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THE DETROITJEWISH NEWS
Fridity, ; Mar 4„1919
Federations' Aid to Dgv Schools Jefferson: 'Moses of Democracy'
Doesn't Match Growth
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The American Association
for Jewish Education, citing
a national study it has just
concluded on the budgeting
and financing of day
schools, has declared that
Jewish federation alloca-
tions to these institutions
are not keeping pace with
burgeoning per capita ex-
penses resulting from in-
creased day school enroll-
ment.
Arthur Brody, president
of the AAJE, said the study
of 73 day schools in 58 corn-
munities revealed that fed-
erations increased their
support to local day schools
by an average of 10.4 per-
.
cent from 1976-77 to 1.977-
78. "The figures sound
good," he said, "but they are
misleading. Because of in-
flationary cost increases
and — far more =important
— because the growth in
day school enrollment has
outstripped the rise in allo-
cations, those allocations
represent an average de-
crease of 5.1 percent on a
per-pupil basis."
The AAJE president
said the agency's current
estimate of day school
enrollment is more than
90,000 students, a rise of
better. than 50 percent
over the 60,000 students
enrolled ii 1967. Brody
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stlk 10'
inch IN, in allocations,
tho+ ew,,mounts repre-
sent, r 2.1 percent av-
erag., 7.lecline among
total i oration alloca-
tions — rom 17.6 percent
in 1976-77 to 15.5 percent
in 1977-1978.
Since day school fund-
raising also declined during.
the period surveyed, the
schools had to make up the
differences by increasing
tuition by an average of 7.4
percent, he said. As a result,
tuition fees represented
52.3 percent of the total in-
come of day schools in
1977-1978, a rise of 2.7 per-
cent over the previous year.
Syria Hinders
Archeologists
NEW YORK — Biblical
Archeology Review, a lead-
ing archeology journal, has
accused the Syrian govern-
ment of suppressing the
findings of scholars that
link the 4,500-year-old
kingdom of Ebla in Syria
with the ancient Hebrews.
Hershel Shanks, editor of
the archeology journal, says
the Syrian government has
been pressuring the Italian
archeologists working at
Ebla to concentrate on
"proto-Syrian history" and
stop speculation on Ebla's
biblical links.
The archeologists must
obtain Syrian government
licenses to work at the site.
Research Shows
New Suppository
to Help Diabetics
JERUSALEM — A re-
search team at the Hebrew
University School of Phar-
macy and the Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem have
developed a suppository
that permits insulin to be
absorbed into the
bloodstream.
This method of delivering
insulin was found to be ef-
fecitve in reducing blood
sugar levels in rats and
dogs, both normal and
diabetic.
Additional testing will be
necessary before the sup-
pository can be made avail-
able for human use.
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April is the month of
Passover, the festival of
freedom. It is also the birth-
day month of Thomas Jef-
ferson, who is associated
with the American fight for
freedom.
Jefferson tried to keep his
own birthday secret to pre-
vent its celebration. Family
birthday parties were all
right, but he didn't approve
of national celebration of
individual birthdays. It
smacked too much of human
idolatry. Jefferson refused
to ask the country to celeb-
rate Washington's birth-
day.
His attitude is in har-
mony with the Jewish tradi-
tion. We have no holidays
commemorating individu-
als. Moses was the great
leader in the emancipation
from Egypt but we do not
have a Moses holiday.
In Egypt the first born
were ascribed a measure
of divinity. Divine dis-
pleasure with this system
is revealed in the Torah
in the plague of the first
born.
It is interesting to note
that Jefferson introduced
the first measure in
America against primogen-
iture, the system then in
vogue in theaWest also by
which the , first born was
World Bank Aids
Syria and Jordan
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The World Bank has an-
nounced loans for Syria and
Jordan totalling $45 million
mainly for industrial and
agricultural purposes.
Jordan will receive $15
million to help meet the in-
crease in demand for elec-
tric power in that country.
Syria will get $30 million
for a drainage project de-
signed to improve agricul-
tural production in the
lower Euphrates River
basin and to arrest the
spread of salinity in that
area.
The overall cost of the
project is $52.5 million. The
electric power project in
Jordan is tagged at an esti-
mated cost of $53.5 million.
ZOA Publishes
New Sourcebook
for Activists
"Israel on the Campus: A
Sourcebook for Activists,"
will be published by Zionist
Organization of America.
The book contains 120
pages of programming
techniques organizing hints
and resource aids.
Jewish Groups
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chester, a town of some 300
Jewish families, has been
amalgamted with the
Greater Hartford Jewish
Federation, making serv-
ices of affiliated federation
agencies available to the
Manchester Jews as;needed.
given the paternal inheri-
tance. The Virginia law
against primogeniture was
copied not only by other
American states but by
countries abroad.
Jefferson has sometimes
been called "the Moses of
American democracy."
There are many differences,
of course. The Americans
were not enslaved in the
same sense as the Jews in
Egypt and Moses did not
have an army at his com-
mand.
Jefferson was a liberal
religiously, as were many of
the leaders of the American
Revolution. In his memoirs,
Jefferson told how some of
the more orthodox chur-
chmen of his day sought to
get Washington to commit
himself to their side. They
handed Washington a list of
a dozen questions about
general topics. One of them
spoke of the general reli-
gious demoralization and
asked Washington to give
his opinion on the ques-
tions. The canny Washing-
ton, said Jefferson, an-
swered all of them but the
one about religion.
Jefferson was sharply
attacked for his attitude
about religion. When he
ran for President, it was
charged that if he were
elected he would make a
bonfire of all the Bibles in
the country. One woman
asked her Democratic
neighbor, "Please keep
my Bible for me. I am af-
raid Jefferson will have it
burned."
"It's all nonsense," she
was told. "There will be no
burning of Bibles. Besides,
if it comes to that," said her
neighbor, "the fact that I
have it will be no protec-
tion."
"Bpt who," she said,
t`wApuld think of looking in a
Democrat's home for a Bi-
ble?"
When Jefferson in the
pre-Constitution days was
Ambassador to France, the
country had its first trouble
with the piracy of the Bar-
bary states, Algeria, Li'
Tripoli and Morocco. It'.
Jefferson who suggested or-
ganizing an international
force to combat the ter-
rorism there.
As Secretary of State
when New York was the
capital, Jefferson lived
on the East side. There -
was no Forward or
Tageblatt there then, but
one of those who joined
his little East side parties
was Col. David Franks, a
Jewish veteran officer of
the Revolution.
The name Levy is con-
spicuous in the Jefferson
story. Jefferson considered
naming a Philadelphia Jew,
Levy, to his Cabinet. It was
the fighting Commodore
Uriah P. Levy who pre-
sented the country with the •
statue of Jefferson still
standing in the national
Capitol. And it was Levy
who saved Monticello, the
home of Jefferson, from
being divided and sold into
building lots.
The name Levy of course,
is very common among
Jews. The Levys are sup-.
posedly descendants of --
Aaron, the brother of Moses,
who is renowned for his de-
votion to peace, a cause
which also enlisted the full
heart of Jefferson.
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