THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, February 22, 1980
Co-Production
WASHINGTON — Israel
is continuing to press the
Carter Administration to be
allowed to manufacture
some of the 200 military
aircraft Israel is expected to
receive in the early 1980s.
According to Newsweek
magazine, Israel wants to
help build the F-18 because
it has more "growth room"
for sophisticated equipment
than the F-16.
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The Coupling of Reparations
With Nazi Pensions Is Hit
TORONTO (JTA) — The
Canadian Jewish Congress
(CJC) has written to the
West German embassy in
Canada complaining about
pending legislation to fur-
nish restitution to Jewish
victims of Nazism. The
complaint is based on the
report that the restitution
"is encumbered by an at-
tempt to restore pension
rights of former civil ser-
vants who were disqualified
from receiving pensions be-
cause of their Nazi past."
The debate on the pro-
posal is scheduled in the
West German Bundestag by
March 31.
"It is difficult to com-
prehend," says the letter
signed by Alan Rose, CJC
executive vice president,
"why the long delay in
enacting reparations legis-
lation which it was agreed
to introduce into the Bun-
destag during the incum-
bency of Chancellor (Willy)
Brandt should be
threatened by coupling the
fate of the victims of Nazism
with former members of the
NSDAP, the SS and concen-
tration camp guards.
"We believe that if such
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undermine the moral as-
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tion which was an essen-
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policies of Chancellor
(Konrad) Adenauer and
Brandt and other leaders
of the Federal Republic."
The letter continues: "We
would be grateful if you
would convey our sense of
concern to your govern-
ment. May I add that the
Canadian Jewish Congress
fully supports the payment
of material restitution to
European Gypsies, many of
whom were murdered and
sterilized during the Nazi
era. We believe that such an
act would be welcomed by
all Canadians."
Kosher Meals
at Hospitals OKd
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Blue Cross and the Greater
New York Hospital Asso-
ciation have sent letters to
member hospitals in the
Greater New York area re-
affirming that Blue Cross,
Medicare and Medicaid
take the position that
Jewish patients are entitled
to full coverage for re-
quested kosher meals,
Julius Berman, president of
the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America, reported.
The UOJCA raised the
issue last December when
Berman said that while
most area hospitals do not
charge extra for kosher me-
als, the few hospitals which
did so included some of the
area's largest hospitals.
UJA Conference
Begins Sunday
NEW YORK — Senators
Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) and
Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.)
along with Ephraim Evron,
Israel's ambassador to the
United States, will be
among the participants at
the National Young Lead-
ership Conference of the
United Jewish Appeal,
Sunday through Tuesday at
the Sheraton Hotel in
Washington, D.C.
The 1,500 delegates,
ranging in age from 25-40,
are members of the UJA
Young Leadership Cabinet
and the Young Women's
Leadership Cabinet, and
represent some 30 states.
N
• V
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
.. and Me'
.
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
THE EDUCATION SCENE: Jewish education is
climbing higher and higher on the ladder of allocations by
Jewish federations. It is becoming a priority concern of the
federations. This can be seen from a five-year analysis of
federation support for the field of education just completed
by the Council of Jewish Federations.
The analysis reveals that in 109 cities the federation
allocations for education have increased during the five
years by more than 48 percent. In the same period, alloca-
tions for all local purposes increased only over 44 percent.
The allocations for education totalled $31.7 million in 1978.
Five years earlier their total was $21.4 million. They are
today about a quarter of all local allocations.
In New York the allocation soared to $4.7 million. In
Chicago it reached over $2.5 million. Allocations from Bal-
timore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles and
Philadelphia were in the one-to-two million dollar range.
Miami allocated close to a million dollars, while Metropoli-
tan New Jersey, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washing-
ton, D.C. have each allocated between one-half and three-
quarters of a million dollars to Jewish education in 1978.
At the General Assembly last November, Morton L.
Mandel, in his speech as CJF president, emphasized that
one of the major goals of the CJF under his administration
will be "to continue to work diligently towards creating
significant new directions in Jewish education." Similarly.
Robert I. Hiller, the new executive vice president, told a
national conference ofJewish communal workers that local
federations will be encouraged by the CJF to give appropri-
ate attention to quality ofJewish education and the need to
plan and finance high quality Jewish education.
CJF AND DAY SCHOOLS: A further analysis by the
CJF shows that day schools have received over 48 percent of
the allocations by 118 federations. This represents tremen-
dous recognition of the day school movement. I remember
the time — not so long ago — when a delegation of the
Orthodox Jewish day schools was not given even a chance
for a hearing at a CJF General Assembly. Federations
opposed at that time the idea of day schools.
The day school movement received in the Federations
more sympathy after it was given a strong boost by De-
troiter Max M. Fisher in an address he delivered as CJF
president, at a CJF General Assembly. Today, more than
450 Jewish day schools — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform
and communal or independent — are being subsidized by
federations. Every community with a population of 7000 or
more has at least one Jewish day school, but almost 90
percent of all day school pupils are found in the 10 largest
Jewish population centers.
Considering that only 15 years ago federation alloca-
tions for Jewish education totalled less than $7 million a
year, the CJF analysis shows the road on which the federa-
tions have gone during the last decade in providing finan-
cial aid for education. There is now a growing trend toward
a closer relationship between federations and day school,.
indicated by the review of school budgets by federations
and submission of periodic financial reports.
While the day schools receive more than 48 percent of
the allocations for education by Federations, the congrega-
tional schools receive only about 3.5 percent. Other schools
receive approximately 11.5 percent. The remainder goes for
Jewish institutions of higher learning and for services and
programs by local central agencies for Jewish education
which provide a substantial part of their services to congre-
gational schools in various areas.
$260 MILLION FOR EDUCATION: The cost of
Jewish education in this country is not small. From avail-
able figures one can see that more than $260 million was
spent on Jewish education in the U.S. in 1976 when there
was already a decline in enrollment which is still prevalent
today. It is estimated that there are 35 percent fewer pupils
in Jewish schools today than the 600,000 who were enrolled
in the peak year of 1961, the day schools being the excep-
tion in the decline.
Of the $260 million, about $200 million is being
covered by tuition and congregations. The rest is covered by
allocations from federations and funds raised by the schools
themselves. With inflation affecting the Jewish school sys-
tem as much as any other area in American life, tuition is
going up and this is one of the factors leading to the de-
crease in the number of pupils in the schools. Other factors
are: the shift of the Jewish population from one city to
another; low birth rate; apathy of parents. The latter plays
a significant role in the non-enrollment picture.
Books are not absolutely
dead things, but do contain
a certain potency of life in
them, to be as active as the
soul whose progeny they
are; they preserve, as in a
vial, the purest efficacy and
extraction of the living in-
tellect that bred them.
— Milton