THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS .
Friday, August 3, 1919
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Argentina
Orders
Catholic
Teachings
in
Public
Schools
7th gkadm
dary schools is deeply per-
turbing the Jewish commu-
nity there. This teaching is
being done in the guise of a
"Moral and Civic Educa-
tion" course established by
C,o-t4te,
FACIAL HAIR
Argentine government de-
cree last February,- accord-
PERMANENTLY
ing to a background report
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Argentine Jewish umbrella
Over 20 Years Experience
organization DAIA (De-
legacion de Asociaciones Is-
raelitas de Argentina) met
with Education Minister
Juan Llerena Amadeo to
protest DAIA, but has never
done so.
Subsequently, in an ad-
dress to an Argentine ad-
vertising association, the
Amadeo averred that it was
not for a majority to bend to
the will of minorities but
the contrary. He also was
reported to have declared —
Repeat By Popular Demand
and never denied — that he
was "in favor of formation of
Christian concepts among
those not professing this
creed."
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one Jewish communal
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published a cover story
entitled "Yellow Badge"
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Members of many of
Argentine Bishops' Confer-
ence statement supporting these same groups also
religious freedom and the are part of the Ombu Cir-
right of parents to choose cle, a political discussion
their children's education group with considerable
has been interpreted as an prestige in Argentina.
Ombu includes such per-
indirect slap at the decree.
The leading Catholic sonalities as the former
magazine Criterio (for- president of the Argen-
merly edited by Monsignor tine Republic, Gen.
Jorge Mejia, now secretary Roberto M. Levingston.
of the Vatican Commission
A recent Ombu Circle
for Religious Relations with meeting at which the decree
Judaism) has come out in was discussed was rife with
criticism.
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
Amadeo and the decree Sentiment. Attempts by the
are getting strong support only Jew present, Rabbi
from right-wing Catholic Marshall Meyer, to counter
groups, many of them in- this brought vehement
spired by the wen-known ridicule and hostility from
Opus Dei according to the Levingston.
Argentine Jewish paper
"Moral and Civic Educa-
Nueva Presencia, which has
devoted lengthy articles to tion" is an obligatory course
for first-year high school
this aspect.
First Havura Conference
Held at Rutgers University
By DAVID M. SZONYI
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
More than 250 individu-
als from throughout the
country attended_ the Na-
tional Havura Conference,
the first gathering of mem-
bers from a large number of
synagogue and independent
havurot (Jewish fellow-
ships).
The five-day conference,
held at the Busch Campus of
Rutgers University, was
co-sponsored by the Na-
tional Jewish Conference
Center (NCJCC) and an
inter-havura committee
chaired by Michael
Strassfeld, a co-editor of the
"Jewish Catalog I" and
"Jewish Catalog II" --and
editor of a new Haggada
commissioned by the Rab-
binical Assembly.
During the Conference's
four ,evening plenary ses-
sions, speakers explored the
characteristics of havurot,
case histories and religious"
perspectives of havurah
members.
Bernard Reisman,
associate professor of
Jewish Communal
Studies at Brandeis and
author of the only major.
study of "The Havura"
(Union of American He-
brew Congregations,
1978), estimated that fully
one-quarter of all Reform
Conservative
and
have
synagogues
havurot. He noted that
almost all havurot share
four characteristics: an
emphasis on communal
intimacy so that "people
know you"; an "innova-
tive flavor . . . a reluc-
tance to be satisfied with
the status quo if it has
ceased to speak-meaning-
fully to participants"; an
unwillingness to depend
upon "a cadre of trained
professionals to -'do
Jewishness' for them"
and thus a sharing of in-
tellectual and religious
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authority and responsi-
bility; and a striving for
"organic" Jewishness
which "pervades all as-
pects of one's life."
Arthur Waskow, author
of "Godwrestling" and an
active member of the Fab-
rangen in Washington,
D.C., suggested that part of
the havurah movement's
"unconscious agenda" is the
recreation of a "pre-modern
Jewish community" which
would have a "strong rela-
tion to this religious tradi-
tion."
In a witty comparison of
synagogue and havurot,
Lawrence Hoffman, Profes-
sor of Liturgy at the Hebrew
Union College in New York,
observed that "Most
synagogues can boast with
Holiday Inn that with them
there are no surprises; with
havurot, there is - nothing
you can count on — any-
thing is possible." Hoffman
nevertheless predicted a
rapprochement between
synagogues and havurot
similar to that which took
place between Hasidim and
Mitnagdim in the 19th and
20th Centuries.
At the conference's con-
cluding plenary, partici-
pants resolved to form an
ongoing coordinating com-
mittee with representatives
from both major kinds of
havurot. Such a committee,
it was suggested, might
plan future conference, pub-
lish a newsletter and ulti-
mately hire a field worker to
__assist havurot with plan-
ning and maximum use of
available resources.
At the conference many
participants -contributed to
a special fund aiding the In-
dochinese "boat people."
Detroiter Norma Shifrin
attended the conference.
The wicked earneth de-
ceitful wages; but he that
soweth righteousness hat a
sure reward.
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students. The religious edu-
cation is introduced, essen-
tially, in sections on Chris-
tian Ideas about Man and
Life; The Family; and Man
and His Cultural Relations.
Two other sections deal
with the economic achieve-
ments and political fulfill-
ment of man.
The prestigious Buenos
Aires morning paper La
Nacion blasted introduction
of the subject as "absolutely _
inappropriate to the
sought-after goal" of forma-
tion of a moral and civic
character. It stressed that
the course contents were
based "on just one creed"
and went on:
"Although Catholicism is
the traditional and majority
religion of the country it is
not the religion of all the in-
habitants. This situation is
not in keeping with the
pluralistic conception of
(Argentine) national" life."
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