Friday, Sept. 27, 1963 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — 26 ..■••■(■■•••■••■ •01•1111.0•111b01=1.011=1.0 ■0■ CI , Nepal's Queen in Israel ■17.1111■0■ MIM011 ■04011.0.01.1110.0 NI Boris Smolar's Between You ... and Me' (Copyright, 1963, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc-) Swiss Recognition Chemin de I'ORT—The ORT Road—is the official name of a narrow road that lies on the Swiss-French border . . . It was named by the Swiss authorities in recognition of the good work conducted by the World ORT Union which has its headquarters in Geneva . . . The road leads to an imposing building in Anieres, Switzerland, where the ORT maintains its Institute for training instructors to be sent later to ORT schools for vocational training in various countries . . . Little is known in the United States about this institution of higher vocational education, although much is known by American Jewry of the work of ORT in general . . . However, in Switzerland, as well as in other countries, this Jewish school of high technical knowledge is considered one of the best in the world . . . Sufficient to say that the U.S. Government has now arranged for sending to underdeveloped countries instructors who graduated from this ORT institute in Anieres . .. The Swiss government is financing the training in the ORT institute of instructors for agricultural and industrial programs in African countries . . . The Congo has sent a group of its technical stu- dents to the ORT Institute in Anieres for the completion of their courses in high vocational training . . . The government of Iran is now maintaining a group of 14 of its students-11 of them non-Jews—in the ORT institution of higher technical learning .. . All this is done within the framework of technical aid given by the governments of the United States and Switzerland to newly established countries . . . The instructors-to-be have to spend two years in the ORT Institute and have to take some of their courses also in the Higher Technical College of Geneva . . All of them —except those who are married—must live during the two years in the ORT dormitories at the Institute which can match in com- fort any dormitory in any of the American higher schools of learning . . . The Institute maintains a synagogue for religious students and its kitchen, which prepares all the meals for the students, is strictly kosher . . . The students come from various countries where ORT maintains schools for vocational training for the Jewish youth . . . Following their graduation, they return to. their native lands, to become teachers in the_ ORT schools there . . . So perfect are the teaching methods of the ORT Institute, that they have been studied by vocational specialists of 12 countries . . . The International Labor Office .has taken considerable interest in the Institute, and the Ford Foundation, a few years ago, granted scholarships to 20 Israelis to study there . . . More than 30 Israeli instructors in the Ruppin Agri- cultural Institute of Israel have been selected from farm settle- ments for advanced study in agro-mechanics in the ORT Institute. Food for Thought The high respect which ORT enjoys on the part of many governments—including the governments of the United States and Israel—should give food for thought to American Jewish organizations interested in Jewish education . . . It was news to me to hear in Geneva from Max Braude, director general of the World- ORT Union, that no American organization interested in Jewish education has declared itself ready to provide an all- embracing impartial program for Jewish education for pupils in the ORT schools .. . The ORT is essentially an organization for vocational training and not for general Jewish education . . . But ORT schools are located in various countries where—except in Israel—a large number of the pupils have no opportunity to acquire Jewish education in separate schools as was the case in pre-war years . . . In some countries no Jewish educational system-is existing today at all .. . It is for this reason that the ORT is interested in introducing Jewish education in its schools parallel with vocational training—a step for which ORT leadership should be congratulated . . . However, when Braude approached American Jewish oraani7ations which constantly stress the impor- tance of Jewish education and asked them. to work out a program for the ORT schools. he met with a rather unresponsive attitude . . It seems that the talk about Jewish education, which many American Jewish organizations like to advance at meetings and in resolutions, is like Mark Twain's classic remark about the weather—everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything .. . Disappointed in the attitude of the American Jewish educational and religious groups whom he approached, Braude is now planning a Jewish education program for ORT schools prepared by his own organization, without the advice of the unwilling American Jew- ish groups whose interest he solicited in vain . . . There are thousands of Jewish pupils in the ORT vocational schools today, and the need to teach them Jewishness side by side with voca- tions should be obvious to anybody . . . Why American Jewish educational as well as religious organizations of all denominations —Reform, Conservative and Orthodox—should neglect to actively respond to the call which the ORT addressed to them is some- thing that will puzzle any Jew . . . It would be useless to name here all the central Jewish bodies in New York who turned a cold shoulder to the plea of the ORT . . . All that can be said about them is, that each of these organizations had its own interest in mind—and not the interest of Jewish education—when they could not act jointly to prepare a program for the ORT . . . They were obviously motivated by group partisanship rather than by dedication to the work of implanting Jewish knowledge Open Ryback Museum in Bat Yam, Israel TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Bat famous Russian-born Jewish ar- Yam municipality opened a new tist, Y. B. Ryback, whose works art museum named for the will be permanently exhibited there. A pioneer of modern Jewish art, Ryback, who died LUSTRE CREME SHAMPOO before the Second World War, Retail Price $2.00 cultivated a characteristic form si 33 OUR DISCOUNT of Jewish traditional art. His PRICE • works were exhibited in the G & M DISCOUNT leading g a 1 l e r i es in Russia, 20009 W. 7 MILE KE 5-4910 France, Germany and the United Open Mon. thru Sat. 9.9 States. On the Record By NATHAN ZIPRIN Page From My Diary . . More than six decades are now witness to the verity that never in all the days of my life have I trespassed the sanctity that is Yom Kippur. There were moments, I con- fess, when there was introspec- tion and balancing as if with apothecary's hand, but always there was the guiding finger and the remberance of the gen- erations of the pious, the dedi- cated and the consecrated whose mystique has always held for me irrestible lure. Yom Kippur is a day of awe, dedicated to penitence, forgive- ness and recantation of error, sin and folly, the one day in the year when man is alone with his God and himself. All humans strive for regen- eration, personal, spiritual and religious. Its attainment lies in aloneness, that rare moment when man is with himself and his creator in sanctified de- tachment from world and bur- den. Our ancestors knew that aloneness, as did the chosen of the world over the ages. The essence of Yom Kippur is rec- ognition of the fallibility of man and of his striving to re- turn to the path. But confes- sion and expiation is not in proclamation, only in whisper- ing that is inaudible even to one's own ear. Scripture might well have envisioned the ineffable mo- ment that over takes every Jew the awesome seconds before Kol Nidre when it counselled man that God ias heard not in the fury of wind or storm but in still, small voice. The leaves will be falling when our holiday season ends. May they bring balm to eye, comfort to heart and peace to soil in fulfillment of a purpose whose treasures are as bounti- ful as they are mysterious. The story of three centuries of Jewish life on American soil requires for recording an ever increasing canvas, for in a way it is the poignant tale and saga not alone of men but of man. We all have stories of our be- ginnings here. Mine is the tale of escape from a miracle. It was the miracle of the open door, and it happened in the small Ukranian town of my birth. A peasant and his family of six had been slain by rob- bers in the night. As the goyim were gathering to vent wrath on the Jewish community for a crime later admitted by the area's most notorious cattle thief, a Jewish coachman har- nessed his horses and sped for help to an adjacent town. When the cossacks arrived the mob was going berserk in the market square and, as happened almost always in those czarist days, the supposed defenders of the law joined hands with the pogrom- bent peasants. As the surging mob swooped down on the Jewish section of the town, window shutters dark- ened homes and people barri- caded themselves behind locked doors. Distraught mothers were hiding their young in attics and elderly pious were groping for succor in prayer. Our home was located diag- onally across from the church in the center of the town. Grandmother. a miniature in stature but a giant in courage and faith, surveyed the situa- tion with penetrating eyes from the open porch and at once de- creed the lifting of shutters and the opening of doors. We were saved, said pious Jews, by the miracle of the open door. Grandmother did not long survive the shock, but long enough to impart the wisdom that our salvation rested in escape from the miracle of the open door. Before many months we knocked at the door of another miracle—America. JERUSALEM—Queen Ratna of Nepal (center) is shown during a recent visit to Hadassah's Alice Seligsberg Vocational High School for Girls in Jerusalem, accompanied by Mrs. Isaac Olshan, wife of Israel's Chief Justice, who is chairman of the Hadassah Council in Israel. The Queen was escorted by Israel's Women's Army Lieutenant Ruth •Eytan, daughter of Walter Eytan, Israel's Ambassador to France. While at the Seligsberg School, the Queen examined the beadwork and embroidery made by the students. She also was guest of honor at a lunch- eon prepared by the students. Anti-Jewish Mail Drive Hits Denver DENVER (JTA) — Members of the Colorado legislature were among recipients of a vicious anti-Semitic publication, one of a series of such mailings local- ly, marking a record August month of dissemination of such material in Denver. The legislature received copies of "The Coming Red Dic- tatorship," a publication of the late Conde McGinley who died earlier this year. The publica- tion purports to describe the "Asiatic Marxist Jews" controll- ing the world. Auto wrecking OCEANFRONT company owners received an anonymous publication, called "The Blueprint for World Gov- ernment J e w Domination." Beauty parlor operators also re- ported receiving anti-Semitic material. 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