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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A.R.S. Service Co., Inc.
Retaining Post-Bar Mitzva Students Synagogue Project
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
Conference of Jewish
Youth, the youth branch
of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations.
School officials send stu-
dents to the Boro Park
section of Brooklyn for a
Shabat weekend and we
have traveled to such
places as Brookline,
Mass., and Silver Spring,
Md."
In the last year of reli-
gious school, Isaacs de-
clared, students are
encouraged to enter the
synagogue's Hebrew high
school program, and
The principal of a Long Is-
land Orthodox synagogue
school has reported that the
school has developed an ef-
fective program to prevent
the routine and widespread
parental practice of ter-
minating their child's
•sh education after the
Mitzva or Bat Mitzva
ceremony.
"Would You Believe" by marriage was neither a
Mel Isaacs, principal of
Sydney Harris (Sydney J. religious nor a public con-
the religious school of Cong.
Harris-Field Newspaper cern, but a private contract.
Ohav Sholom in Merrick,
Syndicate and Argus Com- (In Christianity, it was not
reported on the strategy in
munications) contains tid- regulated by canon law for
the Curriculum Newsletter
bits from the writings of the the first thousand years,
section of the "Pedagogic
though monogamy was
Reporter" of the American popular columnist.
Leonard N. Simons, local civilly enforced.)
Association for Jewish Edu-
• An English Jew named
advertising executive, has
cation.
selected a number of im- "Two-Gun" Cohen was
The key to that effort,
made a general in the
Isaacs declared, has been to . pressive excerpts from the Chinese army in 1928.
Harris volume and has se-
seek to make "this mile-
• A Russian-born Jew is
cured the permission of the
stone" only "one of many" in
the composer of America's
publishers
to
share
them
the child's life, with a "con-
best-selling Christmas and
with Jewish readers. '
scious attempt to downplay
The following 13 items Easter songs, "White
this event as a final goal."
should serve as an introduc- Christmas" and "Easter
He reported that "we try to
Parade." (Irving Berlin,
imbue each child with a tion to those unfamiliar
who also gave us the best-
- feeling of love for his or her with Harris' work and reac- selling patriotic song, "God •
total Jewishness," a point quaint long-time fans with
Bless America.")
a favorite columnist:
which "cannot be stressed
• The camel originated
The
Jews,
who
re-
•
enough."
As a result, he de- present less than half of 1 in North America, and
clared, "our children percent of the world's not in Arabia or North
look forward to yearly population, hate won 30 Africa.-
Shabatonim, religious times that percentage in
• An Arab Sheik is liter-
ally just an "old man" - for
school graduation, high Nobel Prizes.
• Jerusalem, which has this is what the word stands
school graduation, a spe-
cial 'return to the been fought over for more for in Arabic.
synagogue on -their an- than 3,000 years, means
• Jews from North and
niversary dates, and a "City of Peace."
South America are called
multitude of cultural
• The personage most "Anglo-Saxons" in Israel.
often mentioned in the New
programs, musical pro-
• It was a Jewish physi-
grams, dance activities, Testament, more than 80
cian who gave America's
holiday celebrations, times, in fact - is Moses.
Bible contests and more."
• The single most Thanksgiving bird its
He -added that "indoctri- widely known word in name. Accompanying Col-
nation of this new non- human speech is Amen, umbus in 1492 was Luis de
focussed approach" for which is used throughout Torres, who, when he saw a
both students and par- the world by Christians, wild turkey for the first
time, exclaimed, "Tukki,"
Jews, and Muslims.
ents "is all important."
Isaacs reported that, from
• Hebrew has no single the Hebrew word for "big
bird." (It has ever since been
the first day a child enters word which means "mar-
known as that, and its name
the religious school, "we riage," and in biblical tithes
begin to plant the seeds of
our all-inclusive educa-
tional experience." The first
major event comes midway
in the school year by the
LONDON - Two studies cupation on Palestinian
child's participation in an
"induction ceremony" held of the position of Arab women - inside and out-
in the main sanctuary on a women have just been pub- side the occupied ter-
Sabbath morning, with the lished as research reports ritories prompted the
children performing a can- by the Institute of Jewish other research report,
Affairs in association with "The Conditions of Pales-
tata as part of the service.
Parents are invited and also the World Jewish Congress. tinian Arab Women in the
"Women In Arab Coun- Administered Ter-
are given an active role, he
tries" surveys the legal and ritories." The report
reported.
- He reported that feeling social position of women in analyzes legal, social and
consistently reinforced Arab countries. It analyzes, economic conditions in
ring the succeeding five first, the traditional law _ the territories ad-
ears, as each grade is given and its effect on the per- minstered by Israel since
e opportunity to repeat its sonal status and civil rights 1967 showing the pro-
participation in the Sab- of women and, secondly, gress attained in a
bath service and, "with each discusses briefly the situa- number of areas: suf-
succeeding year, responsi- tion in various Arab coun- frage rights, participa-
tion in the labor force,
bility is assumed by the tries.
education, economic
The
report
shows
that,
in
children."
Starting in the Bet class, spite of attempts at legal re- conditions, and health
all students attend a weekly form in some countries, services.
It concludes that al-
junior congregation service, women are subject to severe
and in- though in many respects the
"making synagogue par- restrictions
ticipation familiar and com- equalities; that fewer social and economic status
fortable." Once the student women are being educated of Palestinian Arab women
needs to be improved, an
reaches the Vav class, he or or play a role in the
impressive advance can be
labor
force
as
a
whole
she is required to attend the
adult service and, whenever than in other culture areas; recorded in most areas, all
possible, "is given a role in and that reforms in the law the more remarkable be-
and improvements in status cause of the political back-
the service."
He reported another cannot occur in such rigidly ground in which it has been
goal is to have Ohav structured societies without achieved.
Sholom students see conflict and some social dis-
Let the world have what-
themselves as part of the ruption.
ever sports and recreations
An
item
on
the
agenda
larger Jewish commu-
please them best, provided
nity. The school takes of the recent Copenhagen they be followed with dis-
Conference
dealing
with
part in such programs as
cretion.
those of the National the effects of Israeli oc-
Heating and Air Conditioning Sales & Service
entitled to select one course
each term in addition to the
required studies. He re-
ported that the option of
course selection "serves to
whet" the academic appe-
tites of the students and "to
encourage continuation in
the high school program."
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ofgritrkey.)
• The sale of land was
impossible both among the
ancient Hebrews and the
American Indians, since in
their religious concepts, the
land belonged to God, and
hence to everyone, and
could not be held in personal
possession.
• The ancient He-
brews, Greeks, and Ro-
mans all used letters to
symbolize numbers -
every letter of the al-
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