U. S. Jewry Spends $100,000,000 a Year for Education
INDIANAPOLIS —(JTA)— The
annual cost of Jewish education for
about 550,000 children in the Unit-
ed States has been estimated at
$100,000,000 by Isaac Toubin, ex-
ecutive director of the American
Association for Jewish Education.
The faculty providing this educa-
tion totals some 17,000 teachers,
but many of them are part-time
and badly prepared for such teach-
ing. he said.
The education expert spoke at a
session on Jewish education at the
monthly meeting of the young lead-
New College Israel Tour
A new campus program design-
ed to revive interest among college
ership council of the Jewish Wel-. task."
youth
in their Jewish tradition has
Parents must shoulder much of
fare Federation of Indianapolis. He
the blame, he declared, partly been instituted at 12 American
called Jewish education the , largest
for their lack of interest in Jew- colleges under the auspices of
single enterprise of the American
ish education and partly because Yavneh and the Torah education
Jewish community and one that
their home life contains little and culture department of the
suffered from lack of funds, staff
that is Jewish. At the same time, Jewish Agency-American Section.
and general interest.
he
said, many adults who ob-
Information can be obtained
"At its severest best," he told
serve very little that is Jewish, from the Yavneh office, 84 Fifth
the 50 young Jewish leaders, "Jew-
are active in Jewish community
ish education leaves much to be de-
Ave., New York.
affairs.
sired. We do not give it enough
time. If we think that something
can be accomplished two and a half
hours a week for five years, we
give the schools an impossible
Jewishness of Soviet Youth
on Increase, Observer Says
TORONTO (JTA) — A student Jewish generation." He said
"theirs is a negative reaction:
of Soviet affairs who has visited
'You tell me I am a Jew. All
the USSR 10 times in recent years,
declared here that the younger right, I am a Jew and I'm proud
of it. I don't know what it means
generation of Soviet Jews are be-
but I'm going to find out.' "
coming increasingly and openly
defiant of a regime that labels
Dr. Pollack said be didn't think
them Jews but does not permit the Soviet government is dedi-
lead
Jewish
lives.
them to
cated to anti-Semitism or that the
He reportea that 4,000 teachers
are licensed to teach in Jewish
education but that there were less
than 100 principals licensed to su-
pervise them. He noted that there
were only 11 accredited Hebrew
training schools in the United
States which produce only a "trick-
le" of the teachers needed. At the
current rate of attrition, he re-
ported, "we need 500 or more new
teachers a year." To close the gap,
at least partly, 60 to 65 Israelis are
"pressed into service" in American
Jewish schools through an annual
exchange program.
He said other Israelis who are
here for study programs are also
Dr. Allen Pollack, assistant pro- Jews in the USSR face physical employed. if only to teach Hebrew,
but many of them are not suited
fessor of Russian history at the extinction. "The Soviet Union is
University of Pittsburgh. spoke at sensitive to world opinion," he
for general teaching. He said, how-
a meeting of 400 young people said, "and can be pressured to ever, that if the Israelis were not
sponsored by the Hillel Foundation live up to its own laws with regard
available, some Hebrew schools
at the University of Toronto. He to minorities."
likened the temper of Soviet Jew-
Newsweek Magazine reported in would have shut down.
He also re rted that the em-
ish youth to the Black Power its current issue that since the Six-
movement among Negroes in the Day War, "Jews in the Soviet Un- phasis now in ish education is
on
secondary, rather than on ele-
ion have been finding it increas-
United States.
(Dr. Pollack spoke in Detroit ingly difficult to get scientific and mentary courses. He also cited a
new development — summer camp-
Feb. 29 at a public rally conclud- military jobs. Some young Soviet
scientists who are Jewish (the ing programs, combined with inten-
ing the Histadrut campaign.)
"One sign of the movement is a designation is stamped on their sive Jewish education. He indicat-
national
strong identification with Israel," ID papers) have been denied posts ed hopes for creation of a
of Jewish education to raise
he said. "Artifacts from Israel are they had been promised; others board
the hottest items in the Soviet have been told their cases must be academic standards and variety
black market." During last June's reexamined. Communist officials programming. He said many ef-
Six-Day War. Jews walked the in one city are said to be exclud- forts were being made to modify
streets muttering "mir, mir." Dr. ing Jews from sensitive jobs be- the curricula, from Bible reading
Pollack said. "In Russian this cause of what they call growing to history to Jewish values, in an
means 'peace' but in Yiddish it nationalist tendencies in the Jew- effort to "find out what is wring
with Jewish education."
ish community."
means 'we.' "
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 Friday, March 8, 1968
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forced identification of Jews as
such in Russia without corre-
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