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commemorate 65 years of
affiliation of Shaarey Zedek
with the seminary 7:45 p.m.
June 23 in the Morris Adler
Hall of the synagogue.
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By JUDITH KOHN
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Five years ago this month, a
handful of Sephardic Jews
assembled at a midtown law
office to lay the groundwork
for a visionary program
aimed at bridging the so-
cial, economic and cultural
gaps between Ashkenazim
and Sephardim in Israel.
They have since provided
more than 2,600 schol-
arships to needy students of
Sephardic background, and
embarked on a far-sighted
self-help campaign by
which students from disad-
vantaged neighborhoods
extend their own contribu-
tions to communities like
the ones from which they
came.
The birth of the Interna-
tional Sephardic Education
Foundation (ISEF) was, ac-
cording to Nina Weiner, its
founder and president, a re-
sponse to a longstanding
imbalance between
Ashkenazim and Sephar-
dim that was preventing a
large segment of Israel's
population from achieving
their full potential in con-
tributing to Israeli life.
For years, Mrs. Weiner
said, in an interview at
the same Manhattan law
office where the organ-
ization was founded, the
Zionist community in Is-
rael and abroad had
avoided addressing the
problem of Sephardic
Jewry in the Jewish
state. "Because Israel
was so besieged and be-
leaguered with all the
wars, it really couldn't
focus on, or even talk
about the social prob-
lems," Weiner said. "But
the time has come where
it's there and we have to
start doing something
about it."
Mrs. Weiner, who was
born in Egypt to a third-
generation Israel mother of
Sephardic origin, and an
Ashkenazi father, emi-
grated as a teenager to the
United States following a
two year stay in Israel and
completion of a degree in
psychology. She has worked
in this country as a voca-
tional counselor both within
and outside the Jewish
community, has served for
the past four years as alter-
nate representative of the
Women's International
Zionist Organization
(WIZO) to the United Na-
tions.
Having undertaken to
address the problems of
Sephardic Jewry in Israel,
Mrs. Weiner decided that
Israel's ethnic imbalance
could best be corrected by
upgrading the educational
level of its Sephardic citi-
zens, who, she noted, re-
present only 16 percent of
the total university student
body in that country, even
though they comprise well
over half of Israel's popula-
tion. Following consulta-
tions in 1977 with a number
of Sephardic Israeli leaders,
including Yitzhak Navon,
then a member of Knesset
and now President of Israel,
it was agreed that such an
effort would be most effec-
tive at the university level,
since higher education
could provide the Sephardic
community with a capable
leadership that might; in
turn, offer positive role
models for Israel's younger
Sephardic- population, and
eventually help to correct
ethnic imbalance in other
spheres, such as housing
and unemployment.
When the 20 founding
members of ISEF met that
year to create the new
organization, their goals did
not extend beyond the rais-
ing of funds to finance edu-
cation for a select number of
potential university stu-
dents. But a year after the
foundation's program had
gone into effect — with 400
scholarships distributed
through Israel's six univer-
sities, as well as academic
institutions abroad — it be-
came apparent that schol-
arships by themselves
would not eliminate the ob-
stacles confronting many of
Israel's Sephardic students.
Although financial dis-
tress has undoubtedly
contributed to the high
drop-out rate • among
Sephardic students — 50
percent according to fig-
ures provided by ISEF —
other factors related to
circumstances common
to a majority of these stu-
dents were causing some
of the scholarship reci-
pients to abandon their
studies, despite ISEF's
declared commitment to
providing financial sup-
port for the duration of
each student's academic
program.
Magnifying
ISEF's -
achievements many times
over is the modest style of
its operation, directed with
a frugal budget that con-
sists exclusively of dona-
tions and only three percent
of which is spent on ad-
ministrative costs, includ-
ing a full-time coordinator
in Israel. Having raised
over a million dollars for
scholarships, the founda-
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Sephardic Group Seeks End
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Cong. Bais Chabad of
Farmington Hills will hold
its second annual dinner
7:30 p.m. June 28 at the
Lubavitch er Center of Far-
mington Hills, 28555
Middlebelt.
Guest speaker for the
evening will be Rabbi
Moshe Feller, director of
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Chabad Lubavitch of the
Upper Midwest and founder
and director of the Bais
Chana Institute for Women.
Harriet Drissman is
dinner chairmen. For ticket
information and reserva-
tions, call Mrs. Drissman,
851-4019. There is an ad-
mission charge.
tion has remained a kind of
"mom and pop" set-up, that
draws its volunteer staff
and patrons primarily
through community con-
tacts in Brooklyn and Man-
hattan. No attempt has
been made to plug in to
other larger Jewish philan-
thropic organizations.
Mrs. Weiner, who calls
herself a "volunteer execu-
tive," directs the foundation
from her home in New York.
Legal aid is provided on a
volunteer basis by her hus-
band's law firm — the com-
pany which hosted ISEF's
initial meeting five years
ago: Amnon Giniger, direc-
tor of the firm's associate
office in Israel, manages the
distribution of ISEF schol-
arships on a volunteer
basis. Similarly, accounting
services are provided gratis
by a sympathetic firm.
ISEF has also remained
decidedly non-political and,
according to Mrs. Weiner,
has abstained from dogma-
tic accusations or demands
for immediate panaceas to
the problem of Israel's cul-
tural gap.
Looking toward the fu-
ture, Mrs. Weiner, who
travels to Israel each
year to oversee the foun-
dations programs,
envisions, a bridging of
Israel's Ashkenazic -
Sephardic gap through
systematic efforts at un-
earthing the roots of the
current ethnic imbal-
ance.
"I would like to have more
research on the problem of
the gap," she said. "I would
like to be able more and
more to get at the real facts,
the real numbers, and to see
in a concrete way how we
can help to solve these prob-
lems. I have a vision for
twenty years to come."
Kupat Cholim
Seeks Doctors
NEW YORK — Kupat
Cholim, the Histadrut's
Sick Fund, has announced
openings for senior medical
personnel in its hospitals
throughout Israel.
Vacancies exist for senior
medical staff in hospitals
and out-patient clinics at lo-
cations ranging from
Beersheva in the south to
Afula in the north. Some
of these positions will be-
come available in 1982 and
1983. Housing assistance
will be provided.
Pathologists, radiolo-
gists, surgeons, geriatrists,
endocrinologists, neurosur-
geons, E.N.T. specialists,
anesthesiologists and
pediatricians are among the
many specialists being
sought. Doctors considering
one year sabbaticals may
also apply.
For information, contact
Avraham Frank, director of
professional services, Israel
Aliya Center, 515 Park
Ave., New York, N.Y.,
10022.
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