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Ulpan
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"There was a paragraph on
the back of the pamphlet that
said the following summer we
would go to Israel. That was
like a little carrot. I enrolled,
and we went eight hours a
day, five days a week."
Litt says she felt different
when she returned at the end
of that summer. Active in
youth groups before, she quit
when she returned from
Israel. Her only thought at
that time was to go back.
Tzviah Idan, 36, an Israeli
tourism consultant, remem-
bers Litt literally had to be
put on the plane for the
return flight to Michigan.
Both Idan and her sister,
Elaine Iden Cheshin, 35, an
English teacher, live in Israel.
Almost all of the ulpan
members have returned to
visit Israel at least once.
It was an exciting time to be
in Israel then, Litt says. The
nation was still riding the ex-
hilaration of the Six-Day War.
But more than that, the
ulpan members gathered last
week agreed, their fervor was
in part a sign of the times —
their own society going
through
consciousness-
raising and social unrest.
"The time that we went was
sort of at the peak of the
upheaval of the 1960s, the
turbulence in society, the
questioning of values. It made
some of us question our own
American-Jewish values,"
Sherizen says.
"Nowadays, the big catch-
word is 'Jewish identity.' Back
then, the blacks were forming
and making their own identi-
ty. American Indians were
discovering their own identi-
ty. Every group had their own
identity or activist-type thing.
And growing up Jewish in
America at that time we real-
ly didn't have that sort of a
feeling. To me, this program
(ulpan) provided that," Jerry
Solomon adds.
Litt believes the former
ulpan members have remain-
ed in tough more than other
high school friends because of
the commitment and ex-
periences they shared. The
summers they spent studying
here and in Haifa created an
emotional bond that time has
not weakened, though they
may be hundreds or
thousands of miles apart.
The Ulpan Summer Youth
program does not exist
anymore: While Irwin Shaw
says he gets a lot of nachas
from these "kids," he's sad-
dened and frustrated that the
community doesn't have a
program of this kind in place.
Litt and the others feel
there are teenagers who
would benefit from and who
would want to participate in
an ulpan. The biggest stumbl-
ing block, they say, is the
parents.
"You would never have a
group like this today," Litt
says. "You can't get the Con-
servative, Reform and Or-
thodox adults to sit down in
the same room, let alone their
kids." ❑
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Hadassah Supports
Right To Choose
Atlanta (JTA) — In an
unusually strong statement,
Hadassah's national presi-
dent has called on its
members to fight any at-
tempts to restrict women's ac-
cess to abortion or birth
control.
"The Supreme Court has
opened the door to a new
threat to personal freedom,"
Kalmanson told the 2,500
delegates in her keynote ad-
dress Sunday to the 75th an-
nual convention here. "The
right of every woman to make
choices in her life is based
solely upon an individual's
moral and ethical values.
"The real questions, my
friends, is who makes the
choice: The government or
the woman? At Hadassah, we
stand with the woman."
Kalmanson's emotion-filled
oratory was met by rousing
cheers and sustained ap-
plause. For an organization
that has thus far trod lightly
on the American political
scene, a strong directive
issued last Tuesday by the na-
tional board to the 385,000
members appeared to be a
bold move designed to appeal
to a younger constituency.
The directive, an "Action
Alert," urged the 385,000
members to appeal to local
politicians, align with pro-
choice organizations and op-
pose any attempt to limit or
deny state funds for abortion.
Other issues dealt with dur-
ing the four-day national con-
vention in Atlanta that end-
ed Wednesday included Soviet
Jewry, Zionism, Israeli-Arab
relations and Hadassah's
health care work in Israel car-
ried out through the
Hadassah Medical Organiza-
tion, based in Jerusalem.
National Treasurer Bess
Rothbaum reported Sunday
that $68 million was raised
for 1988-89 programs.