mow THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Lown Award Recipient Berman Proposes Increased Communal Education Tasks Special to - The Jewish News BOSTON, Mass. — Ac- cepting the Philip Lown Distinguished Service Award, Sunday, from Bos- ton Hebrew College, Man- dell Berman, Detroit com- munity leader, described ( the dire needs for increased devotion to educational ri.-- eds and proposed a pro- ' gram of action to assure Cow - 'nal concern and to ma', ae home responsible or die major obligations in schooling the children. MANDELL BERMAN 1 1 Painting a gloomy picture of existing conditions, Be- -7-man made this reference to the situation in Detroit: "In Detroit we recently discovered that of the 1,800 -Jr so summer campers in our own Federation camp, more than 600, more than a third, were registered in no Hebrew school program of any kind. I think it is clear that Jewish education in its present form does not evoke the support of the majority pf Jewish parents." He described the situa- tion as it affects American Jewry by indicating: "According to avail- able estimates the num- bers of students enrolled in any kind of Jewish chools in the early '60s totaled about 600,000 and Currently that total has shrunk to 360,000. That's drop of 42 percent in less than 20 years. Hap- ily, 25 percent of the re- mainder are in intensive ay schools, but regrett- ably, one third of this di- minished number are still in non-intensive one-day Sunday schools which even e n according acccoar d ri s n a r to w Roee educators y inadequate. "The balance are in con- -negational afternoon schillimostly under Con- e and Reform au- spices." -In his proposal Berman suggests a course of action involving "contemporiza- tion, coordination, concen- "0 • ,, tration. First contemporization — we must contemporize what we teach. If it's too late to reach the parents, perhaps we can retain the children by teaching them more than we now do about what holds their parent's interest — an understanding of how com- \munities work as they do and something of the histor- ical process that has shaped -::heir development .. . "Second, coordination 1 - - L 1 f• I . — along with most pro- fessional educators I feel we must rethink our con- ventional ideas of formal classroom education and we must expand it to in- formal areas to include larger segments of Jewish communal life — to summer camping — Is- rael summer tours — young adult programm- ing, and, of course, we must reach out to the Jewish home — the Jewish family. There- fore, if we are to forge links between formal and informal education we need a strong central agency to help us do the job — one that has the confidence and the mean- ingful financial support of our communities and of the denominational in- stitutions which are associated with our con- gregational schools. In order to make effective use of our Jewish educa- tional establishments the national umbrella agency has to be linked to the totality of education on which our total Jewish community is spending communal dol- lars... "And insofar as outreach to the Jewish family is con- cerned, a groundswell of interest has begun to de- velop, but whose province is this work in our own com- munities? The family serv- ices see the family from their social perspective, the Jewish centers see the Jewish family from their traditional center perspec- tive, but what we need is a community by community decision that the Jewish family is the whole commu- nity's province. People must be trained, professionals with Jewish backgrounds, to work on an inter-agency basis with the family. In es- sence, we need to educate our professionals Jewishly to understand and meet the real Jewish need of our Jewish families. And who can coordinate and help provide the curriculum for such training except a na- tional Jewish educational agency? .. . "Finally, the third area, concentration. It's time today — now! — for the leadership of the American Jewish community to rec- ognize that Jewish survival is at stake. How Jewish leadership prioritizes its re- sources and its energies in the next five years will pro- vide the vital difference. If we can spend $40 to $50 mil- lion in the next year in this country alone to resettle Russian Jews — and, of course, we must — can't we spend at least $2 million nationwide to build a strong central educational agency? If we can find able leader- ship — senior leadership — for our Jewish hospitals, our Jewish centers, our capital funds committees and for Kadar Hollywood Successes Recalled on Director's Death By HERBERT G. LUFT (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.) HOLLYWOOD — Jan Kadar, the Hungarian-born Jewish film director who died June 1, age 61, is best known to the American public for his monumental motion picture, "The Shop on Main Street," a humanly warm document dealing with the plight of an elderly woman (portrayed by Yid- dish actress Ida Kaminska), who is about to be deported by the Nazis and their Slovak collaborators during World War II. The Czech-made film won an Academy Award in 1965 for Kadar (together with his co-director Elmar Klos) and an additional "Oscar" nomination for Ms. Kaminska. It also won Ita- ly's David di Donatelli Award and it gained Kadar world recognition as a film maker. Kadar also filmed "Lies My Father Told Me," for which he won the Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination. Rob Houwer, the noted Dutch film producer was in Hollywood to show us his stirring anti-Nazi epic, "Soldier of Orange," which had its American premiere at the Seattle Film Festival, but has not yet opened in New York. The picture is based on the true-life adventures of Holland's most hon- ored resistance fighter and war hero, who engaged in clandestine operations before joining the RAF as a bomber pilot. James Caan was on the dais at the June 5 Israel In- dependence Day Bond luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to address the audience as a Jew and American. Friday, June 22, 1979 37 Index Down our prestigious national boards, can't we devote our- selves in a plainful and de- liberate fashion to recruit effective and respected leadership — for a national central agency for Jewish education, and for our own local bureaus and federa- tion committees of educa- tion? Can't we look out at the world around us and agree that to Judaize our community institutions we must insist upon Jewish training programs for the professionals who run them and for our lay leaders as well? "If ever there was a time for speaking out — for say- ing that we are in a battle for Jewish survival — that Israel by itself, that Jewish activism by itself, and Jewish philanthropy by it- self, cannot solve — and if there ever was a time that we demand that our com- munity leadership face this reality — that time is now!" Dr. Eli Grad, former edu- cational director of Cong. Shaarey Zedek in Detroit, is president of Boston Hebrew College. Lights! Action! JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Central Bureau of Statistics has announced a 4.8 percent rise in the con- sumer price index for the month of May, a considera- ble drop from the 8.7 per- cent increase in April. MACK PITT Orchestra And His DISCO MACHINE Stereophonic Dolby Sound! 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