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September 30, 1966 - Image 8

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1966-09-30

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

8 Friday, September 30, 1966



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Beigin to Reassume Herut Leadership, Backers Say After Victory

TEL AVIV (ZINS)---The Beigin- ed, excluding all members of the months to re-elect Menahem Beigin
ites have come out victorious in opposition. The chairman of the as Chairman of the Party. The op-
their battle with Shmuel Tamir new Executive, Jacob Meridor, stat- position, however, had not admit-
and his followers. A new Execu- ed that a national conference will ted defeat and is preparing for a
live of 13 members has been elect- be called within the next six counter-attack.

By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
JEWISH INTELLECTUALS: A new type of a Jew is rapidly devel-
oping in the United States . . . He is the Jewish scientist, professor,
physicist, chemist, mathematician, researcher, psychologist and others
in the academic elite . . . He is highly respected in the general com-
munity and is looked upon with high esteem among Jews . .. He is not
inclined to deny his Jewish identity, but he is either alienated from
Judaism or keeps aloof from the Jewish community . . . It is estimated
that the number of these young Jewish members in the academic elite
is close to 100,000 . . . Some of them are, however, beginning to display
interest in Jewish communal life and in Jewish education . . . Dr. Judah
Pilch, director of the Curriculum Research Institute of the American
Association for Jewish Education, claims that Jewish scientists and
academicians can now be found in ever increasing numbers in Jewish
institutions . . . He bases his observations on studies of Jewish educa-
tion in a number of communities conducted in the last five years . . .
In each of these communities the study commission included one or
more members of this new intelligentsia . . . In one community Dr.
Pilch found that the local study committee was composed of four
scientists, two university professors, one physician and three business-
men who were also college graduates . . . The Jewish education study
committees of two small schools in two different communities were
headed by scientists of great renown . . . These schools happened to be
situated in close proximity to famous research laboratories . .. In five
other Jewish schools that were surveyed, the school committees on
curriculum were headed by scientists whose fields were either the
natural or social sciences . . . Information from 26 principals of large
suburban Jewish schools and from five directors of Bureaus of Jewish
Education revealed that in each of these institutions there were two or
more scientists serving on the boards of the school or Bureau . . . An
inquiry conducted- among pupils of a Hebrew high school disclosed that
26 per cent of the respondents were children of university professors,
social workers, engineers, doctors, chemists and researchers . . . From
in
an inquiry into the home background of Jewish children who live
a neighborhood adjacent to a large university, Dr. Pilch found that
almost one-third of all parents were members of the university staff
. . . In the opinion of Dr. Pilch, scientists and academicians drafted by
Jewish federations for community service—mostly as members of
education committees—are by and large civic-minded people who af-
firm the Jewish group's rights to take full advantage of the American
democratic system, which upholds the principle of diversity in unity.

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INSIDE ISRAEL: Israel is now undergoing basic economic changes
. . . But next to the economic problems that now worry the Israeli
leaders are the significant changes that are beginning to take place
in the composition of the population . . . A sharp decline in the birth
rate among European Jews, in contrast to that of the Oriental Jews and
the Arabs in the country, is worrying the authorities . .. A committee
of inquiry reported that among European Jews in Israel, the average
is 2.3 children per family, as against 6.8 children in Oriental families
. . . Among Arabs in Israel, the rate is 8.2 children per family . . . Last
year, some 22 per cent of all children in Israel were born to Arabs .. .
One half of all births were to Jews of non-Western origin . . . This
means that Israel is becoming more and more an Oriental country
and it points up the problem of retaining a Western way of life in
Israel . . . The authorities want to encourage larger families among the
European Jews, especially since immigration from European countries
is declining . . . One of the reasons such Jews limit their families is
that so many women must go to work, to contribute to the family budget
. . . There is a recommendation that the criminal law against abortions
be enforced firmly, thus leading to an increase of births in European
families . . . Another facet of the changing demography in Israel is
the move to the suburbs of the big cities . . . This is especially true of
Tel Aviv, whose population has remained around 400,000 for the last
15 years . . . More and more families move into the suburbs, villages
and small towns, leaving their businesses in town . . . As a result, school
attendance in Tel Aviv is contracting, and some classes in public schools
have closed down this season.

YANKEES YES!: If you are interested in the lighter side of Ameri-
can history, read "Yankees Yes" by David Schwartz . . . David Schwartz
is the Jewish Telegraphic Agency columnist whose witty column ap-
pears in the Detroit Jewish News . . . In that column he sparkles with
witticisms testifying to his great erudition in matters Jewish . . . But
David Schwartz is, in addition to being a man of Jewish learning, also
a person who is very much at home in American history ... In fact, he
is a very fine American historian and a fountain of knowledge when it
comes to American history . . . He could have been a Reform rabbi
since he studied in Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati• and he could
have also been a Professor of American History, since this subject is
his great hobby and to a very great extent his specialty . . . Modest as he
is, he never mentions the fact that he has serious works on Jefferson
. . . Inclined to a feuilletonistic style of writing, his "Yankees Yes"
is a collection of little known facts and anecdotes—vividly conveyed—
dealing with various periods and personalities in American history .. .
Each of the chapters in the book—beginning with the one dealing with
the first Americans and concluding with one on President F. D. Roose-
velt—is very informative and humorous . . . From the entertaining form
in which the oddities are presented, a picture emerges throwing light
on the true character of some of the Presidents . . The author calls
his book an "anecdotal U.S. history," but the book is more than that
. . . Behind most of the anecdotes, there is a philosophical tinge which
provokes thinking . . . Thus, the book is not only an entertaining volume
but is also of educational value for anyone who wants to feel the spirit
of various moments in American history .. . The book will be enjoyed
by every reader for its contents and for the pleasant reading it makes
. . . The volume was published by Theo. Gaus' Sons, Inc.

New York's Home and Hospital for Aged Expanded

NEW YORK (JTA)—Dedication main building, contains 109 beds,
ceremonies were held here for a bringing the total resident capacity
new $1,500,000 wing of the Menora to 520. Also included in the new
Home and Hospital for the Aged building are comprehensive medi-
and Infirm. The five-story struc- cal, social and recreational facili-
ture adjoining the institution's ties.

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