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Friday, October 3, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A Jewish teacher who has
researched Jewish life in
small Jewish communities
concluded that Judaism "is
alive and well in small town
America - and so is anti-
Semitism," and that there is
a clear relationship between
the two situations.
Av Rivel made his report
in a recent issue of Sh'ma,
which described him as a
part-time teacher and full-
time father of four.
Rivel said he visited Con-
servative congregations in
East Stroudsberg, Pa., and
Monroe, N.Y., and Reform
congregations in Waterford
and New Milford, Conn., all
communities far enough
away from large centers to be
Jewish children
have mixed
feelings about
their status of
"mayvens."
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Small Towns
Challenge Jews
correctly considered as re-
mote from major Jewish con-
centrations. He reported that
generally he found "very
strong positive identification
as Jews and a high level of
Jewish awareness and iden-
tification."
He recalled listening in the
Waterford synagogue to two
graduating high school stu-
dents as they presented a
Shabbat eve sermon. They
discussed their feelings about
going away to college "and
the importance of maintain-
ing their Jewish identifica-
tion away from home."
In the four small congrega-
tions — 66 to 150 families —
the children have an active
role in worship services, leav-
ing Rivel "impressed with the
comfort they manifest."
-Rivel suggested that the
strength of Jewish identifica-
tion and the level of Jewish
awareness "is not only a
product of home and
synagogue." In such com-
munities, he found, Jewish
children are "called upon
consistently to be 'spokesper-
sons for the Jewish commu-
nity. It is not enough to bring
a note saying that you were
out of school because it was
Rosh Hashana, but you then
must explain what Rosh
Hashana is to the class."
He reported that the
Jewish children have mixed
feelings about their status as
mayvens. The ignorance of
their classmates about Jews
and Judaism "contributes to
a feeling of being different,
and the questions, be they
from teachers or classmates,
are not always friendly."
Incidents of anti-Semitism
are "a daily part" of their
lives. Rivel reported some
talk from the children of acts
of minor vandalism, but that
"it was the overt and subtle
acts of verbal anti-Semitism
that I found unsettling. He