22—Friday, Feb. 9, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel's Economy Expanded by 9 Pct. in '72
Jewish Music Festival to Mark Israel's 25th
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me`
NEW YORK—Israel's 25th
year of statehood will be
celebrated with special pro-
grams during a month-long
Jewish Music Festival spon-
sored by the Jewish Music
Council of the National Jew-
isk Welfare Board March 18,
April 16.
With the theme, "Musical
Offering to Israel," hundreds
of Jewish centers, syna-
gogues, schools, fraternal or-
ganizations, universities and
colleges, Jewish educational
choral groups and radio and
TV stations throughout the
United States will participate
in the 29th annual Music
Festival.
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is- amounting to hundreds of
rael's economy experienced a millions of dollars, this is the
9 per cent growth in produc- first time since 1967 that the
lion last year, it was report- gap between imports and ex-
ed by the finance ministry. ports has been reduced.
One of the key factors is
Editor in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
This gain was larger than
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that of most other free world the electronics industry. In
economies. In the U.S.A., for 1967, it exported to the value
COLLEGES:
The number of programs of
example, the economy grew of $2,600.000 and employed JUDAICA IN
3.100 workers. In 1972 the Jewish studies in American colleges and universities con-
by 6.5 per cent in 1972.
giv- tinues to grow. However, the programs lack coordination.
This favorable pattern was electronics industry was
601. 0%
accompanied by a 19 per cent ing employment to 12,000 and Their quality differs from campus to campus.
Coordination of Judaica courses offered by more than
rise in exports, while imports exporting $36,000,000 in pro-
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proper textbooks and, in some cases, lack of well-qualified
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Participants in such a conference must not only be
faculty members, but also students and representatives of
organizations interested in promoting Jewish culture. In
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many universities the courses in Judaica were introduced
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at the initiative of students. Funds for full-time teachers
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studies on the campus and has urged local federations to
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At present, a number of colleges and universities seek
to solve their problem of teaching staff by arranging with
neighboring Hebrew colleges to provide them with visiting
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To help prepare teachers for the expanding number of
institutions offering credit courses in the field of Jewish
knowledge, a number of colleges and universities are now
conducting programs designed to equip students for grad-
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MARCH OF TIME: Credit courses in Judaica are compar-
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Only a few universities and colleges maintained programs
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of Jewish studies a generation ago.
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The teaching of Hebrew language has been, however,
a long tradition in some American schools of higher learn-
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to King's College which is now Columbia University; to the
Philadelphia Academy which is now the University of Penn-
sylvania, and other institutions of learning in early America
which stressed the study of Ilebrew as a ''holy language."
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In 1940, Prof. Abraham Katsh of New York University
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colleges. The remainder were theological schools. Modern
Hebrew was taught in 24 of the inquired universities and
in 9 colleges .
Compared with the more than 330 universities and col-
leges where full-credit courses in Judaica are being given
now, the immense progress since the 1940s is remarkable,
especially during the last few years. Part of the progress
is attributed to the greater acceptance of Jews and Juda-
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of the victims were reported
Three persons were killed
and 41 injured Sunday when
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