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Malben to Get Major Allocation
Starting May 16
$9,600,000 JDC Budget Includes Aid to Israel,
Aged, Mentally III, Child Development Centers
NEW YORK - To cope with
growing social problems, the Joint
Distribution Committee has allo-
cated to its health, welfare and
education programs in Israel for
1972 $9.600.000, the largest budget
for these purposes in a decade,
Edward Ginsberg, JDC chairman,
reported after a 10-day study tour
of the organization's projects.
"The JD(.7 . Malben 1972 budget
of $7.600.000. together with grants
to the ORT vocational training
schools and the yeshivot in Is-
rael, totalling another $2.000.000.
represent 37 per cent of the JDC's
total budget and constitutes JDC's
largest single program," Ginsberg
stated. "JDC made this decision
despite the devaluation of the
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me'
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1972, JTA
MAR( H TO TIME: Times do change The Jewish day school move-
ment has for years been the stepchild in the Jewish education system.
Now it received full recognition on the part of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds. Communications have been sent out
by the (7JEWF to the federations throughout the country to give
increased financial assistance to day schools in their communities.
Federations have been making allocations to such schools for some
time But this is the first time that the CJFWF has officially put its
seal of approval on the day school system. There has been certain
opposition to the idea of encouraging Jewish day schools. Some Jewish
community leaders carried a feeling that the full-time day school may
isolate the Jewish child from the general stream of American life.
Time has shown that there is no basis for such fear. In fact,
Jewish day school graduates - in New York City have proven themselves
2 , 2 years or more above the national average in reading level and
other levels of general education. They regularly win a very large
number of state scholarships.
There are today more than 400 day schools in which more than
70,000 pupils are enrolled. Most of the schools are Orthodox in orienta-
tion: 40 are Conservative.
Even the Reform Jewish movement-which has for years strongly
opposed the idea of Jewish day schools as leading toward cultural
separati,rm-now is beginning to establish such schools.
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SIGNIFICANT CHANGES: Whereas Jewish afternoon and weekend
schools have been losing ground during the last few years, Jewish
all-day schools are gaining in enrollment. In New York, for instance-
where there are about 40 per cent of all the Jewish day schools in the
country - the Board of Jewish Education reported an increase of 1
per cent in the 1969 enrollment as compared with a decrease of about
five per cent for all other types of Jewish schools in the area. Day
schools in greater New York represent now 35 per cent of the total
Jewish school enrollment.
One can now find parents who are sending their children to Jewish
day schools even though they never before thought of sending them
to anything but a public school. Some of these parents are not par-
ticularly religious, but they believe that the "ethnic" policy in some
public schools-affecting "white" teachers-reduces the standards of
such schools.
Other parents find that by sending their children to Jewish day
schools, they dcn't have to send them to afternoon schools or Sunday
schools for their Jewish education. The children can thus have more
time for leisure. A day school pupil is usually bilingual when hc grad-
uates- he can speak Hebrew as wel as English. His Jewish education
is definitely superior to that of a boy who studies in an afternoon school
only until he reaches the Bar Mitzva age.
There are also other reasons why the Jewish day school is becoming
more and more rooted in American Jewish life. But maintaining a
Jewish day school system is expensive. Parents must pay a compara-
tively high tuition, since nonpublic schools cannot get any state aid.
Many of the parents are not in a position to pay full tuition; especially
those who have several children of school age, not to speak of those
who are welfare recipients. And there is quite a large proportion of
poor parents among those who prefer to send their children to Jewish
day schools
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MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: The real breakthrough for the Jewish
day schools came last November in an address by Max M. Fisher.
('JEW12 president, at the CJI. , WF General Assembly in Pittsburgh.
Addressing more than 2,000 Jewish community leaders from all parts
of the United States and Canada, Mr. Fisher called for continued
expansion of the day school and urged the local federation in each
city to reexamine the need for increased support for all-day schools
in their communities .
His call created a mild sensation among those delegates who had
all along maintained an indifferent attitude toward the Jewish day
school system There was something new and basic in his pronounce-
ment By placing the "kosher" stamp on day schools fur all com-
munities, Mr. Fisher opened a new avenue of thought for those who
had been opposed or -cool toward the idea of helping day schools
The guidelines for federation assistance, which now followed Mr.
Fisher's historic plea, represent a consensus of educators and com-
munal leaders. They were drafted by a CJEWF committee under the
of
leadership of Mandel Berman of Detroit and I. Jerome Stern
Philadelphia. They define relationships between federations and day
com-
schools .2nd outline the principles for federation assistance. Each
munity now has a framework for systematic and effective aid to its
local day schools, to be applied in the light of local circumstances.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
56 - Friday, May S, 1172
American dollar, which has in-
creased its operational costs in
Europe. North Africa and other
areas by some 5600,000. But the
JDC recognizes the seriousness of
Israel's human needs and is de-
termined to increase the scope of
its aid programs."
JDC, which assists over 300,000
Jews in 25 countries, receives
most of its funds from the United
Jewish Appeal.
A project of special interest.
both medically and socially, is
the JDC Malben-supported Com-
prehensive Community Mental
health Center in Jaffa, Gins-
berg said. "Institutionalization of
the mentally ill is a costly fail-
ure," he stated. "The Jaffa dem-
onstration project, the first of
its kind in Israel is part of the
search to find an effective and
less expensive method to treat
the mentally ill than the cur-
ent overemphasis on institution-
alization."
The center will offer five ser-
vices: prevention and early de-
tection of illness through coun-
seling and education; outpatient
treatment for persons who can
live at home; cmereency service
for persons suffering from an
acute breakdown; part time hos-
pitalization: and a small full-time
hospital for persons in need of
intensive treatment for limited
periods.
"Millions of dollars can be saved
by treating patients at these cen-
ters instead of building new cost-
ly mental institutions," Ginsberg
added. "Hospitalization should be
used only as a last resort. The
Jaffa Center is expected to be-
come a model for similar centers
throughout the country."
Another JDC/Malben project.
which is setting a pattern for the
country, is the network of six Child
Development Centers in Jerusalem,
Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Tel Hasho-
mer. Assaf Harofe and Haifa.
Early assessment and followup
treatment of children suffering
from various mental as well as
physical handicaps are provided
by teams of pediatricians, psychol-
ogists, social workers and nurses.
Ginsberg noted that "a vital,
new aspect of the JDC/ Malben
programs for the aged is the ex-
tension of the same high stan-
dard of care to the elderly
among the long-term aged. It
was for this purpose that JDC/
Malben helped to form the inde-
pandent Association for the Plan-
ning and Development of Serv-
ices for the Aged and is contri-
buting half of the Association's
IL 35 million (58,330,000) bud-
get with the other half coming
from cooperating local groups."
Ginsberg disclosed that the im-
migration of Russian Jews "is mak-
ing a steadily increasing impact
on JDC/Malben's programs. • ' Al-
though the proportion of old people
among the newcomers is not large,
he said, the number of those refer-
red to JDC;Malben for medical
care and other assistance is stead-
ily increasing. He reported that in
1971 a total of 373 immigrants
from the Soviet Union had been
referred to JDC/Malben for aged
care and medical service, com-
pared with 237 cases in 1970, an
increase of some 57 per cent.
Ile noted that in January of this
year. 37 of the 62 who applied for
medical services were newcomers
from the Soviet Union. while in
Fehruary 49 of the 66 referrals
were Russians. This upward trend
is continuing in March with 53 of
the 69 applicants being newly - ar-
rived Russian Jews.
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