THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Ruling Due on Use of CETA Funds
for Religious School Job Training

NEW YORK (JTA) — A sits in Chicago and has
ruling is expected from a jurisdiction over Wiscon-
U.S. Court of Appeals sin, were filed June 5 by
within six weeks in a case Milwaukee County, the
involving a lower federal Archidiocese of Mil-
court ban on participation of waukee and the federal
religious schools in job Department of Labor,
training programs funded which is the source of
thrugh the Comprehensive CETA funds.
On June 6, COLPA filed
Employment and Training
Act (CETA), Howard Zuc- for itself and four other Or-
kerman, president of the thodox Jewish organiza-
National Jewish Commis- tions a friend of the court
on Law and Public M- brief, prepared by Nathan
Lewin, COLPA vice
rs (COLPA), reported.
All Jewish religious president.
The brief was filed for
schools with such CETA
programs are affected, he COLPA, Agudath Israel of
America, the National
said.
The appeal is being made Council of Young Israel,
against a ruling by federal Torah Umesorah, and the
District Court Judge John Union of Orthodox Jewish
Reynolds in Milwaukee, Congregations. Zuckerman
made initially on July 1, described the brief as a
1979, and reaffirmed by him major defense for the
last Feb. 12, that such par- Jewish community of the
ticipation in programs legality of such participa-
funded under Title II of tion by religious schools.
CETA violate the First Both the appeal and the
Amendment ban against brief were filed in Chicago.
Zuckerman said CETA
government involvement in
was the main funding ve-
religion.
Final briefs to the hicle_ for federally-
Court of Appeals for the sponsored manpower train-
Seventh Circuit, which ing programs for the "eco-

nomically disadvantaged,
unemployed and underem-
ployed." CETA is the suc-
cessor to several earlier
such programs, first
enacted in 1964.
Since then, religious
institutions, as well as
other agencies, have pro-
vided thousands of job
training programs to
prepare the jobless for
gainful employment.

Reynolds banned the use
of CETA II funds for all
"full-time or part-time em-
ployes of any elementary or
sectarian organization."
Reynolds cited Supreme
Court decisions enjoining
various public aid programs
to parochial schools.
He ruled that the funding
of programs which might
result in indirect services to
such schools, even in a
CETA training contect in-
volving non-religious ac-
tivities, violated the First
Amendment.
In response to Reynolds'
ruling, the Labor Depart-
ment sent a telegram on

April 28 notifying prime
sponsors of CETA II pro-
grams that, as of 10 days
after that date, all persons
assigned to such schools
under CETA II funding
were to be terminated.
While the exact number of
such trainees is not certain,
Zuckerman said it was as-
sumed that the Labor De-
partment order had been
implemented by June 1.
Lewin argued in the
biref that both legally
and logically, the con-
stitutionality of pro-
grams created to train
and employ thejobless
must be judged by differ-
ent standards than those
which have been applied
to government programs
to aid parochial school
education.
Lewin contended that the
First Amendment is not-
violated by a "religiously
neutral" funding like CETA
II which incudes participa-
tion of religious schools
simply as resources when
the job training oppor-
tunities do not involve reli-
gious activity.

Student. Rabbis Do Communal Work

By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

Community work is one of
the requirements for candi-
dates at the Reconstruc-

Orthodox Urge
Seminarians
to Take Pulpits

MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
A plea to the heads of all
Orthodox rabbinical
seminaries "to encourage
their most able, gifted and
learned young men to enter
the active rabbinate and
thereby lift up the tenor and
level of Jewish religious life
in America," has been made
by Rabbi Bernard
Rosensweig, president of
the Rabbinical Council of
America.
Speaking at the annual
convention of the associa-
tion of Orthodox rabbis,
rabbi Rosensweig stressed
that throughout Jewish his-
tory, "our most spiritually
and intellecually endowed
students assumed positions
of rabbinic leadership.
Rabbi Rosensweig said a
recent survey of Orthodox
seminaries had disclosed
that fewer than 10 percent
if their students were pre-
paring for ordination.

tionist,Rabbinical College
(RCC) in Philadelphia and
the students enrolled dur-
ing the 1979-1980 acade-
mic year all were active in
supervised Jewish com-
munal service in Greater
Philadelphia, according to
Rabbi Ira Eisenstein,
president of the college. The
student body for the school
year, which ended in May,
totalled 38 — 12 women and
26 men.
Students who have a BA
degree from a recognized
college and who are deter-
mined to be of excellent
character and exceptional
scholastic achievement are

eligible for admission.
The college requires com-
pletion of a three-pronged
program: five years of rab-
binical studies; the earning
of 45 graduate credits at a
recognized university,
which includes a master's
degree; and community
service under supervision,
Rabbi Eisenstein said. The
title of rabbi is given to RCC
students who complete the
entire program.
Community service in-
ciudes work in Hillel
Foundations, Federation
agencies, synagogues,
schools and youth
groups. Rabbi Rebecca

Tarbuth to Ex pand Programs

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Tarbuth Foundation
has announced plans to ex-
pand its "Weekends With
Jewish History" project, a
program which brings to
Jews in other cities por-
trayals of major phases in
Jewish history, according to
Dr. Abraham Goodman,
president of the foundation.
New offerings announced
by Dr. Goodman include
"The Roots of American
Jewry." He said this is a
four-part sequence covering
"The Sephardic Source;"
"The German-Jewish
rneriean. Group Transplant in the 19th Cen-
tury;" "The East European
betties in Israel
Base" and "New Roots,"
NEW YORK — A group covering recent immigra-
of 27 American Orthodox tions from Middle East
Jewish' families, including countried as well as from
60 children, have estab- Russia and lately from Iran.
Another new weekend
lished Matityahu, a new
settlement affiliated with program, designed speci-
Poale Agudath Israel one fically for Jewish new-
mile across the "green line" comers from the Soviet
near Modi'in about seven Union, focusses on An
miles east of the interna- Encounter with Current
Jewish History — Rus-
tional airport at Lydda.
The green line is the sian Jews in America To-
former demarcation for the day."
The programs have been
geographic separation of
organized to create a modd
Arab sector from Israel.

through photo exhibits and
other visual display's, music
of the period piped into the
facility where the program
is presented, before and
after the Sabbath, and
cuisine of the period with
menu cards in the appropri-
ate language, which may be
Ladino, French and Yid-
dish, among others.

Seminary Offers
Part-Time Study

NEW YORK — Mid-
reshet Yerushalayim, a
one-year program in Israel
for college and graduate
students under the auspices
of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, is
currently accepting appli-
cants for part-time study in
September.
A backgrouns in Hebrew
is not required for admis-
sion to the program and
classes are conducted on be-
ginning and advanced
levels. For information,
write Midreshet
Yerushalayim, Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America, 3080 Broadway,
New York, N.Y. 10027.

Alpert, one of the first
women to be ordained as
a Reconstructionist
rabbi, who is now the col-
lege director of student
affairs, serves as super-
visor for the community
services program.
The college, which was
opened in 1968, has
graduated six women rabbis
and 42 men rabbis.

Jewish Education
CZF Objective

MONTREAL (JTA) —
There are some 60 small
Jewish communities scat-
tered throughout Canada
with ten to one hundred
families, according to the
Canadian Zionist Federa-
tion, which reported that a
CZF priority is to assist
such small Jewish com-
munities in the field of
Jewish education.

Friday, July 18, 1980 21

Frankfurt Shows Yiddish Films

FRANKFURT, West
Germany — The Frankfurt
Communal Cinema is hold-
ing a Yiddish Film Festival.
The festival consists of 15
films, most of them made in
the U.S. and Poland in the
1930s. They are in Yiddish
with English subtitles.
Two of the films being
shown were made in Au-
stria in 1920 and 1924.
The festival is jointly
sponsored by the Com-
munal Cinema and the
Frankfurt Jewish Commu-
nity.
The festival was created
"to provide insight into
Yiddish culture," according
to the German Tribune.

Plans are in the offing to
present a Yiddish film festi-
val every two years.

The perverseness of the
faithless shall destroy
them.

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