Israel to Be Schoolroom for Project Pincus Named
Planned by U.S. Poverty-War Leaders Acting Head of
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
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WASHINGTON — America's
"War Against Poverty" may obtain
insights into education of Negroes,
Puerto Ricans and other under-
privileged minorities from a study
of Israeli problems in education
of Arab children just commis-
sioned by the U.S. Office of Edu-
cation.
The study will begin next win-
ter and cover a three-year span.
Prof. S. N. Eisenstadt, head of
the department of sociology of
Hebrew University, will supervise
the project. Dr. Eisenstadt is
known in American academic
circles, having served as Carne-
gie Visiting Professor of Political
Sciences at the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. He is a
fellow of the Center of Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford, Calif.
It is thought Israeli findings
may prove valuable in attempts
to educate children of a group
background outside the educa-
ting society.
The focal point of the Israeli
problem is seen not so much in
the imparting of knowledge but
rather in the acquisition of basic
values. Prof. Eisenstadt wants to
determine to what extent and in
which fields various sectors of
the Israeli education systems
succeed in instilling a feeling of
belongingness and attachment to
its various pupils of the non-
Jewish minorities. How can edu-
cation influences in these spheres
be increased?
Social scientists throughout the
world are debating the effect of
education on social change.
Predicted results of such a con-
frontation are mainly pessimistic.
Social psychologist Kurt Lewin,
for instance, felt it was impossible
for the democracies to "re-
educate" the German people after
the Hitler era. Since thiS entailed
an educational effort opposed to
- the social climate, and implemen-
ted by external forces, Lewin saw
it destined to failure.
But the Israeli sociologists told
the U.S. Office of Education that
"We cannot reconcile ourselves
with this negative prediction."
They see the attempt to educate
children of national minorities as
part of the world's social reality,
whether in America or Israel.
The researcher's task is envisaged
as a description and analysis of
this attempt. Only on the basis of
empirical investigation would they
formulate a balance sheet of the
results of the experiment against
its aims.
Israel affords an arena for
study of socio-educational prob-
lems arising not my from con-
tact between Jews and Arabs
but also other groups. Jewish
groups of non-European origin
have brought complex problems
for the educators. "From the
point of view of their approach
to western civilization and their
level of formal education," such
Jews are "more similar to the
Arab minorities than to the
dominant European - Jewish
group,• ilebrew University has
decided.
A different attitude is seen in
Arab or Christian faith from the
group values of the Moslems. The
Moslem Arabs in Israel represent
"the extreme pole" as a non-
identifying group motivated, na-
turally, by cultural-religious sym-
pathy for the policies of neighbor-
ing Arab states and family ties
with Arab refugees.
Israel's compulsory education
law for children of 5 to 14 applies
to these Arab children as it does
to all others. Secondly schools in
Arab villages receive government
support. In a few cases, attempts
have been made to educate Jewish
and Arab pupils in the same
schools. The number of Arab stu-
dents in institutions of higher
learning is continually increas-
ing.
Answers to such questions may
prove valuable in America as well
as Israel.
Talmudic Professorship
Established in Chicago
CHICAGO (JTA)—The establish-
ment of the Maxwell Abbell Pro-
fessorship in Talmud for the Col-
lege of Jewish Studies was an-
nounced here.
Mr. Abbell, a Harvard-trained
Phi Beta Kappan and at one time
chairman of President Eisenhower's
committee on government employ-
ment policy, was one of the out-
standing leaders of the Jewish
community.
The Abbell professorship in Tal-
mud is the first chair to be estab-
lished at a Hebrew college in
America. Named in honor of the
former board member and officer
of the College of Jewish Studies,
this chair will be filled this fall by
one of the country's most distin-
guished Talmudic scholars.
Jewish Agency
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Aryeh
Pincus, treasurer of the Jewish
Agency, will be named acting
chairman of the
Agency execu-
tive.
A permanent
successor to the
late Moshe Sha-
rett will be nam-
ed when the
Zionist General
Council meets
here next Janu-
ary. At that timt,
in accordance
with resolutions
adopted at the
last World Zion-
ist Congress, the
Council will have
Pincus
to elect a new executive.
Pincus has addressed many Jew-
ish gatherings in New York, De-
troit and other cities on behalf of
the United JeWish Appeal.
Shortage of Hebrew Staff
Termed 'Most Crucial'
Newly Published Pamphlet Series
Discusses Variety of Vital Issues
A variety of vital issues and his- lution," written and edited by
torical subjects is covered in a Mario Savio, Eugene Walker and
series of pamphlets which have Raya Dunayevskaya. It includes
essays by Robert Moses on "Edu-
been published in recent weeks.
The Jewish News London cor- cation in the South" and "Inside
respondent, Josef Fraenkel, is the Sproul Hall: An Eyewitness Ac-
author of an important brochure count of the Arrest of 800 Stu-
dealing with an historical subject. dents" by Joel L. Pimsleur. The
Appearing under the title "Lucien articles cover the major events in
Wolf and Theodor Herzl," vital the civil rights struggle in recent
data is offered on the early states months.
in Zionism.
Of special current interest is
the brochure, "Law in a Trou-
bled Land," published by West-
ern Reserve University Press,
Cleveland, containing important
essays on law. The leading essay
in this pamphlet is on the subject
"Talmudic Jurisprudence," writ-
ten by Rabbi Mordecai Gifter,
dean of Telshe Yeshiva College,
Euclid, 0.
Dealing with important Talmudic
Old English Proverb: "Industry
is fortune's right hand, and fru-
gality her left." That could explain
the popularity of the Payroll Sav-
ings Plan for U.S. Savings Bonds
with both employers and em-
ployees.
sources, quoting important pas-
sages, Rabbi Gifter states in his
essay:
"Talmudic law is common law
in the sense that its knowledge is
common for all men and not the
domain of the professional student
of the law. The law is therefore
truly a Torah—a system of in-
struction to the people embracing
all the problems of life, seeking
to make the people worthy of the
great heritage of humanity—Man
created in the image of God."
News & Letters, operating from
NEW YORK (JTA)—"Although
we need 1,000 new Jewish teach-
ers every year, we are only corn-
pleting the training of 100 each
year," Dr. Samuel M. Blumenfield,
director of the department of edu-
cation and culture of the Jewish
Agency-American Section, said at 8751 Grand River, has issued a
the closing session of the 20th an- pamphlet "The Free Speech
niversary meeting of the Hebrew Movement and the Negro Reevo-
Teachers and Principals of Ameri-
ca.
FOR THE BEST IN
He called the shortage of trained
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
Hebrew teachers "one of the most
crucial problems affecting the fu-
ture of American Jewry."
SAM EMMER
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 23, 1965-27
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, Wall Street Analyst John S•raley names as the three most
fascinating characters he's met in many a day:
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