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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 1, 1919
Mammoth Conference May Change Jewish Education
By DAVID SZONYI
NEW BRUNSWICK,
N.J. (JTA) — "This is prob-
ably the largest meeting of
Jewish educators held since
. . ., well, perhaps since
Sinai." That claim was
made by Jerry Benjamin,
chairman, of the Coalition
on Alternatives in Jewish
Education (CAJE) and the
recently-named executive
director of the Maimonides
School in Boston, in refer-
ring to the fourth CAJE con-
ference which took place at
Rutgers University from
Aug. 23-28.
Over 1,000 people in-
volved in every major facet
of Jewish education and re-
presenting the entire reli-
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NEW YORK — Jewish
educators meeting under
the auspices of the World
Zionist Organization's
American Sectkori have
designated the new Jewish
year as Shnat Haivrit, a
year in which the promotion
of Hebrew will be a major
focus of Jewish com-
munities in the U.S.
a newsletter, help European
Jewish educators (several of)
whom attended), organize
similar conference in 1980
or 1981, and investigate the
possibility of holding a con-
ference in Israel within the
next few years.
At their concluding
plenum, CAJE member s
adopted a new governing
structure and elected
former Detroiter Rabbi
Daniel Syme, currently na-
tional director of educatie
of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, as
the organization's ne'w
chairman.
Reflecting on CAJi
portance, Benjamin said
that the organization repre-
sents "a new movement of
people energized both by the
they've
problems
encountered and the belie
that, by working collec-
tively, they can begin to end
the isolation and frustra-
tion experienced by so many_
Jewish teachers."
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Tov, the other about the ex-
periences of an unusual
Jewish woman growing up
— seeing the Rakdaneen, a
dance group sponsored by
the American Jewish Con-
gress, or listening to either
the Fabrangen Fiddlers — a
"blue grass/klezmer" group
based in Washington, D.C.
— or singer/composer De-
bbie Friedman.
During the two evening
plenum sessions, a
number of speakers
commented upon the ec-
lectic nature of the con-
ference. "This is the only
place in the world where
we have the participation
of Orthodox, Conserva-
tive, Reform, Recon-
structionist, secular,
Zionist and Yiddishist
Jews, Hasidim, Mitnag-
dim — everyone," ob-
served Robert Bergman,
a Reform rabbi from
Santa Ana, Calif.
During the plenum ses-
sions, participants voted to
establish 21 task forces to
help improve teacher train-
ing and the sharing of re-
sources, develop new educa-
tional materials and
explore specific areas of
interest. These included:
"Developing Effective In-
Service Staff Training,"
"Confronting Aging and the
Aged Through Jewish Edu-
cation" and "Developing
Programs and Materials for
Family Education."
They also agreed to create
Reform to Aid
`Boat People
NEW YORK — The Re-
form Jewish movement in
the United States has com-
mitted itself to sponsor
1,800 boat people and other
Indochinese refugees in a
nationwide program to ful-
fill "the most profound
commandment of the
Jewish faith: saving human
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ence.
CAJE, a four-year-old
grassroots organization
with over 1,00 members in
the U.S. and Canada, or-
ganized the conference and
obtained the co-sponsorship
of the Board of Jewish Edu-
cation of Greater New York
(BJE-NY).
Participants at this
conference had their
choiCe from among 158
modules (intensive
pedagogic sessions last-
ing up to 12 hours and
usually over several
days) and 128 Leh-
rhauses (sessions averag-
ing 90 minutes on one
special theme or issue).
Topics covered ranged
from the practical ("The
'Ho-Tos' of Starting a
Teacher's Center") to
more effective areas of
learning ("Judaism and
Psychosynthesis: Per-
sonal and Spiritual
Growth"), and included
several lessons that were
as witty as they are in-
formative ("Laugh with a
Litvak: Humor in the
Talmud").
Among the hundreds of
session leaders were Ilya
Goldin, an activist in
Jewish political and cul-
tural affairs in Minsk who
now lives in Haifa, Michael
Berenbaum, deputy direc-
tor of the President's Corn-
mission on the Holocaust,
and Samuel Norich, a vice
president of the World
Jewish Congress and doe- -
toral candidate in sociology
at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
The conference was the
first CAJE conclave to in-
clude full-day "mini-
conferences" on such wide-
ranging subjects as "adoles-
cence," "Day Schools" and
"Women in Judaism." Many
in attendance expressed the
view that no previous group
of Jewish educators has
ever been exposed to such
extensive artistic and crea-
tive programming.
One evening, . partici-
pants had their choice of
attending one of two plays
— one consisting of legends
about and biographical
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