THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
40 Friday, October 15, 1976
Israel Woman Pilot at ZOD Event
ONE MAN
Dr. Theodore Mandell,
president of the Zionist
organization of America-
Detroit District, an-
nounces that at the gen-
eral meeting to be held 9
p.m. Oct. 28 in the Zionist
Cultural Center, the
principal speaker will be
Yael Rom, scholar-in-
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served.
A native of Tel Aviv,
Mrs. Rom is a fifth gener-
ation Israeli. Her hus-
band is Prof. Josef Rom,
dean of the Faculty of
Aeronautical Engineer-
ing at the Technion. She
is the mother of three
children.
She was the first woman
pilot in the Israeli Air
Force and later became
the first Israeli woman
commercial pilot. She is a
graduate of Hebrew Uni-
versity, currently working
on her MA degree in coun-
seling at Haifa University.
She served for several
years as education adviser
for disadvantaged youth,
and currently is director of
Technion pre-academic
center, as well as assistant
'Between You
• • • and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
YAEL ROM .
to the vice president for
academic affairs.
In 1956 during the Sinai
War, she flew as co-pilot
of the lead plane and
dropped paratroppers at
Mitla Pass, and flew
many other missions dur-
ing the campaign.
Esch-Riegle Debate Tuesday
Congressmen Marvin
L. Esch (R-Ann Arbor)
and , Donald W. Riegle
(D-Flint), United States
Senate candidates in
November's election, will
address the Jewish Com-
munity- Council's Dele-
gate Assembly 8 p.m.
Tuesday in • Cong.
Shaarey Zedek. The prog-
ram is Council's first de-
legate assembly of the
1976-77 season: The com-
munity is invited.
The delegate assembly
program is co-hosted by
the Shaarey Zedek Men's
Club, Labor Zionist Al-
liance and Workmen's
Circle, Michigan District
— all Council affiliated
organizations.
LZA Branch Will
Host Candidates
Melody Musicale will
meet 8 p.m. Wednesday in
the home Florence
Malach, 18219 George
Washington, Southfield.
Folk singer Gretchen
Woods will entertain.
A tea will be held 2 p.m.
Nov. 7 in the home of
Mimi Summers, 14510
Leslie, Oak Park, and will
feature a number of sin-
gers.
Newly elected officers
of the
are
Louise Lazarus, presi-
dent; Shirley Frost, vice
president; Joyce Weiner,
treasurer; and Florence
Malach, Shirley Belkin,
secretaries.
For information,, call
Ms. Lazarus, 547-01-68, or
Ms. Malach, 569-3874.
Branch Seven, Labor
Zionist Alliance, will.
meet_7:30 p.m. Sunday in
the home of Freda and
Henry Faigin, 19145
Coyle, Detroit.
Guests will include
Cong. William Brodhead
(D-17th District) who will
discuss "Congress in Ac-
tion"; James Burdick,
Republican candidate for
the 17th district seat; and
Katherine Strauss of the
League of Women's Vot-
ers who will discuss the
amendments on the bal-
lot.
Guests are invited. For
information, call Mrs.
Faigin, 342-6318.
Melody Musicale
Hears Performers
Detroiter to Attend
SIX WEEKS OF
TENNIS INSTRUCTION
October 25 thru November 28
MEN • WOMEN • JUNIORS
3 to 1 Student-Instructor Ratio
Child's Day Care Room
FOR INFORMATION
CALL 398-2450
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Boris Smolar's
Seminar on Aged
Eugene Jaffe, assistant
executive director of the
Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit, will participate
in a three-day Consulta-
tion on Jewish Older
„Adults to be sponsored by
the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board at the Shera-
ton La Guardia Hotel in
New York Tuesday
through Thursday.
The three-day consul-
tation has been designed
to meet the concerns of
lay leaders and executive
directors of Jewish Com-
munity Centers and YM
and YWHAs and profes-
sional Center staff mem-
bers working with older
adults.
Vocational Service
Holds Open House
Jewish
Vocational
Service - Community
Workshop will hold an
open house 2 p.m. Oct. 28
at the JVS building, 4250
Woodward, Detroit.
JEWISH CULTURE: Jewish' federations all agree
now that Jewish education deserves a higher priority
in their budgets. Some federations, however, make a
distinction between Jewish education and Jewish c'
ture. They allocate funds for Jewish schools but not
Jewish cultural projects.
For those who are interested in str e ngthening
Jewish identity, the position of the latter is very ques-
tionable. It looks rather inconsistent to consider
Jewish culture as not being identical with Jewish edu-
cation. To them, education and culture are two sides of
the same coin; they are equally important for Jewish
continuity.
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds — the central body serving 800 Jewish com-
munities in the U.S. and Canada with guidance and
consultation — has indicated no line of demarcation is
to be drawn by federations between the two branches
of Jewish knowledge which are so important for the
future of the Jewish community. It has established a
Committee of Community Planning for Jewish Educa-
tion and Culture.
A dozen cities are being selected now by this com-
mittee as pilot communities fora demonstration pro-
ject on planning for Jewish education and culture. A
working outline for federations participating in the
project has been presented by George M. Seltzer of
Detroit, head of this committee, in an impressive re-
port at the four-day meeting of the CJFWF board of
directors, held in New York last month. The session at
which Seltzer delivered his report also was attended -
by Jewish educators from various cities and by rep-
resentatives of national Jewish organizations in-
- terested in Jewish education and culture.
COMMUNAL PROJECT: The product of the pilot
communities will help to guide all communities in the
Country in their future- services in the field of Jewish
education and culture. Its first phase is concerned
with strengthening the interest of teenagers (13 ,to 18
years old) in Jewish education and culture.
This age group has been selected to start with
because the pilot project is more manageable if it con-
centrates on one crucial area than if it attempts to
encompass the entire range of concerns in Jewish edu-
cation and culture. Also -because few Jewish teenagers
continue in Jewish schools at the very time when their
life attitudes are being molded, and when adolescents,
in their emerging independence, are asking basic
questions about themselves as Jews, this is just when
they are to leave the direct influence of their homes
and communities.
The pilot communities will seek to establish the
number of teenagers in each community, how many of
them attend Jewish schools, how many have dropped
out, how many are involved in Jewish youth groups
and in Jewish education and culture programs. Also
what should be the role of the Jewish federations in
each city in planning, coordinating and financing edu-
cation and culture for the youth-in the future.
The target date for completing the collection of the
facts in each city is set for March 1977.
Meanwhile, there is continuing dialogue between
the CJFWF, synagogue movements, and other educa-
tional and cultural organizations for refinement of
guidelines for communities, in the, growing recogni-
tion that effectivd Jewish education takes place in
many settings.
CULTURAL AGENCIES "Jewish culture" re-
ceived recognition for support from Jewish community
funds years ago when the CJFWF carried out a survey
of national Jewish cultural services in this country.
The survey resulted in the creation of the National
Foundation for Jewish Culture which was called u; .-
to serve as central focus for the Jewish cultural fief,..
The foundation was given a broad and com-
prehensive mandate, including the enrichment of the
programs in the field by strengthening the existing
Jewish cultural agencies, providing a better under-
standing of the field of Jewish culture and its needs,
and initiating such new programs as may be required.
Four years ago, in 1972, the foundation brought
about the establishment of a Joint Cultural Appeal as
a collective instrument for nine Jewish cultural agen-
cies, some of which have been in existence as indepen-
dent operations for decades. The Joint Cultural Ap-
peal, administered by the foundation, now serves as a
unified approach to Jewish federations and welfare
funds for community share of the funding of the prog-
rams of these agencies. It interprets the programs and
services of the participating agencies to the com-
munities — as well as the community service needs in
this field which includes the American Jewish Histori-
cal Society, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Con-
gress for Jewish Culture and other institions which
, conduct research and scholarly programs and seek to
raise the community's cultural level in English, Yid-
dish and Hebrew.