10 Friday, July 8, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Bar-Ilan Will Aid Handicapped Families RAMAT GAN — The De- partment of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University is pilot- ing a project funded by the Doron Foundation for Edu- cation and Welfare in which the parents of mentally- handicapped children are being taught to cope with their children within the family-home environment. The project is headed by Bar-Ilan Prof. Solly Katz and Dr. Shlomo Kravetz, who explain the rationale: The birth of a mentally- handicapped child is a traumatic experience for the family and for the rela- tionship between its mem- bers. It creates problems JUNKETS! JUNKETS! that exacerbate the general problems and tensions found in any family and calls for specific interven- tion techniques and exper- tise. "At present there is a dearth of services and professionals capable of providing this sorely needed counselling serv- ice to parents." 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The third part involves U.S. Jewish Groups Testify Against School Prayer Issue WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish groups were unani- mous in their testimony be- fore the Senate Judiciary Committee recently that a proposed bill to amend the Constitution to allow prayer in the public schools constitutes a threat to reli- gious minorities and would be a violation of the First Amendment of the Con- stitution if it passed. Among those testifying for the Jewish groups were Leonard Steinhorn, pre- senting the testimony of Warren Eisenberg, director of the International Council of Bnai Brith, who was un- able to testify because of ill- ness; Sam Rabinove, direc- tor of the legal affairs de- partment of the American Jewish Committee; Esther Pryor, Capitol Committee chairwoman of the National Council of Jewish Women; Rabbi Bruce Kahn, Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations; and Rita Salberg, Bnai Brith Women Public Affairs Committee. Eisenberg's statement pointed out that legalizing organized voluntary prayer in public schools, an amendment supported by President Reagan, would "strike at the very heart of our Constitution and our democratic, pluralistic society." Eisenberg asked, "Who will decide the content of the prayer" and whether it was possible to develop a prayer that "would not offend a particular reli- gious minority, if the amendment is passed?" E L7M'A4 EL AL GROUP DEPARTURES W. Sept. 19 to Oct. 3 $1,489 on-going research in order to evaluate the efficacy of these various counselling services and their impact on the family and the commu- nity in solving problems created by the presence of a mentally-handicapped child in the family. In addi- tion, new ideas and tech- niques can be developed' implemented and evaluated. Oct. 2 to Oct. 16 per person dbl. occ. 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Concerning a third pro- posal for an amendment, also proposed by Hatch, to give religious groups the same access to school facilities that secular groups have, Eisenberg said the government would thereby "implicitly accept religious groups as having a legitimate place in the schools." Salberg said that there is surely a place for prayer in children's lives and "that place is the home; in the church, synagogue, mosque, and many places — but not in our public schools." She stated that her group's posi- tion is that it would "be bad government policy, bad religious practice and bad educational programming." Named to Unit on Reform Ties NEW YORK — The Rab- binical Council of America (Orthodox) has appointed sociologist Dr. Chaim I. Waxman as a consultant to its special commission on re-evaluating RCA partici- pation with the Reform movement. In making the an- nouncement that Dr. Wax- man would join the commis- sion headed by honorary president of the RCA, Rabbi Sol Roth, Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman noted that the RCA is "finding it more dif- ficult to maintain its rela- tionship with the Reform movement, which has passed a resolution saying that the Jewish identity of a child can be determined by patrilineal descent." Ecumenical Tour of Israel The Ecumenical Institute hotels, full Israeli break- for Jewish-Christian fast and dinner daily, Studies, the Detroit Chap- touring, entrance fees, ter of the American Jewish local taxes, service Committee and the Visitors charges and Israel De- to Israel Program of the parture Tax. Fees are AJCommittee will co- based on double occu- sponsor an ecumenical pancy. Personal tips and study tour of Israel Oct. expenses are not in- 2-14. cluded. Limited single Rev. James R. 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