Two Decades of Adult Education Sees
Expansion; Council Set Up at Parley
NEW YORK (JTA)—Adult Jew-
ish education programs have be-
come "more purposeful, organized,
structural and systematic," during
the past 20 years, it was reported
at the First National Conference on
Adult Jewish Education attended
by more than 300 delegates from
17 national Jewish organizations in
35 cities.
Prof. Oscar Janowsky, chairman
of graduate studies at the depart-
ment of History at City College of
New York, who presented the re-
port, also emphasized that adult
Jewish education is now considered
an important field in Jewish edu-
cation.
He made his observations on the
basis of a national study which he
conducted on this subject. Nine
national Jewish organizations par-
ticipated in the study which was
prepared by the American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Education, spon-
sor of the conference.
Responding to the findings of the
national survey and the views of
national Jewish leaders, delegates
endorsed a National Council on
Adult Jewish Education.
The proposal to establish the
Council was embodied in a resolu-
tion presented by Mrs. Joseph
Cohen of New Orleans, vice presi-
dent of the American Association
for Jewish Education. The National
Council will provide a medium to
exchange views, evaluate activities,
and for such common planning as
may be jointly agreed upon.
The resolution, while not binding
on the organizations attending, was
regarded as the first concrete step
in establishing a coordinating body
in this field.
Prof, Janowsky reported that the
nine- organizations participating in
the study found that they spend
more than $250,000 annually in su-
pervising their adult education ac-
tivities. He added that it was esti-
mated that "the total amount ex-
pended on adult Jewish education
in the United States is approxi-
mately $3,000,000 annually."
While noting t h e positive
achievements in the past 20
years, Prof. Janowsky said that
there is at present a continuing
lack of qualified leadership per-
sonnel, local institutions are not
adequately aware of the quanti-
ties of materials being produced
by national agencies and there is
insufficient clarity as to the goals
of adult Jewish education.
Dr. Janowsky told the conference
that he did not share completely
the sentiments of those who feel
that the climate for adult Jewish
education in this country was favor-
able. He declared he sensed an
apathy in the adult community and
cited the small number of serious
formal adult Jewish education
groups as an indication of such
apathy.
He added that the trend toward
more such education would grow
because "leisure time is plentiful
and hangs heavy on the middle-
class Jewish community." The
field of adult Jewish education is
not only expanding, he reported,
but it is also becoming profes-
sionalized "and this tendency will
undoubtedly influence the Jewish
community." Growing Jewish iden-
tification will also attract men and
women to this activity, he predict-
ed.
Won't Be Speechless
Disembarking in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA)—The World
Hebrew Union has undertaken the
sponsorship of a program aimed at
providing steamship passengers
bound for Israel with proficiency
in Hebrew speaking by the time
of their arrival in Haifa.
The program was inaugurated
on an experimental basis aboard
the Greek liner Olympia where the
passengers will be offered two
hours of Hebrew instruction daily
with a goal of providing them with
a basic 500-word Hebrew vocabul-
ary.
The instructor for the experimen-
tal program is Aaron Kaniel, su-
pervisor of adult education with the
Israel Ministry of Education and
Culture. The shipboard instruction
is supplemented by illustrated lec-
tures, documentary films in Eng-
lish and film strips providing cul-
tural and geographic information
about Israel. If the program is
successful, it might be extended to
the passenger liners of the Zim
Lines plying between New York
and Haifa.
Neither Snow, Nor Sleet, Nor . .
A skeleton staff of three, assisted by two Posts—Post
Printing Co. and the Detroit Post Office—managed to publish
The Jewish News last Thursday.
While daily newspapers fell by the snowy wayside, The
Jewish News trudged on—and out—with its special feature
edition.
Depending on the hardiness of individual mailmen, pa-
pers were delivered Friday, Saturday and Monday.
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Interviews With Bigots
Defended by CBC as
Means to Exposure
MONTREAL (JTA) — The Can-
adian Broadcasting Corp. has de-
fended several telecasts of inter-
views with distributors of hate
material on grounds that it is bet-
ter to expose' such activities than
allowing them to foster," the Can-
adian Jewish Congress has re-
ported..
CBC took that position in
reply to a protest from the Jew-
ish organization against such in-
, terviews, which were presented
as one element of an over-all re-
port by the network on hate
literature in Canada.
The network said that a com-
plete report required information
on "the distribution of such liter-
ature, who the distributors are,
how they operate and what makes
them think the way they do!'
The network conceded that
"there are dangers in over-expo-
sure" and added that it was not its
purpose to provide a propaganda
platform for any person or move-
ment. The line between implement-
ing the right of the public to be
informed and the creation of a pub-
lic platform may be a fine one in-
deed and one on which there will
inevitably be differences of opin-
ion."
The Canadian Jewish Congress,
commenting on the reply, said it
has consistently argued that in
fact programs gave a platform to
peddlers of hate material rather
than exposing them.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 5, 1965-11
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