18 friday, April 7, 1978
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Reform Movement Predicts Anne Frank Play Is Performed for the Deaf
and naturally the the constant, over-hanging
Day High School in 10 Years By JOSEPH POLAKOFF present,
deaf, such support was not fear of discovery by the Nazi
By BEN GALLOB .
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
A Reform Jewish
educator has predicted that
a day high school under Re-
form auspices will be in op-
eration within a decade as
an outgrowth of the seven
existing Reform elementary
day schools.
The seven schools, with a
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total enrollment estimated
by former Detroiter Rabbi
Daniel B. Syme at 1,515
pupils during the current
school year, seem a modest
achievement compared
with the more than 450
Orthodox-sponsored day
schools and 50 Conservative
day schools.
But Rabbi Syme, director
of the education department
of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations and
son of Rabbi and Mrs. M.
Robert Syme of Detroit's
Temple Israel, in making
his predictions, stressed the
Reform movement's historic
and adamant opposition to
the day school concept.
Rabbi Syme cited a
symposium at the 1950
convention of the Central
Conference of American
Rabbis, the association of
Reform rabbis, at which
a major paper was pre-
sented entitled: "The
Jewish Day School, Its
Fallacy and Danger."
Even with the widening
acceptance by Reform Jews
of the day school, the con-
cept is not officially sup-
ported by the Reform
movement and there is no
central national Reform
agency for such schools, as
there is for Orthodox and
Conservative day schools.
Partly as a response to the
Holocaust and partly in re-
sponse to the deterioration
in recent years of public
schools, some groups within
American Reform began to
articulate advocacy of day
schools, Rabbi Syme re-
ported. In 1964, the New
York Federation of Reform
Synagogues called on the
UAHC to create "a chain" of
six day schools in large
American cities. By that
time, according to Rabbi
Syme, "both issues of the
great debate" on Reform-
sponsored day schools "were
fairly well-developed."
Other factors stimulating
support for Reform day
schools, he said, were the
Six-Day War, "perceived
Black anti-Semitism," and
"Christian indifference" to
the fate of Israel.
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"The Diary of Anne
Frank" has a new charac-
terization of unique luster.
For the first time, this im-
mortal drama has been per-
formed in the language of
the deaf. Eleven Gallaudet
students — 10 in the cast
and their director — offered
four performances at their
campus theater in
Washington with a sensitiv-
ity and comprehension that
can be assessed in terms no
less than astonishingly
beautiful.
hearing
Portraying
characters with word signs,
gestures and expressions of
face and body, these young
performers demonstrated a
caliber of theater that
brought into sharp focus
Anne Frank's historical re-
cordings during her exis-
tence with her parents, her
sister, and four other Jews
for 25 months in a secret
warehouse annex in
Amsterdam before they
were discovered by the
Nazis and delivered to
death camps in August,
1944. •
For the benefit of hearing
persons attending the two-
act drama, oral interpreta-
tions and background
sounds were supplied off
stage. But for most of those
Jewish Disabled
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NEW YORK — Dr.Mor-
ton Siegel, director of the
department of elementary,
secondary, and adult educa-
tion of the United
Synagogue of America, has
announced that Shalaym,
the Conservative move-
ment's organization for pa-
rents of and professionals
interested in the Jewish
special child (learning dis-
abled) will convene its na-
tional conference Sunday at
Tiferet Israel Town and Vil-
lage Synagogue in New
York City.
Shalaym is an affiliate of
the United Synagogue of
America, Commission on
Jewish Education. For in-
formation, write the United
Synagogue offices, 155 Fifth
Ave., New York City, N.Y.,
10010.
Study in Israel
Program Seeks
Applicants
NEW YORK — Mid-
reshet Jerusalem, a new,
one-year study program at
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America's Is-
rael campus, will continue
to accept applications dur-
ing April for the 1978-79
academic year.
The co-educational prog-
ram admits no more than 20
college students and recent
graduates. Participants will
study Torah and maintain
traditional Jewish obser-
vances while living in a
modern Jewish community.
For information, write
Rabbi Baruch Feldstern,
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, 3080 Broadway, New
York 10022 .
needed to understand what
was being portrayed.
The tramp of the Nazis in
their jaCkboots in the street
below the warehouse, simu-
lated by a tape recorder,
could not be heard by the
deaf in the audience, but the
loneliness of the annex in-
habitants, the tediousness,
the hunger, the young love,
the devotion of parents, the
cheer of the Hanuka celeb-
ration, the unstinting loy-
alty of a non-Jewish Dutch
couple that brought them
food, drink and news from
the outside and above all
police — all these were un-
mistakably plain and
genuine without voice.
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