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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 31, 1981
Educatronal TV Influence
Studi3d by Hebrew U. Prof.
Right In Your
Own Driveway!
JERUSALEM — Chil-
dren invest less intellectual
effort and learn less from
watching educational tele-
vision than from reading
books, reports Dr. Gavriel
Salomon of the Hebrew
University's School of Edu-
cation after, extensive re-
search.
One of his studies, carried
out among 11 and 12-year
olds in a school in the
United States, showed that
the children consider read-
ing to be serious activity,
requiring concentration
and effort to understand
what is written.
Television watching, on
the other hand, is consid-
ered a passive activity, an
entertainment that re-
quired no effort. This image
is apparently the reason
why children absorb school
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material much more deeply
when they read it than
whey .they see it on televi-
sion.
Dr. Salomon and his
team are currently trying
to find out whether a
chang6 in the attitude
towards TV watching
can bring about better
learning from video les-
sons.
It is hoped that the re-
search done by Dr. Salomon
and his colleagues will pro-
vide Israel's educational
system with tools for more
effective use of educational
television.
Vandals Smear
Israel Consulate
GENEVA (JTA) — Slo-
gans denouncing Israel and
Premier Menahem Begin
for the bombing of Beirut
July 17 were daubed on the
wails of the building hous-
inf:, the Israel Consulate
here.
Also painted on the build-
ing were Magen Davids
With bombs in the center.
Police are investigating the
incident.
Meanwhile, the Swiss
Labor Party has asked the
government to call on
Foreign Minister Pierre
Auber to condemn Israel for
its bombing of Beirut, and
other "civilian centers" in
Lebanon.
The Peace Now move-
ment in Switzerland pub-
lished a statement deplor-
_ing the recent Israeli raids
and called for negotiations
with the Palestinians.
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acca la games rap- u p
By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1981, JTA,
Inc.
TEL AVIV — Massimo
Della Pergola, head of the
Italian Maccabi delegation,
and a Milan sports writer,
recently was re-elected sec-
retary general of the Inter-
national Sportswriter Asso-
ciation. The organization;
founded in 1924 in PariS,
convened in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, for the election.
Della Pergola will be serv-
ing his second term after
first being selected in 1977.
Upon ascending the ros-
trum to accept his nomina-
tion, he looked directly at
the Iraqi and Soviet writers
and told them: "You are to
lay offIsraeli reporters. You
will extend to them, at all
times, the necessary cre-
dentials to cover all sport-
ing events." The election
then took place and he won
by a unanimous vote.
** *
Wrestler Reuben Can-
diotti, an American who has
been teaching physical edu-
cation for the past five years
in Guam was that country's
sole representative at the
Maccabia Games. This was
his third Maccabia, having
represented the U.S. prev-
iously.
Candiotti said that
there are 100 Jews in
Guam and he hoped to
start a Maccabia move-
ment in Guam upon his
return. In 1961, he won
two bronze medals and
four years later took a
silver in the 82 kg. weight
division.
**
Sarah Strauss of the U.S.
team astounded onlookers
when she finished 17th in
the co-ed marathon. More
than 200 men and women
competed in the 13.5 mile
run and her time of 1:27
compared favorably with
the winner's 1:06. As a re-
sult of the overwhelming
size of the field, Maccabia
officials intend to run a full
marathon in the 1985
games.
** *
Three
Zimmerman
brothers, Peter, Bernard
and Roger, competed iii soc-
cer. Nothing unusual, ex-
cept for the fact that Peter
was on the American side
while Bernard and Roger
represented Germany.
Their father is stationed
in Karlsruhe as general
manager of an American in-
surance company. Born in
Germany, he fled from
country to country in
Europe during the
Holocaust, finally escaping
to the United States.
A soccer player him-
self, despite spending his
youth evading the Nazis,
he played with top flight
teams in the German-
American soccer league
as well as performing for
the American Hapoel
team.
* * *
David Zinkoff, for many
years public address an-
nouncer for the Philadel-
phia 76ers in the National
Basketball Association ad-
dressed the Rotary Clubs in
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He
presented Jerusalem Mayor
Teddy Kollek with a
baseball autographed by
the world series, champion
Phillies baseball nine.
* * *
and Dave Blatt of Princeton
may end up with Israeli
teams. Sims is a draft selec-
tion of the Denver Nuggets
in the NBA and will end up
with Maccabi Haifa if he
doesn't make the grade in
Colorado. He is assured of a
tremendous contract, by Is-
raeli standards.
Sims could make the club
a very strong contender for
the league title which has
been dominated by Maccabi
Tel Aviv for several years.
Swimming addicts were
amazed at the splendid
showing of the Israeli swim
team. The Israelis copped
gold and silver medals
which, in the past, auto-
matically went to the U.S.
* * *
Not surprisingly, the bulk
Mexico's
Helen
of local champion swimmers
are attending American Plashinski, a defending
universities where they re- champion at age 18, be-
came the fastest Jewish
ceive superior coaching.
woman swimmer in win-
** *
ning the 100-meter frees-
Moshe Sinai, Tel Aviv tyle event in 58.66 sec-
Hapoel soccer star, is being onds, a new games re-
wooed by the English Di- cord.
* * *
vision One football cham-
pions, Aston Villa. Sinai,
Seventeen-year-old Lior
who last season was "Foot- Birkan, daughter of a
ball Player of the Year" in Jerusalem dentist, set a
Israel, was granted permis- new Maccabia record mark
sion by his club to join Aston in the 200-meter swimming
Villa in their pre-season medley with a time of 2:29
conditioning program.
to beat Julie Bessichitis of
Hapoel gave its assent the U.S. Birkan in the pre-
with the understanding liminary heats came up
that the British club in- fourth best- but in the final
sures Sinai against injury trimmed the American and
for $50,000. In the event Sweden's Charlotte Hilez
Villa desires his services, ,_who took the bronze medal.
* * *
it will pay the local soccer
club "a huge transfer fee.
Following
this year's
* * *
swimming competition,
The National Basketball none of Mark Spitz's records
League teams in Israel gave set in 1969 remained. The
U.S. Maccabia players close last Spitz record to go was
the 100-meter freestyle
scrutiny.
Two premier American which was smashed by
Maccabia players, Willie America's Andy Saltsman
Sims of Louisiana State U. with a 52.52 timing.
Author Recalls Warsaw
in New JPS Volume
NEW YORK — "In the
Shade of the Chestnut Tree"
by Benjamin Tene, trans-
lated from the Hebrew by
Reuben Ben-Joseph and
illustrated by Richard Sig-
berman, is the latest addi-
tion in the series of books for
young readers issued by the
Jewish Publication Society.
It is a moving account of a
group of young Jewish boys
and girls growing up in
Warsaw between the two
World Wars. First pub-
lished in Israel, where it
won the coveted Ze'ev Prize
for juvenile literature, "In
the Shade of the Chestnut
Tree" appears now in an
English translation.
"I passed my childhood in
Warsaw, the capital of Po-
land," Benjamin Tene
writes in his preface. "Our
house was in the Jewish
quarter, where the streets
were always busy. We chil-
dren used to play in the
yard. There was a chestnut
tree that spread its green
boughs above us and lis-
tened to our boisterous
laughter. It was to the
chestnut tree that we came
when we were sad as well.
We clung to its trunk, weep-
ing in its shade."
When the author grew
up, he left Warsaw and
emigrated to Israel.
Years later, after the war
that tore European
Jewry apart, he returned
to his city, his old home.
The war had destroyed
Warsaw and the Jewish
quarter, his friends were
all gone, but something
remained — the tree. Its
trunk was scorched and
scarred, many of its
branches were missing,
but the tree still stood.
"The chestnut tree was
silent," he writes. "I raised
my head and couldn't be-
lieve my eyes. There were
green sprouts on its black
bark. The charred stump
was blooming. The old,
afflicted tree had come alive
again in new youth. It was
then that I decided to tell
about that childhood of
ours. Our exploits of long
ago. Our laughter and tears.
A story about a group of
Jewish children in a
strange, alien world."
Tene, an Israeli author
editor and translator, was
born in Warsaw, Poland, in
1914, where he lived until
1937, when he emigrated to
Israel. Among his many
books is "City of My Yniith,"
which received the Lam(lan
Prize and honorable wen-
tion In tn, inu,-/ ... ■ .)i-c-
zak Literary Competition.
Sigberman, a freelance
artist, studied at the School
of Visual Arts and the Art
Students' League in New
York City.
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