THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 28, 1980 21
Israeli Institutions Practice
Jewish Approach to Ecology
Best Wishes for
a happy, healthy
and joyous
Passover
to the entire community
on national and universal
themes for which solu-
tions were found in the
The new approach to ecol- Bible. Awareness of this
ogy is that it is a study inter-relationship is the
which embraces the key to understanding the
natural, social and spiritual little explored and
sciences from a human largely unknown field of
point of view. Whereas such human ecology.
fields as chemistry and
The Israel Institute for
political science, for exam- Ecological Problems is an-
ple, can be defined in terms other laboratory for the
of specific goals within their study of human ecological
discipline, ecology explores behavior. Headed by former
the influences of these sub- Soviet Prisoner of Con-
jects upon man.
science Dr. Abraham Mar-
In Israel, this novel ap- kowitz, its programs and
proach is taken one step projects embrace the physi-
further. Issues are exam- cal, spiritual and mental
ined and treated from a bi- health fields. Some of the
blical point of view, adding fascinating issues currently
the spiritual dimension to in progress are an investi-
create order out of chaos. gation into the relationship
Two institutions, which de- between spiritual laws in
vote themselves to studying the Torah and laws in the
Jewish sources in order to science of physics; a pro-
find solutions to ecological gram for the reinstitution of
problems, are the Sadnat ethical values in the politi-
Enosh Center for Spiritual cal sciences; and the appli-
Guidance and the Israel In- cation of scientific knowl-
stitute for Ecological Prob- edge to Jewish legal prob-
lems.
lems.
At Sadnat Enosh (human
The Israel institution is
workshop), Jewish sources in its infancy. About half of
are seen to endow the its funds came from private
ecological system with a un- organizations abroad, but
ified structure providing increasing awareness of the
order, discipline, a scale of validity of its program on
priorities and a clear and the part of Israeli govern-
specific system of attitudes
ment circles is witnessed by
to every component of the
some funding from the
environment. The pivotal
Ministries of Education,
point in this system is man.
Health and Agriculture.
During the past seven
At present, many
years, work at Sadnat laboratories and offices at
Enosh has centered on the disposal of the insti-
problems of society and tute's members are scat-
the individual, on Ac tered throughout the coun-
duty and self-awar Mess,
try. Negotiations are under
way, however, with both Tel
Mrs. Jacobson
Aviv and Bar-Ilan univer-
sities, to inaugurate de-
Wins an Award
partments of human ecol-
NEW YORK (JTA) — ogy, as has been done in
The Association of Ameri- many institutes of higher
cans and Canadians, which education abroad.
held its 22nd convention in
Maalot, Israel, last week,
presented its foremost
honor this year, the Hen-
rietta Szold Award, to Mrs.
Charlotte Jacobson, chair-
man of the World Zionist
Organization-American
Section.
The association paid trib-
ute to Mrs. Jacobson "for
her tireless efforts on behalf
of American olim, with spe-
cial emphasis on the prob-
lem of housing for single
olim, and the protection of
their immigrant rights."
By DULCY LEIBLER
World Zionist
Press Service
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A Commemoration of
Faith, Freedom, and
Human Dignity
Hag Sameach
Matchmakers
Are Advocated
NEW YORK — The in-
creasing number of single-
parent Jewish families
should be a matter of high
priority concern for the
Jewish community and its
communal agencies, even to
the point of providing
matchmakers for those who
wish to remarry, according
to a new booklet just issued
by the American Jewish
Committee.
"Single-Parent Families:
A Challenge to the Jewish
Community" by Dr. Chaim
I. Waxman, is the first pub-
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