Hadassah Surgeon Saves Arab Child
Educators Council Charges Union
Causes Deterioration: Interference
11 ' 4 NVith Administrators Causes Concern
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A policy statement issued by the Jewish Educators Council of

DE TROIT JEW ISH NEWS
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40-...-Friday, M ay 1 , 1 972

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Metropolitan Detroit described ''a dangerous deterioration" between '
the administrators of local Jewish schools and the Jewish Teachers
Unions and charges that attacks by the union upon school directors has
resulted in an cx0,1us of professional directors from the Detroit
con) mimic
The Jewish Educators Council's statement was made by its
officers and executive committee' Sidney Selig. Beth Shalom, president;
Rabbi Gerald A. Teller. Shaarey %wick , secretary; Cantor Arthur
Asher, Temple Israel. vice president; James Levharg, Temple Beth
treasurer; Dr. Benjamin Tank.), United Hebrew Schools; Rabbi
Joshua Kronenberst, Mlle! Day School: Rabbi Moidetai Weiss, Bnai
David; Pincus F . ellus • Hint: Rabbi Melvin Sachs, Shaar lIashomayim,
Windsor.
The educators . warnings against deterioration and the charges
of interference in administrative procedures are contained in the
following statement -
The Jewish Educators Council of
Metropolitan Detroit is deeply con-
taming quality Jewish education
cerned over developments that
in the carious institutions by utili-
have taken place in the past few
zing unprincipled, indeed, immoral
years in the Jewish schools of
methods and tactics to gain ques-
Detroit. We Wish to communicate
tionable ends They have engaged
this concern in order that parents.
in public slander, unfounded and
community leaders and all those
unprovable accusations and alle-
interested in Jewish education be-
gations against those educational
conic aware of the grave conse-
administrators whose sole sin lies
quences which will follow should
in their expectation that teachers
the present. situation be permitted
would behave responsibly and func-
to continue
tion in a dedicated and committed

JUDITH CASSEL

Sir and Mrs. Louis i Cassel of
Ventura Ave Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Judith Ann to David Jeffrey Kess-
ler, son of Mr and Mrs. Marlin
Kessler of Siker Spring, Md.

Miss ('a,sel is a May graduate
The Jewish
Educators Council
of the Unixersitx 4.f Michigan. Her
wishes to call to the attention of
fiance, a I. - of 31
alumnus. is a
the community the fact that an en-
graduate student in the university's
vironment has been created by the
school of Muse
I Jewish 'feathers Union in their
relationships with school boards
An August welding is planned
and principals that can lead to a
dangerous deterioration in the quai-
A linil of it,zl- .ts is what the pH,
nt) and structure of Jewish educa-
against ever)
pie are .. " ,
tion in this community
9oserrittl,
•.girth
The ./ EC does not quarrel with
Thomas Jefferson
the right of (earlier, to join a
union in order to raise their
.tanii.tral. of II, jog, obtain the
fring•
benefits. anti
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the burned esophagus is replaced by a segment of the large intestine,
thus allowing him to swallow solid food. Yussut, clutching bread. is
seen with his granny Chief Nurse Meir Gillon, Yussuf's father, and
Dr. Medad Schiller, of the Hadassah pediatric surgery unit. Dr.
Schiller learned this operation at Columbus Children's Hospital in
Ohio. The boy's granny lived byi his side at Hadassah for five months.
She learned Hebrew and helped care for other little patients in the
ward as well as Vussuf.
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'Memorial Reservation'
at Terezin Suggested

manner in their classrooms in •
LONDON—The town of Teretin
order to continue to improve the
(TheresienstadO in Bohemia May
quality of Jewish education.
he declared a "memorial reserWa-
In the past five years, because
lion," according to a project siiid
hoards of various schools have
to he in its finishing stages.
permitted the unions to behave
According to "Vestnik," offic-al
with impunity, slanderous letters
organ of the Council of Jewsh
containing easily demonstrated
Religious Communities in Cze ih-
false allegations and accusations
oslovaltia, both the town council
designed to discredit the educa-
of Terezin and the educational and
tional administration, were sent
cultural department of Litorner.ce
tv the parents and hoard mem•
(leitmeritn are reported to be
:iers of the Beth Shalom Reli-
- interested in the realization of
gious S( hoot, the United Hebrew
the scheme, and only some m:r' or
Si hook, and the HMO Day
details remain to be clarified. -
Sihi iii. During this period of
Terezm one of some 70 N zi
t.nie seven educators hasp be.
coneent ration :mil forced la! it
(Mile so discouraged in their at-
camps is Czechoslovakia, was he
tcropts to develop quality ethi-
, lar'ge'st receptacle of Jews during
c item within their school SN's-
the occupation.
tents,
so outraged at the un-
The Council ;1 Jews from Czech-
bridled and unlicensed behavior
o.:Ikwakia is preparing publication
of people who should he rightly
memorial volume of Jew vii
presumed to he committed to the
cm. '.a . s of Czech and Slovak ctri-
righteousness of conduct one
died at the Terezin carlip
might eviiet t ,if teat-hers, that
;rah-ported from there to
the. Irf t the cooiroultit
!tr.ition
and
death
h.•
• iaa•ripied Eurood.

One of the leading collective set-
tlements of Czechoslovak Jews in
Israel, Kibutz Givat Chaim Ichud,
is building a "Terezin House" to
mark the 27th anniversary of the
camp's closure this year

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