Two Educators Leaving Detroit
for Posts in Foreign Countries
Two educators who have made notable contributions to
Detroit's Jewish schools wil carry on their careers in foreign
countries, starting next month.
Dr. Sylvan Ginsburgh, principal of the Hebrew High School, United
Hebrew Schools, will leave this country to take up permanent resi-
dence in Israel Aug. 10. Next Wednesday, he bids farewell to Detroit,
where he has held the UHS post since 1962.
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Dr. Eli Grad, education director of the Shaarey Zedek Schools
for 10 years, will direct the education and youth departments of
Toronto's Cong. Beth Tzedec starting Aug. 1.
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This will not be Dr. Ginsburgh's
first extended stay in Israel. The
most recent in a series of visits to
the country was five years ago
when he and the late Mrs. Gins-
burgh spent a year there while he
was doing research work. Accom-
panying them was their son, Rob-
ert, who plans to reside with his
father. Robert, 20, recently re-
ceived his masters degree in math-
ematics at Yeshiva University and
will enroll in a yeshiva in Israel.
Although he has not yet con-
firmed his professional plans, Dr.
Ginsburgh said he will work either
with the ulpanim
(schools for
teaching Hebrew
to newcomers) or
at the Hebrew
University's Paul
Baerwald School
of Social Work in
an administrative
capacity.
(Dr. Ginsburgh,
Ginsburgh
who holds a PhD
in education from Dropsie College,
received his masters degree in
social welfare and education from
the University of California at
Berkley.)
Born 54 years ago in Vilna,
Poland, Dr. Ginsburgh describes
his "aliyah" as "my life's yearn-
ing." He has long been .affiliated
with Farband, Labor Zionist Or-
der.
Dr. Ginsburgh, who held a num-
ber of important educational posts
in the East prior to his coming to
Detroit, saw enrollment in the
UHS high school department rise
in three years from 175 to 235.
There also was considerable re-
duction in the dropout rate partly
due to a counseling service he in-
troduced. A complete set of record
cards was instituted for students
in both the intensive seven-hour
program and the four-hour LTTI
(Leadership Teacher Training Insti-
tute) program for confirmands
from the congregational schools.
In addition to his administrative
duties, Dr. Ginsburgh taught an
adult ulpan class in beginning He-
brew.
15 U.S. Youths
Build Center for
Tiny Community
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — Fifteen
young Americans, members of bhe
Reform movement's -"Mitzvah
Corps," are hard at work on a
dramatic project to which they are
devoting the entire summer—the
construction of a community center
for a tiny community of Indian
Jews in this country. The com-
munity is located in the village
of Yenta Prieta, near Pachuca,
about an hour's travel from Mexico
City.
In addition to building the new
center, the youngsters are reno-
vating and painting the small syn-
agogue maintained by the com-
munity, called "Ha Negev." They
are contributing their services un-
der the supervision of two adults,
Albert Vorspan of New York, and
Rabbi Leo Abrahamee, formerly
spiritual leader of the Bet-El con-
gregation in Guatemala. All the
youngsters come from comfortable
homes in the United States.
The architect for the new center
is a Christian, living in Pathtica,
who is also contributing his talent.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, July 23, 1965
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Dr. Grad, who received his PhD
in sociology of education from
Wayne State University only last
June, will engage
in an intensive
range of educa-
t i o n a l program-
ming in his new
position. He anc
his wife will be
living at 24 War
wick, Toronto 10.
Ont.
During his ten
ure as Shaarey
Zedek education
director, m i d
week instruction
for all boys and
girls from age C
was instituted. Jr
addition, the Sun
day school pro
gram was intensi
fied to a
Grad
per-week curricu-
limn, and the schools' program was
extended through the 12th grade.
The Israel Summer Pilgrimage
was started for graduates of the
high school, and a new teacher-
training program begun in coop-
eration with the Midrasha and Near
Eastern Department of Wayne
State University.
Dr. Grad considers as most signi-
ficant "the major broadening of the
base of lay participation in Jewish
education by the involvement of
hundreds of active laymen and
women in discussions, study and
planning of a meaningful curricu-
lum which is, hopefully, a credit to
the richness of our Jewish heri-
tage while being geared to the
realities of American Jewish life."
Soviet Jewish Policy
Protested at Conclave
of Latin Parliament
LIMA, Peru (JTA)—The Consti-
tuent Assembly of the Latin Ameri-
can Parliament unanimously adopt-
ed a resolution Monday protesting
the Soviet Union's "practice of dis-
crimination against the Jewish
community" in the USSR and called
on the government of the USSR "to
eliminate" those practices, and to
grant full religious and cultural
rights to Jews.
The parliament is a non-govern-
mental but highly influential or-
ganization composed of representa-
tives from virtually every parlia-
ment in Latin America.
The resolution referred directly
to a similar resolution condemning
anti-Jewish discriminations in the
USSR, adopted at Strasbourg,
France, last May by the Council of
Europe. In the measure, the Par-
liament agreed with the Strasbourg
assertion to the effect that "human
rights are, by nature, of universal
validity" and called upon all coun-
tries practicing discriminations of
any kind "to eliminate them and
recognize the rights of minorities
to exercise" their religious and cul-
tural rights "in their fullest ex-
tent."
Prior to its consideration by the
Constituent Assembly, the resolu-
tion was approved by the Parlia-
ment's political commission, under
the presidency of Ulises Guiama-
raes of Brazil.
The measure had been intro-
duced in the commission by Sena-
tor Aquila Cornejo and Represent-
atives Fernando Loen de Vivero,
Andres Townsend Ezcurra and
David Aguilar, all of Peru; Rep.
Maximo Garrizo, chief of the Pana-
manian delegation; and Rep. Jorge
Montero Castro, head of the Costa
Rican delegation.
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