8—Friday, December 23, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

• •
Quebec Education Commission Gets
Proposals Affecting Jewish Children

Israeli Manufacturers
Cut Work Week to
Cope With Joblessness

TEL AVIV (JTA) — A number
of Israeli manufacturers an-
nounced Monday that they have
MONTREAL (JTA)—The Royal ulation as compared with 1961, taken steps to reduce the increase
Commission of Inquiry into Educa- and an increase of 31.6 per cent in unemployment and intend to
lion in Quebec has received a in the Jewish teen-age population run their factories on a five-day-
series of proposals from the Cana- in 1966 as compared with the a-week basis.
dian Jewish Congress covering figures of five years ago.
The working week here has been
proposed changes affecting the ed-
The study also showed that, in six days. The cut to five days
lication of Jewish children in the ' 1961• 94.7 per cent of Canada's was intended to obviate the need
province.
' total Jewish population lived in 17 for the dismissal of some workers.
One of the proposals was a metropolitan census areas and the
At the same time, the Israeli
request that Jewish day schools he . city of Regina. The 1961 Jewish Manufacturers Association ap
recognized for grants on the pre - • population ranged from 128 in Pealed to Prime Minister Levi
school and elementary level and metropolitan St. John's Newfound- Eshkol that he convene a round-
that recommendations of the royal land. to 102,724 in metropolitan table conference of employers.
commission on recognition of pri- Montreal.
organized workers and government
vate schools should be extended to
The study on the aged is in- officials to bring about mutual
provide for such support for
schools which comply with the tended to furnish social welfare agreement on implementation of
a country-wide freeze on wages in
proposed regulations for all schools agencies here, and others inter-
• ested in the welfare of the Jewish 1967.
in the province.
A 4 per cent cost-of-living
Another welcomed the pro- population 65 years old and over,
increase is to be put into
posal that the public education : with comparative statistical in- ' wage
effect next month. Leaders of
system in Quebec respect dif- formation, including the number of Histadrut,
Israeli federation
ferences in the religious options ! aged, marital status of Jews over of labor, at the
a meeting Sunday
60 and sex distribution.
of parents and pupils by offer-

attended by Eshkol, proposed
ing a choice of Catholic, Pro-
The CJC noted that a special j that the increase be raised to
tes tan t and non-confessional cross-classification was made •nec- 5 per cent. The premier, on the
education, to the degree that

essary because the statistics of
proposed standards for quality in . Jews by ethnic origin in Canada
education can be satisfied in, differed from the figures of Jews
each choice.
-
! by religion in 1961, forming 8
The Congress proposed that per cent of the total Jewish popula-
exemption from religious instruc• tion of all ages in that area. Of
Lion and exercises in confessional the 8,209 Jews who were 65 years
schools should be automatic. with- of age and over, 3.173 were in the
out requiring written requests from 65-69 bracket, and 5,036 were 70
parents, as is now required. Que- years of age or over.
bee schools are operated under
In every area of - metropolitan
direction of Christian-controlled
•. Montreal and in every age group
boards.
over 59. the number of women
The Congress brief also asked
that Biblical literature in such exceeded the number of men
schools he taught not as religious among the Jewish population.
dogma, and that there be provision
for legal absence on religious holi-
days for children and teachers.

other hand, asked Histadrut to
agree to cut the projected 4
per cent increase to 2 per cent.
Israel Finance Minister Pinhas

Importance of Yiddish Emphasized
in Koslovsky's Recorded Narration

The movement instituted by the .
Bnai Yiddish Society, with head-
quarters at 387 Grand St., New
York, to encourage adherence to
Yiddish and the strengthening of
the language. is explained in a
two-sided LP recording in which
Yitshok Koslovsky, a leader in the
movement, analyzes the importance
of Yiddish.
Koslovsky's impassioned read-
ing points to dangers in over-em-
phasis on Hebrew and to Israel's
dependence on . Yiddish.

He especially warns against as-
similation. declaring that without
Yiddish the identity of Jews is im-
periled and declared that the Jew-
ish people must depend upon Yid-
dish as the major means of assur-
ing survivalism on a most idealistic
plane.
Koslovsky's narration is an in-
teresting account of the role of
Yiddish. It is a strong plea for
pragmatism in approaching the lan-
guage problem.

dude many prominent Jews. The
movement reportedly is growing
and is gaining new adherents.

Get-Acquainted Party
for Pre-USY Group

A pre-United Synagogue Youth
group is being formed at Cong.
Ahavas Achim for boys and girls
age 12 and 13.

A get-acquanted party ;ill be
held 1 p.m. Tuesday at the syna-

gogue. There will be singing, (lanc-
ing, games, prizes and refresh-
ments.

For information, call Mrs. Bert
Heller, 837-9185, or Mrs. Bernard
Whiteman, 356-1864.

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Bnai Yiddish Society's ranks in-

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Population Drop
of School Children
Noted in Canada

MONTREAL (JTA) — Two •
studies dealing with the Jewish
school-age. child population in •
Canada and with the Jewish aged
in the metropolitan census area
of Montreal and environs were
made public here by the Canadian
Jewish Congress.
The figures showed that there
are in Canada, this year, an esti-
mated 34.780 children. aged 5-12,
on the elementary school level, and
35.490 Jewish teen-agers. The 1966
figures in this study were proj-
ected from the official 1961 census
data.
The data showed that there was
a 12.7 per cent drop in 1966 in the
Jewish elementary school age pop-
-

Eshkol: Economic Woes
Not a Crisis, Only a 'Test'

JERUSALEM (.JTA) — Premier
Levi Eshkol Tuesday reiterated
that Israel's current economic
problems were not a crisis but an
economic test. lie expressed belief
that Israel would meet the test.
Ile spoke at a reunion of some
200 veteran Zionists who arrived
in Palestine many years ago before
the establishment of the State of
Israel.
The premier, himself a veteran
Zionist who came to Palestine
many years ago, also spoke of the
current tasks and challenges fac-
ing the Zionist movement and Is-
rael. He cited the need for an ef-
fort by Israelis to bring Jews to
Israel from the United States.
Europe and the Soviet Union.

Labor Minister Yigal Allon
meanwhile asserted that Israel
had reached - the beginning of
the turning point" in its economic
problems. Speaking at a meeting
of the Association of Americans
and Canadians, he said that in-
creased efforts in investment
savings a n d in productivity
would soon begin to pay off.
He also reported that short-term
government remedies, such as, work
on a presidential residence in
Jerusalem, which was halted under
the economic retrenchment policy,
would be resumed to provide jobs
for construction workers. The pro-

ject will cost $900,000.

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