I People Make News
Religious School Dropout Problem
Linked to Parents' Lack of Concern
MEL MERZON, chairman "master builder" of the Hill- medical service. The Fishers
of the English department at ' el Foundation movement.
have — in addition to pro-
• • •
Oak Park High School, was
viding the three ambulances
appointed as a critical re-
—
supported MDA by spon-
The Hillel Rogoff Memorial
viewer of a series of books Lecture Series honoring the soring the lecture hall of
on the Bible as literature. The late Jewish labor leader and MDA's Haifa Medical Com-
first book of the series. "The writer was inaugurated at plex, and by presenting an
Garden and the Wilderness" Yeshiva University's Stern electropheresis densitometer
was just published by Har- College for Women, with the (a highly specialized blood-
court, Brace and Jovanich, initial lecture delivered by fractionation apparatus) to
Inc.
DR. IRVING HOWE, profes- Magen David Adom's Col.
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sor of English, Hunter Col- David Marcus Blood Bank
lege,
who spoke on the begin- and Fractionation Center in
SAMUEL MARCUS. direc-
tor of the Fresh Air Society ' nines of Yiddish poetry in Jaffa.
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in Detroit will be a workshop America.
discussion leader and institute
faculty member at the annual
National Conference on Jew-
ish Camping, Jan. 7-11 at
Grossinger's Hotel. He will
he a discussion leader for a
one-day institute for pew
resident camp directors
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Brim Brith has named
Brandeis University graduate
student JONATHAN RUBEN-
STEIN, 24. of Westport,
Conn., as this year's winner
of its Abram L. Sachar
Award. A second-year grad-
uate student in contemporary
'Jewish studies, -Rubenstein
received the 8500 prize for his
"creative programing" as a
graduate assistant to the di-
rector of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at Boston Univer-
sity. The award honors Dr.
Abram L. Sachar, chancellor
of Brandeis University. who
was the first director and
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Fathers p la y almost no r o I e
in influencing their children's
attendance at religious school
following Bar Mitzva, accord-
ing to a local educator who
prepared his doctoral disser-
tation on "Profiling With-
drawals From a Supplemen-
tary School."
Dr. Sidney Selig. educa-
tional director of the Beth
Shalom Religious School, dis-
covered flukes that the
problem threaterisNt.o perpet-
uate itself in that more girls
continue in religious school
than do boys. This indicates
a changing pattern from the
traditional emphasis on edu-
cating males.
Prof. SHMUEL SIITRIK-
MAN of the Weizmann Insti-
tute's department of elec-
tronics at Rehovot ,
has been elected a Fellow of
Selig, who received his
the U. S. Institute of Elec- PhD degree from the college
trical and Electronics En- of education at Wayne State
gineers. This honor, reserved University, did not find only
Benjamin R. Epstein, na- for a few individuals each
fathers wanting. "Mothers of
tional director of the Anti- year in recognition of out-
withdrawn students (those
Defamation League, an- standing and extraordinary
who drop out after Bar Mite-
nounced the agency's first achievements in the field of
va) appear to be derelict in
major administrative changes electrical and electronics en-
their religious observances,"
in more than 20 years: the gineering, was bestowed upon
he said. "They do not par-
appointment of THEODORE Prof. Shtrikman "for con-
ticipate in a Passover seder,
FREEDMAN as director of tributions to basic and ap-
do not light holyday candles,
its community service divis- plied magnetis,-n, in particu-
their house does not have a
ion and LYNNE YOUNG lar, the theory of new mag-
mezuza on any door.
IANNIELLO as director of
netization processes and its
"They feel that religious
public relations, Mrs. Ian-
impact on the development training should end at Bar
niello is the first woman to
of new permanent magnets."
Mitzva, and their feelings
be named to ADL's adminis-
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are accepted by their chil-
trative staff.
dren,"
said Selig.
.
• .
Prof. MARCUS WASSER-
That the fathers play al-
Mr. and Mrs. LOUIS MANN of the department of most no role in influencing
FISHER of Spring Valley, occupational health of the their children's Jewish edu-
N. Y., presented a third am- Hebrew University-Hadassah cation "suggests serious re-
bulance to Magen David Medical School, was elected evaluation of the father's role
Adorn. Israel's . emergency a Fellow of the New York
in the Jewish community and
Academy of Sciences. The
in the Jewish home," writes
155-year-old academy is an
Selig.
Swinging Singles
international organization
"It would seem," he added,
to Hold Cocktail Bash whose 27,000 members come "that we must educate
our
"The Swinging Singles, 25 from all 50 U.S. states and 1 fathers in the traditional
and Up." will hold a cocktail 84 foreign nations, and recog- practices of Judaism, so that
party 9 p m Jan. 12 at Al- nizes outstanding scientific
there will be a 'Jewish male
varo•s Restaurant in Royal achievement or promotion of identification' role which
Oak, Music will he provided science. Romanian-born Prof. strengthens Judaism, rather
by the Johnnie C band. The Wasserman received his than minimizes the mascu-
medical degree in Jassy
line role and leaves Judaism
where he went on to head
:nation, call Henrietta Lewis,
as a 'maternal faith'."
the department of occupa-
LI 6-0903.
The author obtained data
tional health in the school of
from schools in Michigan,
medicine.
Ohio and California. lie pre-
pared separate interview
JEWELRY
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Aliens Told to Report
of America.
DR. DAVID GUNSBERG,
former Detroiter now resid-
ing in Flint, was elected
president of the Northwest
division of the Michigan State
Podiatry Association.
•
r. Seli
D
g f oun
d t at "more
more
students than ever before"
are continuing Jewish stud-
ies beyond Bar Mitzva and
that the majority of these (90
per cent) attend congrega-
tional schools, as opposed to
communal schools.
One reinforcement for con-
tinuing Jewish education,
said Selig, is the Jewish sum-
mer camp, where kashrut
and Sabbath observance are
emphasized. Conversely, stu-
dents who attend camps
where such pr tidesare ig-
nored "are ore likely to
be dropouts from Jewish edu-
cation."
Selig stressed that "the
Jewish family must put it-
self in order as a first
priority. Their homes, their
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All aliens, with few excep-
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chairman of the Commission
on Social Action of Reform
Judaism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forms with which to make
the report can he obtained
from any post office or im-
migration and Naturalization
Service office during the
month of January.
Salturelli said that the law
provides severe penalties for
failure to comply with the
reporting requirement.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24—Friday, Dec. 29, 1972
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family practices, specifically
a Jewish father and a sep-
arate different Jewish moth-
er role must be introduced
and worked on consistently.
Otherwise, the student, be-
fore he enters religious
school, is psychologically a
dropout."
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