18—Friday, August 29, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Jospe Denies Campus Is a Jewish 'Disaster Area'
STARLIGHT, Pa. (JTA)—To put
the blame on the college campus !
for
the rejection by many stu-
NEW ORLEANS (JTA)—The Jewish Welfare Federation here has
appealed to the Jewish community for volunteers to render aid to dents of their Jewish identity is ,
victims of Hurricane Camille which devastated communities along a "a bitter injustice" which ignores
the underlying reasons for this at-
100 mile strip of the Gulf Coast.
The Federation called for the services of active or retired social titude" — "an erosion of Jewish
workers who can assist American Red Cross relief workers to dis- knowledge and the actions of a
tribute supplies and nurses who can help in hospitals and first aid meaningful Jewish experience in
centers. The federation also asked for volunteer office workers, truck their lives," a Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundations official said Wednes
driVers and helpers.
The appeal was issued by Herbert J. Garon• president of the day.
federation. According to Morton J. Gaba, executive director, there is
virtually no Jewish population in the disaster area except for the
coastal town of Biloxi, Miss., where about 60 Jewish families reside.
SOS Sent Out for Camille Victims
Rep. Ford Addresses ZOA Parley
Hebrew Books'
Lasting Effect
"Hebrew books in themselves,
LOS ANGELES — Rep. Gerald Yorty greeted the delegates of the
Ford of Michigan, Republican Mi- city of Los Angeles at the first even if their owners do not open
nority Leader in the U.S. House of plenary session, Thursday evening. I them at all for lack of comprehen-
Representatives, addressed the
Fred Kahan of Los Angeles, sion, have the effect of bringing
opening session of the 72nd national serving as national convention an atmosphere of holiness into the ,
ZOA convention, Thursday eve- chairman, presided at the opening I home and create a spiritual and
national Jewish environment under
ning, at the Century Plaza Hotel. session.
, one roof; rays of light burst forth
Los Angeles Mayor Samuel W.
Two military heroes of Israel in
ifrom the ancient Hebrew letters,
the Six-Day War will speak at the 'diffusing a particular splendor
convention. Ambassador of Israel among the four walls.
to the U.S. Gen. Itzhak Rabin will
—Daniel Persky.
speak at a luncheon today. Maj.
Gen. Ariel Sharon, tank command.
Black Youth's Bar Mitzva
NEW YORK — An agenda de- er of the front-line Israeli armor
signed to give the lay and pro- that broke through the Egyptian 1st for Chicago Temple
CHICAGO—The first black youth
fessional leaders of American and lines in the 1967 Six-Day War, will
Canadian Jewish communities their speak on Aliya at an oneg Shabat to fulfill requirements for joining
3
p.m.,
Saturday.
Chicago's
Jewish community is an 1
first opportunities to preview 1970
At the convention banquet Sun- eighth grader who observed his
Israel, overseas and domestic
needs will be provided by the fall day. Sharon will be the guest of Bar Mitzva last Saturday at Cong.
Rodfei Zedek here.
quarterly meeting of the board honor.
Robert Devine Jr., 13, is the son
of the Council of Jewish Federa-
Speaker at the banquet will he
of
the rabbi of House of Israel He-
tions and Welfare Funds, Sept. 4-7, U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams,
, brew Cultural Center and chairman
here, Louis J. Fox, CJFWF presi- Jr., of New Jersey.
dent. announced.
Other speakers diming the Con- of the United Leaders Council of
On these dates, more than 150 vention include Eric Hoffer, author Hebrew Israelites, an organization
federation lay leaders and execu- and famous longshoreman-philoso- of black rabbis in Chicago, Gary,
tives will conduct a series of na- pher: Mrs. Rita E. Hauser. U.S. Ind., and Indianapolis.
Robert spent more than four
tional committee meetings cover- representative to the UN Commis
ing all areas of Jewish communal sion on Human Rights; Shlomo Ar. years in religious classes of Rod-
responsibilities, both current and gov, minister plenipotentiary. em- fei Zedek preparing for his Bar
in 1910.
bassy of Israel to the U.S.: Dr. Mitzva. His father explained that
Among them will be campaign Emanuel Neumann. chairman of House of Israel lacks the staff and
planning to meet the extraordinary the Jewish Agency-American Sec- facilities necessary to properly
social welfare needs in Israel tion and honorary president of the educate a youngster in Jewish be-
which will require emergency ZOA; and Dr. Max Nussbaum. liefs and traditions. Robert's three
younger brothers and sister also
fui.ding for the fourth successive past president of the ZOA.
are enrolled in the Rodfei Zedek
year. as well as local, national and
religious school. He is an officer
other overseas needs and services
whose costs must be met through Drug Use Among Teens in the congregation's religious
federated regular campaigns.
in South to Be Studied school.
Rabbi Devine said there are sev-
Other sessions will cover fed-
NEW ORLEANS (JTA) — The eral hundred Blacks in Chicago
eration planning for Jewish edu-
cation, programs for greater in- Jewish Children's Home Service and elsewhere in the Middle West
volvement of Jewish college youth of New Orleans plans to make a who regard themselves as He-
and faculty in federation partici- study of the effects of drug use by brews. His congregation has been
pation and other areas of Jewish Jewish teen-agers in the seven- meeting for 12 years.
communal service. federation ac- state southern area it services.
He reported there were about 15
tion on the serial welfare and Carol B. Hart, president, an black Hebrew congregations in
legislation levels to help eradicate nounced.
Chicago which meet in storefronts.
the not causes of our urban crisis.
The agency operates in coopera- He hopes to unite these congrega-
and evaluation of the proposed new tion with local Jewish agencies in tions and buy an available syna-
federal welfare system.
its service area. He said the first gogue in Chicago's Negro section.
Rodfei Zedek school has been
step would be collection of infor-
Existence would be intolerable mation from the local Jewish or- helping Rabbi Devine's Hebrew
if we were never to dream—Ana - ganizations on the effects on family school by providing class texts,
• tole France.
relationships of the use and experi- prayerbooks and other religious
mentation with drugs by teen-age and educational items for children
Pd. Pol. Adv.
family members. He said it was and adults. The Rodfei Zedek
hoped that the information would synagogue is located in Hyde Park,
provide clues for casework treat- an integrated community.
ment of affected Jewish families.
The study also will seek to deter- iAn artist is a dreamer consent-
mine the extent to which the drug ing to dream of the actual world.—
problem is being brought to the George Santayana.
attention of the Jewish casework -
agencies. he said.
Dr. Alfred Jospe, Hillel founda-
tions' director of program and re-
sources, said the Jewish communi-
ties' basic problem with much of
its college generation is not the
students' outright defection from
Judaism but their lack of adequate
exposure to the Jewish past—its
traditions, history, culture and
teachings. "This has left many of
them with no sense of Jewish iden-
tity, and has resulted in their be-
lieving that Judaism is irrelevant
in the modern world," he told 230
Jewish undergraduates from 120
American and Canadian universi-
ties at the opening session of Hil-
lel's annual summer institute at
Camp Bnai Brith here.
defined in an historic context," Dr..
Jospe said the Jewish past must
be interpreted to mean "a past as
contemporary experience, an af-
firmation of relationships which
extends to all places and all
times."
To condemn the campus as a
"disaster area" in Jewish life is
"an unwarranted and unaccept-
able generalization," Dr. J o s pe
said. "There are tens of thousands
of Jewish students who are deeply
committed to Jewish life and do
But
stu-
real
Jewish experience from which to
develop the substance of their
Declaring that "Jews can only be identity."
not seek to escape Judaism.
there are also far too many
dents with no memories of a
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3rd Synagogue in Gaza
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The army
chaplains corps has opened a syna-
gogue in the southern Gaza Strip
for the use of soldiers stationed in
the Raffah area. It will be the third
synagogue established in the Gaza
Strip.
The synagogue was dedicated in
the memory of Lt. Col. Abraham
Sachs and Capt. Freddy Shmueli,
of the military government, who
were killed near Raffah nine
months ago when their vehicle was
mined.
Add Holocaust to Curricula
MEMPHIS (JTA) — Educational
directors of Memphis synagogues
have agreed that their religious
schools should add to upper grade
curricula the subject of the Euro-
pean Holocaust. The issue was
raised at a meeting sponsored by
the Jewish Community Relations
Council which recommended that
action.
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