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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bet Uziel Moshav Plays Host to Troubled
Youths in Special UJA-Funded Program
By RUTH SELIGMAN
United Jewish Appeal
BET UZIEL — Troubled
Israeli youngsters —
haunted by failure at home
and in school and so se-
verely handicapped emo-
tionally that their peers and
even their families reject
them — are finding new
hope for the future in a spe-
cial residential program at
this moshav near Ramie in
the center of Israel.
Here, such youngsters
live with a "host family"
headed by a couple who
serve as substitute parents
while they work on the
moshaV and receive special
introduction and psycholog-
ical counseling.
Jacqui Sifrin, a social
worker, explains that the
youngsters at Bet Uziel
(and two other moshavim in
the program) are unable to
cope in a school situation.
Yet, in one or two years at a
moshav they demonstrate
remarkable growth and de-
velopment, both socially
and scholastically.
"Bet Uziel is often the
last chance for these
youngsters," says Mazal
Sonego, a mother of six
who has directed the
program since its incep-
tion nine years ago. She
sees in their back-
grounds the common de-
nominator of unhappi-
ness and abuse.
Yehudit and Aviva came
out of such backgrounds.
Yehudit came to Bet Uziel
two years ago. "She had
been neglected," Sifrin re-
lates, "and her physical ap-
pearance was unkempt.
Yehudit was the eldest child
in a large family, and she
was continually exploitEd
by her mother.
"Today, she is a lovely girl
who has changed totally
with the help of her host
family. Now when she goes
home she is able to help her
mother improve her
homemaking skills. She is
proud of her accom-
plishments. Her parents are
proud of her too. She is no
longer the outcast, 'the one
who ruins our family' as her
mother used to say."
Aviva is another child
who has experienced rejec-
tion and failure, Sifrin re-
calls. A 14-year-old epilep-
tic with a history of brain
damage, Aviva dragged one
arm and a leg, and had been
rejected by virtually
everyone in her environ-
ment. Her progress in
• school had been,minimal.
"Here, Aviva was free
of the unrealistic expec-
tations of her family and
teachers. She is much
more secure," Sifrin says,
"and she is developing
the self-confidence that
can help her break her
long chain of failures."
There are a number of
factors that contribute to
this change, Sifrin believes.
The host families, hand-
picked for their ability to
give the necessary parent-
ing and warmth, provide a
socializing influence.
"Within the host family,"
he notes, "the youngsters
are exposed to models of so-
cially acceptable behavior,
which they begin to identify
with and emulate. The chil-
dren also work — either in
the home or in the fields —
absorbing a new work ethic
as well as acquiring agricul-
tural and domestic skills."
There is also an intensive
personalized program of
education and recreation
which includes school in the
morning, supplemented by
individual tutoring and
psychological counseling,
and afternoon interest
groups ranging from crafts
Reagan Administration Pushes
Effort to Fix AWACS 'Botch-Up
With 60 senators reported
in the mounting ranks of
opponents to the U.S. sell-
ing AWACS radar planes to
Saudi Arabia, the Reagan
Administration Thursday
rallied its forces to over-
come what has been
branded a "botched-up" job
to attain its goal in spite of
strong protests in this coun-
try and Israel expressing
serious concern over the
menacing aspects of the
projected deal.
President Reagan post-
poned presenting his pro-
posal for the sale of the
weapons,
threatening
which had been planned for
Thursday, and the chief
members of his Cabinet
were summoned for action
in defense of the challenged
sale.
Recognizing that the
Administration faces de-
feat on the issue, former
President Gerald Ford
began a campaign of in-
Torah-Kadish Link Defined
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
(Copyright 1981, JTA. Inc.)
While it seems that the
reading of the Torah is part
of the synagogue service, on
the other hand it represents
a distinct entity in itself.
The latter can be seen by
the fact that when the
Torah is read there is a
Kadish recital before and
after the reading. The
Kadish is always regarded
as a break between parts of
the service which indicates
that one part of the service
has been concluded (and
when the total service is not
over) and another part is
about to begin.
On the other hand, since
there are prayers offered be-
fore and after the reading of
the Torah scroll, the read-
ing seems to be directly
associated with prayer.
Conversation
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By JEAN KADMON
sing confidently city!
there-is dancing and
the almond wears a dress of spring.
it was dumped by the smoked cliffs.
a new park for sweethearts under the
desert's moon is in Gehenoam.
desert and Sodom to the east.
westward — open-armed girls and boys
its greenery and the trees,
friendships
meeting over coffee cups
voice murmurs into poems
or joining fingers, painting.
ducing senators to aban-
don the opposition to the
proposal that is recog-
nized as menacing to Is-
rael.
Richard Murphy, State
Department trouble-
shooter, was dispatched to
Saudi Arabia to seek con-
cessions for a compromise
which is consistently re-
jected by the Saudi royal
family.
to folk-dancing. Because of
the small size of the group,
about 30 children, it is
possible to work individu-
ally with each child.
The initiator and guid-
ing light behind the
moshav residence pro-
gram is Dr. Reuven
Feuerstein, an interna-
tionally - recognized
authority in the field of
child psychology. Dr.
Feuerstein has devised a
unique system of diag-
nosis and rehabilitation
which has brought hope
to thousands of children
previously diagnosed as
retarded, emotionally
disturbed, slow learners
or socially maladjusted.
Dr. Feuerstein does not
test what a child knows, but
rather his or her potential
for learning. "All children
have a potential," says Dr.
Feuerstein, "one which
enables us to return them to
the society which has re-
-jected them. They have
dormant abilities which can
be mobilized to create useful
skills and achieve perform-
ance levels previously not
thought possible."
Mazal Sonego believes
Bet Uziel succeeds "because
we are providing an atmos-
phere of acceptance where
each child knows we care for
him, and will go out of our
way to meet his particular
needs. Even the curricula is
specially adapted for each
child. In many ways, we are
proving what Professor
Feuerstein has claimed for
years — that no child is
hopeless."
The Bet Uziel program is
part of the Jewish Agency's
- national network of youth
care services, carried out
primarily with funds allo-
cated to the United Jewish
Appeal from annual Ameri-
can Jewish campaigns.
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