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Denmark's young Jews, members of a small community (6,000, nearly all living in the capital, Copenhagen), have begun to assert themselves as a group and have been responsible for a burgeoning of Jewishness remarkable in a Jewry where assimilation has been making steady inroads.
The first stirrings of active Jewish consciousness showed themselves among the students, who established a Jewish students' club in 1965.
A further straw in the wind was the setting up, by the Hakoah sports organization, of the Maccabi holiday farm, which can accommodate up to 50 people, for stays of various lengths in a Jewish atmosphere.
Copenhagen's young mar-rieds also began to be more actively Jewish than their parents had been, and this was reflected in the growing number who sent their children to Copenhagen's Jewish day school.
The school now has 180 pupils and a further ten will start there next term. This is the highest attendance figure in the school's history and as soon as funds can be collected a new school is to be built.
But the most important manifestation of interest in Jewish matters hias been the determination . of young Danish Jews to play a part in.qoramunal affairs.
YOUTH LIST
. Last autumnj when the community was preparing for elections to the Board of Deputies, the advisory body to the Board of Communal Representatives, a group of young people decided to form a list of their own, the Youth List, to contest the elections^
Their platform was based on a number of reforms, such as the giving of more importance to the Board of DeiHities; fixing the minimum age for eligibility to stand as a candidate at 21; the establishment of a youth. council to co-ordinate existing youth activities and expand them; long-range communal planning; and the strengthening of ties with the communities of the other Scandinavian countries.
They campaigned with zest, inserting large advertisements in the Jewish press, canvassing vigorously for votes, publishing brochures and leaflets and holding public meetings - electioneering methods hitherto unknown in communal elections.
Their_pipneering brought them unexpected isuccess. Of a total of L713 votes cast, the Youth List gained 770, compared with 355, 361 and 227 respectively, for the other lists, and captured nine seats on the Board of Deputies,
Two of the other lists obtained four each and the ' religious list three.
However, when the Board . of Deputies met to elect three new members of the Board of Communal Representatives, the nine Youth List members, all between the ages of 21 and 29, split over whom to support.
Finally, six of them gave their; votes to 26-year-old Mr. Finn Rudalzky, whpse election to the Board of Com- -munal Representatives was assured when the three religious representatives also voted for him.
Mr. Rudalzky, the youngest member of the communal administration, will super-■ vise the distribution of funds, but there is no doubt that "Te^^kalso be the spokesman for the young members of the comhiunity.
that their interest in Jewish matters is continuing to. grow can be seen fr^m the fait that more yoiing married couples in Denmark today keep kosher homes than was V the case with their parents. Also, vypung/,people are ^ Increasingly conducting the( Sabbath services in the synagogue/ "standing in* for the rabbi,..the-reader and the baal koreh.
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