Meeting Our Communal Responsibilities in 5731
At the same time, there was further development of our services to older
people as construction of Federation Apartments for approximately 225 senior
citizens began and by the completion of the Henry M. Butzel Senior Citizens
Village and Conference Center at Camp Tamarack.
By ALAN E. SCHWARTZ, President,
and WILLIAM AVRUNIN, Executive Vice - President,
Jewish Welfare Federation
In this season of personal assessment, we look back - on the year 5730 as one
characterized by opportunities; by achievements, and by a continued strengthening
of the programs of the organized Jewish community of Detroit.
Through the Jewish Welfare Federation, its planning and budgeting function,
and its Allied Jewish Campaign, we have faced many challenges together, challenges
Sinai Hospital added the Zivian Center for Continued Care as a new dimension
in health services and we moved closer to the attainment of additional beds through
the Max and Marjorie Fisher Patient Care Wing. The Jewish Vocational Service
began the remodeling of its new facility near the medical center of downtown Detroit
for the benefit of the hard to place and the handicapped.
Most of these developmdnts and many more are part of the normal growth
of a healthy Jewish community. They took place while the Allied Jewish Campaign
reached its greatest achievement in our history: A total of $11,600,000 of which al-
most $8,000,000 is for the critical situation overseas and in Israel. This was our com-
munity's expression of identity with the embattled Jews of Israel.
Their struggle continues and their basic welfare and educational needs become
greater and more serious. This presents us with a major challenge for the year
ahead which will put to the severest test the resources of our organized community
and the generosity of our good citizens who make it function.
We face the New Year with determination to meet our responsibility to the
end that Jewish life will survive and flourish.
which would have been overwhelming without the benefit of our ongoing community
structure built and enriched by succeeding generations for 70 years.
Basically our communal programs address themselves to -people, to their
adjustment to the achievement of their potential, to giving fuller meaning to their
lives. While carrying out this mandate, we have been fortunate to be able to build
a strong community which stands us in good stead in facing the problems of each era.
In the year past and for some time to come, increasing emphasis was directed
to make Judaism meaningful and our programs relevant - for young people. There
was specific emphasis on the college-age group, both at the Jewish Community Cen-
ter and the United Hebrew Schools. The organization of the Michigan Association
of Jewish College Students by the Center and the extension of the College of Jewish
Studies program to the campuses have been landmarks which hold great promise.
American Assn. for Jewish Education
to Launch College Studies Program
NEW YORK — The national ex-
ecutive committee of the Amer-
ican Association for Jewish Edu-
cation has authorized the launch-
ing of a major curricular program
in the development of materials
in Jewish studies to be used in
public high schools and in col-
leges in the United States, it was
announced by Robert H. Arnow,
AAJE president.
The initial stage of this three-
year project, has been made pos-
sible by a seed grant from the
Herman and Gertrude Gross Edu-
cation Foundation.
Dr. Sara Feinstein, recently ap-
Knesset Committee
. -
Urges Nations Speed
Laws on Air Piracy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The par-
liamentary foreign affairs and de-
fense committee called on the na-
tions of the- world to "expedite the
passing of legislation aimed at in-
creasing the security of interna-
tional civil aviation."
The committee urged universal
application of the 1963 Tokyo Con-
vention on air piracy and recom-
mended the immediate passage of
conventions penalizing hijackers,
airline terrorists and their super-
iors.
The committee also condemned
the "surrender to blackmail" in
releasing Arab terrorists.
The International Civil Aviation
Organization was scheduled to
meet again in Montreal Tuesday
•to consider a United States pro-
posal that the 119 nation members
of the ICAO institute an aerial
boycott of any country which har-
bors airline hijackers or detains
hijacked planes.
U.S. Transportation Secretary
John Volpe submitted the proposal
at a special ICAO meeting in
Montreal Sept. 18. After the dele-
gates listened to the U.S. proposal,
the meeting was adjourned until
Sept. 29 so that delegations could
receive instructions from their
governments.
63 Witnesses to Testify
at Saarbruecken Trial
BONN (JTA)—Fritz Gothard Ge-
bauer, 63, went on trial in Saar-
bruecken, charged with murdering
22 concentration camp inmates in
Lvov in 1941-1943.
He is charged with beating some
Of his victims to death, shooting
and hanging others, and causing
the death of a Jewish child by
dashing the child against a wall.
Sixty-three witnesses, including
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal of
Vienna will give testimony against
Gebauer.
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pointed to the staff of the AAJE,
will direct the program, conducted
under the guidance of the Nation-
al Curriculum Research Institute
of the AAJE.
At the same time, Arnow an-
nounced the appointment of Her-
bert Berman, New York attor-
ney, and a member of the Board
the role of the Jew, nor will ma-
terials be doctrinal or propagan-
distic. On the other hand, both
Jews and non-Jews at last will be
able to obtain a more balanced
picture of Western history than
has heretofore been available in
traditional texts and courses."
of Higher Education of New
York (Sty, as chairman of the
national committee for this un-
dertaking.
In making his announcement,
Arnow noted that "A distinctive
trend in American education in
recent years has been the intro-
duction into the school curriculum
of materials relating to the cul-
tural background, ideas and aspi-
rations of the ethnic components
of American society."
This development not only en-
riches educational opportunities,
he said, "but offers a maturer un-
derstanding of the nature and com-
position of our domestic society.
On the university level, the de-
mands of students and the en-
couraging reactions of school au-
thorities have resulted in the pro-
'iteration of chairs in Jewish
studies, the expansion of course
offerings and the enhancement of
the academic status of Jewish so-
cial studies."
This process, which started more
than two decades ago, has been
accelerated by recent demands for
courses in black, and other minor-
ities, history and culture, on the
university and secondary levels. A
number of universities and local
boards of education have ex-
pressed an interest in integrating
courses and materials in Jewish
social studies into the total social
studies programs of their institu-
tions.
Arnow stressed that in its
capacity as the national 'mord'.
natiag agency for Jewish educa-
tion in the United States, the
'AAJE is the logical agency to
/help plan, research and prepare
required materials.
"It will assist in disseminating
information about existing pro-
grams, enabling other school sys-
tems and universities to benefit
from programs that have been
tested in operation. The work of
the AAJE will be conducted un-
der the guidance of authorities in
the field of Jewish studies, and
in cooperation with responsible
public and private education agen-
cies."
He foresaw the enrichment of
secondary school and college cur-
ricula through the introduction of
texts and materials which would
accurately describe the nature of
the Jewish encounter with West-
ern civilization.
"We will not seek to embellish
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