
be dealt with just during the Christmas season . . . The atmos- quarters.
The individual headquarters
phere is - so charged with emotion at the holiday period that a
fair and objective consideration of the issue is almost impossible will involve a total cost of
. • . Earlier discussions are considered desirable, based on infor- $500,000, and the share for
mation gathered in a manner that will not incite public contro- Hillel will be $128,000, Rabbi
versy . . . If tensions are developed during the holiday season, Kapustin said. In the Hillel
the discussion of these issues should be deferred until after the quarters there are to be pro-
holiday, when a more reasoned and objective consideration may visions for meeting rooms, of
Melvin Weisz
be possible ... However, regardless of all other considerations, fice space, a chapel, a library,
and whatever else may be done, all Jewish organizations in any a dining room and a kosher
holiday observance in the schools, on grounds of conscience .. .
kitchen.
Man of the Month
At the same time they insist that individual action by parents or
Monday's meeting was pre-
unilateral action by one Jewish organization on the issue of the sided over by Irwin I. Cohn who
observance of Christmas in a public school should not be under- convened the gathering together
taken ... They urgently suggest that Jewish communities faced with Milton Weinstein, who is
with this vexing problem consult with rabbinical bodies and their acting chairman for the overall
IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT
local Jewish Community Council, which have had long experience WSU Religious Center corpora-
MELVIN WEISZ
in this area.
tion, and Sidney Karbel.
Immigration Picture
In a stirring appeal that "we
HAS received the man-of-the-month award as the most
Approximately 9,000 Jewish immigrants arrived in the United place priority on education,"
outstanding Representative of our Detroit-Gold Agency,
States during 1962 . . . The majority of them settled in New Prof. Haber outlined the status
for the month of November.
York . . . The 1963 Jewish immigration picture in the United of the Jewish students and the
States is expected to be approximately the same ... Estimated manner in which Hillel direc-
The award is in recognition of his excellent service to
immigration for 1963 is about 8,000, of whom the majority will,
his policyholders and our Agency during this month of
tors
often
reach
them
in
meeting
as in the past, settle in New York . . . Most of the immigrants the threat of assimiliation and
November.
were aided by the United Hias Service, and in New York by the the challenge for constructive
New York Association for New Americans .. . . The continuing
influx from Cuba posed special problems in 1962 ... A continuing participation in Jewish commu-
problem has been the care of children sent ahead by their nal life.
Stating that there are 280,000
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parents .. . They required care and supervision in homes of
relatives or in foster homes until such time as their parents Jewish students in American col-
could rejoin them . . , Nearly 150 such children have been wards leges, Dr. Haber said it repre-
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of NYANA which aided 4,230 immigrants in 1962 to settle in New sents twa out of three American
York . . . Many of the children have been reunited with their Jewish youth. He predicted that
families, but about 50 of them are still waiting to be joined by there will be 400,000 Jewish
their parents . . . A marked difference in the size of many students—nine out of 10 Jewish
immigrant families became apparent in 1962 and is expected youth — in our universities by
to continue in 1963 . . . A number of families arrived with as 1970.
"We are trying to inspire
many as seven or eight persons dependent on one breadwinner
. . . To meet the needs of the 4,230 newcomers which the the allegiance of our youth,"
NYANA settled in New York, the organization — which receives he declared. "There was a
its funds from the United Jewish Appeal — spent $1,070,150 in time when our spiritual nour-
FROM
ishment came from many coin- -
1962 ... The projected cost of aiding Jewish immigrants to settle
in the New York area in 1963 is $1,000,000 .. . Many of those munity quarters. Today it is
from
who will be coming to the United States in 1963 will be from no longer automatic and must
be
planted.
We
have
to
create
our own hemisphere and immigrants from Europe who have
our own cultural sources.'
family ties in this country.
Recalling an earlier era, when
Inside Israel
Israel is becoming more and more worried over the problem there were objections by Jews
of education . . . The influx of illiterate or semi-literate immi- to being asked to state their re-
grants in the last few years has increasingly pointed up the ligious affiliation in university
existence of vast differences in both educational levels and questionnaires, Dr. Haber said
education opportunities . . . The government is keenly aware that now "we affirm our Jew-
of the problem, and is determined to do everything possible to ishness, but don't know why."
avoid creating an educational gulf between "the old Israel" and He said Hillel makes a unique
"the second Israel" . . . To provide more opportunities for high contribution towards alleviating
school and university-level education for recent immigrants, con- such a lack of knowledge and
cessions were made to them in the minimum grade required .. . he declared that "we are trying
But the number of North African immigrant children in high to retain loyalties."
schools and universities is very small . . . Education has, there-
Using the term "inverted mar-
fore, now become a top-priority consideration to which Prime rano" as an application to those
Minister David Ben-Gurion is 'beginning to devote much thought who are renewing interest in
and time ... At present, about 35,000 children are attending high Jewish life, Dr. Haber empha-
schools in Israel and 13,000 students are enrolled in the Hebrew sized that "failures to reach the
University, Bar-Ilan University and the Technion . . . Ben-Gurion youth are in the homes," that
intends to reduce high school fees for gifted children and later the basis for loyalties "must start
to make high school education free and compulsory, as elementary in the - home."
education is today ... He is making plans to encourage increases
He made a strong plea for the
in university attendance . Approaches have been made to some
wealthy American Jews to provide scholarship for students in fulfillment of the project for a
Hillel section in the WSU Re-
Israel.
ligious Center and warned that
"it would be a reflection on the
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