Ilene lVinslow to Wed Quiet Campus 'Revolt' Sees Return to Jewish Studies at U-M
Simon H. Komer Aug. 2
By DORIS SELIGSON
' Midrash where decisions over they have? A survey taken recent- ed in a "living Jewish experience"
MISS ILENE WINSLOW
Dr. and Mrs. Max B. Winslow of
Southfield Rd., Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Ilene Vera to Simon Harris Komer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Komer
of Blackstone Ave., Oak Park.
The bride-to-be attended Eastern
Michigan University. Mr. Komer is
a graduate of the Wayne State Uni-
versity School of Business Admin-;
istration.
The couple has set Aug. 2 as
their wedding date.
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Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WCAR
Feature: A "Folk Rock Service"
by Cantor Raymond Smolover and
performed by the National Federa-
tion of Temple Youth will be dis-
cussed and heard.
It began at registration time last course emphasis and format, for
example, were made, and future
fall with a small booth advertising
courses were suggested and
courses at the Beit Midrash—Col-
planned.
lege of Jewish Studies in Ann
Arbor (an extension of the Mid
What were the course offerings
rasha College of Detroit). Just a that seemed to meet the needs of
modest offering of six or seven students?
courses given weekly at the Hillel
First, there were several Hebrew
Foundation.
language courses. Many of the stu-
The response was overwhelming. dents in these classes were plan-
Encouraged by this outcome, sev• ning to visit Israel soon and found
eral new features were added at 'these courses very helpful. Others
the opening of the winter semes- explained that they wanted to learn
ter. The response this time was Hebrew in order to find more sat-
even heartier. About 300 students isfaction when studying biblical
had thus demonstrated that Jewish texts or when participating in reli-
education had yet some importance gious services. For more advanced
for them.
students, many who had spent a
And since word of the Beit Mid year at the Hebrew University in
rash's success is spreading, many Jerusalem, a Modern Hebrew Lit-
more students are expected to reg. erature course was given. In the
winter semester, this group also
ister in the coming semesters.
But what were the factors that
brought on this revival of inter-
est?
The June War of 1967 was the
first major threat to Jewish sur-
vival that the present college-age
generation has experienced. It
awakened the search for identity
in many who had either not cared
before or who had thought the
answer lay in passive acceptance
of the label "Jewish."
Those who had participated in
New Left and black nationalist
movements faced a new dilemma
when these groups began to con-
demn the Israelis as "Zionist ag-
gressors." Where could they begin
to seek answers to these problems?
The prospect of intermarriage is
another cause for some students to
take another look at their Jewish
roots and values.
Confronting what has been called
"the New Morality" which really
is sexual freedom with a new ra-
tionale, other have asked for a
clear description of Jewish morals
and ethics.
Surrounding all this, was the
changed atmosphere at Hillel
where students had come to pow-
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HIGHLIGHTS
er since the director had retired
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday
and no successor was appointed
until this spring. Student power
Station: Channel 2
Feature: "Youth Looks at Com-
was also extended to the Beit
munity Issues" continues with Rev.
Hubert G. Locke as special guest
and Abba I. Friedman, host. Rev.
Locke is director of religious affairs
and research associate for the Cen-
ter for Urban Studies at Wayne
American Jewish Committee's
State University.
Washington Representative Hyman
• • •
Bookbinder will describe "The
ETERNAL LIGHT
Washington Scene—a New Look"
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
at the June 4 annual dinner spon
Station: WWJ
sored by the Detroit AJC chapter
Feature: "Fragments," eighth at the Great Lakes Club.
AJCommittee Sets
Annual Meeting
and final drama in a "Righteous
Acts" series, tells the story of John
Weidner, a Dutch textile merchant
who worked tirelessly to rescue
his fellow countrymen during the
Holocaust.
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LUBAVITCH JEWISH HOUR
Time: 8 a.m. Sunday
Station: WKNR
Feature: A talk on "The Secret
of Our Existence" and "The Signi-
ficance of Shavuot Customs" will
be given by Rabbi Yitshak Kagan.
Part 2 of Hasidic-style melodies
will be presented.
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IN CONTACT
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WJR
Feature: "In Contact," the pro-
gram of the Detroit Interfaith
Broadcasting Commission," is host-
ed by Hal Youngblood.
Hannah Schloss Reunion
to Be 15th Annual Event
formed the core of a Beit Midrash
Hebrew-Speaking Club, a lively
discussion group which met week-
ly in a campus coffee house. An-
other language course which,
somewhat surprisingly, proved to
be very popular was Modern Lit-
erary Yiddish, on an introductory
and intermediate level.
The course with the highest en-
rollment (41 students) was Basic
Judaism-Jewish Ethics. Among the
students in this class were some
non-Jews who were either just in-
terested in learning more about
ly showed that most were sopho- at Brandeis Institute (Calif.); and
mores or seniors (some freshmen a senior in sociology who returned
and grad wives were also evident), from a year abroad in England,
of Conservative Jewish back- I plans to work in an eastern ghetto
ground, mostly from Detroit oiH community this summer to try to
elsewhere in Michigan. Most had improve Negro-Jewish relations.
visited Israel at least once, dur- There' are several who have been
ing summer, and said they spoke former leaders in Jewish youth
Hebrew "fairly well."
groups and summer camps. One
Two basic patterns of previous fellow said he had been searching
Jewish education appeared among since he started college four years
the students: either they had at- ago for something like this, some-
tended Sunday school, three-day where he could re-examine his
afternoon Hebrew school and He- Judaism and find some answers
brew high school, or they had only for his level of intelligence and
attended Sunday school. The for- maturity.
mer pattern was prevalent among
those from Detroit, while the sec- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ond pattern was more common
Friday, May 16, 1969-35
among those from New York. Few
had attended any Jewish day
school.
CANDIDS
The high number of Jewish stu-
dents from Detroit active in the
Belt Midrash, even in compari-
son to students from elsewhere
in Michigan, may have some
significance.
The Hanna Schloss Old Timers
will celebrate its
Detroit Chapter President Lewis
15th reunion 6:30.
Grossman announced that Mrs.
p.m. May 25 with
Paul
Broder. and Mrs. Everet
a dinner - dance
Straus are co-chairmen for the an-
and reception at
nual
dinner
meeting.
Tem ple Israel.
Samuel G. Bank,
The Upper Michigan Copper
dinner chairman,
Country is the largest commercial
is still accepting
deposit of native copper in the
reservations
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world. it has yielded more than
Bank
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Harry T. Madison is president 11,000,000,000 pounds in the past
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The cast of characters included a
medical researcher at Wayne
County Hospital; a young army
officer from the South who re-
cently returned from Vietnam and
is planning to go to Israel soon; a
junior who studied psychology at
Brandeis and plans to study ki-
butz society this summer a law
Judaism or had intentions of con- student from suburban New York
verting.
. Contemporary Jewish History
and Thought had the next highest
enrollment (23 students). This
course surveyed the patterns of
development of modern Jewish
communities in Israel, USA,
Europe, and the Soviet Union.
It also focused on specific issues
of special interest, such as "Jew-
ish Resistance to the Nazis,"
and "Scientific Anti-Semitism."
A popular, well-attended course
which was added in the winter
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term as an outgrowth of the Con-
temporary History course was the
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Jew-
ish-Arab Relations. The demand
for this course was so great that
an agreement was made with the
University of Michigan to have this
course listed in the university cata-
logue for credit next year under
General Studies. Already over 100
students have registered for it.
Artistic aspects of Jewish cul-
ture were studied in a very stimu-
lating course in Jewish Musicology.
A course in Talmud completed
this year's curriculum.
Next year Contemporary Jewish
History and Thought will be repac-
ed by three more specific courses:
History of Zionism in America,
Seminar in Social Studies of Jew-
ish Communities in Europe and
America, and Jewish-Arab Rela-
tions: 1936-1969. A Comparative
Study of Biblical Literature will
replace the Talmud course. The
demand for a course in the appli-
cation of Jewish morals to modern
life has led to the creation of a
course called Personal Worth and
Collective Identity. Otherwise He-
brew, Yiddish, Musicology, and
Basic Judaism will continue to be
SPEED READING
who attended Harvard, is strongly
anti-New Left, recently participat-
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port
Bookbinder, former assistant di-
rector of the Of-
fice of Economic
Opportunity,
helped dev elop
the basic con-
cepts of the war
on poverty in 1964
as executive offi-
cer of the Presi-
dent's Task Force
on Poverty. He
has served as
special assistant
offered.
to Vice President
No course, however excellent
Hubert Hu m p h-
rey, as legisla-
its contents and projected goals,
can ever be successful without a
tive representa-
Bookbinder
good teacher to present it.
tive for the AFL-
CIO and as director of the Eleanor Though all of the faculty were
Roosevelt Memorial Foundation,
very well-qualified, the personal-
dedicated to the' field of human
ity attraction of a few of th
teachers should not be minimized
rights.
As Washington representative
of the AJC, he maintains liaison
between the Committee and
agencies of the government, with
foreign embassies and with
Washington representatives of
other agencies.
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in analyzing the Belt Midrash's
success.
These "typical" good teachers
included liana Mueller, 28, a
`sabra' who taught at Shaarey
Zedek last year after getting her
masters degree in California; and
Joseph ("Yossi") Ben-Dak, co-
ordinator of the Beit Midrash, who
is presently working on his PhD
thesis in sociology at the Center
for Conflict Resolution at the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
Other interesting personalities
that attracted large audiences to
the Beit Midrash appeared as
guest speakers.
Who were the students and
what kind of background did
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