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that they can participate in
such observances with their
families.
Rabbi Thaler emphasized
that the program is not de-
signed to prepare a child for
Bar or Bat Mitzva. But if the
child and the parents feel
the child can handle the ex-
tra work entailed in prepa-
ration for the rite, a special
ceremony is held.
He explained that pupils
could not master enough
material for a standard rite.
Rather, he said, the require-
ments are designed so they
master it. A private tutor
gives the candidates instruc-
tion to supplement what
they learn in the Sunday
classes.
In the synagogue's regu-
lar school program, a child
must attend the congrega-
tion school for five years
for the ceremony. A child
in the special program
must be enrolled mini-
mally for one year befoi.e
Rabbi Thaler will consider
the ceremony for the child,
requiring that he or she
"be at least in the second
year."

them from member families
of the congregation.
Basically ; the children
A Conservative congrega-
tion in Queens has created a suffer from such disabilities
program to teach Jewish' as dyslexia and minimal
children with learning disa- brain damage. Within the
bilities as much Jewish cul- limits imposed by such disa-
ture and religion as they are bilities, the program seeks
to "provide pleasant experi-
capable of absorbing.
Rabbi Albert Thaler, who ences" for the children
organized the program at "within the framework of
his Queensboro Hill Jewish Jewish life," Rabbi Thaler
Center in Flushing, N.Y., said.
Specifically, the curric-
said that, when the special
education program was ulum includes teaching
started four years ago, it about the holidays, involv-
was the only one of its kind ing use of crafts, coloring,
in Queens- . There are cur- painting and related activ-
rently five girls and four ities. Jewish history is
boys in the program, two of taught by use of cassettes
on which are '-recorded
stories in' a simple He-
OPENING SOON
brew. The .children listen
to the cassettes and read
AZER'S
the text simultaneously.
Cradle to College
One objective is to teach
EVERGREEN PLAZA
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In the normal ceremony,
the candidate is given an
Aliya, and chants the bless-
ings before and after the
Haftara, in addition to the
Haftara. For a Bar Mitzva
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program, the requirements
must be modified.
Rabbi Thaler emphasized
the key role of the congrega-
tion in making the program
possible. The tuition of $125 -
per child does not cover the
cost of the program and a
few children receive scholar-
ships. He said the syn-
agogue sisterhood provides
a fund from which money is
used to make up the pro- -
gram deficit. Some congre-
gants make individual con-
tributions . and the
congregation provides a
home for the program with
custodial :services, lighting
and heating.
Moreover, Rabbi Thaler
said, parents of the children
are not required to be mem-
bers of the congregation,
which is a requirement for
those.parents whose chit
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analyses of the events that
have occurred during. Is-
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preparatory years that
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Segal poses many ques-
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Lubavitch Group
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NEW YORK — Twenty-
two Lubavitcher scholars
have left for a period of To-
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tivity in Israel.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson appointed the
rabbinical students as his
emissaries "to bolster the
morale of the Jews residing
in Israel in these difficult
times."
Eleven members of the
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former no-man's-land be-
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plex of shops, offices, hotels
and apartments.
The now shabby area be-
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downtown West Jerusalem,
known as the Mamilla dis-
trict, is occupied by parking
lots and deteriorated build-
ings, all of which will be
razed.

Aharonson's Fate
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LONDON (JTA) — A sen-
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who recently was iri Iraq
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Alexander Aharonson was
hanged by the Iraqi military
junta last November, as re-
ported then in an Iraqi news
agency dispatch from- Bagh-
dad
The Iraqi authorities
claimed subsequently that
Aharonson had been sent-
enced to death as an "Israeli
spy" but that the execution
had not been carried out.
The Iraqi authorities have
rejected all attempts by The
Netherlands government to
ascertain Aharonson's fate
by establishing contact with
him through a member of
the Dutch Embassy staff in
Baghdad.

The plans to rehabilitate
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fight against the mysterious
pine-tree-killer which is
threatening to denude many
of Israel's loveliest hillsides.
The killer disease, which
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experts called in by JNF,
has become particularly
noticeable on the road to
Jerusalem where the for-
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Bill

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forbidding persons who are
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