Community Offered Formula for Reaching Youth: Guide, Don't Control
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
a surprise—it
did to at least one "expert" on
Jewish youth — but some of the
most "alienated" Jewish students
on campus today are Jewishly
concerned.
Yehuda Rosenman, director of
It may come as
Jewish communal affairs for the
American Jewish Committee, has
placed himself at the point of the
biggest question mark in contem-
porary American Jewish life: its
youth.
What they're thinking, what
they're demanding and what they
need were the concerns explored
by Rosenman on a two-day visit
to Detroit this week. He met with
Alex Pianko Will Take
Bride, Miss Lawrence
MISS BARBARA LAWRENCE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lawrence
of Dorset Ave., Southfield, an-
nounce the engagement of their
the "Establishment" — Jewish
agency professionals and members
of the American Jewish Committee
Detroit Chapter — and with the
youth themselves, Wayne State
University students who belong to
the Jewish Action Committee.
Rosenman reported on the out-
come of a unique three-day con-
ference in Tarrytown, N.Y., in
which 33 college students from
throughout the country (three
from the University of Michigan)
probed their innermost feelings
on Jewishness and Jewish life.
The findings will be published in
two weeks.
work in a "free religious school."
To those who search in vain for
a young face at a communal func-
tion, Rosenman r eplie s: "They
want to help plan these things. 'If
you want to know what's wrong
with Jewish education,' they say,
'don't ask a conference of Jewish
educators, ask us.' "
Recognizing that "You can't buy
everything the kids say; they don't
know the whole truth," Rosenman
insists there are enough students
who want to exercise their Jewish-
ness to make worthwhile the com-
munity's response to any initia-
tive from campus.
The students, a few of them
Forget the hostile types, he
radicals, many of them with little
warned. "Many Jews are wasting
Jewish background, some indif-
time, effort and money in try-
ferent, some committed, evinced
ing to reach the way-out leftist
a surprising concern for Jewish ed-
students. We've got to reach not
ucation and religion, said Rosen-
the radicals but those who have
man. "They're concerned that Jews
some ties, the liberals who are
in America are becoming less
miserable on campus. Our trou-
Jewish and more indivisible from
ble is we don't have a base of
the Protestant establishment."
strength with articulateness to
In the area of religion and the
attract those who care without
synagogue, "They want exciting,
wanting to destroy everything."
meaningful changes; they want to
"It's no longer black and white
be inspired. The sophisticated ones on campus," said Rosenman. "Jew
said the synagogue reflects the ish radicals at Berkeley wanted
values you find in suburban homes. High Holiday services. The Union
They want simpler services, per- of Jewish Students there and at
haps with group study — not a San Francisco State College have
country club atmosphere, but a their own paper, The Jewish Radi-
'Jewish happening.' "
cal. The SDS (Students for a
The Tarrytown students said Democratic Society) group is very
they would like to create a "free ambivalent; many are fighting anti-
synagogue," free meaning unen- Jewish elements within SDS. If it
cumbered by denominational lines becomes increasingly radical, the
of Orthodox, Conservative and Re- Jews will drop out."
form. They also volunteered to
Rosenman, who organized a De-
`Rebellion on Campus' Topic
of Discussion at WSU May 9
"Rebellion on the Campus" will . will be followed by a question and
daughter Barbara Diane to Alex
Pianko, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry be the topic of a panel discussion discussion period.
to be held 8 p.m. May 9 at Wayne
Pianko also of Dorset Ave.
The meeting will be held in
Miss Lawrence will be ' in the State- University's McGregor Con- Room L of the McGregor Memo-
June graduating class of Wayne ference Center.
I rial Conference Center on the
State University's college of edu-
cation. Her fiance, a graduate of
Oakland Community College, cur-
rently is an accounting major at
the Detroit Institute of Technology.
The couple plans an Aug. 10 wed-
ding.
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The rash of sit-ins and protests Wayne State University campus.
of various forms currently being I There will be a nominal admission
experienced at various campuses charge with a special rate for
throughout the country has 'students. The public is invited.
prompted the Metropolitan Detroit'
branch of the American Civil Lib- U. S. 'Bungling'
erties Union to assemble a panel
of speakers with diverse points of Recalled with
view to engage in a public dialogue
avitations
The Jewish Establishment, in
turn, must meet the new initia-
tives with a genuine response,
said Rosenman, who sees himself
and the American Jewish Com-
mittee as "gadflies in the Jew-
ish community — calling atten-
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Panelists will include D. B. Var- in the Chicago Tribune refers to
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For, ultimately, change must
ter here 20 years ago, suggested
that Wayne's Jewish Action Com- come, he said, if the American
mittee like other student organiza- Jewish community is to progress
tions of its type "needs guidance and to achieve tranquility.
and help from any group without
an institutional bias, a group that THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Rosenman stressed: "It's not what
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you say, but what you do that's
important."
The reawakening of Jewish
identity that Rosenman has seen
on campus is traceable, he said,
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also attributed to "personnel
error," the message was then
sent to the national security
agency at Fort Meade, Md.,
where it was simply filed away.
"Even so, the Liberty would
have got a second chance if a re-
peat of the warning three hours
before the attack had reached it.
But a radio operator on the Medi-
terranean flagship sent the mes-
sage to a shore transmission sta-
tion in Morocco, instead of to the
station in Asmara, Ethiopia, to
which the Liberty was tuned.
"So, twice repeated 26 and 27
years after the event, we have a
repetition of the missed signals
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