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Awg. 20, 1971
AMERICAN NEWS REPORT
State Funding Project At
Delinquent Home for Girls
By Ben GaDob
State funding has been pro
vided for a comprehensive edu
cational program and for a pro
fessional staff to implement it at
a Delaware home for delinquent
girls after a group of Jewish
volunteers demonstrated both
the need for such a program and
the readiness of the girls to
profit from it.
As a result of a study in 1960
of the family court in Wilming
ton, Delaware, the Wilmington
section of the National Council
of Jewish Women learned that
the educational program at the
Woods Haven-Kruse School for
delinquent girls was “woefully
inadequate,’’ according to a re
port in the “Council Woman,”
the official publication of the
NCJW. The institution was the
result of combining two schools,
one for black and one for white
delinquent girls. It had a teach
ing staff consisting of one aca
demic teacher and one business
teacher for all 35 girl inmates.
In response to the discovery,
members of the section under
took to teach the girls reading,
typing, current events, journa
lism, physical education, arts
and crafts, health, modern dance
Jordan Pressures
West Bank Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Farm
ers in Judea and Samaria, in
the occupied West Bank, were
notified Aug. 10 by Jordanian
authorities that Jordan was
suspending import of their farm
produce, except for melons and
onions.
The Jordanian officials re
portedly said they had ordered
the ban because Jordan alone
cannot absorb West Bank farm
output and the produce can no
longer be sent on to other Arab
countries, as in the past, be
cause Syria and Iraq have
clamped restrictions on move
ments across their borders with
Jordan.
Jewish Students
Con tinned from page 5
tirely, and 16% go occasionally.
Regarding the question as to
whether or not something
should be done to encourage
greater participation with the
religious community, 65% stated
“yes” and 34% said “no.” TJiose
who expressed having no con
cern in this topic were less than
1%. Some of the specific state
ments by students regarding
change in the synagogue struc
ture were: Don’t engage merely
repetition of rigidly structured
services: Help the family to
learn about holidays and customs
together so they can be enjoyed
as a family unit; Sermons are
often too long and meaningless
to the immediate urgencies and
relevancies of today’s burning
issues; Redirect “establishment”
groups back to religious ideals
instead of using the synagogue
as a fund raising device; Spon
sor more youth-centered activ
ities and make facilities more
readily available to them. On
the Shabbat and holidays, in
vite students away from home
to the homes of congregants,
students should not be charged
a fee for attendance at High
Holiday services. Engage the
interest of youth and demon
strate that they too, have a
stake in their religious and cul-
ural heritage. Along with their
suggestions for change, a num
ber of students expressed their
frustrations with statements to
the effect that “what’s the use
of responding ... no one’s
going to change anyway.”
, On the subject of having a
sense of J'ewish identity, 93%
responded in the affirmative and
6% responded negatively. Less
than 1% left the question un
answered.
and gardening. Nor were these
short-term commitments. The
NCJW volunteers taught those
courses for seven years. As an
example of their impact, the
original typing class grew into a
complete course in business ma
chines, calculators, general bus
iness and tax expertise.
The success of the project was
due in great measure, the re
port said, to the leadership of
the school’s director, Mrs. Dor
othy Banton, who was willing
to use volunteers in new areas.
The school became the first cor
rectional institute in Delaware
to allow volunteers to operate a
teaching program. Because Mrs.
Banton provided the needed di
rection and constant liaison with
the Jewish volunteer teachers,
they were able to branch out of
their original commitments.
They moved into teaching posts
in the reception unit where girls
remain for the first six to eight
weeks after admission for test
ing purposes.
Mrs. Banton used the success
of the volunteer program to
show state officials the need for
professional staff and wider pro
gram, supported by state funds.
The institution not only got the
professional teachers, but »l<»n
the services of psychologists.
psychiatrists and oasa wttrham
Mrs. Banton said that tha ptkd
project staffed by votunteew
“showed what could be dun*
From thia aucceaa I wea able to
get the neceaaery state fund **>
propriatlona to continue the vie
velopment of these pivgcanu “
Replaced by prufesslvuvat*. thy
Jewish women got busy tttUug
another need at the actual They
began to provide yduvsdUuwd
tours to places of cultural and
hlstorio importance. Later, when
the school developed a program
of training the girla tvu jobs
when they were discharged, the
Jewish women added tour* ho
the girls to places of future Job
opportunities.
Copyright 1971, JTA
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September 30 has been select
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the Atlanta Bond Committee for
its annual "Israel Fashion
Show.”
The event, highlight of the
women's social and communal
season every fall will take
place at the Marriott Motel.
Mrs. Lee Stoll, a member of
the national Israel Bonds staff,
is in Atlanta arranging the
details of the show, including
members of the various commit
tees involved in the event.
She can be reached at 892-
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