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Friday, April 1, 1966
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Pare Fifteen
Youth hound Critical
Of Religious Schools
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
adolescents throughout the United
States are critical of subject mat
ter taught to them in Jewish ele
mentary religious schools, often
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“by poor teachers,’’ according to
a report on a study released here
recently.
The data were based on a
study of 1,051 Jewish students
made by the National Curriculum
Research Institute, a division of
the American Association for
Jewish Education. The data were
presented to 250 Jewish educators
and communal leaders from 38
major cities participating in a Na
tional Conference on Jewish Ed
ucation convened by the AAJE.
The survey was made during
1964, 1965 and during early 1966
under the supervision of Dr.
Judah Pilch, Institute Director.
The study was made on college
campuses, secondary schools and
summer camps.
Dr. Pilch said that Jewish
adolescents, “like their peers in
the general community, are now
in full retreat from the home”
which can no longer be consider
ed “an important cohesive agent”
in Jewish education.
The study found that students
felt that much of Jewish religious
instruction “takes the form of re
ligious entertainment, utilizing
tranquilizers,” with instruction
often “dull and vapid.” Dr. Pilch
said that the criticism did not
imply a lack of interest in Jew
ish education or negotation of
Jewish education on the part of
the youth. On the contrary, he
said, the students felt that Jew
ish schools should inspire stu
dents to want to live Jewishly.
Most of the youth who con
tinued their Jewish education
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went to Jewish high schools on
their own initiative. Only 12 per
cent were influenced to do so by
parents. Among those who did
not, 36 percent indicated no in
terest and 30 percent stopped be
cause of conflict with public
school schedules.
The students felt strongly that
“radical changes” were needed in
Jewish school curricula, including
more selectivity. Most students
proposed that Jewish schools
clarify the role of the Jewish
people among the nations and re
ligions of the world at the present
time.
On other matters, 49 opposed
mixed dating, 41 percent favored
such dating and 10 percent un
decided. Dr. Pilch said that these
figures were “alarming” and in
dicated a problem with which
Jewish educators must cope.
Dr. Isadore Breslau, AAJE
president, called for mobilization •
of the human and financial re
sources of the Jewish community
to strengthen its education ap
paratus. To solve the teacher
shortage and to attract the best
types of professionals to Jewish
teaching, he urged special induce
ments in recruiting, training and
employment with “greater status
and the type of financial com
pensation” Jewish education de
served.
Dr. Breslau laid the blame for
the connection between poor Jew
ish educational results and the
failure of the Jewish home di
rectly to Jewish parents. He call
ed for “a reawakening of the
adults or parents and a refurbish
ing of the Jewish home. sp ! ritual-
ly and intellectually.” Jewish ed
ucation. he said, must be made
“relevant to the continuity of the
Jewish people.”
Judge Simon Sobeloff stressed
the importance of affording
equal opportunities for Jewish
education for all children, regard
less of economic status. He prop
osed establishment of central,
community-wide systems of Jew
ish education “to avoid chaos.”
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