THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 26, 1974-23

Scholars Seek Better Quality of Jewish Life in America

LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
Dr. David Lieber, president
of the University of Judaism
here, sounded a call for a re-
turn to faith and for the im-
provement in the quality of
American Jewish life as one
answer to what he termed
the deep discontent and des-
pair 'engulfing the U.S. and
the world.
Dr. Moshe Davis, founder
of the Institute of Contempor-
ary Jewry at the Hebrew
Universtiy in Jerusalem, de-
clared that the great chal-
lenge facing world Jewry in
the aftermath of the Yam
Kippur War is to preserve
and strengthen the tradition-
al ideal of a world Jewish
family, a relationship, he
said, which reached unprece-
dented levels of intensity dur-
ing Israel's darkest hours
last October.
Both scholars addressed
the 400 delegates and guests
attending the 45th annual
convention of the National
Federation of Jewish Men's
Clubs, an organization com-
posed of 375 brotherhoods af-
filiated with Conservative
synagogues throughout the
U.S. and Canada. I Murray
Jacobs of Detroit, is presi-
dent of the federation.
Dr. Lieber, head' of the
Jewish Theological Seminary
of America's West Coast
school, said most Jews no
longer share a stable ideolo-
gical context, an integrative

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ing point, a summation and
a beginning in relationships
between Diaspora Jewry and
Israel. The feeling in the
Diaspora was that not only
was the Jewish state under
attack but the entire Jewish
people, he said.
It is a cruel fact of con-
temporary history that the
lesson of the Holocaust has
not yet been learned, the 58-
year-old teacher and author
noted. The newest phase of
anti-Semitism, he said, is

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TEL AVIV — Seven boys
and seven girls were honored
recently at the sixth 'annual
Bar Mitzva celebration of the
NIV School for the Deaf
here.
The NIV school is one of,a
number of Israel agencies
serving handicapped children
which receive technical and
financial support from Mal-
ben, the Joint Distribution
Committee program in
Israel funded mainly by the
United Jewish Appeal.
In a morning synagogue
service, each of the seven
boys was called to the Torah.
At an evening celebration,
the school band entertained
and the children performed
sketches in pantomine.
The band is a percussion
group with an accordion ac-
companiment by a hearing
musician. The stage in the
school theater has an experi-
mental floor which enables
the deaf musicians to "hear"
themselves. Vibrations are
picked up by the children's
feet and convey the rhythm
clearly.
There are 120 deaf chil-
dren from Tel Aviv and some
30 nearby communities at-
tending the NIV school. In
addition to the usual grade
school courses, the children
learn lip reading, speech and
hearing through . auditory
training. The school also
offers courses in home eco-
nomics, carpentry, metal
Work, handicrafts and agri-
culture.
Children who have some
residual hearing, no matter
how little, are fitted with

hearing aids. Most at the
NIV school also have other
handicaps, some of which,
such as cerebral palsy, may
be the cause of their deaf-
ness.
About 250 children are
born deaf in Israel each year
and until recently there were
few facilities for their care.
JDC helped to establish
MICHA, the Israel Society
for Deaf Children, in 1955
and has helped it to set up
services in a number of
cities.
It also provides technical
and financial aid to SHEMA,
a national parents' associa-
tion for deaf . children', the
NIV School and other facili-
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services for hard-of-hearing
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The seeds of virulent anti-
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wave of anti-Semitism in
Italy where such ominous
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mittees and an anti-Zionist
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