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eform Jewish day
schools have a cham-
pion in Rabbi Alex-
ander M. Schindler. It is from
the day schools, he believes,
that the future leaders of the
Jewish community will come.
During a fund-raising visit
to Detroit last week,
Schindler, president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations (Reform), said
that although the afternoon
and Sunday schools are doing
a good job in the limited time
they have the students, they
are not fully preparing them
for leadership roles.
"Part-time education is
very limited," he said. "We
don't have them enough of the
time and we cannot really
train dedicated leadership
which the Jewish people
needs. It's good as far as it
goes, but it isn't good enough
to prepare our future
leaders .. .
"I think that every large
community ought to have a
day schol for Reform Jewish
children, sponsored by the
Reform movement or com-
munally sponsored where the
integrity of every stream of
Judaism is respected. Parents
who want their children to
have an intensive Jewish
education ought to have a
place to send them."
Nearly a dozen Reform
Jewish day schools exist
throughout the United States
and another 10 are in the
planning stages. Detroit's
first Reform day school, the
Yavneh Academy, will open in
September at the Maple/
Drake Jewish Community
Center.
Establishment of day
schools will help ameliorate a
problem faced today in Jewish
education — lack of qualified

principals and teachers,
Schindler said.
"Most religious schools in
America have a great deal of
difficulty getting qualified
heads for their schools and
the reason is principals are
normally drawn from the
general population, out of the
reservoir of teachers. But we
don't have full-time teachers
in Jewish education.
"The reason we don't have
full-time Jewish teachers is
that we have no full-time
Jewish job. They can't make a
living being part-time
teachers in the afternoon. So
the Jewish teaching profes-
sion in its totality has nar-
rowed, has shrunk. Now, if
you broaden the opportunity
for full-time positions for
Jewish teachers, you increase
the reservoir of Jewish
teachers. Therefore you in-
crease the reservoir of those
who will be able to lead
Jewish schools of all kinds,
not just day schools."

But not all Jewish parents
are in favor of day schools, ac-
cording to Schindler. There is
a fear on the part of some of
ghettoization, that the
students will no longer be
part of the American
mainstream. To counter that
argument, he cites studies
which show graduates of
parochial schools move easily
into the mainstream of
American life, and many U.S.
presidents and advances in
the field of education came
from the private schools.
Prior to becoming president
of the UAHC, Schindler was
its vice president of educa-
tion. He developed the Ma Toy
series to teach Hebrew to
children via stories, concepts
and values; helped eliminate
the one-day-only religious
school and was the impetus
behind 55 religious school
texts. He also initiated the