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Friday, Mar. 13, 1970
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Association - Founded 1988
National JWB Biennial
The National Jewish Welfare Board is scheduled to hojd
its 1970 Biennial Convention, in Washington, from March
18 to 22. Every two years the JWB brings together its lay
and professional leadership to 'determine its course of action
and to discuss the issues, programs, and policies confronting
Jewish .Community Centers.
JWB’s Jewish chaplaincy program and its services to
Jewish men in the armed forces are common knowledge
and represent a record of solid achievement. What is not
so well understood in local communities is JWB’s leader
ship in setting standards and in giving guidance and con
structive help to local Jewish centers in the operations of
their programs. /,
The realities of the contemporary Jewish scene in our
land and elsewhere in the world cannot be gainsaid. There
is an unevenness and disparity in the depth of Jewish
commitment among leadership in most of our commun
ities.
But the JWB, as the national agency in the field of
service to Jewish community centers, must exercise the
prerogative of leadership in pointing a sense of direction
toward goals and objectives which will tend to an active
deepening of our loyalties to the Jewish people. The fulfill
ment of these aims can be achieved only through the volun
tary acceptance and performance by the professional and
lay leadership pf each center.
The 1970 Biennial is being held at a time when there
is a good deal of confusion, uncertainty, and much turmoil
in American society as well as in the affairs of the Amer
ican Jewish community.
The actions and directions our youth are pursuing in
and out of colleges, cause us no end of worry and concern.
The moorings of old established values are not strong enough
to hold them steady. The war in Viet Nam and the draft
are seriuos matters to them. But we must point out that
the destructive elements among them are in the minority
in spite of their daily exposure to the tools of the mass
media of communication.
There are serious threats on the horizon to Jewish con
tinuity and identity which cannot be ignored. The crisis
to the survival of Israel cannot be isolated from the prob
lems facing American Jewry.
But the strength of JWB, through all thesa years, has
been in its willingness to look at its own actions and policies
critically, to undertake self surveys and self studies. This
Biennial is no exception. v *
A study committee, during the past three years, has
explored intensively the present options and alternatives
for the future. It will make recommendations regarding the
future direction of. action and policy which JWB should
adopt in its programs of community service and specific
services to Centers and to men in uniform.
Out of these deliberations should come wise counsel.
We congratulate JWB upon its critical approach to its
problems and upon its boldness to look into the mirror of its
own image and to try to chart a course of action based upon
the realities of the times which confront American Jewry.
COMMUNAL PROBLEMS
Much is being written about the shortage of
Jewish personnel able to serve Jewish eommunal
needs effectively. Whether in the Rabbinate, or
in the executive ranks of Jewish social workers,
or in the field of highly-qualified Jewish educators
—the number of those capable of occupying leader
ship positions is declining, not increasing.
As members of the older generation of dis-
tinguished public servants in American Jewish
life retire, or pass away, it is no easy matter to
replace them with high caliber men. The best
institutions or organizations seem to do is to draft
somebody who occupies a high executive position
in another organization. Thus some institution
or organization is always the loser. Auci the gen
eral loser is the American Jewish community.
While Jewish communal life has been expand
ing, the three major Jewish organizations training
rabbis, educators and communal workers—Yesh-
iva University, Jewish Theological Seminary and
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
—have not produced sufficient graduates to fill
the gap between supply and demand in the field
of Jewish public service. Moreover, not all of
their graduates remain in the field for which
they were trained.
I am told that last year more than 50 rabbis
died and a good number of rabbis retired. We
have also witnessed retirements of important exec
utives in the field of Jewish social work. They
have all been replaced; but not by new forces.
Their successsors have all been drawn from pos
itions in other communities, either through higher
salaries or other inducements. The communities
are left with problems.
The deficit in trained rabbis and well-qualified
Jewish communal workers is growing larger every
year. How will Jewish communal life look in a
generation with such a deficit in the Jewish
“civil service” system? How will it affect Jewish
continuity?
• • •
FILLING THE GAP
The Reconstructionist movement—the youngest
of the Jewish religious movements in this country
—is attempting to help fill the gap. It established
a Reconstructionist Rabbinical College with a view
to preparing rabbis for service in every aspect
of Jewish community affairs—in the synagogue,
in community organization, in educational admin
istration, college counselling, and in other folds .
Functioning in Philadelphia, the college will
provide the academic qualifications to teach Jew
ish studies in colleges and universities. It will
award the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters
and such other degrees as may be approved by
the proper authorities. Graduates will be granted
the title “Rabbi.
Reconstructionist philosophy holds that while
religion is at the core of Jewish civilization, it is
not co-extensive with it. The College—whose pres
ident is Rabbi Ira Eisenstein—has set itself a
number of basic aims in order to produce a new
kind of Jewish leader through a new kind of
training. It established the following facts con
cerning the training of American rabbis:
1. There is a need to revise the curriculum
in order to make Jewish studies relevant to the
demands of contemporary Jewish and general
life.
2. There is a need to relate rabbinical studies
to the academic programs of universities.
3. There is a need to formulate a conception
of Judaism which may serve as a model to the
new generation.
4. There is a need to produce leaders for all
major areas of responsibilty in Jewish life.
5. There is a need to include students in decis
ion-making processes and to involve women as well
as men in professional leadership of Jewish re
ligious and cultural life.
Other principles on which the Reconstruction
ist College is basing its program include the need
to utilize the spiritual energies of Israel. Students
who require intensive work in Hebrew will spend
a year in Israel prior to their full matriculation
into the College. This means a six-year course in
stead of a five-year course. Others will be en
couraged to arrange for long visits to Israel at
’other times.
The curriculum of the College combines a
Ph.D. program at Temple University in Phila
delphia with its own faculty. Dropsie University
and the University of Pennsylvania are also insti
tutions within the Philadelphia academic commun
ity. Admission to the College requires a Bache
lor’s Degree from an accredited college, proficien
cy in Hebrew language and a general knowledge
of Jewish religion and history, in addition to
having been admitted to the Graduate Depart
ment of Religion at Temple University. Students
holding an M.A. degree are accepted on condition
that they are admitted to the Ph.D. program at
Temple University and agree to remain in resi
dence for at least three years at the Reconstruc
tionist Rabbinical College.
Opportunities are provided for . students to earn
money through educational Service in Philadel
phia’s Jewish community. The first female cand
idate for admission has already been accepted.
Copyright 1970, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
False Charges
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describing repressive measures
taken by Soviet authorities
against Jewish cultural and re
ligious activities. They asked him
to intervene on behalf of So
viet Jewry through Venezuela’s
delegation at the United Nations.
Argentine Jewry also protested
Arab terrorist attacks on Israeli
and foreign air lines serving Is
rael at a mass meeting organized
by the DATA, the Jewish central
representative body. Most of those
attending represented Jewish
youth groups. Dr. Nehemias Res-
nitzky, vice president of the
DA^A, said the terrorist attacks
on Israeli airliners in Athens,
Munich and Zurich were “the
ugly face of a new Nazism and
Facism. Dr. Isaac Goldenberg,
president of the Latin American
Jewish Congresss, declared that
the interglational community
cAinot remain silent.
COOKING?
HAMAN TASHEN FOR PURIM
By Ruth Sirkis
Purim is just around the corner, and we are expecting to have
fun, because Purim is a jolly holiday. We Jews are happy for
out-living our enemies — all the “Hamans” that wish to do us
wrong.
The original Haman was an advisor to the king of ancient
Persia. His advice was to annihilate all the Jews of the kingdom.
Thanks to Esther, the beautiful young Jewish Queen, the Jews
were saved and Haman was hanged.
Since then we eat “Haman Tashen” on Purim, which means
“Hainan’s pockets." (In Hebrew we call them “Osnei-Haman,"
meaning “Hainan’s ears.”) By celebrating the holiday and eating
the traditional foods we express our confidence in the eternity
of the Jewish nation.
JEWISH CALENDAR
•FAST OF* ESTHER
Mar. J9, Thursday
•PURIM
Mar. 22, Sunday
•PASSOVER
Apr. 21, Tuesday
(First Day)
Apr. 28. Tuesday
(Eighth Day)
•ISRAEL
INDEPENDENCE
DAY
May 11, Monday
♦LAG B’OMER
May 24, Sunday
♦SHAVUOT
June 10, Wednesday
•TISHA B’AV
Aug. 11, Tuesday
•ROSH HASHANA
Oct. 1-2,
Thursday-Friday
•YOM KIPPUR
Oct. 10, Saturday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
THE DOUGH
one-half cup warm water
one-half cup warm milk
2 pkgs. active dry yeast
one-half tsp. salt
one-third cup batter
4 to five cups flour
1 tsp. vanilla
three-quarters cup sugar
2 eggs
THE FILLING
one cup milk
2 cups poppy seeds
2 this, butter
grated lemon rind
one tsp. cinnamon
3 this, raisins
3 this, honey
one-half cup sugar
1. In a large mixing bowl dissolve 2 pkgs. yeast in half cup
warm water. Add half a cup milk, three-quarters cup sugar, a
pinch of salt, 2 eggs, one-third cup soft butter and about half the
flour.
2. Mix until smooth and add vanilla (1 tsp.). Add more of
the remaining flour and knead till you can handle dough easily.
Knead about eight minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
3. In a clean bowl, put a few drops of oil and grease the
■whole bowl. Place the dough in the greased bowl, turning once
to grease the top of the dough ball. Let it stand for one hour
and a half until the dough doubles. Punch down, knead lightly
and let ris6 again for 45 minutes.
4. Roll the dough to one quarter inch thickness. Cut out rounds
of 4 inches in diameter. Pur filling in the center and pinch the
edges together so it forms a triangle.
5. Put the “Haman Tashen” on a greased cookie sheet. You
can brush the tops with some milk or with a beaten egg yolk.
Bake in a moderate oven—350 degrees, for about 25 minutes. Yield
—about 3 dozen.
THE FILLING
1. Boil the milk with half a cup sugar. Add 2 cups of poppy
seeds and 2 this, butter. Cook on a slow heat till the milk is
totally absorbed in the seeds. Add the rest of the ingredients and,
mix well. Let cook and use for fllHng.
Copyright 1970, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.