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Who Cares About Hebrew School?
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Krishna, Zen Buddhists, the
Moonies, and Lyndon Larouche's
group are replete with
Goldbergs, Silversteins and Co-
hens. We are losing these kids,
and can expect to lose even
more of them unless we
strengthen the link. "We can
only do so much in the school.
After that, it must be reinforced
at home."
If parents are going to make
religious school a dispensable
item, pulling the student out
every time there's a basketball
game, it can't seem very impor-
tant to the child. If the parents
are not going to themselves par-
ticipate in the Succot activities,
observe some form of Shabbat,
take the holidays seriously,
encourage Jewish camp, and in
general make Jewish culture a
part of their everyday life, the
entire religious school program
will in many way seem irrele-
vant to the child.
Clearly, educators must turn
their attention to the parents as
well as their children. This is
certainly a hackneyed mandate
in the education business. But
for Jewish life, unless the cliche
is taken seriously, it can lead to
a reverse symbiosis. It would be
easy to blame the parents exclu-
sively. But in reality, many of
Edwin Black is the author of
The Transfer Agreement, The
Untold Story of the Secret Pact
between the Third Reich and
Jewish Palestine" (MacMillan),
which recently won the Carl
Sandburg Awqrd for the best
non-fiction of 1984. Anne
Lanski, is a writer for Feature
Group News Service and a
religious school teacher in
Chicago.
them are just waiting for the
chance to be involved.
What's important is that
schools such as UHS are willing
to try. "One of our best pro-
grams," says Mrs. Kreichman at
Adat Shalom, is a weekly Shab-
bat dinner for students and
their parents. About half of our
400 children attend with one or
more of their parents. It's
mostly the ones under the age of
12, so we are really reaching the
younger ones."
Unless there are more such
programs, and unless parents
respond, the very link between
synagogue and invididual will
become that much more
weakened. A quality religious
school is essentially the major
factor attracting young, new
families to congregational rolls.
Ironically, most parents don't
think twice about which reli-
gious school they send their kids
to. They usually pick the one
operated by their congregation.
These are the same parents who
would debate forever before
placing their child in any pri-
vate or public secular school.
The lack of careful selection is
proof enough that parents view
religious school as perfunctory.
When is the right time to
seize hold of one's own cultural
destiny? Maybe now. Otherwise,
succeeding generations of Jews
— and this is not the distant fu-
ture we speak of — will drift
further and further away from
their heritage.
Perhaps volumes is spoken by
the little 12-year-old girl who
summed up her impressions this
way: "I don't want to admit this,
I mean don't get the wrong idea,
but sometimes, just sometimes,
Hebrew school can be fun. Just
don't tell anyone I said so." ❑
Reagan Backs Repeal
Of '75 UN Resolution
United Nations (JTA) —
President Reagan pledged his
support Sunday for. removal
from the record of the United
Nations, the "blot" of the
Zionism-is-racism resolution
adopted by the UN General As-
sembly on Nov. 10, 1975.
Reagan made his pledge in a
message to the Conference on
Israel, Zionism and the UN
attended by more than 1,000
Jewish, Christian and civic
leaders at UN headquarters.
The conference was co-chaired
by two former U.S. Ambassadors
to the UN, Sen. Daniel Moyni-
han (D-NY) and Jeane Kirkpat-
rick; Kenneth Bialkin, chairman
of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations; and Binyamin
Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassaor
to the UN. Moynihan was Am-
bassaor at the time the resolu-
tion was passed.
Reagan, in a message read to
the conference by Netanyahu,
declared: "Few events have so
offended the American people as
the 'Zionism-is-racism' resolu-
tion of November 10, 1975. It
was as if all America stood to
affirm the response of our chief
delegate, Daniel Patrick Moyni-
han, 'The United States rises to
declare before the General As-
sembly of the United Nations
and before the world that it does
not acknowledge, it will never
abide by, it will never acquiesce
in this infamous act.'
"The U.S., under the leader-
ship of three different
Presidents, has remained true to
that pledge. Today, I am proud
to reaffirm that promise and
further, to pledge my support for
the removal of this blot from the
UN record."
Israeli President Chaim Her-
zog also sent a message to the
conference. "The issue before the
Assembly (in 1975) was neither
Israel nor Zionism. It was the
continued existence of the UN
which had been dragged to its
lowest point of discredit by a co-
alition of despots and racists."