14—Friday, November 18, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Nobel Laureates Welcomed at Dinner

Federal Aid Issue Still a Bone of Contention in N.Y.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK — Officials of

Meyer W. Weisgal welcomes Nobel Laureates Prof. I. I. Rabi
and Peyton Rous, and Robert Sarnoff, president, Radio Corporation
of America, at the 21st annual Weizmann Institute dinner which
paid tribute to the founders of the Institute.

CJFWF Assembly Hears Special Report
on Education Needs by Mandell Berman

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
religious days schools warned
Tuesday they would seek postpone-
ment of grants of $65,000,000 in
federal programs for disadvan-
taged school children in New York
City because they were dissatis-
fied with the way the funds are
scheduled to be allocated for re-
ligious school pupils.
The threat was made by the
Committee of Nonpublic School
Officials, which says it represents
400,000 such children in New York
City. The committee said it would
ask the New York State and fed-
eral governments to hold up the
program unless assurances were
given that religious school stu-
dents would benefit "in a compar-
able and equitable manner" with
public school students from the
program.

The funds are provided under
Title I of the federal program
for aid to elementary and sec-
ondary education, which pro-
vides about $1,000,000,000 for
such assistance.

The entire federal school aid
program, meanwhile, appeared
likely to come under more inten-
sive attack by foes of such aid in
the wake of a United States Su-
preme Court action Monday which
left standing a ruling by the court
of appeals of Maryland that col-
leges of sectarian status cannot
receive public grants, even when
the funds were to have been spent
for nonreligious purposes. The
Maryland high court held such
grants violate the First Amend-
ment ban against an official es-
tablishment of religion.
The Supreme Court sidestepped
the issue by declining to review
the Maryland ruling, and the deci-
sion did not mean the Supreme
Court had approved the Maryland
ban. The other federal program
affected by the Supreme Court
action is the $1,600,000,000 pro-
gram of aid to private colleges.

campaign services committee. Max
LOS ANGELES—The 35th gen- M. Fish of Detroit, general chair-
eral assembly of the Council of man of the United Jewish Appeal,
Jewish Federations and Welfare and Irving Kane, chairman of the
Funds opened here Wednesday CJFWF overseas committed, were
preceded by sessions of the Large scheduled to speak on the impact
Cities Budgeting Conference, at of changes in immigration, the
which leaders of the 23 largest Israel economy, dependency aid
welfare funds, comprising the and what American and- Canadian
LCBC, reviewed the budgets of a Jewry is expected to do.
A report on means by which
number of national Jewish agen-
cies jointly with representatives of Jewish Federations can help to
those agencies. assure the highest quality in
The assembly, which will dis- Jewish education in their com-
was presented Wednes-
cuss developments in Jewish life munities
day by a special CJFWF com-
in the United States and Canada—
mittee established to study the
and which is being attended by question
of what federations
more than 1,000 top Jewish corn- could do to
strengthen Jewish
munal leaders from those two
education in this country.
countries—heard Thursday major
The committee, headed by Man-
addresses on Jewish needs and on dell L. Berman of Detroit, reported
the responsibilities of American it had been considering the follow-
Jewry to meet those needs, on ing problems:
the domestic front, in Israel and
1. What the priorities should be Chaplain Saltzman
in other overseas countries.
for federation action in Jewish
A keynote address, which will education.
Assigned to Vietnam
serve as the platform for 1967 fund-
2. How,communal funds could be
"The life of a I Corps circuit
raising campaigns, was delivered used most effectively to have the
riding chaplain in Vietnam is hec-
Thursday by Irving Blum of Bal- greatest impact.
timore, chairman of the CJFWF
3. What influence federations in tic and unique, and there are many
their planning function should exert rewarding experiences," Chaplain
(Lieutenant) David B. Saltzman
in determining priorities and re- stated
in his first
sources for financing.
report to the Na-
4. How federations should relate tional Jewish
to bureaus of Jewish education, Welfare Board
congregations, schools, national or- Commission o
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Informed ganizations and universities.
Jewish Chaplain-
sources said that an important re-
The report said that while the
organization of Israel's cabinet, committee recognized a wide va- cy after his re-
which will affect several Ministers, riety of unmet needs and require- cent assignment
is expected to be carried out next ments for strengthening Jewish as Jewish chap-
lain of the First
month.
education, the focus initially was
Aircraft
According to the reports, Trade on those segments of the need Marine
and Industry Minister Haim which particularly require central Wing, Vietnam.
Chaplain Saltz-
Zadok will leave the government. community planning and financing,
He was reported to have tendered and where federations can perform man came to
Vietnam from his
his resignation to Premier Levi the most meaningful service.
special High Holy
Eshkol because he was unhappy
Therefore, the first two goals
over some parts of Israel's current selected by the committee for Day mission in
three-year economic austerity pro- national and community attention, Taiwin. He re-
placed Chaplain
gram.
without precluding others, were
Robert L. Reiner
He will be replaced, the sources progress toward upgrading re- who,
after com-
said, by either Zev Sherf or Labor cruitment, training and utiliza-
Minister Yigal Allon, who report- tion; and upgrading of post ele- pleting his tour Saltzman
of duty in Vietnam, is being re-
edly has been planning to give up
mentary education, as indispen- assigned in the United States. The
that portfolio. If he is not named
sable for a meaningful Jewish other two Jewish chaplains in Viet-
to the trade ministry, he will prob-
education.
nam are Chaplain Alan M. Green-
ably be named to head a new
In the field of federation plan-
ministry for science and higher ning responsibility, the committee span and Chaplain Ernest D. Lapp,
Previous military chaplaincy
education slated to be established noted that planning for Jewish
service of Chaplain Saltzman in-
soon.
has lagged behind com- cluded assignments as the first
The ministry of police, which education
munity planning for other fields chaplain of the Military Construc-
Behor Shitreet quit recently, will in
a number of cities.
tion Battalion 6 (Seabees), where
be disbanded and its functions will
The committee recommended he was the chaplain for all men in
-be transferred to the Justice and
that
federation
planning
for
edu-
the MCB Battalion„ and duty at
Interior Ministries, the sources in-
cation should be similar in many Guantanamo Bay ministering to all
dicated.
respects—though not in all—to its Jewish personnel and their fam-
planning function in the health ilies at U.S. instalations in the
WORDS
Caribbean area.
He that uses many words for and welfare programs.
The committee emphasized in its
the explaining any subject, doth
Car Owners in Israel
like the cuttlefish, hide himself report "The clarity of community
for the most part in his own ink. functions in these other fields con-
There has been a marked rise
trasts with the cloudiness in Jew- in the ownership of private cars
ish education." The committee in Israel; 47,000 in 1965, as com-
pointed out that "Federation plan- pared with 23,000 in 1962. The sum
ning for Jewish education requires of $39,266,667 went for tobacco in
the dedication, commitment and 1965, and $38,000,000 accounted
involvement of top community for by cigarettes. Expenditure on
leaders to assure the essential alcoholic drinks also increased by
progress."
over 10% during the same year,
(See Story, Page 2)
amounting to $33,800,000.

Bernard E. Donovan, New
York City superintendent of
schools, recently proposed a cut-
back in aid under Title I to help
disadvantaged children. He asked
the city board of education,
which determines the amount of
money to be spent 'under Title I,
to reduce by about 125 the
number of reading and arith-
metic teachers reassigned this
year to non-public schools.
A school official estimated the

schools."
Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, Sara
Umesora director, disclosed that
two Jewish day schools, one fa
New York State and one in Cali-
fornia, closed this year, and said
such failures stemmed partly from
"lack of communal responsibility?"
Samuel C. Feuerstein, Tora Ume-
sora president, said in his annual
report that there were now 330
day schools in 103 United States
communities, plus 36 such schools
loss to the nonpublic school s, in Canada.
which include Jewish day schools,
at $500,000.
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officials told the conference here
MORE REPEAT
of Tora Umesora, the National
Society for Hebrew Day Schools,
CUSTOMERS SAY:
that federal aid to education was
leading to a "new vital relation-
ship between the public school
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the federal government and the
local school district."
J. Graham Sullivan, deputy
U.S. commissioner of education,
also told the Jewish day school
leaders that there was no evidence
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