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A' esseme• No■■■■■■■ .sui ■s■■•• , massimm want to wish you and yours A Happy, Healthy ROSH HASHANAH 2264 Scott Lake Road, Pontiac Give every NEWBORN the advantage March of Dimes 156 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 Now To Inspire Thrned-Off Students onesdale, Pa. — David Matez, chairperson of Hillel at Drexel University, is used to urging, prodding, cajoling, "practical- ly dragging people up out of their chairs" to get them in- terested in Hillel activities. He had no such problem last week. Matez, a printing tech- nology major, was one of 95 hand-picked student leaders of Hillel from 60 campuses across the country who gathered for four days at Honesdale, Pa., in the Poconos to talk about what works on their campuses, to learn more about Judaism, to develop their leadership skills and to get to know one other. Hillel is the B'nai B'rith organization that provides a range of religious, cultural and educational programm- ing to Jewish college students on • hundreds of campuses throughout the United States. "You could consider our ef- forts here a gift to the na- tional Jewish community for the future. These are the best and the brightest, our next generation of leaders," noted Richard Joel, international director of Hillel, who con- ceived of the first National Leaders Assembly as a way to further develop the leader- ship skills of those already ac- tive in their campus Hillels. Each Hillel activist had been nominated by his or her Hillel director to be a partici- pant at the assembly, which met here at Camp Moshava, a B'nei Akiva lakeside camp. While some participants were partially subsidized, all who attended paid at least part of their own tuition and transportation costs to come to the training session. They came, as Laurie Fine, a social studies major at Harvard, put it, "to figure out how to in- spire others the way we are inspired by our Jewish heritage?' This was a group of students interested in religious practices as well as social issues. Morning prayers were voluntary, but well at- tended. There were four Shab- bat services, and students divided themselves rather equally between them: Or- thodox, Conservative, Reform and one for those who con- sidered themselves neophytes and chose to attend the begin- ners' service. After a Shabbat dinner which had been interspersed with enthusiastic singing, the young people enthusiastical- ly danced Israeli dances for hours. Learning sessions, held out- doors, were substantive. 'Ibrah- text discussions, for ex- ample, were held each morn- ing. Other sessions were nuts and bolts skills classes, like the one on how to plan a weekend retreat: (Have a theme, appoint at least five people to your steering com- mittee or you will burn out, and consider the needs of Or- thodox as well as less tradi- tional participants, suggested Rabbi Stephen Cohen, Hillel director at the University of California at Santa Barbara and one of the Hillel profes- sionals who came to Camp Moshava as assembly faculty.) The biggest problem Hillel activists have to deal with, agreed several Jewish cam- pus activists, is apathy. "Students seem to park their Jewish identity at home," is the way Suzanne Rosin, a student at Beaver College, put it. Earlier in the day, Rosin had met with other students, like herself, who attend what are largely commuter colleges. "Even when they live in the dorms, our students go home for the weekend, and anything they get Jewishly, I guess they get there." Most Jewish students bring very little to college in the way of Jewish identity. Four out of five Jewish teens don't affiliate with Jewish organizations in high schools, notes Rabbi Joel. Most Jewish college freshman don't fill out religious preference cards, he says. "These factors aren't our fault, but they are our burden," says the rabbi. Overcoming this lack of Jewish identity and making Judaism attractive is ac- complished in a variety of ways at different campuses. Not all Hillel professionals are in agreement on what is a proper Hillel activity. At the University of Michigan, where some 200 students use the new Hillel center on a daily basis, there are film series and discussion groups on a variety of social issues, only some of them strictly Jewish issues There are 36 different groups at the Ann Arbor Hillel, only three of them formed for religious reasons. 0