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If Jewish education is so vital, why do we
pay our teachers so little?
"What keeps you in Jewish
education?"
"My husband'
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salary."
Judy Aronson, a graduate
hile leaders of the
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community insist
now educational director at
that Jewish survival in the
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Diaspora depends on Jewish
agogue, has been in the field
education,
they
are
not
will-
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for 42 years. She pointed out
ing to put their money where
that most Jewish educators, -
their mouths are.
regardless of length of ser-
first pair of glasses:
That sentiment, expressed
vice, have no pension or
bluntly
or
discreetly,
ran
as
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retirement plans, health in-
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four intense, sleepless,
Yet most teachers and ad- •
talkative, studious, net-
M artin I. Apple, M.D.
ministrators
seem deeply
working days at the Con-
devoted to their craft. Cherie
ference
on
Alternatives
in
Michael Y. Greenley, M.D.
Koller-Fox of Cambridge,
Jewish Education (CAJE),
S
Allan Stahl, Optician, formerly of Sallen Optical
Mass., described education
which wound up last week.
as "a sacred calling to save
The annual encampment
the Jewish community." She
drew teachers, administra-
lamented the skimpy
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tors, rabbis, cantors, writers,
renumeration not so much
students, camp counselors
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for the material deprivations
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as for the stunting of profes-
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"Most Jewish teachers
Faucets
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can't
afford to advance their
can countries and even
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studies
or visit Israel," she
Lithuania. Together, they
said.
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nia into a voluble Jewish
de voted one long evening
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enclave, whose inhabitants
an
spanned generations and jec d one afternoon to the sub-
t of "empowerment," and
molswoOtattlickb dress modes, with kippah- C AJE
has established a
and-shorts wearers of both
lo ng-range Task Force on
genders as the most visible.
Ed ucator Empowerment and
In a relentlessly packed
Ad vocacy. The term was
Municipal
schedule of 500 sessions,
int erpreted in various ways,
Six Month Certificate
seminars and KISS (Keep It
Bonds Listing
bu t a common goal was to
Short and Simple)
en
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workshops, augmented by m hance the decision-
non-stop bull sessions and an aking influence of teachers
d principals to help shape
evening lectures and con-
their institutions and com-
certs,
it
was
easy
for
the
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"Empowerment" was one
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tangible reward, from the
and
technologies
in
community.
teaching.
"A kid in my class will tell
The Conference on Alter-
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me, 'Look, "my father pays
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was first held in 1976 as a
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Like most of the teachers
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