Boris Smolar's

'Between You
... and Me'

Editor in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1972. JTA Inc.)

JEWISH CAMPING: Jewish summer camping today involves the
expending of tens of millions of dollars. It also involves thousands of
professionals in communal services.
The number of children of all ages spending their summer vaca-
tions in Jewish camps runs in the hundreds of thousands. Many of the
resident camps are no longer purely recreational in character. They
maintain programs which are educationally productive.
Among the camps which contribute satisfactorily to the cause of
Jewish education and identity are those maintained by Jewish reli-
gious, educational and ideological groups. They include various types
of Zionist camps, Bnai Brith camps. Hasidic camps. Hebrew camps,
Yiddishist camps and camps of denominational groups.
There are also the day camps conducted by Jewish centers, Jew-
ish philanthropic organizations, and local communities for the purpose
of providing Jewish youngsters with the possibility of breathing fresh
air, of exposing themselves to sunshine and of having a delightful
summer experience. However, it is realized more and more that the
Jewish camp, in addition to being a recreational institution, must also
be an instrument to educate youngsters to understand themselves as
Jews. It is in this direction that Jewish camping is going now .
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.

CAMP ATMOSPHERE: Jewish resident camps have been in ex-
istence more than 50 years. The first camps were established in the
early 1920s by the Workmen's Circle—the largest Jewish fraternal
order which also maintains Jewish schools—and other Yiddishist
groups. In these camps a Jewish educational atmosphere prevailed
from the very beginning.
An increasing amount of attention to education has been given in
Jewish resident camps during the last 15 years. Jewish educators have
succeeded in impressing parents with the idea that several weeks
spent by their children in a Jewish atmosphere instills a deeper sense
of Jewish awareness among the youngsters than all the time they spend
in Jewish weekend schools, or even afternoon schools in the city.
During the last 10 years the Jewish resident camp—where the
youngster experiences total Jewish group living—has become an ave-
nue for strengthening Jewish identity among children of all ages. in-
cluding adolescent youths.

CAMP PROBLEMS: One of the major problems in the field of
Jewish camping is the finding of proper camp counselors. There is a
disparity between the college environment from which most of the
counselors come and the camp setting. Not all the counselors who
agree or accept the philosophy of the Jewish camps can implement the
policies and functions of the camp in which they take their summer jcb.
The sense of Jewish commitment on the part of a counselor is
naturally very important. Some camps therefore find it necessary to
help the counselor understand the specific Jewish nature and objec-
tives of the camp by conducting a regular in-service training program
for the counselors. In the furthering of Jewish education among col-
lege-age students—who make up the bulk of camp counselors—the
camp administration has also in mind the preparation of the young
adult counselors for participation in the larger Jewish community.
Camp directors exercise special care in seeking supervisory staff
whose qualifications include strong Jewish experience and education.
If these qualities in the supervisor are absent, then it is unlikely that
the counselor who comes to the camp without a strong sense of aware-
ness of his own Jewishness will understand the Jewish purposes and

Draft ENader Found

Guilty of Refusing to

Pledge

Chilean Jews Finally Get a Rabbi

NEW YORK (JTA)—"Judaism what Kreiman calls "Jewish
is maintained in South America by gauchos." He said 70 per cent of
a miracle." So says Rabbi Angel Argentine Jewry now is native-
Kreiman, a 27-year-old Argentine- born.
If Santiago now has a rabbi, it
born lawyer ordained by the Con-
servative rabbinical seminary in still lacks other essentials of a
Buenos Aires. Jewish religious life. There is no
Rabbi Kreiman flew to Santiago, resident mohel, and kosher meat
Chile, to take over the pulpit at must be flown in from Buenos
the largest synagogue there, the Aires.
• ohean Parliament Expresses
Circulo Israelita, and to minister Chilean
to a Jewish community of 1.000 Solidarity With Knesset
families who have been without a Over Airport Massacre
rabbi for nearly two years.
SANTIAGO (JTA)—The Chilean
Chile, with a Jewish population I Parliament has endorsed a reso-
of 30,000 — 90 per cent in Santiago I lution by the Israeli Knesset con-
-once had five rabbis. By 1970, demning the May 30 Lydda Airport
when Marxist President Salvador .. massacre.
Allende was elected, only two re-
The text of the resolution was
mained. and they have left since. brought to the Senate and House
Rabbi Kroiman said. But he was of Representatives by the Israeli
Allende's ambassador Moshe Toe After Be-
whether
certain
not
taking office had anything to do
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, ...ith their t:eparture.

sac r e victims •.ere lo H at the.
Circulo lsraelitm
Rabbi Kreiman is a fourth-
.
generation Argentinean. His great- _.
icnic Set by Pinsker Aid
great-grandfather • was among the , P
Pinsker
Progressive Aid Society
first Russian Jews to immigrate
to Argentina under the aegis of will hold its annual picnic get-
Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the together July 30 at thee Oak Park
Munich-born philanthropist who picnic grounds. The event will in-
established Jewish agricultural elude games; prizes will be given
colonies in the Argentine with away. Guests are invited.

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 21, 1972-21

Laziness travels so sloolv that
—
poverty soon overtakes

alts' to State •,orts that Israeli authorities plan Benjamin Franklin.

An Israeli Ne..v to raze Iiuneitra. a Syrian timn in -
'FFI, AVIV
-
Leftist was sentenced recently by
the occupied Golan Heights. were
a military tribunal to eight months'
, msi
i mprisonment fur refusing to sign assailed as "untrue and irresi
FROM
Premier
a pledge of I.-yally to the Israeli
armed forces.
Replying to a question at the
weekly cabinet meeting. Mrs. Melt
Giora Neumann. IS. alread y
served five sentences of 35 days said the government's intention
each for refusing induction into was only to demolish war-damaged
the army. lie since has agreed to buildings winch have been used as
a haven for - rats and terrorists. -
perform some civilian national
Booklet featuring questions and
service for three years without
Mrs. Heir said similar demolition
answers on traditional Jewish
work has been going on for seseral
pay.
life and law.
Lt. Col. David Gershon. presid- years in the Golan Heights in ac-
For fro. rooms for you or your organs-
ing judge, said Neumann had cordance with cabinet decisions
r•hon(limited to 75 copies) Writ..
adopted
after
the
Six-Day
War.
She
made no attempt to substantiate
KRAFT FOODS (Dept. Vitt)
his charges that the Israeli de- said press reports that gave the
fense force was "an army of con- I impression that the whole town was
P.O. Box 6768
to
be
flattened
were
"quite
ground-
quest" and that its activities in I
CHICAGO, ILL. 60680
less
and
irresponsible."
•
the occupied areas involved "op-
pression, degradation and expul-
sion."
That Neumann could stand up
in a military court and "slander
the state" belied his charges, the
judge said.
Meanwhile, police are searching
for an 18-year-old Ashkelon girl,
DOE,
Daisy Bochovza, who reportedly
went "into hiding" to avoid mili-
tary service after her local draft
board rejected her claim that she
was Orthodox and therefore ex-
empt from service. Police searched
ID MILE 8. GREENFIELD
her home without results.
The girl contended that both
she and her family were Orthodox
but the draft board claimed that
she could not be considered Ortho-
dox because she attended a secu-
lar school.
A letter the girl wrote to Ash-
kenazic Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda
Unterman agreed that this was not
sufficient grounds for denying ex-
emption from military service on
religious grounds.

goals of the camp.

He said. "The future lies ,iiii
modern Jewish education (Mil
t an give south American youth
values to be identified as Jews.'

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CJFWF Still Assisting
Agnes Storm Victims

NEW YORK (JTA) — Max M.
Fisher, president of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, announced the CJF is co-
ordinating a current effort to aid
Jewish communities in Western
Pennsylvania and New York which
were damaged by tropical storm
Agnes last month.
In Wilkes-Barre, one of the hard-
est hit by the storm, most of the
1,500 Jewish families have moved
temporarily to other cities. There,
as in Elmira, N.Y. and Harrisburg,
Pa., special funds and bank loans
are being made available to the
stricken families, Fisher said.
Trained staff has been sent to
help in replacing damaged reli-
gious articles and in restoring syna-
gogues, according to Fisher. Peo-
ple from neighboring towns are
also aiding in the clean-up and'
fund-raising actions.

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1972
CITY TAXES

ALL 1972 CITY TAX BILLS
HAVE BEEN MAILED

A number of properties are listed on the 1972 tax rolls as OWNER UNKNOWN.
If you have failed to receive your tax statement, please request duplicate by
phone, 224-3560, by mail, or in person at the City-County 6uilcir.q as interest
must be added if not paid by August 31, 1972. TO FACiLiTATE %1IONE CALLS
IT IS REQUESTED THAT THE WARD NUMBER AND ITEM NUMBER BE KNOWN.

FIRST HALF DUE
AUGUST 15

ROBERT J. TEMPLE
CITY TREASURER