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 CJFWF to Plan Projects for '70 Ma ry al J BECK N„.. i_. SAYS- "STOP & FRISK means Law and Order" IF YOU WANT TO SWEEP OUR CITY CLEAN OF CRIME, CORRUPTION AND POLLUTION • Vote For maryECK B ONLY EXPERIENCED CANDIDATE for MAYOR 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. ELECT ADLER COUNCILMAN Qualified BALLOT No. 76 Pald Pol. Adv. Elect .. . JOSEPH JACHIMOWICZ COUNCILMAN • • • • Endorsed by Home Owners, City Employees, and Veterans Native Detroiter City Employee Veteran No. 123 on the Ballot Pd. Pot. Adv. VOTE FOR • EXPERIENCE • HONESTY • EFFICIENCY RETAIN ROBERT J TEMPLE CITY TREASURER J. TEMPLE 4 1/42 ROBERT CITY TREASURER rd. Pot. Adv.