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THE EDUCATION FRONT: Jewishness in the United States stands on four pillars: fund-raising for Jew- ish communal purposes, interest in Israel, the synagogue, Jewish education. Jewish education is last on the list; it should be nearer the top. Without a Jewishly-educated generation, fund-rais- ing will decline, interest in Israel will evaporate, syn- agogue affiliation — already low to a point where 50 per- cent of all Jewish families in the country are not members of any synagogue — will go down even lower. Jewish communities do not give to Jewish education the priority it deserves as a cornerstone of Jewish life and as insurance for Jewish continuity. The organized Jewish communities raise about $500 million a year for Jewish pur- poses, but contribute only about $18 million to Jewish edu- cation. The Jewish Federations have gone up 127 percent in their allocations for educational work during the last dec- ade, and are now more interested in the quality of Jewish education. However, education is still handled as a step- child. Chicago, not New York, occupies first place among federations allocating funds for Jewish educational pur- poses. This exposes the New York federation to a very un- comfortable position. The Jewish population in Chicago is less than 300,000, while in Greater New York it is about 2,500,000; the number of Jewish schools in New York in need of assistance is far larger than in Chicago, and the New York federation raises more funds than the federation in Chicago. Yet Chicago's allocations for local Jewish educa- tional purposes is about $2 million a year while New York's is proportionately very much smaller. The Philadelphia Federation occupies the third place, after Chicago and New York, in supporting Jewish educa- tional projects. Its allocations for education reach $1.3 mil- lion a year. The Los Angeles Federation spends over $1 mil- lion and Detroit and Cleveland each allocate about $1 million a year for educational institutions. The cost of Jewish education in this country is esti- mated to be a quarter of a billion dollars a year. What does it bring? The question can hardly be answered with cer- tainty under the present circumstances, despite the fact that the future of Jewishness in America hinges on it. All that is being heard is that the quality of Jewish education needs improvement and that not enough is being done for Jewish education by the organized communities. In the Jewish school system there is, of course, income from tuition. But, according to the American Association for Jewish Education, the national average income derived by the schools from tuition fees is only about 45 percent of their budgets. A STARVATION BUDGET: Suffering from lack of funds — and therefore unable to fully meet its require- ments as the central body of the Jewish education system — is the American Association for Jewish Education. The Association, whose function is to coordinate Jew- ish education, keep a finger on its weak spots and create a better atmosphere for Jewish eddcation — to mention just a few of the provinces of its work — could probably do much more than it is doing were it given the tools to perform the job. As it is, the AAJE is hampered in its work by a starva- tion budget of $700,000 a year, of which one-half must be raised through "shnorerei" from private sources. The lack of financial means for the AAJE, as well as the decentralization of the various groups involved in var- ious forms of Jewish education, make it difficult to measure the achievements of Jewish education, or to put a finger on its failures. Perhaps the time has come to arrange for a national conference of all organizations involved in formal and infor- mal Jewish education — plus the leadership of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare funds — and to draw a balance of the achievements, failures and needs in the field of Jewish education. The General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federa- tions — which takes place this week in Miami — has on its agenda the Jewish education problem. The CJFWF is striv- ing towards the creation of a comprehensive national agency for service and innovation. To what extent this move will lead to the placing Jewish education higher on the priority list of the allocations by the organized Jewish com- munities remains to be seen. However, the move in itself is significant and timely. Israel Is Given Large Contribution ..... . . ...... . . . . .. . . . .... . . . r NY • • LONDON (JTA) — An anonymous donor has given one million pounds sterling (more than $2 million) to Israel. The money is earmarked for Israeli social welfare institutions, with particular emphasis on facilities for the handicapped. The only condition set by the donor was that no details be di- vulged about his or her identity.