Friday, July 14, 1967-27

Youth News

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"'BYO Leadership Elected

in City, State and Midwest

The four Bnai Brith Youth Or- Fred Sofferin of Jolson Young
ganization councils in the state of Men; vice-president, Marilyn Ten-
Michigan during the recent con- cer of Shalom Young Women;
vention elected officers to coordi- Francine Ben, secretary-treasurer,
nate the programs of 58 chapters. of Shalom; and counselor, Shari
The Detroit AZA Council will be Lipson of C h a v a r i m Young
headed by aleph godol (president) Women.
Alan Sorkow of Goode AZA; aleph
The outstate Great Lakes Coun-
s'gan, Bob Shapiro of Einstein cil. serving nine communities in-
AZA; aleph gizbor, Rick Segal of cluding Windsor, will have its pro-
Akiba AZA; aleph noreh, Harley gram led by President Butch
Goldberg, Gershwin AZA; aleph Parnes of Maimonides AZA, Flint;
mazkir, Chuck Saperstein of Sporn vice-president BBG, Randa Klein
.AZA; aleph sopher, Art Weiss of of Exodus BBYO, Mt. Pleasant;
Einstein AZA; and aleph kohen vice president AZA, Steve Bercu-
godol, Danny Rosen of Goode AZA. son of Windsor; and reporter, Dave
The 24 chapters of Detroit Abraham of Windsor.
Bnai Brith Girls Council is to
At the recent Mid-west and Can-
be led by Joyce Keller of Ruach
adian District Six Bnai Brith
BBG; vice-preseidents, Doreen Youth Organization convention
Fleishman of Brice BBG, and
Mitchell Lefton of Solomon AZA
Tobye Bindes of Rebecca BBG;
was elected to the office of dis-
secretary, Nancy Silverman of
trict aleph s'gan (vice-president).
Rebecca BBG; .reporter, Judie
Mitchell, a 17-year-old senior at
Cohen of Zangwill BBG; and Oak Park High School, will serve
counselor Michele Sinkoff of Sy
as the program coordinator of the
Teens.
Midwestern AZA program on an
The Detroit Young Adult Council executive board, headed by Paul
is to be directed by president, Teskey of Winnipeg.

Prominent Japanese Administrator Salutes
Israeli Achievement in Letter to Detroit Youth

The interest in and concern for
the state of Israel by the Japa-
nese people during the present
crisis was expressed in a letter to
Eric Burton, a 19-year-old Univer-
sity of Michigan junior who was
an exchange student in Japan two
summers ago.
Eric's host "father and mother"
were Mr. and Mrs. Norihiko
Ukita, a prominent Japanese fam-
ily. he being the chief administra-
tor for the Mitsubishi Atomic Pow-
er Association.
The letter said: .
"I understand Israel will have
to undergo a long, thorny path in
the face of disbelief, hatred, ani-
mosty and sense of revenge on
the side of the Arabs until getting
to the final solution. It is a tre-
mendous job indeed. But, Eric, I
have a strong belief in the spiri-
tual endowment, ability of the
Jewish people. You are wonderful
people equal to any occasion.
Should you come out of the situa-
tion with success, it will be a
lamp to lead the world to better

Rabbinic 'Intern'
to Work in Slums

NEW YORK—What is believed
to be the first active program in
the country for placing rabbinic
and ministeral students in urban
trouble spots was launched in Ro-
chester, N. Y., last week.
Kenneth I. Segel of Buffalo, a
graduate student of Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, went into
training with Ror_-.an Catholic and
Protestant urban leaders in the up-
state community, his purpose to
enter an active internship among
problems growing out of slum life,
poverty and family relocation.
The internship is sponsored
jointly by the committee of in-
terreligious relations of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the central body
of Reform Judaism, and the
Jewish Community Council of
Rochester. The UAHC body is
headed by Rabbi Balfour Brick-
er, and the Jewish Community
Council by Rabbi Herbert Bron-
stein of Temple Brith Kodesh in
Rochester.
Segel will attend a seminar
sponsored by the Catholic and
Protestant urban groups and will
be trained in urban problems by
officials of programs concerned
with poverty, housing, urban re-
newal and social welfare. Accord-
ing to Rabbi Brickner, the Segel
internship is the first in what is
planned as a comprehensive pro-
gram for this kind of practical
training of student rabbis.

environments. I'm watching the
development of the affairs with
keen interest and expectation."
The letter said "As we were
little informed of the Mideast
issues, at first the war came as
a sudden embarrassment to most
of the people here. However,
the situation has been changing
rapidly since June 6. Floods of
information — news, comments,
reportages, pictures, films ap-
pear in the newspapers and on
radio and TV, and so we are
coming to grasp the meaning of
the situation.
Ukita commended the Israeli
ambassador to Japan, whose lec-
ture he attended before the Israel
Friendship Association. "Mr. Bar-
tur's lecture was very informa-
tive and instructive to understand
the whole state of things. I think
he is doing a wonderful job of
enlightening the Japanese people."

Two 8-Year-Olds Hold
Carnival to - Aid Israel

A shoe box lined with pennies,
nickels, dimes and one quarter
was brought into The Jewish News
building Wednesday afternoon by
two enterprising young carnival
barkers who wanted to help Israel.
Michael Rosenfeld, 8, of 2237
Huntington, and J e f f r e y Fred-
ricks, 8. of 20285 Huntington,
raised $2.11 at an outdoor carnival
they organized for the benefit of
the Israel Emergency Fund.

Israelis Give Youth THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Government, Jewish Agency
Jewish Identity,
to Open Special Volunteer Office
Says BBYO Head
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Labor at the Alonei Yitzhak Secondary

School.
One hundred young American
volunteers left the U, S. July 5 for
a year of service in Israel as mem-
bers of the Sherut La'am (Service
to our People). Of this group, 16
of whom are Canadians, 22 will
work in kibutzim and the other 78
will serve in various professional
capacities throughout Israel. Of
the 100 volunteers who left for
Israel via El Al, 74 are girls. The
Sherut La'am program in Israel
is conducted by the Jewish Agency.
Alton said that more than 5,000
volunteers bad reached Israel since
the beginning of June, all of whom
had, been absorbed in essential
work. Although some occasional
snags have developed in the course
of their introduction to conditions
in Israel, Allon said a more basic
cause for some dissatisfaction was
the natural post-war "letdown" ex-
perienced by youngsters who ar-
in the country at the height
The Office of Academic Affairs rived
of the nation's enthusiastic sup-
of the American Friends said 56 port for the military effort.
American participants, including
Young people who hoped to
two nuns, began summer studies
engage in more dramatic enter-
Wednesday at the Hebrew Uni-
prises now found - themselves
versity.
asked to water orchards or carry
The last of four groups of 150
stones for building projects.
American and Canadian college
students left for a six-week sojourn
in Israel. They will spend 18 days
Turning to -the need for services working in three collectives in the
to young adults, Dr. Baer, who is Negev, under auspices of the
also a member of the executive Histadrut Foundation for Educa-
Orchestra and Entertainment
committee of the World Consulta- tional Travel.
tive Committee on Jewish Youth.
The third of four groups of teen-
observed that we have been focus
ing so much attention on the in agers, totaling 100 boys and girls,
left
under auspices of the Histadrut
creasing number of Jewish youth
entering colleges and universities Foundation for Educational Travel
that we have overlooked the grow- to spend the summer at Kfar
ing number who are dropping out Hayarok, an agricultural school.
Now Booking - - -
of the same institutions before and at 'Kibutz Gesher liaziv in
the Galilee. •
completing their studies.
"According to a recent study
Another 21 American teen-agers
by the American Council on left for a second year of high
and His Orchestra
Education, only about 55 per cent school study in Israel under
Good Music
of entering freshmen stay in col- auspices of the American-Israel
for All Occasions
lege long enough to receive a bac- , Secondary School program. After
calaurate d egr e e. Though the an initial period studying Hebrew.
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attrition among Jewish students they will spend the academic year
is not as great, we have reason
to believe that it, too, reaches a
high proportion.
See Morris Watnick
"Very few of the college drop-
outs affiliate with any kind of
Jewish organization at this stage
of their lives. Moreover, even
those who graduate with a first
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"If we are to maintain a con-
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1 Jewish living experiences up
through the formative years, it
is of paramount importance that
the Jewish community allocate a
larger share of its resources for
educational services to young Jew-
. ish adults both in and out of
college," Baer concluded.

STARLIGHT, Pa. — "The forti-
tude and achievements of the Is-
raelis are doing more to give
American Jewish youth a feeling
of identity as Jews than all of the
educational programs sponsored
by synagogues and other Ameri-
can Jewish organizations."
Dr. Max F. Baer, of Washington,
D.C., national director,of the Bnai
Brith Youth Organization and a
vice chairman of the Council of
National Organizations on Children
and Youth, expressed this view
to participants in the 22nd annual
international convention of Bnai
Brith Young Adults. The conven-
tion followed an International)
Judaism Institute attended by vir-
tually the entire convention body ,
at Camp Bnai Brith in the Penn-
sylvania Poconos.
"However, American institu-
tions charged with the Jewish
education of our youth now have
a magnificent new opportunity
to capitalize on the pride of
Jewishness which has swelled
the hearts of young Jews be-
cause of the startling achieve-
ments of the Jewish state," Baer
continued. "Now is the time for
us to reduce Jewish illiteracy
with educational programs that
are meaningful and dramatic."

Minister Yigal Allon announced
in the Israel parliament that
the government and the Jew-
ish Agency were setting up a spe-
cial office to deal with the thou-
sands of volunteers from abroad
who came to Israel to offer their
services during the Israel-Arab
crisis. Alton noted that most of
the volunteers were already work-
ing.
The labor minister also an-
nounced that those volunteers who
planned on staying a minimum of
two years and were in proper
physical condition would be al-
lowed to serve in the Israeli army.
More than 275 educators, college
students and teen-agers have left
for study courses in Israel under
auspices of the American Friends
of the Hebrew University, the
National Committee for Labor Is-
rael and the America-Israel Sec-
ondary School program this week.

Larry Freedman

647-2367

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They Made the Grade

WENDY RAE POLASKY, daugh- Secondary School. For two months,
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. she will take an intensive course
Polasky, 49 Benton, Saginaw, left in Hebrew to learn the language
for Israel for one year, to take and then in September will com-
the 11th grade at Alonei Yitzhak mence with her regular courses.
She will complete her final year
at Arthur Hill High School.
Saginaw Girl to Spend ,
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Year in Israeli School

Wendy Polasky, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank M. Polasky of Sagi-
naw, is among the 21 American
students who left for Israel to take
their second year of high school
study under the auspices of the
American-Israel Secondary School
Program.
Following a Hebrew orientation
period, they will spend the year
at the Alonei Yitzhak Secondary
School near Caesarea.
The American curriculum to be
followed has been generally pat-
terned on that of the American
Embassy School in Herzliah, main-
tained largely fo rthe children of
English-speaking personnel in
Isreal.

ROBERT S. ZIMMER. 23, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Zimmer,
11042 Worden, received a master
of science degree from Yale Uni-
versity and has also completed
his work on a doctor's degree in
physics under a National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration
grant. Zimmer is a graduate of
Cass Technical High School.

German Publisher Gives
$325,000 to Jerusalem

DUSSELDORF — It was report-
ed in the Allgemeine that Axel
Springer, the German publisher.
donated 1,300,000 marks ($325,000)
for the construction fund of Jeru-
salem.

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