Reaching Out to Jewish College Youth
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A Traditional 'Tekia' i Korea
By DONALD FELDSTEIN
The organized Jewish community
has discovered the Jewish college
student; If confrontations at recent
national conferences are any
barometer, the Jewish college
student may finally have discov-
ered the organized Jewish com-
munity. Both discoveries are sub-
ject to charges of being self-serv-
ing, and in part these accusations
will inevitably be true. Nonethe-
less, the lack of contact betweeo
college and community in Jewish
life has been a major problem,
and mutual recognition can only
be to the good.
Jewish community centers af-
filiated with the National Jewish
Welfare Board are finding a new
campus community on the basis munity and they have begun to
of other criteria, by geographical recruit cent e r members into
region, by type of college or uni- classes at their free university.
versity, by undergraduate versus
Another center assigned Its
graduate versus faculty, by Mel Israeli shaliah staff member to
member or non-member. There is the many campuses in a metro-
the Jewlshly committed group, politan area, to recruit for "A
those people with significant Jew- Summer in Israel." As a result of
ish education, strong Jewish fam- these efforts, some 50 college
ily ties, or who for other reasons students, who otherwise would not
have elected to make their Jewish- have done so, spent a summer in
ness important or central in their Israel.
lives. These students are scat-
Centers have helped student
tered among the five groups men- grcups to publish "underground"
tioned above. What is new is that type newspapers and to fight
they can also be found among the Arab propaganda on campus.
activist group.
Another approach would have
Jewish college students are not federation create a kind of foun-
waiting for the organized Jewis't dation or funding body between
community t., solve their Jeu hh itself and the college groups. This
problems. On campuses around binding belly would be trusteu
role to play due to mobility In
collette ,ludenb. the lack el a the country, since 1968, there have enough by the federation so that
been
springing up literally score-, it could receive funds from it. It
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many campuses, the growth ul of Jewish student ta-g-Mzations in turn, would hear various stn
independent
of each other and of dent groups and make allocations
metropolitan campuses near cen-
ters, the development of a more any formal Jewish auspices. These directly to these groups for special
permanent adult corps of graduate organizations are aggressively projects, purposes.
students and faculty members who Jewish, outward reaching, and con-
Might not such a group use com-
ate Jewish at universities and ducted in the spirit and with the munal funds for doing all sorts
special program resources and style and tactics of the New Left of outlandish and unacceptable
approaches by centers with in- and black militants.
The shofar proclaiming the New Year 5731 is being blown during
things? Yes, and this is where the
terest and creativity.
These groups include those risk of vulnerability comes in, but services for men in Korea by a Jewish chaplain, who is one of the
whcse primary thrust is towards the Jewish community would have 300 foil and part-time Jewish chaplains served and supplied la all
Therefore, JWB aecided to
general social action around a to apply the same rule to this parts of the world by the National Jewish Welfare Board's commis-
take a look at the contemporary
Jewish base, and others whose group as it does to all other groups sion on Jewish chaplaincy.
Jewish college student, the Pro-
primary thrust is around their in the community. That is, tha c
gram approaches being tried or
own Jewish living or around there is an informal understandin g
contemplated by Jewish com-
Jewish causes such as Soviet of what is within and what is be
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munity centers for college youth
Jewry, Israel and American Jew-
and the variety of institutional
yond the pale, and that this grou p
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ish education.
auspices and arrangements pos-
like all others, could negotiate wi t/
sible In service to the Jewish
They include the religious and the community for a redefinitio
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college student. The study con- the secular. All are trying to find of what is acceptable.
cluded that (1) There is a place
in the Jewish past a guide to their
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such a plan Is that it
ter in service to Jewish college contempt for the unidentified Jew,
students. (2) Service to Jewish a new Uncle Tom who is now would force an engagement be
college students is too important, known as "Uncle Jake." All are tween the campus community
massive and complex a job to fiercely autonomous. These groups and the adult community. First,
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the presence of financial re-
be left to any one agency—the still represent only a small mi-
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Jewish community center,
nority of the Jewish college student sources under their control will
serve as a magnet for student
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groups
to
participate-
Student
job of the total Jewish corn-
From Los Angeles to New York
miutity in every city and region. and from New Orleans to power would become real, not a
slogan. Second, the student group
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Jewish college students must be centers are developing innovative
eratien to discuss allocations
innovative and provide a great programs with college students.
and issues, such as how much
deal of student autonomy.
One of the most significant ap-
should be spent overseas,
The basic goal of serving Jewish proaches being tried or contem-
how much should be spent
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students is engagement. But there
plated by several centers is an
locally, and for what purposes.
is a fundamental difference between out-reach program, the assign-
Third, accountability for funds
(I) engagement and (2) the trans- ment of a detached worker to
would impose the same demands
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mission of knowledge or values serve college students. This
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Engagement with the next gen -
given over: it is a one-way street.
nization. He offers himself as an
Engagement implies a dialogue be- individual representative of the eration so that there can be a-con-
tween two parties in the course of Jewish community to talk with tinuity of Jewish life in Ameri..: ,
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which the product is reshaped and and to help Jewish college stu- demands certain acts of faith. I I
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redesigned. Engagement is the dents in a variety of their own demands that we believe that oat
young people are, in the main
activities.
goal, autonomy is the method, and
good. Their demand that our ideal.
vulnerability is the barometer.
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the American Jewish tradition
has included active involvement
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in the promotion of gradual social
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the generations, there is hope that
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