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Egypt Rejoices
Much has been written in recent days about the insane,
murderous attack at the Israeli Airport in Lydda and the
insane slaughter of innocents, Jews and Christians, young
and old, at that crowded port. There isn’t much we could
add in words to convey the shock that was experienced by
decent, civilized human beings all over the world, and the
resentment and condemnation which ensued.
Even King Hussein of Jordan found himself compelled
by inner decency to condemn this outrageous attack. The
government of Japan has done and is doing everything pos
sible to express its shock over the participation of some
of her citizens in this tragedy. His Holiness, Pope Paul,
whose people from Puerto Rico were on a pious pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, many of whom were slaughtered, has,
of course, expressed condemnation and grief.
President Nixon sent a message, which was read pSub-
licly in Israel, in which he expressed condolences and con
demnation, especially in view of the fact that the Puerto
Ricans were Americans.
The press of the world voiced its shock over this
inexpressibly brutal act, instigated, by their own admission,
by the Arab activists who are finding shelter and main
taining headquarters in Lebanon.
The whole world was shocked and outraged by this
demonstration of animalism. The whole world, with the
significant exception of — Egypt . . . The Prime Minister
of Egypt, reportedly, gloated over what happened and was
jubilant in his public rejoicing. And as we think over it
now, we are uncertain in deciding who were the more
animal-like creatures in this entire situation—the Marxist
Arabs, the group centered in Lebanon who trained the
Japanese to do this shooting in Tel Aviv or the Egyptians
who rejoiced over this act of brutality and criminality, the
hired murderers or those on the outside gloating over these
murders.
In this connection we are thinking of the recent position
taken by Lebanon, which has tolerated and given refuge
and shelter to these gangsters. Lebanon is embarrassed. Leb
anon is trying to deny that these murderers were trained
on her soil. Lebanon says in effect (not in these words,
of course) “We had nothing to do with it but—we won’t
do it again” . . . Lebanon is making promises to “crack down”
and deny asylum to these murderers but—hasn’t Lebanon
made the identical promise before?
Such are the gangsters Israel is surrounded by and with
whom it is hoped some negotiations may some day be carried
on.
May the good Lord help Israel and the rest of human
ity!
THE CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER
GOLDA'S balancing ACT
BORIS SMOLAR
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
(Editor-in-Chiei Emeritus, JTA
MARCH OF TIME
Times do change. The Jewish day school move
ment has lor years been the stepchild in the Jewish
education system. Now it received full recognition
on the part of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds. Communications have been sent
out by the CJFWF to the Federations throughout
the country to give increased financial assistance
to day schools in their communities.
Federations had been making allocations to such
schools for some time. But this is the first time
that the CJFWF has officially put its seal of ap
proval on the day school system. There has been
certain opposition to the idea of encouraging Jewish
day schools. Some Jewish community leaders carried
a feeling that the full-time day school may isolate
the Jewish child from the general stream of Amer
ican life.
Time has shown that there is no basis for such
fear. In fact, Jewish day school graduates in New
York City have proven themselves two and one-half
years or more above the national average in reading
level and other levels of general education. They
regularly win a very large number of State scholar
ships.
The modern Jewish day school is far removed
from the old-style yeshiva. There are today more
than 400 day schools in which more than 70,000
pupils are enrolled. Most of the schools are Orth
odox in orientation; 40 are Conservative. No one
now questions their importance as a vehicle for
future Jewish scholars, communal workers and lay
leaders. Even the Reform Jewish movement—which
has for years strongly opposed the idea of Jewish
day schools as leading toward cultural separatism
—is now beginning to establish such schools.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
It is interesting to note that whereas Jewish
afternoon and week-end schools have been losing
ground during the last few years, Jewish all-day
schools are gaining in enrollment. In New York,
for instance—where there are about 40 percent of
all the Jewish day schools in the country—the Board
of Jewish Education reported an increase of one
percent in the 1969 enrollment as compared with
a decrease of about five percent for all other types
of Jewish schools in the area. Day schools in
greater New York represent now 35 percent of the
total Jewish school enrollment.
One can now find parents who are sending their
children to Jewish day schools even though they
never before thought of sending them to anything
but a public school. Some of these parents are not
particularly religious, but they believe that the
“ethnic” policy in some public schools—affecting
“white” teachers—reduces the standards of such
schools.
Other parents find that by sending their chil
dren to Jewish day schools, they don't have to send
them to afternoon schools or Sunday schools for
their Jewish education. The children aan thus have
more time for leisure. A day school pupil is usually
bilingual when he graduates—he can speak Hebrew
as well as English. His Jewish education is def
initely superior to that of a boy who studies in an
afternoon school only until he reaches the Bar
Mitzva age.
There are also other reasons why the Jewish
day school becomes more and more rooted in Amer
ican Jewish life. But maintaining a Jewish day
school is expensive. Parents must pay a compara
tively high tuition, since non-public schools cannot
get any state aid. Many of the parents are not in
a position to pay full tuition; especially those who
have several children of school age, not to speak
of those who are welfare recipients. And there is
quite a large proportion of poor parents among those
who prefer to send their children to Jewish day
schools.
• • •
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH
The real breakthrough for the Jewish day schools
came last November in an address by Max M. Fisher,
CJFWF president, at the CJFWF General Assembly
in Pittsburgh. Addressing more than 2000 Jewish
community leaders from all parts of the United
States and Canada, Mr. Fisher called for continued
expansion of the day school and urged the local
Federation in each city to reexamine the need for
increased support for all-day schools in their com
munities.
His call created a mild sensation among those
delegates who had all along maintained an indif
ferent attitude toward the Jewish day school system.
There was something new and basic in his pro
nouncement. By placing the “kosher” stamp on
day schools for all communities, Mr. Fisher opened
a new avenue of thought for those who had been
opposed or cool toward the idea of helping day
schools.
* » •
BASIC RECOMMENDATIONS
Basic is the recommendation in the guidelines
that day school education schould be oriented toward
developing effective future members of the total
Jewish community—without in any way jeopardizing
the ideological commitment of each school. This
should be reflected in the curriculum, in the prep
aration and practice of teachers, in the commit
ment to the concept of Klal Yisroel. High quality
of Jewish education must be a primary concern.
In order to merit assistance from Federations,
schools must be viable both financially and educa
tionally. Enrollment for an effective four-grade
school must be at least 50, and for an eight-grade
school at least 100, to have such viability. In small
communities, Federations may assist schools with
smaller enrollment.
The guidelines provide that children of parents
who cannot afford to pay full tuition should be
able to obtain their education through one of the
following forms of communal assistance. 1. Schol
arships for individual students. 2. Uniform subsidy
based on per student-hour of Jewish education.
3. Subsidy of a portion of teachers’ salaries. The
guidelines emphasize that financial responsibility of
Federations should be limited to the identifiable
Jewish educational elements of the day school pro
grams.
In some of the large cities—but not in New
York—allocations for day school already reach 20
York—allocations for day schools already reach 20
percent of the funds spent by the local cities it
the CJFWF in stressing the need for greater support
for the all-day schools will lead to important de
velopment in Jewish education. It certainly paves
the way for preparing a generation of young Jews
to serve effectively in Jewish communal life both
as civil servants—where they are badly needed—and
as lay leaders.
Copyright 1972, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
Activists Jailed for Summit
Were Released;
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Most of
the Jewish activists arrested in
Moscow on the eve of President
Nixon’s visit in order to keep
them out of circulation, have
been released “to the best of
my knowledge,” Boris Kagan,
a 32-year-old Jewish lawyer
from Moscow said here.
Kagan arrived with a plane
load of Jewish emigres from
the USSR. He said that he was
detained on the eve of Nixon’s
arrival May 28 and was warned
by the KGB (secret police) not
to engage in “anti-Soviet” activ
ity. Kagan said the KGB inter
rogators told him that he would
get his exit visa if he made no
trouble.
He said that was the $rst hint
he had that his visa application
was approved and a week later
he received his long sought per
mission to leave the Soviet
Union.
The nine Jewish activists re
leased in Moscow were warned
they would be arrested again if
they continued to make trouble,
the Student Sruggle for Soviet
Jewry in New York learned
from Jewish sources in the Sov
iet Union recently. According to
the sources liie activists were
told by the KGB, ‘Tor people
like you there is no need for the
Constitution. We have put you
in prison and will again if you
2 Drafted
continue your activities. The
next time it will be for more
than ten days.”
The SSSJ also reported Infor
mation on two Jewish activists
drafted into the Soviet Army on
the eve of the Nixon visit. One
of them, Michael Kliachkin, has
been assigned to a road con
struction gang and another, Vic
tor Yachot, has been given
duties at a military school. The
SSSJ said Russian Jews fear
that the political prisoners in
the Potma labor camp may be
moved to Krasynoyarsk in east
ern Siberia.
A Jew traveling in the area
recently saw new barracks un
der construction and was told
they were for political prisoners
from Potma, the SSSJ reported.
Jewish Calendar
TISIIA B’AV
July 20
Thursday
•ROSII HASIIANA
Sept. 9. 10
Saturday, Sunday
*YOM KIPPUR
Sept. 18, Monday
♦SUKKOT
Sept. 23, 24
Saturday, Sunday
♦IIOSHANA RABBA
Sept. 29
Friday
♦SHEMINI ATZERET
Sept. 30
Saturday
•SIMHAT TORAH
Oct. 1,
Sunday
■MANUKA
Dec. 1-8
Friday - Friday
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