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New York (JTA) — Tevye,
Capt. James Kirk and a
cigar- smoking deity are
tools for teaching values to a
growing number of students
in Jewish schools in the
metropolitan New York
area.
The fictional characters
are featured in movies and
television programs shown
in classrooms as part of a 3-
year-old program of the
Board of Jewish Education
of Greater New York.
"Teaching Jewish Values
Through Feature Films"
offers dramatic productions
and a small number of com-
mercials as triggers for
discussions about Jewish
values and ethics.
Among the 1,000 reels and
videocassettes on the shelves
of the board's media center
are Fiddler on the Roof,
centering around the long-
suffering Tevye; an episode
of tele'vision's "Star Trek,"
featuring Kirk; and Larry
Gelbart's comedy "Oh,
God!" starring George Burns
as a Creator partial to
stogies.
Excerpts — usually no
more than 15 minutes — are
shown to a class to illustrate
a fact or concept that is be-
ing taught, says Gitty
Bender, the center's media
specialist. Offerings are
screened and brief descrip-
tions are prepared, which in-
clude a warning about
possibly offensive scenes.
The center sponsors
regular teachers' workshops
on the film program, called
"Teaching Jewish Values
Through the Use of
Hollywood Feature Film."
The program, used widely
in supplementary schools at
the upper elementary and
high school level, is designed
to supplement assigned

readings by grabbing the at-
tention of the raised-on-
television generation.
"The feature film is an
effective, natural way of
learning. The students are
able to see what they're stu-
dying in school," says
Bender, a veteran classroom
teacher. "It's not a conces-
sion. It's not a gimmick."
One teacher showed a
segment from Late Summer
Blues, a recent Israeli film
about a group of teen-agers
awaiting military induction,
to teach about the life of
Israeli students.
Another teacher showed a
cut of The Breakfast Club, an
American film about some
maladapted high-school
students, to illustrate peer
pressure and acceptance.
After one class viewed The
Sunshine Boys, about a pair
of aging vaudevillians, the
students arranged a day at a
local senior citizens' home,
Bender says, and an Alien
Nation excerpt about dis-
crimination spurred
students' interest in anti-
Semitic incidents on college
campuses.
Teachers notice a rise in
students' interest level when
a film is used, Bender says,
adding that requests for
films and television shows
increase annually. Most
popular: Exodus and films
about Israel's 1976 raid on
Entebbe.
Several religious schools
have established their own
modest audio-visual
libraries, she says.
"We still need the pro-
fessor," Bender says, stress-
ing that audio-visual excerp-
ts will never replace the
teacher and written word.
"The text is the Torah. This
is just a part that makes it
relevant for 1990."

Rabbis: Soviet Jews
Need Religious Training

New York (JTA) — Rabbi
Max Schreier is concerned
about the religious edu-
cation of Soviet Jewish im-
migrants, whether they go to
Israel or the United States.
Schreier, who is president
of the Rabbinical Council of
America, the largest Or-
thodox rabbinic group in the
world, spoke at the organiza-
tion's annual Midwinter
Conference at the Minskoff
Cultural Center of Park
East Synagogue here.
"Jewish children from the

U.S.S.R. arriving in Israel"
are in danger of not receiv-
ing a proper Torah edu-
cation, Schreier said. "We
have RCA rabbis in Israel
who want to be part of the
absorption process," he said.
"We also have to help in the
religious absorption of
Soviet Jews who have come
to the United States, so that
we don't lose them to
assimilation."
Schreier urged more pro-
grams such as the successful
"Shabbaton" for Soviet