THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Knesset Adjourns; 18—Friday, August 19, 1966 Post-MOrtem Bill Lack of Personnel Competence Noted Action Delayed in Report on Jewis h Camps in U.S. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Knesset, NEW YORK (JTA) — Declaring Israel's parliament, adjourned Aug. that "the problem of personnel is 9 for the summer months with the the most serious one" faced by adoption of a law providing that Jewish camps in this country, a the post of Prime Minister can be given only to a member of the study of Jewish camps conducted Knesset. Until now, all other mem- by the American Association of bers of the Cabinet, except the Jewish Education, established the Premier, were named in the law following facts: linking Cabinet membership with 1. "A review of counselor appli- cation forms of many of the Federa- Parliamentary office. tion, Center and philanthropic camps, those camps receiving the greatest The Knesset postponed further amount of Jewish community finan- debate on the anatomy and path- cial support, show no clear trend in staff requirements in the area of ology bill, a measure aimed at Jewish competence. tightening regulations regarding 2. "The Conservative camps re- post-mortems at hospital s. , At quire Jewish background and Jewish commitment from their staff. Simi- present, hospitals are not required larly. the educational camps require to obtain a kin's permission for Jewish background. In the educa- tional camps, the Jewish• educational the performance of an autopsy. requirement is stressed for positions of counsellor or below. In the Zionist Israel's religious parties have sup- camps, the position of director or ported the stricter regulations. assistant director requires a Jewish background and commitment; below In another vote, the Knesset ap- these positions, the responses are proved the second and final read- not uniform and show no clear trend. ing of the amendment to the Knes- 3. "The crucial question of provid- ing proper staff for Jewish summer set Building Immunity Law, adapt- camps is one the Jewish community must face. The Hebrew teacher col- ing it to the area -around the new leges generally do not provide spe- : building where the next Knesset cial courses for camp staff positions. A few of them offer brief workshops session will take place. or orientation sessions. Orf the other The Knesset passed the first hand. the schools of social work, the Centers. etc.. who do provide reading of an amendment aimed staff for their camps, make almost at liberalizing the libel law ap- no provisions for or have no require- ment that the staff be knowledge- proved by the last Knesset, which able Jewishly. had resulted in widespread pro- 4. "Of the 18 Center camps in the AAJE study, only two of them made test from various quarters. No one mention of a Jewish or Hebraic re- voted against the amendment, but quirement or even desirability for abstentions were recorded by the staff positions. There is great need for a collective effort on the part of Communists and by Uri Avneri, the community, educator, group the journalist who was elected to worker, Federation personnel 'and camp people to meet and try to solve the Knesset last year on an inde- the staff problem. Proper staff are the sine (ma non for carrying out pendent ticket. the objectives of Jewish camping." The amendment was proposed by a special committee appointed Directors of camps have often lby Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in complained, the AAJE report :the face of growing opposition showed. that the "negative atti to the original measure. Accord- tilde" of staff members with re- ing to the amendment, which will gard to Jewish. matters, "is a 'be debated after the summer re- major d°terrent toward introduc- cess, the truth of an item and the ing Jewish programming." Some facts that its publication is in • the counsellors actively resist such public interest will be sufficient programming, the report stated. defense against charges of libel. The report emphasized, how- The amendment, also eases the pen- alties for publishers and journal- ever, that the programs in de- nominational, Zionist and educa- ists found guilty of libel. tional camps must be differen- tiated from the others, since Israel's Exports Increase "these camps are clearly mak- Israel's exports of goods and services last year totaled $745,- ing a most significant contribu- 000,000 compared with $651,000,- tion; they are miniature Jewish communities." "However," the 000 the year before. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF UMAN BEINGS, famous and inconspicuous alike, never H tire of seeing their names in print—even linked to a completely inaccurate item in a bush-league gossip column. The late Sinclair Lewis c o n fessed unashamedly that whenever he re- ceived a review copy of a new book of non-fiction, the first thing he did was to look in the index to see if his name was there. Author Ben Hecht once cashed in on this univer- sal weakness. In a second- hand bookshop, Hecht came upon several hun- dred copies of a technical treatise, marked down to a fraction of the original list price. The book was over 1,000 pages long, hopelessly dull, often unintelligible, and carried no index. Hecht mailed copies anonymously to all his most im- portant friends, with a typed note inside that read, "I be- lieve you will wax justifiably indignant when you come across the numerous insulting references to you in this book." The hunt, they say, went on for weeks. There's a perky little lady who lives alone at Fire Island and loves it. When the beach in front of her house gets too crowded — for her own comfort, she simply circulates quietly among the sun worshippers anti bathers, shades her eyes; and exclaims, "Goodness, isn't that a fin out there?" In no time flat, she has the beach to herself. * * There was a bit of a racket along Wabash Avenue in Chicago one afternoon this April. Two automobiles came hurtling out of nowhere, with the occupants wildly shooting at each other with machine guns. The cop at the corner merely yawned and observed to nobody lilt particular, "Heavens to Betsy; That's the first robin I've heard this spring!" . „ . • • • • • , Ir 1966, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed - kty• King Features Syndicate report added, "they, too, univer- sally bemoan the lack of quali- fied staff to handle their prog- rams." Observance of kashruth and the Sabbath in the Jewish sum- mer camps were also studied in the survey. It was shown that 29 per cent of the camps that re- ceive communal funds fail to ob- serve kashruth. Only 58 per cent of the camps reported Sabbath regulations; 81 per cent reported some form of Oneg Shabbat; 71 per cent reported having Sabbath services. Daily religious services were reported as being held in 32 per cent of the camps. The report—which is of a pre- liminary nature and is still being revised—was very pessimistic in trying to answer certain key ques- tions. It stated: "From the point of view of Jewish continuity and the monetary investment of the Jewish community in its educa- tional enterprises, the prime queS- tion,is whether or not we are ex- ploiting the camp as a Jewish ed- . ucational instrumentality. Are Jew- ish camps fulfilling their commun- al obligation?" "Unfortunately," the study de- clared, "most of the questions must at present be answered in the negative." The questions included fulfillment of Jewish communal ob- ligations in the camps, sufficient communal return from communal investment, and the relationship between the Jewish camp and the Jewish school. Finally, in addition to recommending more communal atention to Jewish camps and to their programming in Jewish con- tent, the study made these other recommendations: British Interfaith Parley Calls for Better Relations LONDON (JTA) — A Christian- Jewish "consultation" held by 70 Protestants, Catholics and Jews at Newnham College of Cambridge University called upon both Catho- lics and Protestants Monday to follow through on the decisions to improve Christian-Jewish relations. The participants in the week- long parley called attention of the Catholic church to its Vatican Council declaration condemning hatred and persecution of Jews and anti-Semitism in general. As for the Protestants, the .session noted that the World Council of Churches had shown a desire at its New Delhi assembly to improve relations with Jews. The conference also recommend- ed that all Christian education treat Christian-Jewish relations in the context of other group rela- tions; that use of authentic Jew- ish sources be encouraged in Christian education; and that more money and personnel be allocated to intensify Christian Jewish dia- logues. The conference voiced concern over the resurgence of neo-Naz- ism and bigotry in some areas, pointing out that the defeat of Nazism had not ended racial and religious discrimination. The par- ley noted that, while legislation against discrimination and incite- ment to hatred could help improve relations, "no law could substitute for the initiative of citizens to re- sist vigorously against all attempts to undermine the democratic struc- ture of society." 1) Inclusion in the curricula of Hebrew teachers colleges of courses in group work with an orientation to camp staff work; 2) Efforts to convince social work ers who direct Jewish camps "of the need and value of introducing Jewish programming in their camps"; 3) Creation of a central agency, su.ch as the AAJE, which should give serious consideration toward the -development of a camping de- partment with a professional con- sultation staff: 4) Organization of an association or council of all Jewish summer camps, which is to hold, annual conferences; 5) Making federations and welfare funds more aware of the importance of the Jewish summer camp and its right to communal support; and 6) Insistence on the fact that. if the community invests in camping programs, the camp programs must include Jewish programming and must, as a minimum, recognize two basic Jewish principles: observation of kashruth and of the Sabbath. "The results of this initial study by the American Association for Jewish Education," the report con- cludes, "are preliminary. This study clearly indicates the great need for additional thinking and ef- fort by those in the community concerned with the fostering of Jewish life and with the utilization of all educational facilities to that end." Seized U.S.-Made Cargo Owned by British, So State Dept. Backs Out WASHINGTON (JTA) — . The State Department Monday reported that an investigation of the Egyp- tian seizure of American-manufac- tured trucks and excavation equip- ment disclosed that the cargo was British-owned. The Egyptians con- fiscated the cargo on the allega- tion that it was destined for Israel. State Department officials said they considered the case closed "as far as we are concerned." They investigated because the equipment was made in America. The probe showed that the goods, valued at •100,000 were confiscat- ed from a Dutch ship in the Suez Canal. 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