20—FriddY, lahhary 19; 196S"
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Welfaie Fund Leadeis,
Rabbis Differ Sharply
on Jewish Priorities
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
.. and Me'
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
BY BORIS SMOLAR
(Copywright 1968, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc.)
COMMUNAL CURRENTS: An intensive effort will now be started to ' •
attract more Jewish students into Jewish communal activities—and
to make them more aware of what is going on in Jewish life—under a
plan prepared by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
. . . Organized Jewish communities are beginning to display serious
concern over the indifference of Jewish college youth to Jewish life ...
They realize that the Jewish students, as the younger generation, hold
the key to the future of the Jewish community . . . They also realize
that estrangement of the Jewish youth from the Jewish way of life '
openS the door wider to assimilation and intermarriage . . . Even now,
a regional study—not yet made public—reveals that 37 per cent of the
college-educated, native-born Jewish youths of native-born parents are
intermarried . . . The Council of Federations has decided to take a
hand in the situation . . . It has established a national committee to
assist local communities in reaching Jewish youths of the 18-25-year
age bracket with programs aimed at strengthening their commitment
to Jewish communal interests . . . The CJFWF committee will work in
closest cooperation with the Hillel Foundations . . . With 80 per cent
of Jewish youth of college age actually attending colleges, CJFWF-1
estimates that about three-fourths of them are to be found in colleges
and universities located in cities where there are organized Jewish
communities with substantial Jewish populations, resources, facilities,
and personnel . . . This reality is different from the usual image of
the Jewish student being predominantly in small isolated towns with
no Jewish institutions, except perhaps a small synagogue . . . CJFWF
leaders feel local federations should lose no time in undertaking re-
sponsibility for planning to serve Jewish students effectively in their
own cities, where they have not already done so.
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STIMULATING STUDENTS: The Jewish federations stand a good
chance to involve Jewish students locally in the work of their com-
munities because the federations do many things that concern the
Jewish college youth deeply . . . Federations are active in the field
of civil rights and maintain committees and programs in which Jewish
students could participate . . . They conduct anti-poverty actions,
public welfare programs, volunteer services with the sick, with the
aged, with deprived children . . . They are engaged in fighting against
the decimation of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and in supporting
Israal's quest for peace in the Middle East .. . These are problems
that concern the young Jews on the campuses . . . The federations
could influence these young students to express their interest in hu-
manitarian activities in a Jewish direction . . . 'At the same time
they could also stimulate them to think more in Jewish terms by
keeping them informed on current Jewish issues and by preparing
them for greater future service and even leadership . . . Under the
new CJFWF plan, federations are to take community action to learn
more specifically the attitudes of the Jewish students,. what they and
their Jewish teachers want, what should be done and how can it best
be achieved.
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INVOLVING PROFESSORS: In the attempt to reach the Jewish col-
lege youth, the CJFWF committee will also seek to pursue the
same purpose with regard to Jewish members of the faculties . _
It is estimated that about 20 per cent of college teachers are Jewish ...
They exercise a strong influence on their Jewish students inasmuch
as the students look up to them and to their views on various prob-
lems . . . Most of these teachers are far from being interested in
Jewish affairs, although a large proportion of them come from immi-
grant parents . . . Special importance is attached by CJFWF to reach-
ing Jewish faculty members less than Jewish students . . . In fact,
the local federations are advised that, in taking community action to
strengthen the interest in Jewish life at the campus, they should lay
special emphasis on the importance of undertaking consultation with
Jewish faculty members . . . The federations are also urged that,
when developing pilot programs, they should work not only with stu-
dents but also with faculty . . . Meanwhile, Hillel Foundations are
planning for this year a wide range of courses and seminars that will
add a Jewish intellectual dimension to the campus scene.
Coexistence Workable, Peres Reports
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
GENEVA — The movement of
men and goods across the bridges
of the Jordan River and the brisk.
if unofficial trade, between the
East and West Banks, demon-
strates that peaceful coexistence is
possible between Israelis a n d
Arabs despite the hostilities engen-
dered by war and the absence of
treaties of peace, Israel's former
deputy minister of defense, Shimon
Peres, declared in an address here.
Peres spoke in the course of a
tour on behalf of the Swiss Zion-
ist organization. He noted that
despite the lack of peace, the
Arabs in Israel-occupied territor-
ies have not been cut off from the
Arab world.
Peres saw little immediate pros-
pect for a permanent peace and
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said that was a condition that
Israel as well as the Arabs, must
live with for the time being.
Construction Started
on Road to Etziyon
ESHTAOL—In the framework of
the development work undertaken
by the Jewish National Fund since
the Six-Day War the fund has be-
gun construction of a new road
leading to the Etziyon Bloc in the
Hebron Hills.
Work started at the end of No-
vember, simultaneously at both
ends of the future road, from Ke-
far Etsiyon downhills towards the
west, and from Neve Mikhael in
the Adullam Region uphill. The
highway will measure 7.5 miles in
length and will be 20 ft. wide to
he passable for all types of vehicles
The road is expected to speed
the development of the renewed
settlement of Kfar Etziyon whose
economic growth will then link with
the Adullam Region.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (JTA) — The
Central Florida Jewish Community
Council has announced that it is
sponsoring a project to provide
federally assisted housing for low
middle-income housing.
Elliott Zerivitz, president of the
council, said that the Kinneret Re-
tirement Apartments, a 15-story, '
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with 168 units in downtown Or-
lando, will be ready for occupancy
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corporation board of trustees.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The views
of the lay religious and rabbinical
leadership of a California Jewish
community on priorities in Jewish
communal services have been
shown in a research study to be in
"deep and pervasive" disagree-
ment with those of the Jewish wel-
fare fund leaders of the area.
The study was made by Paul
Weinberger, associate professor in
the School of Behaviorial and
Social Sciences of San Francisco
State College, and Eugene Brus-
sell, a public school librarian and
faculty member of the religious
school of Cong. Sherith Israel in
San Francisco. The findings were
reported in the current issue of the
Journal of Jewish Communal
Service.
The research focused "on the
priorities which rabbis and con-
gregation presidents assigned to
social service and educational
agencies in their importance to
Jewish life in the United States."
The views of the welfare fund
leaders were assumed to be re-
flected in actual allocations of the
Jewish communal funds to various
beneficiary agencies.
The Jewish education bureau
was ranked first in importance by
the religious leaders and fourth by
the fund. The Jewish day school
was ranked second by the religious
leaders and last by the fund. The
-Jewish counseling agency was
ranked third both by the religious
leaders and the fund, the only one
of the eight which there was agree-
ment.
The Jewish center was ranked
fourth by the religious leaders and
second by the fund. The local Jew-
ish weekly was ranked fifth by
the religious leaders and sixth by
the fund. The Jewish free loan
society was ranked sixth. by the
religious leaders and seventh by
the fund. The Jewish-sponsored
hospital, ranked seventh by the
religious leaders, was ranked first
by the fund. The Jewish defense
organization was ranked of least mar
importance by the religious leaders
and fifth by the fund.
Brotherhood Plans
Critical Topics
for Its Retreat
The Annual Brotherhood Retreat
and Refresher of Temple Beth
Jacob of Pontiac will be held at
Haven Hill Lodge, Highland, Jan.
27-28.
Jacob A. Meyer, general chair-
man, stated that members of other
congregations would be welcome.
Theme of the retreat will be
"Judaism's Confrontation with To-
day's Modern Problems."
Thomas A. Horwitz, president of
the temple, will give the opening
orientation address. Sherwin M.
Birnkrant, Pontiac director of
law, will speak on "Riots in the
Cities;" Dr. Melvin Cherno, pro-
fessor history at Oakland Univer-
sity, will speak on the "War in
Vietnam;" and Dr. Harold L. Bien-
enfeld will discuss the "Sexual
Revolution."
Co-Chairmen of the several dis-
cussion groups and workshops will
be James K. Rosenthal, Dr. M.
Kenneth Dickstein and Thomas A.
Horwitz.
Rabbi H. Philip Berkowitz of
Temple Beth Jacob will discuss
ethical Jewish phases of each sub-
ject.
Henry R. Winkelman, president
of the Temple Brotherhood, and
Dr. Benjamin Bisgeier will evalu-
ate the subject and discussion
groups.
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