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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, July 30, 1971
AMERICAN NEWS REPORT
Small Town Sends Youth to Israel
By BEN GALLOB
Anyone in Des Moines who
might have expected Jewish
Federation officials there to
complain “that’s gratitude for
you,” in evaluating the results
of a Federation-financed experi
ment to stimulate greater Jew
ish identity among some youngs
ters of the small Iowa commun
ity, would have been totally
off-base.
What happened was that the
Federation decided to invest in
an experiment for that objec
tive by arranging to send 21
high school and college students
last year to some intensive Jew
ish living experiences, including
stays in Israel for some of them.
One student was sent to Tel
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the 10 high school students
spent seven weeks in Israel.
Three of the college students at
tended a four-week session at
the Brandeis camp in California
and seven spent most of the
13?0 summer at the best Jewish
camps the Federation could find.
The experiment and its results
were reported by Federation ex
ecutive Gary Rubin, at one of
the workshops of the 39th Gen
eral Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds. By any yardstick, the ex
periment has been a spectacular
success.
He reported those results, as
indicated in statements by the
students to a Federation com
mittee which handled the exper
iment and by subsequent devel
opments, in these terms.
“A greater commitment to Is
rael and Judaism; a desire for
further study; a sense of respon
sibility tp communicate their
experiences and feelings to their
peers; a desire to do more, to
identify more.” Such gains, he
said, had been manifested in
the students “speaking to con
gregational groups, and to Jew
ish organizations within our
community,” and in evidence
they were “evaluating their
learning experiences while they
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were away, particularly in rela
tion to their learning experi
ences prior to their leaving.”
In addition, he reported, many
of the students who attended the
camps returned to Des Moines
making it clear that they had
become “concerned about a
meaningful Jewish experience”
at their homes, asking parents
why there could not be a special
meal for the Sabbath and candle
lighting. Many of the students,
he added, were involving them
selves in the annual Federation
campaign and, he said, “we have
reason to believe that their new
commitment will be lasting.”
What concerned Jewish adult
could ask for more? But, the
Federation got more, Mr. Rubin
said. Older students in the pilot
group started “questioning the
relevance of our entire educa
tional system” and proposing
ideas “to improve it.” If any
Federation official was dis
tressed by that particular mani
festation of increased Jewish
consciousness, it did not show in
the Federation Board’s reaction.
After evaluating the results, the
board voted unanimously to con
tinue the program in 1971, Mr.
Rubin reported. To emphasize
the importance of the program,
the scholarship committee was
voted full commission status in
the Federation structure. I n ad
dition, he disclosed, action was
taken to correct an initial error
of “not having the participation
of the students” when the pro
gram was started; the students
were given “full -participation
and representation on this com
mission.”
The idea of such an experi
ment, he reported, stemmed in
part from the reaction of Des
Moines delegates at the 38th
CJF assembly in Boston in 1969
to the Jewish student activists
who demanded and got an op
portunity to discuss with Feder
ation officials their views on
Jewish priorities. He said he
and his fellow-delegates re
turned to Des Moines, a com
munity of 900 Jewish families,
“feeling an obligation to infect
qualified young people with liv
ing Jewish experiences that
would solidify their Jewish
identity, affect their future and
infect their peers within the
community by exposing them in
a positive way” to such experi
ences.
Over a period of several
months, the idea of a pilot pro-
g r a m of Federation-financed
scholarships was developed and
presented to the Federation
board for approval. Objections
that scholarships in the pilot
program were not related to
need were met with a decision
that the grants would be made
on the basis of the desire to
participate and on the individ
ual’s potential, with each pros
pective participant judged solely
on merit, regardless of need.
The Federation scholarship com
mittee recognized that some stu
dents would, under that form
ula, come from affluent families
but it was felt that affluence did
not automatically assure that
such families would not be “cul
turally impoverished.”
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