Jewish Community Urged to Make
Israel Central to School Curriculum
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A phone
call
service to social action involve-
will
GROSSINGERS (JTA) — Amer-
save
ica's Jewish community was call- ment by most in the community."
you
ed upon Sunday to make Israel a
8—Friday, May 22, 1970
central part of the Jewish educa-
money
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
tional curriculum to bring about
Personal
the revitalization of young people's
service
interest in their identity and study
IF YOU TURN THE
LARRY STERN
that
HARRY ABRAM
of Judaism.
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counts
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Some 500 community leaders and
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educators from the U.S. and Can-
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a change in emphasis would help
in reversing the assimilationist
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A number of delegates at the
Jews; the subject was the arm-
WHO? ME?? a novel by
THE RISE OF AMERICAN
meeting, however, cautioned that
Yoram
Matmor
of
Israel
—
then
still
the
CI JEWISH LITERATURE:
ing
Israel should become "a" not
In Exodus iii there is a passage: . British Protectorate of Palestine
An Anthology of Selections from
"the" central part of the Jewish
"And Moses said unto God, Who
independence
—for the war of
the Major Novels
am /, that I should go unto to come. The result was the
educational curriculum. A state-
edited by Charles Angoff and
Pharaoh, and that I should bring
ment adopted by its governing.
creation of a vast network of
0
Meyer
Levin
ROBERT
H.
ARNOW
forth
the
children
of
Israel
out
arms smuggling that involved
council called for special courses
of Egypt?" This is the inspira-
hundreds of Americans from CI
in the elementary and high school such education as compared with
The first anthology to present
tion for the irreverent title,
every walk of life--millionaires
and assess the enormous signif-
grades and relating Israel cultural- part-time religious school instruc-
"Who?
Me???,"
and
the
novel,
and rabbinical students, long-
ly in the teaching of music, dance tion." He said that the new study CI icance of the Jewish contribu-
if not exactly irreverent, is cer-
shoremen and scrap merchants,
tion to American fiction—a con-
and crafts.
tainly
hilarious
and
outrageous.
would involve all members of the
mafiosi and ex-servicemen — a
tribution which unites a stun-
It is the chronicle of a modern
The statement criticized the pau- Jewish community including rep-
secret epic that turned idealists
ning variety of talent, as seen
Jew who unexpectedly finds
city of texts available on the teach- resentatives of Orthodox, Conser-
into adventurers, profiteers in-
in these twenty-two selections
himself
in
charge
of
an
irreg-
ing of Israel; recommended that vative and Reform Judaism, as
to idealists, chemists and en-
from the important novels of
ular guerrilla squad in the
gineers into arms manufactur-
new materials be created to meet well as social scientists, educators
the major Jewish writers in the
struggle against the Arabs for
ers. The story of this incredible
United States.
the need; recommended that the and community leaders.
Jerusalem.
and dramatic race against time
learning process be accompanied
In their Editors' Introduction,
But as well as being a soldier,
Mandell Berman of Detroit was
— to provide a state not yet
by personal experience; and urged
Angoff and Levin, both out-
David Zuta is a poet and philos-
born wih an army that was still
standing novelists in their own
that youngsters be sent on part- elected chairman of the AAJE gov-
opher, an erratic student of
illegal — is told in one of the
right, analyze and elaborate up-
time study programs to Israel, erning council.
English, and an aspiring Don
most suspenseful works of his-
immigrant
background,
on
the
Juan.
His
adventures
tumble
especially those of high school age,
Leaders at the association meet-
tory ever to be published. It was
alienation and Americanization
kaleidoscopically one into the
who should spend at least one sum- ing acknowledged that the estab-
an epic that contained heroism,
of the Jewish community in
other; making love with his
farce, endless contradictions: El
mer in the country.
lishment of a larger day school
this country. Each selection is
girlfriend inside a piano on the
the Israeli air force was sup-
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg of Engle- system would place a major finan-
placed logically within this per-
shore at Tel Aviv, throwing a
plied with German Messer-
wood, N.J., a lecturer on Jewish cial burden upon the Jewish com-
spective: The Rise of David
frenetic partly to blow an in-
schmitt fighter planes bought
munity.
The
association
maintains
Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan,
history at Columbia University in
heritance in one a /rn i ghty with American money from
portrays the lost feeling that
splurge, hunting a fanatic and
New York, called for a revolution- a strict policy against any funds
Communist Czechoslovakia and 0
permeated the lives of the im-
elusive ex .Nazi at the very thick
ary change in the present structure from government sources.
flown by Jewish pilots; the
migrants; the sons of the ghetto
of the Arab-Israeli War in 1956.
of pedagogic methods in Jewish
American Jews were warned
American Government found
are the focus of Jerome Weid-
And through it all. Zuta emer-
that the Jews had bought a U.S.
education — "by using Israel to that they face the religious and
man's "/ Can Get It for You
ges a little surprised by life
Navy aircraft carrier from un-
teaching about the past and then cultural destruction of the Jewish
Wholesale" and Budd Schul-
and by the absurdities he finds
der their very noses, despite a
relating it to the present."
community unless they adopt dras-
berg's classic "What Makes
at the heart of war—not a bad
stringent embargo on arms.
Sammy Run"; a sense of social
The AAJE also approved under- tic measures, through new pro-
choice at all for someone who
Scratehoza, a dedicated band of
identity even without religion
taking a 5250,000 scientific study grams of Jewish education, to com-
has been picked out as a chosen
conspirators managed to create a
or
nationalism
is
the
topic
of
instrument.
to determine the residual effect bat a growing assimilationist trend
an armed force from nothing,
Levin's "The Old Bunch." The
a day school has on the religious among young and adult.
supplying every item that Ben
modern phase includes the ac-
THE
PLEDGE
Gurion requested, from tanks
practice, communal involvement
Philip M. Klutznick, Chicago,
culturated and assimilated in-
by Leonard Slater
and rifles and factories and
and Jewish identity of graduates
a former president of Bnal Brith,
tellectuals depicted by Saul Bel-
On July 1, 1945, on a swelter-
pilots to Hebrew typewriters,
attending such educational insti-
told the gathering that "We must
low, Bernard Malamutl and
socks,
brassieres for women
ing
summer
dag,
a
visitor
to
tutions.
Philip Roth.
especially pay attention to the
soldiers, and Waring blenders
New York spoke with fervor
Members of the Jewish com- revolt of our young people call-
Other authors included are Nor-
and passion to nineteen Ameri-
(to dispose of secret docu-
ing for a revision of our out-
munity are disturbed at the assi-
man Mailer, Irwin Shaw, Her-
ments). The Pledge is the tri-
can businessmen in the living
moded and outdated educational
man Wouk, Bruce Jay Fried-
milationist trend of America's al-
umphant and deeply moving
room of an East 57th Street
man, Edward Lewis Wallant,
duplex. The man was David
story of their struggle and their
most 6,000,000 Jews, particularly and cultural programs."
to
Herbert
Gold,
Wallace
Mark-
success, a story that has never
the
audience
were
Ben
Gurion:
among the younger generation, the
Klutznick called for a battle to
field and Chaim Potok.
wealthy and powerful American
been told before.
meeting was told.
a
save "both Jerusalems," "for Jews
Newly elected president of the to survive it is not enough that
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association, Robert H. Arnow of only Israel win."
Scarsdale, N.Y., president of the
He said Jewish life without an
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, said Israel, nor a Jewish world without
"Since the Jewish day school is Jewishness is unthinkable. Klutz-
the most intensive type of school, nick scored what he called the
it is plausible to assume that it is shallowness of current Jewish life,
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Arnow said, "Therefore, it is in million dollar buildings and the lip
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the best interests of all those con-
cerned with the day school—parent,
child, and community — to deter-
mine objecitvely the residual effect
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