ORT Celebrates 90 Years of Service;
Haber Outlines Changes in Jewish Life
Irving Bluestone
Heads UAW-GM
TINE DETROIT JOIME NEVIS
Friday, Nowesolmer 27, 1970-21
A poet can survive anything but
—Oscar Wilde.
Irving Bluestone has been named a misprint
director of the UAW's General Mo-
NO WEDDING TOO SMALL!
tors department, it was announced
Tuesday by UAW President Leon- NO OAR MITYAN TOO SMALL!
ard Woodcock, who headed th e, PRICES TO FIT YOUR BUDGET!
department since 1955.
Bluestone served as co-director
Ste- 3‘11 PIL
during the strike and negotiations
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leading to a settlement with GM.
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GENEVA (JTA) — Urging de- life. He listed the other forces of image as a school for the poor.
mocratization of the teaching pro- change as the measure of modern- "Our schools must be designed to
cess, a Swiss educator envisioned ization of "Third World" Jewish offer wider horizons for the talent-
a teacher as a "mediator" be- communities, alongside with con- ed, higher scope of achievement
tween available knowledge and his tinued deprivation; massive mi- for those who have the will," said
pupils rather than "the almighty gration which has created a new Dr. Haber. "Of course, that means
and only dispenser of knowledge." Jewish geography; and the forma- change in curriculum and teaching
Dr. Robert Hari, director general tion in France of a large and methods. It will also mean refur-
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bishing and replacing of equip-
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Select from highly styled or traditional
The new science-based technol- ment in schools built 10 and 20
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eva, spoke at the 10th congress of
formalwear. Fancy colored shirts and flared
the World Ort Union here. He ogy requires that ORT change its Years ago."
pants available for rent or sole.
told the 250 delegates from 29
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countries that allowances must be
FOR THE BAR MITZVAH ROY
made for individual differences in
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the rate of absorbing knowledge.
came human beings instead of just
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Another speaker, Rabbi Gilbert
(Copyright 1970, Xi/L, Inc.)
the 'Palestinian problem.' " But
Klaperman, of Yeshiva University
a
A funny thing happened to Dr. he emphasized that "the Arabs
in New York, praised ORT's edu- Gerald Berkowitz on his way to have used the refugees as a po-
a
forma/wear center
f
cation program which provides New York Sept. 6. He was hijack- litical football all these years,"
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A 31-year-old assistant professor States "put the screws" on the
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"All education is a prepara- of chemistry at Bronx Community Arab states and "work with the
tion for life," he said. "There- College, he was on his way home moderate elements" toward re-
fore, just as we furnish our stu- from Tel Aviv with his wife and settlement of- the refugees on the
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dents with skills to be material- small daughter when the Popular East Bank.
Dr. Berkowitz, not affiliated
istically productive, we are Front for the Liberation of Pales-
honor bound as being in loco pa- tine de-liberated his plane to with a congregation, nominally a
rentis to provide the skills for Amman and its passengers thence Conservative, described himself
spiritual self - preservation as to Irbid. "I really had no reac- officially as a "traditionalist" and
well."
LEADS THE WAY
tion," he told this reporter, ex- is secretly a "Reform Karaite."
William Haber, president of the plaining that he had expected to (Karaites o'pose "rabbinism" in
SO DOES
favor
of
"Scripturism."
Their
de-
be
released
within
24
hours.
As
it
American ORT Federation, pre-
sented a resume of the 90-year- turned out, the Berkowitzes were scendents number some 12,000 in
Lithuania,
the
Crimea
and
Israel,
history of ORT. The organization, among the last six hostages, being
plus one in the Bronx.)
which was formed in St. Peters- held for 24 days.
Now in the process of readjust-
NORTHLAND FORD
burg in 1880 to train poverty-
During the detention period, the ing
to his routine ("I'm still on
stricken Jews in Czarist Russia for instructor said, there were
10 MILE Cr GREENFIELD
looks
agricultural and manual occupa- "rather friendly conversations" Irbid time"), Dr. Berkowitz
tions, today operates a network of with the guerrillas, and "no at- back on the hostages' release with
fact they didn't
of more than 700 training centers tempt at indoctrination." They ex- equanimity. a "The
and schools in 22 countries around changed personal information — kill us was big plus," he noted.
"They
could
have
left 300 charred
the world.
Dr. Berkowitz attended Drexel corpses."
Dr. Haber declared that among University, Gratz College and the
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Featuring:
useful education of youth to equip brew literature) and a PhD—and Is that?" opened at the Barbizon-
the prisoners sang American folk Plaza Theater, New York, Oct. 19,
Restaurant
them with skills.
Facilities
and
rock
songs.
He said that while ORT remain-
for a five-week run prior to a na-
Golf
• Carts
"It's a bit ridiculous for peo- tional tour. Tuneful and entertain-
ed basically a Jewish organiza-
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tion, there have been growing de- ple to be incensed" at the ab- ing, the small-scale revue is a
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mands on it to make its personnel ductions, Dr. Berkowitz insist- kind of Israeli-American "Laugh-
and services available for pro- ed. "It was their purpose to In," except that it avoids sharp
political satire. Of the 19 scenes—
grams sponsored by various gov- have a bunch of happy hostages,
Have Your Xmas Parties at
live hostages. What they did in English with some Hebrew and
ernmental and inter-governmental
bodies to raise the industrial stan- was criminal, no two ways about Yiddish—the best are a spirited
Brae Burn
that. But the treatment wasn't "Ciribim," a Hasidic song-and-
dards of developing countries,
all that bad. It wasn't Ausch- dance, comedy sketches about
Dr. Haber said that last year
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witz. It wasn't North Korean nudniks and "an Israeli thief with
the 1,000,000th ORT student en-
a Jewish heart," an Arab-Jew con-
prison camps."
tered the program, but that a
The hostages were told they frontation with a 'brotherhood
shift in focus from numbers to a
higher-level of skilled training would be treated as "guests" un- message, a dramatic letter from
Harry Thomas . . . the great Discount
must be emphasized in the til "we get our people," he re- an Israeli soldier at the front, and
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ported. An example of the service: a Romanian number. Some scenes
future.
are only mildly diverting, and a
Referring to what he called "the the guerrillas sent out for six- couple are simply banal.
Age of Israel," Dr. Haber said packs of Pepsi. "One acquires
• • •
Jewry's commitment to Israel in a some sort of appreciation for the
Turntable Tsimmes: "The Be-
crisis decade is primary among the Palestinians," Dr. Berkowitz re- gatting of the President" (Medi-
forces of change affecting Jewish flected. "The fellows we met be- arts), by Orson Welles, has been
banned by the uptight Metromedia
stations for its supposedly offen-
sive satire, in biblical format, of
the political death and resurrec-
tion of Richard Nixon. The hilari-
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