Hebrew Village: 4•Week Experience in Jewish Living for Teen Campers It was a tearful shalom for the 33 campers and eight counselors of the unique Kfar Ivri, Hebrew Village, at Camp Tamarack, Orton- vine. A banquet, at which counselors served the 13- to 15-year-old camp- ers in singing-waiter style, con- cluded the four-week session of painless Hebrew, taught at the swimming hole, at the dinner table, around the campfire, at "class" under the trees. Sponsored by the United Hebrew Schools and the Fresh Air So- ciety, Kfar Ivri is sometimes lov- ingly referred to as the "poor in creation of two sessions next Year. Those who have little knowl- edge of Hebrew attended a "pre-camp" program to orient them into the ways of Kfar Ivri. At the camp itself, Hebrew-only was the rule. "Of course, In a baseball game, when things get rough, the kids slipped occasion. ally," Masserman admitted. But even when canoeing or hik- ing, "we tried to teach the camp- ers a Jewish value, like learning to share with other people." Both Kohen and Masserman are Midrasha graduates and university students. Barbara Silberschein and Barbara Harris, Kfar Ivri alumnae and college coeds, are Hebrew High School graduates, and Miss Harris teaches at the Beth Shalom Religious School. Shmuel Betsalel, an ordained rabbi from Israel, teaches at Akiva Hebrew Day School and the man's R a m ah ," but counselors UHS High School, while his wife Jerry Kohen and Jay Masserman Susie teaches at Beth Jacob School point out that the result is any- for girls. Two other Kfar Ivri graduates thing but poor. who are on the counselor staff are "I'm more excited about Kfar Steve Richmond, regional presi- Ivri," said Masserman, who also dent of United Synagogue Youth, has been a counselor at Ramah. who will attend Yeshiva Univer- "It's more intimate," he said, sity in the fall, and Michael Silber- adding, "The campers learn about schein, who is entering the 11th Judaism by living it—within the grade. Both are Hebrew High normal experiences of camp." School graduates. Kohen, who is head counselor, A newcomer this summer was was a camper during the first Kohen's mother, who served as year of Kfar Ivri seven years camp cook. "If you've ever eaten ago; he has gone back each year Hungarian cooking," said Masser- since. Of the other seven coun- man, "you know what I mean when selors, four are Kfar Ivri alum- I say it was like having a Bar . ni. The supervisor of the camp Mitzva every night." this year was David Gamliel, an Israeli who is the new prin- Oak Parker Gerald Raimi cipal of the UHS Hebrew High School. to Spend Year on Kibutz Youth News The motivations for spending four weeks at Kfar Ivri are al- most as many as the campers themselves, who come from Re- form, Orthodox, Conservative and secular backgrounds. Some have a good background in Jewish life, others have little; most have taken classes at the United Hebrew Schools but have had little oppor- tunity to converse in Hebrew. Some had little desire to continue their Hebrew studies and came only be- cause their friends were attending the camp. At the end of a four-week ex- perience in Jewish living at Kfar Ivri, "all promised to continue their studies, and they are much more aware of Israel," said Mas- serman. "Any child who really wants to learn comes out of Kiar Ivri with much more knowledge than he would have had in a class- room." Although the camp gets more enrollees than it can accommodate for the four-week session, Kohen and Masserman are hoping that a flurry of applications will result Gerald Raimi of Oak Park was one of 25 American high school graduates and college students who left July 29 to spend one year on Kibutz Nahsholim Leor, an- nounced Yehoshua Leor, national coordinator of Sherut La'am in the U.S. Two weeks ago a larger group of 110 American and Canadian col- lege graduates left for Israel on a one year work and study program. Another group of 75 students will be leaving Sept. 2 on a one year kibutz program. The Camp of the Arts of the Jewish Center will hold its second open house of the season 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Performances of the dance, drama and music classes will be followed by. refreshments. The community is invited. For information, call the group services division of the Center, DI. 1-4200. Si.nce..June 1967 the Joint Disteibutiot . 1 Committee. has given welfare and mbrahOn assistance to rnore.than 14;000 Af7,-.Easie irratf— ......rzroa...- who hovesougirttemixrary asylum inWesternEurope. J DC's terhal costs durti19-144e. period hove exceeded 44 000. 000 - ( Three United Synagogue Youth groups will jointly sponsor a city- wide Tisha b'Av service, recalling historic tragedies of the Jewish people, 8 p.m. Monday at Cong. Beth Moses. Beth Moses USY will be joined by the groups from Bnai Moshe and Beth Achim (Lahav) for the service, to which the public is invited. For information on participation or attendance, call Tony Haar, BR 3-3582, or Josh Leopold, ICE 5-2953. • • • On the lighter side, Beth Moses and Beth Shalom USY will meet 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Oak Park Municipal Park for a soccer game, swimming and campfire. Participants will bring their own dinner, and beverages will be pro- vided. Beth Moses members will meet at the synagogue at 5 p.m. • • • Beth Moses and Beth Shalom "Interdating and will discuss Intermarriage" at a double oneg Shebat, to be held simultantous- ly today at the homes of Char Gorden, 16232 Sherfield, South- field (8 p.m.) and Sheri Blustein, 20273 Beaverland (7:30 p.m.). • Members of both groups will meet again 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at the home of Steve Pentelnik, 20050 Heyden, from where they will pro- ceed to Havdala services and miniature golf. For reservations call Alan Goldberg, KE 74413 by Wednesday. Bnai Moshe Grads Ask for 11th Grade Girls of the 10th grade graduat- ing class of Cong. Bnai Moshe pe- titioned for a continued two years in Jewish education. Twenty-one of 43 graduates re- quested the creation of an 11th grade. "This is one of the greatest com- pliments to our religious school," said educational director Walter Farber. "We have a voluntary re- ligious school." Farber, Rabbi Moses Lehrman, and instructor Mark Eichner will make every attempt to initiate a senior department next year in the religious school, it was announced. Friday, August 7, 1970-29 THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS KC Aid Federation Getting Youth Into Program KANSAS CITY (JTA)—A mem- ber of the Jewish Activist League at Brandeis University is spending his summer vacation working in the heart of the Jewish establish- ment — the Kansas City Jewish Federation and Council—and at the invitation of the Federation. Moreover, Federation officials feel the activist's participation has pro- vided useful guides to reaching local Jewish youth and bringing them into the work of the agency Jeffrey Dekko has spent many hours seeking to develop an "on- going, year-around youth division, which would be more than just a campaign project," a program to educate the young participants "in the ways of tzedekah and service to the community." He also has BY POPULAR DEMAND! worked on bringing local Jewish college students into Federation activities, hoping to recruit many of them for participation in the next General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which will be held here Nov. 11-15. Generalities and great conceit are always likely to cause calam- i y.—Goethe Come visit us at our new location JACK `-if 111)0/A Now Booking .. . ED BURG and his Orchestra Good Music for All Occasions LI 4-9278 K studio of photography 25211 Telegraph Road Across from Raleigh House 354-1677 Closed Mondays Wedding Gown Sale Beautiful Designer Dresses one-of-a-kind Were $175 to $500 Now $85 to $200 I clairE pEaPOIIE 2771 SOMERSET MALL. TROY Akiva 9th Grade Program Camp of Arts to Show Announced by School Rabbi James I. Gordon, chair- Its Stuff at Open House ITS A FACT At Leginnina of 1969 Israel's 142 hospitals had 22,37E1 beds, compared witk 4,6.Z6 bets in 1948. USY Activities: Memorial Service, Evening Outings man of the education committee of the Akiva Hebrew Day School, announced that the curriculum of the new ninth grade of the school will be patterned after the fresh- man year high school of many yeshiva high schools in major cities of the U.S. The in-depth program of the He- brew department will be taught by Rabbi Aviezer Cohen. The secular department will in- clude five majors with accredita- tion toward college entrance. Fa- culty will be composed of Mrs. Milton Arm, math; Howard Borim, science; Howard Weinberg, social studies; and Mrs. Gail Wolf, Eng- lish and French. Seven Michigan Teens to Attend BB Conclave Several Michigan teen-agers will attend an international convention of the Bnai Brith Youth Organ- ization at Camp Bnai Brith, Star- light, Pa., Aug. 19-26. The Aleph Zadik Aleph (boys) and the Bnai Brith Girls will meet concurrently to plan programs and activities for 1970-71 and to elect new officers. Michigan delegates are Debi Ginns, Laurel Schlesinger and David Walt, of Southfield; Suzanne Tauber and Mitchell Kahn, of Grand Rapids; and Sandra Markle and Mickey Galper, of Oak Park. A national heavyweight pony- pulling contest will be held during the 1970 Michigan State Fair, which runs from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7. Two Nudes by Autorino—$680 The Director of Our Gallery, CYNTHIA, invites you to a Showing of the Graphics of Chagall Picasso Miro Special One Man Show DAVID STAVES, from Lincolnshire, England, in person Fri., from 7 p.m., Sat., 12 to 6 p.m., Mon., 12 to 6 p.m. Oils and Watercolors Gault Galleries A New Concept In A Fine Arts Gallery 325 South Woodward Ave., Birmingham 644-0203 Hours 10 to 6, Thurs. and Fri. 10 to 9 Attention: Program Chairman ! If you are the chairman of an organization with cultural interests, we will provide beautiful meeting facilities, an entertaining program and light refreshments, at no charge to your group (minimum 20 people). Call Cynthia at Gault Galleries, 644-0203. .......ees...etgre •