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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1988
an Diego — Social is-
sues, teaching tech-
niques, spirituality,
Jewish culture and the
Jewish community were some
of the major study areas pur-
sued by those concerned with
Jewish education at an in-
stitute held earlier this
month at San Diego State
University.
Convened by the Coalition
for the Advancement of
Jewish Education (CAJE), the
four-day conference saw near-
ly 500 Jewish educators, rab-
bis, youth directors, ad-
ministrators and lay leaders
share ideas and gain new in-
sights into teaching Jewish
tradition and culture and how
social issues, such as AIDS,
have an impact on them.
Detroit-area delegates to the
institute were: Henry
Auslander, Phyllis Domstein,
Leah Kar, Patricia Milner,
Heidi Press, Irma Starr and
Sandra Zipser. A concurrent
institute was held in
Milwaukee, Wis.
Michigan delegates to the
Milwaukee CAJE Institute
were: Charlotte Nelson, Far-
mington Hills; Elaine Ka-
mienny, West Bloomfield;
Rhoda Krauss, Southfield;
Harlene Appelman, Ann Ar-
bor; Sydney Bernard, Ann Ar-
bor; Judy Goldstein, Detroit;
Elissa Berg, Oak Park;
Stephen Rayburn, East Lan-
sing; Elaine Rayburn, Lans-
ing; Gayle Lando, Kalamazoo;
and Rabbi Albert Lewis, Bar-
bara Rymer, Miriam Roetter,
Susan Goodkind, Lawrence
Kurlandsky, Ruth Kurland-
sky and Dr. Shirley Lewis, all
of Grand Rapids.
A special feature of the CA-
JE Milwaukee Institute was
the Community Connection,
a two-day component devoted
to involving lay leadership,
administrators, parents and
teachers in Jewish education
discussions. Also featured
were a Judaica art exhibit
and an Israel symposium.
The San Diego institute, co-
sponsored by the San Diego
Agency for Jewish Education
and the Jewish Campus
Centers of San Diego, offered
teachers a Machon series,
which allowed them to take
classes in specified areas of
study, including Tanach and
Tefilah, Spirituality, Mosaic
Community and Hebrew. In
addition, , there were Torah
Lishmah sessions in which
participants studied texts and
issues.
Each evening, except for the
opening plenary, there was a
variety of musical and
theater entertainment.
Following the welcome at the
conference's opening event,
the delegates participated in
a group study lesson after
which they broke into smaller
groups to each prepare a "pic-
ture"midrash to present to
the entire assembly.
CAJE was founded in 1973,
when the North American
Jewish Students Network
formed a Boston-based com-
mittee for Jewish teachers to
share ideas and pool
resources. The first con-
ference was convened in 1976.
This year's major conference
will be held in August in
Israel.
At the San Diego con-
ference, Steve Huberman, ex-
ecutive director for communi-
ty services of the Federation
Council of Greater Los
Angeles planning and alloca-
tions department, and
Patricia Milner, assistant ad-
ministrator of Detroit's
Jewish Federation Apart-
ments, gave a presentation on
"Jewish Megatrends and
Their Impact on Funding." In
his remarks, Huberman talk-
ed about the changing face of
American Jewry. Among the
factors creating this change,
he listed: 50 percent of all
Jewish women with children
under age 6 work out of the
house, and there is a great
need for quality child care
under Jewish communal
auspices; many Soviet and
Iranian Jews are coming to
the U.S., and the Jewish com-
munity is going to have to
find the funds to be able to
provide assistance; more than
40 percent of the Jewish
households in the U.S. have
an average income of $50,000,
but nearly 15 percent of the
country's Jews live in pover-
ty; one in three marriages in-
volving Jews across the U.S.
is an interfaith marriage —
between a Jew and a non-jew;
and finally, 50 percent of all
Jewish children nationwide
are not getting a Jewish
education.
As the government dollars
for social welfare needs
diminish, the Jewish com-
munity will find itself more
dependent on philanthropic
dollars to take up the slack,
Miss Milner said. She warn-
ed that as the numbers of
working adults decrease, so
will the "philanthropic level."
Suzanne B. Amerling, direc-
tor of education at the
Baltimore Hebrew Congrega-
tion, found another challenge
facing contemporary Jewry:
As the Jewish ,community
assimilates it begins to face
some of the same challenges
as the general community:
spouse abuse, substance
abuse and date rape.
In a session on "Bringing
Peace Home — A Family
Violence and Dating Violence
Curriculum," Dr. Amerling
gave teachers a model to
teach their students how to
deal with domestic violence
and date rape. The cur-
riculum shows teachers how
to tell their students about
applying Judaic laws and
values dealing with family
violence to a case study and
how to evaluate Judaic and
civic resources which deal
with domestic violence.
AIDS — acquired immune
deficiency syndrome — is
another challenge faced by
the Jewish community as
Jews throughout the country
have become infected by the
virus. Former Detroiter Jerry
Small, coordinator of
Nechama, A Jewish Response
'Ib AIDS, came prepared to
advise teachers on how they
can teach Jewish children
about the devastating effects
of the disease. However, he
nearly played to an empty
house. In his morning session,
only one delegate attended,
while the afternoon saw
three. Small was angered by
the low attendance. "There's
denial in the Jewish com-
munity,' he said, adding that
American Jews "don't want to
admit that there are Jews on
drugs or that Jews are gay."
The sessions on
AIDS played to an
empty house.
Small said AIDS education
in Jewish schools is impor-
tant. "We need to get it (infor-
mation) to the young kids
because they're trying sex
earlier" In his model cur-
riculum, Small discusses the
traditional Jewish values of
Bikur Cholim (visiting the
sick), Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh
Bazeh (each Jew is responsi-
ble for every Jew), Pikuach
Nefesh (saving a life) and
Tikun Olam (healing the
world). An overview of
Nechama is given, a video is
shown, a person with AIDS
addresses the class and ques-
tions and answers follow.
Nechama (comfort) is a
creation of Congregation
Beth Chayim Chadashim, a
California synagogue serving