THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS . Friday, August 3, 1919 6 -• 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 REMOVED by Jacob Kovadloff, Ameri- Eyebrows Neckline Arms Legs can Jewish Committee di- RecornmendO by Physicians rector for South American FREE CONSULTATION affairs. SHIRLEY PERSIN According to the report, Registered Electrologist when contents of the new ADVANCE BUILDING course were published, 23077 GREENFIELD. Room 260 FALL 1979 representatives of the Near Northland 8 Providence Hospital PHONE 557- 1108 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." only way for Jews I to "The safeguard freedom of I 95 Ivory retail $°0 and dignity 1 conscience would be to boycott 1 classes of Catholic indoc- trination," advocated one Jewish communal journal, 'La Luz,' which published a cover story entitled "Yellow Badge" Hebrew Book & Gift Center 1 dealing with the issue. 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We at CUSTOM DRAPERY CLEANERS make good cleaning happen. • DRAPERIES • BEDSPREADS • LAMPSHADES (Cleaned or Laundered) WINDOW SHADES (Cleaned & Reversed) (Cleaned, Recovered or Relined) BLANKETS (Professionally Laundered) PILLOWS, new ticking & feathers or down added Suburban call collect VISA Learn to remember phone numbers, practice on EIGHT NINE ONE EIGHTEEN EIGHTEEN ep 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 - -• 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. 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