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Friday, April 17, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Survey Supports the Communal Schools
Over Synagogue-Sponsored Programs
Harry and Ann Schwartz and theVirls wish
all their friends and customers a Passover
filled with Health, Happiness and Peace
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NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jewish communal high
schools surpass those under
congregational auspices in
student enrollment and re-
tention, diversity of cur-
riculum, frequency of days
of instruction and qualifica-
tions of teachers and princi-
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leased by the American
Association for Jewish Edu-
cation (AAJE).
Arthur Brody, president
of the AAJE, said the study
- which surveyed 163
Jewish supplementary
(non-day) high schools in
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Best Wishes for
a happy, healthy
and joyous
Passover
to the entire community
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105 American and Cana-
dian cities -"demonstrates
conclusively that the aver-
age communal high school
is capable of providing a
better and more cost-
effective Jewish education
than its congregational
counterpart."
Moreover, Brody said
that study "reinforces the
AAJE's long-held con-
tention that many small
or financially pressed
congregational high
schools can improve the
quality and efficiency of
their operations by merg-
ing into larger inter-
congregational units or
into communitywide and
communally sponsored
institutions."
Among the findings are:
• Average.enrollment in
responding communal high
schools was 130 students,
nearly 78 percent higher
than the average enroll-
ment of 73 students in con-
gregational high schools.
• Eleventh and 12th
grade students in com-
munal high schools corn-
prised 29.6 percent of those
schools' total enrollment,
more than 2 1/2 times their
representation of 11.8 per-
cent in congregational high
schools.
• A higher proportion of
communal than congrega-
tional high schools offered
courses in Hebrew (90.5
percent to 38.1 percent),
Jewish history (90.5 to
47.1), Bible (95.2 to 65.3),
Israel (61.9 to 24.8), Jewish
life and observances (66.7 to
40.5), Talmud (45.2 to 10.7),
Jewish literature (45.2 to
11.6), philosophy (50.0 to
20.7), the Holocaust (42.9 to
31.4) and contemporary
Jewish problems and social
issues (100 to 46.3).
• Nearly 71 percent of
the students in com-
munal high schools
attended classes two or
three days a week, com-
pared to 28.6 percent of
the students in congrega-
tional high schools.
• Teachers in communal
high schools exceeded those
in congregational, high
schools in the attainment of
diplomas in Jewish educa-
tion (39.3 percent to 26.
percent), diplomas in g
eral education 39.3 to 31.
degrees in Jewish education
(53.2 to 28.5), degress in
general. education (67.1 to
63.9) and licensees as He-
brew school teachers (37.7
to 27.5).
• Principals in com-
munal high schools ex-
ceeded those in congrega-
tional high schools in the at-
tainment of licenses as He-
brew school principals (36.6
percent to 21.0 percent,
licenses as Hebrew school
teachers (56.1 to 24.6), mas-
ter's degrees in general edu-
cation (75.6 to 62.2) and doc-
toral degrees in general
education (34.1 to 15.1).
Brody said communal
high schools benefitted from
subsidies from local Jewish
federations that averaged
$335.50 per student among
the schools surveyed, a
practice which encouraged
71.4 percent of them to
award scholarships (as
against 33.9 percent of the
congregational high
schools.)
In addition, he said com-
munal high schools enjoyed
a more economical teacher-
student ratio (one teacher to
every 11.3 students) than
did congregational high
schools (1 teacher to ever 8.8
students) - this, despite
the fact that the average
teaching staffs of communal
high schools were larger
than those of congrega-
tional high schools (11.5 to
8.3 teachers per school).
Israeli Terror Victims Sue
Libya, PLO, U.S. Arabs
WASHINGTON - A
multi-million dollar suit
has been filed in Washing-
ton against the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
its associated organizations
in America,,and the Libyan
government. Plaintiffs are
survivors of the PLO raid on
Israel's coastal highway in
March 1978, arid others act-
ing on behalf of the de-
ceased.
According to Near East
Report, the two suits charge
that the PLO, Libya, the
Palestine. Information
Office in Washington, the
National Association of
Arab Americans, and the
Palestine Congress of North
America, were involved in
planning, equipping, and
executing the massacre in
Israel.
Both suits accuse the
defendants of: murder
and other direct crimes
against the victims, viola-
tions of international
law, violation of Ameri-
can treaties, violation of
American law, and con-
spiracy to commit' these
violations.
One suit was issued on
behalf of the deceased by
living relatives; it lists 22
plaintiffs, each of whom
demands compensatory
damages of $3 to $8 million
and punitive damages of
$10 million.
The other suit has 65
plaintiffs, each of whom was
either a victim or a close
relative of one of the vic-
tims.
Typical of the plaintiffs is
Hanoch Tel-Oren, an
American-born Israeli from
Pine Bluffs, Ark., the first
plaintiff listed in both suits.
Tel-Oren, - a violinist with
the Israel Symphony Or-
chestra, and his wife,
Sharona, a flutist with the
orchestra and an American
citizen, were driving along
the coastal highway with
their three sons and two
daughters, when their car
was fired on.
Tel-Oren was - badly
wounded, and his 15-
year-old son, Imry, was
killed.