78 Friday, September 12, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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MR. and MRS. NORMAN ADELSBERG & DAUGHTER
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MARY and HARRY EHRLICH & FAMILY
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NORMAN and ROSA GITLER
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
DR. and MRS.
MORRIS STARKMAN & FAMILY
wish all their family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
BERNICE and NATE SCHECTER
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Special Camps Developed for Disabled Jewish Kids
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By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
Special programs under
Jewish Community Center
auspices in Baltimore and
Boston have made it possi-
ble for Jewish children with
a variety of physical and
emotional problems to join
in socializing and play pro-
grams previously closed to
them.
One report described the
Baltimore Jewish Center's
camp for children with spe-
cial needs. The other con-
cerned a Sunday morning
special needs program at
the Brookline - Brighton -
Newton branch of the
Greater Boston JCC. The
reports appeared in recent
issues of "The JWB Circle,"
a publication of the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare
Board.
The report by Naomi
Kellman, assistant public
relations director of the Bal-
timore Associated Jewish
Charities and Welfare
Fund, began with the story
of an embittered mother
whose nine-year-old son, a
slow learner and with-
drawn, was "a natural
target for the cruel teasing
of other youngsters in the
neighborhood."
She said the mother,
unable to continue bear-
ing the pain of observing
her son being taunted,
decided to stop urging
him to go out to play. But
a Jewish Family and
Children's Service
therapist sent the un-
happy mother to Richard
Goldman, the director of
the Baltimore JCC Camp
for Children with Special
Needs, at Milldale, Md.
The special needs camp
shares a 150-acre site with
other JCC camps but has its
own area, its own bunks and
its own staff, Ms. Kellman
said. She said there are only
eight children per bunk and
three counselors — a camp
staff member, a special edu-
cation teacher and a college
student who has taken spe-
cial education courses.
Camp director Charles
Altman is a reading spe-
cialist in special education.
Children are referred to
the camp by school coun-
selors and private doctors,
the director of special edu-
cation at the local Bureau of
Jewish Education and by
the child therapist at the
Jewish family agency.
Ms. Kellman reported
that Altman and Goldman
interview each child appli-
cant. Schools and doctors
are contacted to determine
each child's special needs.
Camp programs are
custom-tailored to meet
these needs.
The report on the Bos-
ton program pointed out
that spinning a dreidel,
identifying two letters of
the Hebrew alphabet and
reciting the Shema are
not normally considered
examples of unusual
achievement for a 10-
year-old — unless that
10-year-old cannot .hear,
has learning disabilities,
or suffers severe be-
havioral problems. Such
children usually have
few opportunities for
Jewish learning, accord-
ing to Beth Birnbaum,
public relations director
for the Boston JCC.
The Sunday morning spe-
cial needs program was
started at the Boston JCC
last October and provides
Jewiskinstruction for three
Wishing a happy, healthy
and prosperous New Year
to all our friends
May Real Peace Come to Israel!
boys and a girl, aged 9-12.
The curriculum includes
Hebrew reading and writ-
ing, the meaning of the
Sabbath, and the history
and rituals associated with "
Jewish holidays. Two of the
boys "are beginning prep-
aration" for their Bnai<
Mitzva, she reported.
Diaspora Jewish Education H
Major Focus of Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM — A the child's own direct past
document sent by the Ger- and that of his family.
school
Jewish
man Ambassador in Mexico
to the Third Reich graduates must
authorities in 1939 listing pared for the Chian
all the Jewish shopkeepers and nationalistic em-
in downtown Mexico City is phasis they will
one of the devices used to encounter in local uni-
make the Holocaust relev- versities. Jewish values,
ant for Jewish children must be taught to non-
growing up in Mexico today. religious children with-
This kind of document, out reducing Judaism to
which shows the children a collection of folk cus-
that the Holocaust belongs toms. And children must
not only to European be helped to confront the
Jewish history but is also local culture without los-
part of their own past, is one ing their Jewish identity.
Requests for "experimen-
example of the teaching
aids and approaches de- tal school" status have bea,.. -:\
veloped by the Melton Cen- received from schools in Au-
ter for Jewish Education in stralia, France, England,
the Diaspora, at the Hebrew Canada, the United States
and South Africa.
University of Jerusalem.
The Melton Center is
rapidly becoming a focus of
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teacher training and cur-
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riculum development for
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Jewish schools all over the
ESTHER and HARRY DINES
world.
A group of 40 teachers
Philip, Steven & Riva
from Mexico, Venezuela
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
and Panama completed
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an in-service training
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program at the univer-
NEW YEAR
sity. The Melton Center
has "adopted" Mexico Ci-
MR. and MRS.
ty's Tarbut School as an
SAUL FLEISHMAN & FAMILY
experimental school and
the summer course was
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largely based on experi-
ence gained by Hebrew
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University education re-
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searchers about the spe-
CHARLOTTE GORDON
cial needs of Jewish
and
Steven & Debrah
schools in Latin America.
Some 20 Jewish teachers
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from England were in Is-
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rael for a similar pro-
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gram.
NEW YEAR
For the Tarbut School,
MURRAY and GOLDA HARTZ
the Hebrew University
trains emissaries a full year
in advance, preparing them
in the language and culture
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of the target community so
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they can begin working ef-
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
fectively from the day they
arrive. Four times a year
MR. and MRS. MAX MINC
Hebrew education profes-
sors travel to the experi-
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mental school to train the
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local staff, a large part of
HAPPY. HEALTHY
which comes to Jerusalem
for summer workshops as
NEW YEAR
well.
MR. and MRS.
Most important, the Mel-
MARTIN S. WATER & FAMILY
ton Center has developed a
custom-made curriculum
for the Latin American
schools. Fifty curriculum
units have been prepared,
10 of them already pub-
AND
lished. One such unit, for
example, on "Jewish exist-
ence and the Zionist solu-
tion," consists of a 200-page
teacher's manual in Hebrew
with a Spanish glossary, ac-
companied by detailed les-
TO ALL OUR
son plans in Spanish for 12
to 14 high school lessons.
FRIENDS & FAMILY
Each country and culture
where Jews live poses indi-
vidual problems in the edu-
cation ofJewish children. In
South America, teachers
must find a way to demon-
strate that the Holocaust
and other chapters of
Jewish history are part of
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A HEALPIT
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
Mr. and Mrs. Max Stollman
and Family
Philip Stollman and Family
EYE & LARRY
GLAZER
CARY, SHELBY,
DANA