• F 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. • , • 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 • • 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. --- ----• 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. For 13 Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. 56 Tune in o Channel for the instructive, entertaining and beautiful program "TO ISRAEL WITH HEBREW" Sponsored as i, a public service by the ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF DETROIT in cooperation with THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The program introduces the viewer to The Sights of Israel The Sounds of Hebrew The Joys of Learning "To Israel With Hebrew" was produced by the Tarbut Foundation for the Advancement of Hebrew Culture and the Department of Education and Culture, American Section, of the World Zionist Organization. • As an aid to leariers of Hebrew, The Jewish News offers this lesson in the Hebrew alphabet: x 1- -•.gee 3na half hah-tali - bah - bah-dah - al - r1:12•P ;; ah-let silent veht V belts B gee - mei G fah-let D heh tahv Oh 'els in morel 00 I•s in soon) •-• ,1 :ah-j een ' het silent - koo-lahm - 0'?1 koh mah-lahkh - l'21P hoof —uln zah-khah - 71PT , yahm - dahy gob)' .a - dyer e - las in boy-1 ee• ored) rob-fehf - r - npin poo-reent - Err sheh-she: - rvrn rohd Y khalif KI1 5 kalif K lah-melt L mem VIF oto 2) . 1 , :o . 0 81 , 3 N silent' F peh P tsah-dee TS kohl K relish R sheen SH seen S tahv T :ay in fits1 r 2 AH - •' in the Sc,ttsh or Clerrnan 4 Origen•ls the r was orroui Irtier when it •ppcar at end of word t t even today is discernable in thef1 t 1 speesh nt Oriental Jews 3 In fully-pointed Hebrew scrip Such a dot is called "dah--gch s ,7n S ah-seen - ;1412 • Isorretirnes silent) feh kah-yeets - I H - between 11 and irh'- lsee H ' x soh-fei - "D10 at V x ne-emeb. - r?til sah-sohn - 71 W ,:dent end of word) T sah-mekh eh • let noon I•s re, pen) tb n not inc h sounded en.' dots are placed in almost all letters at certain times Only those letters listed separately — undergo a change in pronou elation as a result of these dots. 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