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Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1971, JTA Inc.)
DAY-SCHOOL ISSUE: T h e
movement for Jewish all-day
schools has now acquired a new
and influential friend—the Amer-
ican Jewish CoMmittee.
The AJCommittee is still
against state aid to parochial
schools—Jewish or non-Jewish—
but it has now gone on record as
recognizing the role which the
Jewish all-day school plays in
strengthening Jewish identity. Ac-
cordingly, it urges the Jewish
communities to increase their
financial and moral support to
Jewish all-day schools, providing
they are, conducted under recogn-
ized auspices and with acceptable
standards.
This is a long way from those
elements among American Jews
who are generally opposed to the
idea of developing a Jewish all-day
school system in which Jewish
children are taught general and
Jewish subjects, replacing the
public school system. Their op-
position stems from the fear that
Jewish day schools may tend to
"ghettoize' the pupils. The chil-
dren may develop a feeling that
they are not part and parcel of
the American youth. They will
grow up feeling "different" in the
American stream of life.
Te be sure thdre Is still op-
position to Jewish day schools
among a large segment of Ameri-
can-born Jews. But the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee has now
made it clear that it is not in
the ranks of the opponents.
The. AJCommittee has • long
recognized its -responsibility to
provide services helpful in fur-
thering Jewish continuity. Its
-leaders assert now that innova-
tive approaches in Jewish educa-
tional programs each have a role
to play in strengthening Jewish
identity, the Jewish all-day school
included.
MARCH OF TIME: There was a
time—not so long ago—when only
the Orthodox elements in Ameri-
can Jewry advocated the esta-
blishment of Jewish all - day
schools, and did establish them
successfully. Conservative Jewry
was very cool toward the idea of
Jewish all-day schools, but gra-
dually reached a point where it
started to establish them. Re-
form Jewry was, in its great
majority, totally opposed to the
- idea of Jewish all-day schools,
preferring to have the Jewish
children receive their ' education
in an American atmosphere in the
public school rather than in the
"Isolated" atmosphere of Jewish
schools.
All elements in American Jewry
agreed that Jewish education is
necessary for Jewish children,
but those opposing Jewish day
schools maintained that such edu-
cation should be supplementary
and be given in Jewish week-end
or afternoon schools.
The march of time in the last
few years has changed many con-
cepts of many things, including
the concept regarding the Jewish
all-day school. It is not only the
movement to strengthen Jewish
identity among the youth that
made some Jewish leaders change
their minds about the importance
of the Jewish all-day school.
It is also the confusion in the
• public school system over the de-
segregation issue that stimulated
some opponents of the Jewish all-
day school idea to revise their
stand. It is clear to many parents
that the public school system is
no longer now at its height, and
that the atmosphere now leaves
much to be desired.
Orthodox Jewry is still far.
ahead in the movement of este-
'disking Jewish all-day schools
—la New York City alone, more
than $311,111111,0N is being spent
annually by Orthodox Jews for
such schools—but Conservative
Jewry is now seriously follow-
ing the Orthodox initiative, and
even a Reform congregation
last year established an all-day
school in New York—the first
on the Reform record.
Among Reform rabbis we can
see today some who go even so
far as to suggest that the state
should grant financial support to
all-day Jewish schools. This is
being opposed by all major Jew-
ish organizations, except the Orth-
odox, on the basis that it would
violate the Constitutional tradition
of separation between state and
church.
here that will establish the first
El Al's inaugural flight will
direct air service between the two leave Toronto and Montreal for Tel
countries. It will be operated joint- Aviv March 28 followed by the first
CPA flight April 1.
The air agreement was signed by
World Hebrew Union
Israel's ambassador to Canada,
Ephraim Evron, and Canadian
Preparing Texts for
Foreign Minister Mitchell Sharp.
Shipment to Soviet Jews Flights will be increased to four
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The World a week during the summer tourist
Hebrew Union is preparing Hebrew season.
Ken Dakin, CPA's assistant
language textbooks that Israelis
can send to friends and relatives vice president for marketing and
in the 'Soviet Union who want to sales, told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that the new service will'
teach themselves Hebrew.
AccOrding to Prof. Areyh Tarta- be promoted in a joint advertis-
kower, chairman of the union, ing and sales campaign with El
which promotes Hebrew-speaking AI and the Israel Government
among Jews all over the world, Tourist Office in Canada.
lie said CPA's package tours to
more than 1,500 texts have been
sent to Russia by Israelis and at Spain, Italy and Greece would be
least half of them have been re- augmented by special Holy Land
tours.
ceived by the addressees.
Dakin said that CPA and El Al
Prof. Tartakower said he didn't
have
prepared joint schedules,
think any harm could come to the
Jews who received the b-ooks. "We
were acting on the word of the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
former Russian ambassador to Is-
Friday, February 19, 1971-5
rael, Dimitri Chubakhin who, just
before Russia severed relations
with Israel (in 1967), stated that
there was no legal obstacle to So-
viet citizens receiving Hebrew
books."
That, said Tartakower, "was
sort of a go-ahead" for the proj-
My kids give me orders and
ect. He claimed that 250,000 Rus-
my mother - in - law gives me
sian Jews listen to Hebrew lan-
orders. For the best in ad-
guage courses broadcast by the
Israel Radio's overseas service.
vertising why don't you give
According to Tartakower and his
me your order? Call
deputy, Chaim Levanon, the report
Murry Koblin Adv.
of the wide audience for the He-
548-5600
brew broadcasts came from "trust- -
worthy" sources.
JEWISH CIVIL SERVICE: As
time goes on, it becomes more
and more clear that Jewish conti-
nuity in America depends a great
deal on a Jewishly well-trained
"Jewish civil service."
The demand for executives in
Jewish organizations and institu-
tions and for professionals in all
fields of Jewish life—teachers,
social workers, editors, people
with Jewish knowledge capable to
serve in the Jewish communal ap-
paratus—is constantly growing.
but the supply is dimishing. And
there can be no denial that the
ewish communal system can be
arried on successfully only if a
p roper Jewishly-trained staff is
available.
The move on the part of the
American Jewish Committee to
draw attention of the communities
to increase their financial support
to Jewish all-day schools — the- s.
basic source from where the
younger generation of staff for
Jewish communal institutions
could come—is therefore in line
with the AJCommittee's policy
not to operate in terms of frozen
dogmas, but to evaluate its views
from time to time in accordance
with the changing needs in the life
of American Jewry.
And one of the largest needs
in the internal life of American
Jewry today is- to strengthen
Jewish education in all possible
fields in order to further Jewish
identity and secure Jewish con-
tinuity.
In a number of communities,
Jewish day schools are already re-
ceiving substantial subsidies from
the local federation and welfare
funds. This is the case in Los
Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Bos-•
ton and Chicago. New York is com-
paratively much behind these com-
munities and most of its grant
goes for services enriching Jew-
ish education through the Ameri-
can Jewish Education Committee,
but not in direct subsidies to
schools.
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