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Any design may be special ordered for yourself or as a holiday gift to be treasured. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Uoz %herrn BLOOMFIELD PLAZA MAPLE AT TELEGRAPH BIRMINGHAM, M • 855-8855 36 Friday, December 19, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jerusalem — The Israel Defense Forces have always been a citizen's army. It is not surprising, then that the military has taken over cer- tain functions of the civilian establishment, such as basic education. Before the 1973 Yom Kip- pur War, many potential soldiers were not inducted because of their low educa- tional level. Their rejection further handicapped the al- ready socially and economically-disadvantaged youth, for army service is an integrating factor and key to finding a respectable job. To stem the problem, various educational programs were established by the IDF, espe- cially by former Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, among them "For Israel's Defense" (LIBI: Lem.a'an Bitachon Yisrael). LIBI sponsors different programs for men on differ- ent levels; draftees are tested and sent to the appropriate educational unit. The men who are sent to Givat Olga, a former Soldiers Welfare Association camp, have high physical profiles but show the lowest grade school achieve- ment. Some 300-500 of them come for seven weeks of basic training that includes an education that they never saw in the public school sys- tem because they either turned it off or dropped out. Grouped into classes of eight to 12 at Olga, they are taught Hebrew language skills, math, modern Jewish history and the geography of Israel. Those in the highest classes learn extra subjects determined by the individual teachers. Other LIBI bases have enrichment programs for men on the high school level who are somewhat literate. The short range goal of this and other educational units is to motivate these soldiers to serve their country; the long term objective is to make them better citizens after their service. The teachers in Givat Olga are young women who volun- teer for the job. They are tested rigorously and inter- viewed, after which they go through a two-and-a-half month training course. In order to succeed, the teachers must be tough, exclude self- confidence and want to com- mand. They must not smile nor get chummy with the soldiers, who do not take well to discipline of any kind. At Olga, in addition to teaching their pupils all of the subjects not absorbed in school, the educators march the soldiers from one class to another, supervise inspection, exercise with and guide them on tours around the country. These women often bring a novel approach to command- ing. History classes, for example are not taught by the lecture method. After the basic facts are given, the soldiers divide into groups and go out to the field to play the historical roles of the British, Jews and the Arabs in whatever period they are studying. They make their own custumes, construct their own watchtowers, invent their own dialogue and contr- ive schemes for such activi- ties as passing clandestine arms to the underground or protecting the Yishuv, the pre-state settlement. World Zionist Press Service Persecution `Sinful, Pope Says Sydney (JTA) — Pope John Paul II was addressing leaders of Australia's Jewish community. But his words were a message to the Chris.- tian world: "No valid theo- logical justification can ever be found for acts of discrim- ination or persecution against Jews. In fact, such acts must be held to be sinful." The Pontiff, on his visit here last month, at his re- quest met with a delegation of nine Jewish leaders, led by Leslie Caplan, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. His condemnation of anti- Semitism followed a state- ment in which the Pope recognized that this "is still the century of the Shoah" (Holocaust) and emphasized the words of the Nostra Aetate encyclical of 1965 in which the Catholic Church deplored "the hatred, persecu- tion and displays of anti- Semitism directed against the Jews at any time by anyone." The meeting took place in the Presbytery of St. Mary's Cathedral on the morning of N Sidney. Univ. Of Hartford Gets Hillel Hartford, Conn. (JTA) — The University of Hartford is the site of the first B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation to be founded in the 1980's, accord- ing to Rabbi William Rudolph, the organization's national director of personnel. Hartford Hillel Rabbi Yosef Grodsky believes the newly formed foundation will com- plement the university's Maurice Greenberg Center < for Judaic Studies, founded last year. Funding for the chapter and the university's first full-time rabbi came from the Greater Hartford Jewish Federation in coopera- tion with the national founda- tion, The Rhode Island Herald reports.