THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Ilinreetbor 27, 1970-13 Rabbi Criticizes Practice Israeli Leader Traces Causes for Rootless, Restless Youths By MURRAY ZUCKOFF JTA News Editor DIAGNOSTIC TESTING, INDIVIDUALLY PLANNED PROGRAMS of Unveiling Ceremonies READING SPECIALIST GLENCOE, Ill. (JTA) — A Re- form rabbi, expressing surprise at * REMEDIAL AND SPEED READING * PHONICS — SPEUJNG — VOCABULARY the growing custom of public un- garments and exchange them for veilings of headstones "in an era * COMPREHENSION — RETENTION shoddy clothing and bare feet. when many rituals seem to be * STUDY HABITS AND SKILLS (Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.) Why? Because the material goods fading," has criticized the practice Dr. Jacob Vainstein woke early. without spiritual enrichment is as one which "is not part of Jew- Intensive Instruction for All Ages He had an appointment with me itself a form of poverty and an ish law or practice" as a public for an interview at 8 a.m. absence of life meaning." • ceremony. The criticism was made Even at that relatively early Rabbi Vainstein, who was born by Rabbi Harold Kudan, associate hour, callers were already phon- in Russia 54 years ago, came to rabbi of the North Shore Congre- 23650 Woodward (Nr. 91/4 Mile) ing him to say Shalom and make England as a child where he later gation Israel here. • appointments to meet with him or became a rabbi and left England to invite him to speak at gather- in 1948 when the state of Israel ings to discuss the school which was born. Between 1955 and 1964 is named after the late Chaim he served as a rabbi in South Moshe Shapiro who was the Is- Africa. In 1964 he returned to raeli minicter of interior and head Israel and for the next few weeks of the National Religious Party. he will be meeting with young peo- I managed to reach him. Rabbi ple and religious leaders in New Vainstein stood in the hallway, York, Boston, Los Angeles, Cleve- smiling as I emerged from the land, Montreal and Toronto. The . elevator. A tall, elegant and grace- rabbi, who is in this country as ful' man with a wispish beard, he the guest of the Union of Orthodox waved his hand toward his room. Jewish Congregations, will address "I'm sorry we can't have break- their convention in Washington on fast in the hotel," he said with a Nov. 25. He was the founder in 1951 of slight trace of British accent. "I took a room here because I was the department of Torah educa- told there was a kosher kitchen, tion of the Jewish Agency in Is- but," he shrugged, "the kitchen, rael and is a member of the it turns out, has been closed for World Executive of the Religious Zionist movement. During his stay some time." Rabbi Vainstein spoke ani- in the United States, Rabbi Vain- matedly about his two major stein said he was able to discern concerns—Ramot Shapira and a growing trend among Jewish youth. The rabbi, who Is the youth to identify with Judaic chairman of the Religions Coun- values. "I find there is a growing real- cil of Jerusalem and chairman of the Public Council of Ramot ization among many Jewish youths Shapira, began to discuss the —many of them non-religious- condition of Jewish youth in the that there can be no Jewish fu- ture without a clear understanding Diaspora. Jewish youth, he observed, are of our Jewish historic past and rootless, restless and without an- continuity of Jewish traditional chor but looking for values that values and behavior which has are elusive, evasive and ephemeral. been the main strength of Jewish "Too many are ready to blame our survival throughout our existence." Many of these youths, who were youth for rejecting Judaism and searching for non-Judaic values, enticed by the New Left, are be- or values such as those offered ginning to realize the new found by the New Left that are hostile life styles are illusory, he stated. The fault, he said, is not with to Judaism," he said. "But too few are willing to understand the youth, but lies with the "Jew- ish leaders who have not rec- A HABERDASHERY OF SORTS what it is that drives some of our ognized the need for Jewish edu- 757-7517 youth to these ailen ideas." •91Y1ILE & VAN DYKE, WARREN cation and Jewish values and tra- The reasons, he noted, are basi- 24142 WOODWARD (SOUTH OF 10 MILE), cally two-fold. The parents of ditions. Rabbi Vainstein noted PLEASANT RIDGE 11'399-4331 these alienated youth have sur- that education should be more rendered to assimilationist values than imparting kowledge. "It should be a way of imparting a and trends and, while not reject- ing Jewishness outright, have tem- whole way of life." Rabbi Vainstein related that he pered it with non-Jewish customs. receive a letter from "some leftist Another reason, Rabbi Vainstein members" of a klutz who wrote suggested, for the alienation from and hostility toward Jewishness, that they had been reading some of his books on Jewish religion is that frequently Judaism is pre- and had been inspired to greater sented solely as ritual. study. The letter expressed the "But Judaism is more than hope that he would "klieb nahes" ritual," he said. "It is a life (receive joy) from this venture. style." Neither the assimilationist He smiled as he held the letter Jew nor the ritualist Jew offer in his hands and said: "Ich klieb the kind of inspiration that would provide Jewish youth with the naches." kind of Judaism that is meaningful and vital. The young are searching for NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jew- an answer to the social problems ish welfare agency is joining with and ills. Judaism, seen in all its Protestant and Catholic groups in You deserve to live "royally" at least ramifications can provide these an experimental door-to-door ef- once ... with a sense of well-being and answers and life style. But it fort to recruit foster parents for security you've never known before ... has to be presented as a life entity an estimated 3,000 neglected and with a panoramic view of the world below that is passionate, full-bodied and abandoned children in the New and the glimmering lights miles away. relevant," he declared. York metropolitan area. The par- Charter House. is an exciting place, Rabbi Vainstein said be con- ticipating groups are the Federa- no matter what your age or marital status: demned the violence of young tion of Jewish Phliantropies, the Near shopping, theaters, restaurants, people. He was asked if he be- Federation of Protestant Welfare expressways. You relax by the pool or on lieved that the phrase used by Agencies and the Catholic Chari- your private balcony. many Jewish spokesmen—"self- ties of the New York Archdiocese. hating Jews"—was an apt descrip- Charter House living is gracious, The Jewish phase of the project tion of Jewish youth who oppose is being undertaken by two Feder- but not pretentious. Laundry and storage Reading Improvement (enter UN 1-4401 A new wild place has opened by the Zoo. We've got the city's biggest selection of crazies. Bells and flares. Shirts. Boots. Leather. Fringe. And everything else. For almost peanuts. move up Foster Homes Sought Judaism. "By all means," be answered. When young people are search- ing for answers and values and life skies and find themselves rootless, they begin to hate what they imagine to be the source of their rootlessness and aim- lemmas. The baked is trans- ferred from their parents and their parents' materialistic values to a baked of Jewhilmess which they identify with these values mod, theses, to them- . seivea. -row net result is self- bake," be said. Itabbi Vainstein noted that many at the radical youth are the off- spring of upper income park who have showered their children with all the material comforts at their disposal. "yet. it does no and at all," he smiled. "These gismo people reject the materialis- tic values, cut of their opulent Zionism, Israel and - ation agencies, the Jewish Child Care Association and the Louise Wise Services. The innovative re- cruitment program was initiated by the Protestant group which contacted the JCCA and suggested a multi-faith program, which Prot- estant officials said they believed would be more effective than sep- arate special efforts by individual agencies. 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