THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 1, 1983 41
Kibutz Movement School Trains Teachers in Unique Way
By BEN FRANK
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
This college is really
different.
.
The man who is dean one
day can be the students'
> waiter or their chauffeur
the next.
This school originally did
not like to give degrees or
diplomas.
This school has more
democracy, no ranking
> and small classes.
It is Oranim, the School of
Education of the Kibutz
Movement and is located
near the town of Tivon, just
outside of Haifa. And the
dean, Moshe Giladi, like
every kibutznik, talks pro-
udly about the 3,000 stu-
dents attending Oranim,
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60-65 percent of whom are
from kibutzim.
"These students are older,
they've been to the army
and completed an addi-
tional year of service to the
kibutz movement. They
have not time to waste and
their expectations are
high," he said in an inter-
view covering the programs
at Oranim. "The students
who come to the school are
the future of the kibutz
movement and, in many
ways, of the state of Israel."
The influence of the
kibutz movement is felt far
beyond its borders because
of its uniqueness, its
cooperative and democratic
way of life, and its singular
educational system.
Yet, kibutzniks consti-
tute only 3.6 percent of
the Israeli population
and there are only 230
kibutzim in the entire
state.
Just as the respect and
admiration of the kibutzim
far outweigh their numbers,
so does this school of educa-
tion. Some 25 percent of all
elementary school teachers
in Israel have been trained
at Oranim, which sees its
role as an alternative to the
general system of education
in Israel.
educates
Oranim
teachers- who work with in-
fants, and teachers for all
ages up to post graduate
high school pupils. It in-
structs teachers for all sub-
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jects, including music, art, study if they make the
sports and reading, writing commitment to return to
and arithmetic.
their towns and villages
Oranim concerns itself after graduating to teach
not only with subjects but there for at least five years.
with kibutz values; equal- During this entire time,
ity, social justice and coop- these students receive full
eration. It strives to per- scholarships.
petuate the Zionist ideals on
Recently Oranim was ap-
which the state of Israel was proached by the army's de-
founded by imparting them partment of education to
to successive generations.
help solve a special prob-
Yet, Oranim is not lem. There are some
limited to educating the soldiers who have been
kibutz teacher. Approx- through school yet are illit-
imately 40 percent of its erate. The army trains
students are from urban other young soldiers to work
areas, development with this group and asked
towns and moshavim. Oranim to be supportive of
There are students from these "teachers." Oranim
Arab villages as well. The accepted and its professors
positive impact they have are voluntarily advising
in their home towns helps and assisting the soldier/
maintain and improve instructors in their efforts
Jewish-Arab relations in to enable all soldiers to read
and write.
Israel.
The Second Chance pro-
Oranim is preparing
gram is one that Oranim is teaching materials and cur-
proud to have begun. Young ricula for the study of the
people from development sources and contributions of
towns and cities, who have the labor movement and the
served in the army but values and principles of the
never finished high school, kibutz movement.
are, if recommended by
Finally, the kibutz
local authorities, taken into movement, realizing that
Oranim for a pre-academic it must deal more inten-
year of study which raises sively with Judaic
them to the college entrance studies, charged Oranim
level. They are then admit- with the development of
ted to the regular course of curricula and educa-
Pesach Product Price-Fixing
Probe Is Called for in NY
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The City Council committee
on consumer affairs held the
second hearing in City
Council history on kosher
food prices last week and
recommended that the city's
department of consumer af-
fairs and State Attorney
General Robert Abrams in-
vestigate widespread
charges of price fixing in
kosher-for-Passover prod-
ucts.
The first hearing was last
year, just before Passover.
Noach Dear, the Brook-
lyn Councilman who repre-
sents the Flatbush and Boro
Park districts, which are
among the most heavily
populated Jewish sections
of Brooklyn, served as
chairman for the hearing.
He said that he had in-
vited the major pro-
ducers of Passover prod-
ucts to participate in the
hearing "and not one of
them showed up."
Dear said the consumer
affairs department was
conducting a comparison
shopping study on Passover
prices and planned to pub-
lish a list of its findings.
He said the consumer af-
fairs committee would con-
duct a hearing, probably
next month, on year-round
kosher product prices.
Dear said there was
evidence that consumers
were complaining to
merchants about "exor-
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chairman, Sidney D. Troy,
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made on kibutzim.
Dr. Giladi; a survivor of
Russian labor camps and
member of Kibutz Mizra
since 1943, is pleased that
there are Americans who
want to join with Oranim
and the Kibutz Movement
in sharing their principles
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Center for Jewish
Studies, rabbis, histo-
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are working on the teach-
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Here in the United States
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