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February 12, 1982 - Image 21

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1982-02-12

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Students Swap Schools, Countries
in Two-Month Federation Program

By GIL SEDAN

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Adam Fader, 16, a dark
haired boy with a dark com-
plexion, wearing a yar-
mulka, sat on the grass in-
front of the Museum of
Jewish Diaspora at Tel Aviv
University, enjoying the Is-
raeli sun.
In a few days time he
would be back at home in
Miami with his family, after

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two months of high school
studies in Israel. As far as
he was concerned his family
would not recognize him.
Not that his hair grew long
or that he gained weight at
the Mosenson High School
in Hod Hasharon. It is just
that he had matured much
more than the mere two
months in Israel.
"I have become more
Jewish," he made his own
analysis. "I have become
more Jewish than my fam-
ily expected me to."
High school in Israel is
a project which allows
American youth to sub-
stitute their own school
back home with a
Jewish, Israeli oriented
school — in Israel — for a
period of two months.
The studies take place in
full cooperation with the
educational authorities
in the U.S. The youths re-
ceive full credit for their
studies.
High school in Israel
started in the early 1970ssas
an independent initiative
by Rabbi Morris Kipper of
Miami. At the time, local
Jewish federations in the
U.S. were under constant
public attack for spending a
great deal of money on serv-
ices for the adults, and too
little on youth and educa-
tion.
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rabbi in Miami, suggested
to the local Jewish federa-
tion that it operate a sum-
mer youth camp which
would offer Jewish students
supplementary Jewish
studies.
The local federation wel-
comed the idea, as it was
just the thing needed to fill
in the gap in Jewish educa-
tion. Kipper said he would
secure the agreement of the
local schools to grant the
students academic credit.
He asked the federation to
come up with the funds.
The study program is
planned in such a way
that the students will
both benefit from Jewish
studies, but will not miss
out in their studies back
at home. The first part of
the day is devoted to
Judaic studies — basi-
cally the history of the
Jewish people.
In the afternoon hours the
students study their own
material, which they
brought with them from
home, in mathmatics and
the exact sciences. These
studies take place on an in-
dividual basis, with private
tutors. This way they are
assured not to lag behind
when they return home.
President Yitzhak Navon
makes a point of receiving
every group during its stay
here. Last month he came
the first time to Hod Hasha-
ron to see the project first
hand. He spent the whole
day in the school, saying it
was the first group of
American students who
showed full understanding
of Jewish history.
He expressed the hope
that there would be
thousands, instead of the
hundreds who study now.
Presently there are 75 stu-
dents in the school. This
month, the new class will
include 75 students and by
summer, 162 students are

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162 students.
The cost of the two
months per student is
$2,200, including the air
fare from New York and
back. However, each
student is partially sub-
sidized by the Jewish
Agency and the local
communities, so that in
practice the student pays
only about half the sum.
Musing about his experi-
ence, Fader said: "We are
well aware that after we re-
turn home enthusiasm may
fade away, and the odds are
that we shall assimilate.
But because we are aware of
the danger, we shall try
harder to prevent it."

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Boy Not Raised
as Orthodox;
Custody Lost

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Manhattan Supreme Court
justice has ruled that a
Jewish mother could not
have continued custody of
her eight-year-old son be-
cause she had violated an
agreement with her former
husband to bring up the
child as an Orthodox Jew.
The ruling last week by
Justice Irving Kirschen-
baum applied a 1980 deci-
sion by an appeals court
which legal experts de-
scribed as the first of its
kind.
Justice Kirschenbaum
ruled that Rae Perlstein, 31,
violated the agreement to
raise Thomas Perlstein as
an Orthodox Jew. The
agreement specified
particular schools, camps
and a kosher diet for the
boy. His mother was raised
as a member of the Bobover
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