Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
"BEA" FEALK
ADRIENNE & SANFORD GUSS
MARV, JEFFREY & HOWARD
EVELYN & AL BROOK
HENIA & MIRIAM CIESLA
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
SAUL & LEAH BURAK
SIDNEY & BETTY EIDELMAN
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nam mu'?
to all
our friends
and relatives.
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
LARRY, EILEEN & ELYSE KUSHNER
LAURA & RICK GAMMONS
DEBBIE & RICK KROSNICK
HELEN & HENRY MALTER
W. Palm Beach, FL
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all my family
and friends.
SHEILA & HAROLD GUZ
MLA SCHWARZBERG
1311DT1
nam rilw"?
to all
our friends
and relatives.
LAWRENCE & PAMELA HOLZMAN
of Rockville, MD and
STEVEN & EVELYN PANTIER
of Denver, CO
vanon nalz
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lawn rialz riltn
to all
our friends
and relatives.
MEL KEPES & FAMILY
lanon ramltir?
to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
our friends
and relatives.
ADELE & EARL FRIEDMAN
MR. & MRS. LEON HALPERN
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
my friends
and relatives.
ARLENE & CHUCK BEERMAN
KEN & MICHAEL
SYBIL EISENSHTADT
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness and prosperity for
all our
family and friends.
R2 HENRY & MALA DORFMAN
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
MR. & MRS. LESTER ROSENBERG
& FAMILY
Pluralism
Through TALI
LISA SAMIN
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
G
etting a Jewish relig-
ious education in Is-
rael used to be fairly
straightforward.
Children either attended the
state secular schools, which
include basic Judaic studies,
or the state religious schools,
where belief, practice and
learning go hand-in-hand.
For a small group of
predominantly Anglo-Saxon
parents these choices were too
polarized; there was no flex-
ibility in the strict religious
studies, and no room for a
more traditional, pluralistic
approach to Judaism in the
secular schools.
Utilizing a law which
allows 10 percent of the
parents to determine 25 per-
cent of their children's cur-
riculum, this coterie of
parents started TALI, a pro-
gram for enriching Judaic
studies. Established 16 years
ago as a private non-profit
foundation in Jerusalem, sup-
ported by the Conservative
Movement in Israel, TALI is
now operating with about
7,500 children in 23 schools
throughout Israel.
In its uphill struggle for
recognition by the Ministry of
Education and Israeli society
in general, TALI has in-
troduced an alternative track
in Judaic studies; offering
traditional exposure to text
and religious law, without en-
forcing strict belief or prac-
tice. The program runs in
secular state schools, often
alongside the regular cur-
riculum, and is based on close
cooperation between the TALI
foundation, the school ad-
ministration and the parents.
"This program offers
parents the option of giving
their children a thorough
religious education, without
they or their children having
to be full-practicing Jews,"
says TALI Director Yosef Ben
Rachamim.
The TALI curriculum, sanc-
tioned by the Ministry of
Education, is based on
religious studies and creative
religious experiences. The
children study the Bible, rab-
binic literature, the prayer-
book, holidays, laws and the
cycle of Jewish life. Prayers,
often through song, are said
every morning and boys are
required to wear yarmulkes
for them. But there is no
school pressure to follow
these, or any other rituals
learned, at home.
Children in TALI receive