THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, December 20, 1968
Argentine Jewish Schools Forced to Convert
to All-Day Programs; Choose to Drop Yiddish
Superb Dramatizations of Historic Jewish Events
ISRAEL—DREAM and FULFILLMENT' and camp. And as for dramatiza-
A Dramatic Reader by Samuel J. Citron. tion, it may be said to have no
Published by Jewish Education Commit-
peer. It needs no props, scenery
tee of New York, Inc. 1968-259 pp.
or stage. The parts need not be
er to teach Hebrew or Yiddish. At
Reviewed by AZRIEL EISEN-
least 14 Jewish schools which are
converting from part-time to full- BERG, Director, World Council on
time operations have decided to Jewish Education.
Two great historic events hap-
teach Hebrew and give up Yiddish.
Yiddish teachers are being left job- pened in our time: the catastrophe
of the Holocaust and the miracle
less.
of Israel. Intimately interrelated
The crisis in the Jewish schools
each has brought in its wake
Because of the time pressure is a result of a change in govern- startling impactful events of extra-
created by the need to include ment educational policy. Public ordinary heroism. The martyrdom
Spanish language programs, many schools will no longer operate part- of Six Million of our brethren, the
Jewish schools must decide wheth- time, leaving the pupils free to establishment of the State . of Israel
attend religious schools for the rest
wtih all that preceded it, the Sinai
of the school day, but will operate
Campaign, the Six-Day War, these
on a full-time basis. The Jewish
are glorious chapters that must
schools, consequently have to go
be stamped into the hearts and
on a full-time basis and incorpo-
minds of our generation. They
rate the public school curriculum,
must influence the lives and shape
integrating it with Jewish studies.
the personalities of our young, or
we shall have lost our future.
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of Argentina is facing a crisis as a
result of the need to convert the
Jewish schools here into full-day
schools with both the official Ar-
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Three Conservative Day
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Two elem-
entary day schools and a day high
school were opened at the start of
the current academic year to bring
to 28 the number of day schools
under Conservative sponsorship,
with a total enrollment of 4,725
pupils. The Solomon Schechter
High School in Brooklyn is the
first day high school under Con-
servative auspices.
The new day primary schools
are the Solomon Schechter Day
School in New London, Conn.,
which has started with a nursery
and an enrollment of 12 children;
and the Akiva Academy of Los
Angeles, which has 42 children in
two nursery branches and a kin-
dergarten, according to the United
Synagogue Commission on Jewish
Education. The Brooklyn high
school has 31 students. Six of the
schools are in Metropolitan New
York City, two are on Long Is-
land, one in Westchester, three in
Canada and the rest in other
states.
Caracas.
to Bring Total to 28
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