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Jordan Diversion Jewish, Protestant Boys Studied for Differing Outlooks
NEW YORK (JTA) — Prelimi- beliefs about "Jewish cultural
In another study quoted by
Project Gets U.S. nary
results of a study among characteristics," and to show that Rabbi Dershowitz, when students
and Protestant 10-year-old these persist into the second and of different ages and religions
Nod as 'FairShare' Jewish
schoolboys, in order to establish third American generations.
were asked to list their major pro-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
State Department spokesman said
that the U.S. government has no
objection to a Jordanian dam that
is part of the Arab scheme to
divert the headwaters of the Jordan
River.
State Department spokesman
Robert McCloskey said diversion
plans announced by the Jordanian
government do not appear to the
State Department to be inconsistent
with the 1955 unified plan for
utilization of Eric Johnston's plan
for utilization of regional water
resources.
McCloskey referred to a Jordan-
ian government announcement that
work on Mokheiba Dam, an aspect
of the Arab cooperative scheme to
divert headwaters of the Jordan
River, would begin within two
months.
"The United States," he said,
"does not take exception to the
Jordanian announcement" and
feels that Jordan's intentions do
not violate the spirit of the
Johnston plan. He was asked if
the United States was assisting
Jordan financially in construc-
tion of the controversial dam.
He replied no.
In addition to his other com-
ments, McCloskey read the fol-
lowing formal statement as the
official U.S. position in response
to the diversion plans announced
by Jordan:
"The development of water
resources of the Jordan River and
its tributaries is of great import-
ance to the countries of the area
and has our support. The problem
is to ensure that withdrawals by
each state respect the interests of
other riparian states.
"The 1955 unified plan for the
Jordan Valley worked out by the
late Eric Johnston following a
United Nations technical survey
contained recommendations for
equitable allocation of water among
the riparian states and for effective
international supervision. We be-
lieve the plan represents an equit-
able standard for fair and rational
use of the waters."
Sen. Morse to Lead
7 Senators on Israel
Visit at LBJ's Request
ATLANTIC CITY (JTA)—Presi-
dent Johnson has requested a
group of eight Senators, who will
go soon to meet with the parlia-
ments of India and Japan, to visit
also Israel, it was announced here
Sunday night by Sen. Wayne
Morse, Oregon Democrat. Sen.
Morse made that announcement
while addressing the opening ses-
sion of a four-day national conven-
tion of the Mizrachi Women's Or-
ganization of America.
He said the group of senators,
for whom he will act as chairman,
will comply with the President's
request and will make Israel part
of their itinerary.
"Our delegation," said Sen.
Morse, "will certainly discuss many
outstanding political issues that
plague the Middle East. I know
that one of the unique contribu-
tions of Israel to world peace has
been its program of technical as-
sistance in Africa.
"The success of this program
has attracted much interest on
the part of Congress and the
administrators of our own aid
program. It would appear that,
by careful selection of countries
and careful planning of activi-
ties, Israel has accomplished so
much with such goad results that
we are anxious to learn from
her."
Sen. Morse was awarded the
organization's "American - Israel
Friendship Award." He pledged
that the senators to visit Israel
would focus their attention on con-
tributions that can be made toward
a peaceful solution of the Middle
East problems through programs of
mutual assistance.
the differences in the way they
experience their environments,
were reported here at a meeting
of the board of directors of the
National Council of Jewish Women.
The report was presented by
Rabbi Zachary Dershowitz, an as-
sistant professor at Long Island
University's school of education,
who is making a study of the sub-
ject under a grant from the NCJW
supplemented by a grant from the
U.S. Office of Education. The find-
ings may have much relevance in
planning teaching programs for
ethnically different groups of chil-
dren. The study will be completed
next January.
The tests show, Rabbi Dershow-
itz reported, that Jewish chil-
dren tend to comprehend things
as a whole and to have difficulty
in separating component parts.
The Protestant children, on the
contrary, tend to see the parts
more easily.
In addition, Protestant children
tend to have a much stronger
sense of self-identification and
independence and of their own
separateness from their environ-
ment.
When the two sets of children
were asked to draw pictures of
themselves and other people, the
Protestants drew quite detailed
sketches, whereas the Jewish chil-
dren tended to draw far more
generalized figures.
His study, he reported, also
seems to . confirm some popular
`Central Structure,
Stress on Jewishness
a Must for Community'
The tests showed that the Jew-
ish children tend to rely less on
their sensory perceptions and
more upon their intellects, while
the opposite was true of the Pro-
testant children. J e w s, he
pointed out, have always placed
greater emphasis on intellectual
than physical achievement.
blems, the Jewish students showed
a pattern of concern about health.
This, he said, may account for
the popular joke that "Jewish men
never grow up physically — though .
they do intellectually. They depend
first on their mothers, then on
their wives, to take care of them
physically."
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Greater
emphasis on Jewish aspects of
American life and the urgent need
for a democratically conceived cen-
tral Jewish organization was urged
Sunday by most speakers, with one
major dissent, at the two-day con-
ference on "Planning for the Amer-
ican Jewish Community of Tomor-
row — 1975" sponsored by the
Theodore Herzl Institute this week.
Outstanding rabbis, communal
leaders and academicians spoke at
the 10 sessions devoted to critical
evaluations of the structure and
policies of Jewish communal and
religious life and the projection of
principles, programs and proce-
dures for meeting the Jewish com-
munal needs of 1975.
Dr. Judah Shapiro, secretary of
the National Federation for Jew-
ish Culture, said:
"One of the first issues in plan-
ning for the future is that of creat-
ing a democratic structure for the
Jewish community which will in-
clude an expression of decision
(voting), the presentation of _altern-
atives (platforms and parties), and
the selection of leaders on the basis
of merit (elections), rather than as-
cription. Planning for 1975 demands
the earliest attention to the estab-
lishment of democratically struc-
tured Jewish communities."
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A diametrically opposed point
of view was expressed by Prof.
Eli Ginzberg, director of Conser-
vation of Human Resources at
Columbia University, who said
that "Jewish orgezations should
stop their elusive search for de-
veloping a broad unified struc-
ture to encompass all or niost of
them."
Devoting himself to the question
of "new perspectives for Jewish
community relations, Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg of Englewood, New Jer-
sey, stated that there will inevit-
ably have to be a division of labor
among institutions currently fi-
nanced by the Jewish community."
C. Bezalel Sherman, well-known
Jewish sociologist, said that this
"central body" must be built on
"the three pillars of Jewish com-
munity life — the synagogue, Jew-
ish institutionalism, and Jewish
world interdependence."
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