4~-THE BULLETIN—Friday, August 13, 1971
LUBAVITCH STUDENTS VISIT
IN VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA
TMEY LOOK LIKEMeshulachim complete with beard, black hat and black kuit and when they enter an office the first thought occuring to most businessmen is how much will it cost them to support such and such a yeshiva. But first thoughts are not always correct. In this case the Meshulachim are from Lubavitch; they are students
Claim surplus of social seienee grais in Isroef
JERUSALEM — Labor Minister Yosef Almogi said recently that disciples of Lubavitch are part-Israel has a plethora of graduates icularly eager to help Jews obey, in the humanities and social including tiiose who come to visit sciences entering the country as. the Western Wall In Jerusalem, immigrants and suggested that re^ Accordingly, many an office training programs were the only clerk or secretary in all parts of viable solution to the problem. Canada and the U.S. is pleasantly
Almogi said that 40 percent surprised to see their .Jewish
of recent immigrants were prof- bosses after meeting one of the 60
essionals, with a substantial hum- pairs of Lubavitch students, ob-
ber holding degrees in the social serving the ancient Mitzvah of
sciences and humanities. This tephillin which symbolizes giving
adds up, he said, to an oversiipply away me*s heart and head to the
of such graduates. Almighty.
He said his Ministry was cur- Vancouver and Victoria were the
with something to give rather than expectine to receive.
What Eli Hecht and Gavriel Schapiro brought to the Jews of Vancouver and Victoria last week was a more meaningful appreciation of their Jewishness.
Hecht and Shapiro, to be truthful, do ask for something. But itis not money. They ask for a confrontation; a few moments of your time, man to man, Jew to Jew, so to speak.
They first and foremost invite you to put 0n tephillin (phylacteries), a commandment which all
Radical students enthusiastically organize Free Jewish University
By JAMES FARBEE
THE LOCATION OF the Val- ish students had a strong identity and one. World Jewry and
ley Cities Jewish Community as Jews.
Centre, a branch of the Jewish Centres Association of Los Angeles and an affiliate of Jewish Welfare Board, would make it difficult for the Centre's board and staff to forget about the college generation even if they want-
Just as Black and Mexican students wanted to establish ethnic study programs to help them learn more about thieir own cultural heritftge and their history, Jewish students needed to know about ^eir own heri-
ed to ignore them. A two-yfear tagc. Black and Mexican stu
commimity college located direct ly across the street from the Centre, which houses the Valley College Hillel Foundation, was accustomed to the sight of college students in its building.
Early in May 1969, a small group of Jewish istudents met
dents had already indicated that tiiey would pursue Black and Mexican ethnic studies on their own and did not neied. outside help. This made it desirable that the radical Jewish students create a program which would meet the unique need of Jewish students and
World press, had to be dropi At this meeting it was reaffii*mt that the students would contrd the Free University and thi eachplass would be limited to students since more than the would hamper free discussio] and free exchange of ideas, target date for the initiation classes was set two weeks aftc the meeting.
At this general meeting, strong sentiment was expressed that the students themselves serve faculty. This idea was not chal] lenged by any of the resufcc people who were present. A wee later, however, three of the co-l ordinators consulted with both] the Hillel director and the Centre! director about possible faculty!
rently organizing retaining courses for immigrants in which 150 persons have enrolled so far.
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last stop for Eli Hecht and Gavriel Schapiro whose "territory" this summer was the Pacific Northwest including Portland, Seattle and dozens of smaller communities in the area.
with the Centre's director and
advised huh they were members not necessarily those of stu-of a new organization known as dents of different ethnic back-"Jews for a Radical Society." grounds.
They asked for permission to The 60 participants in this that might be invited to teach at
meet in the Centre and this was meeting received the idea of the least a few sessions at the Free
granted to them. Free University of Jewish Studies University. Both at the planning
In the initial contact with the enthusiastically. Many of them meeting of the coordinators and
Centre director, members of the confirmed that they knew noth- at the general meeting where the
group described a program, com- ing about Judaism and they had registration occurred, it was
memoratihg the Warsaw Ghetto discovered that this was a handi- agreed that the students would
Uprising, which they conducted cap for them in their contacts pay a nommal registration fee
on the campus of Valley College, with other students. They wanted ($2 per course) and that the Free
"Our job," declared Hecht who The program was held in the to know if this University could University would pay to the
at 23 is an ordained rabbi, "is to strengthen and revive the commandments and practices of Orthodox Judaism." But he and Shapiro hastened to add that, "al-
free-speech-area of the campus be theu: own rather than the Centre a $5 rental fee for each
and featured poetry reading, sing- creation of a group of adults who course that was conducted in the]
ing, and speeches, all of which might be associated with the Centre, referred to the heroic resistance .
of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters
though we are Orthodox, our mes- agaj^st the Nazis. After the of sage goes out to all Jews."
In order to revive "the Jewish spark" which they believe has gone out of many Jewish families
Editor's Note — Mr. Farber was a key figure in the experiment described in this article condensed from ''Jewish Community Centre Program Aids."
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because of failure to observe the traditional practices, they meet with families in their homes to discuss such important matters as Kashrut and Sabbath observance.
The students bring with them a large number of books, pamphlets, recordings and paraphernalia which they show their hosts and which is available from the educational arm of Lubavitch in Brooklyn. Lubavitch is the world's largest chassidic group headed by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneer-son.
CONSTRUCT $700M m AVIV MMtm
LOS ANGELES — A group of California businessmen have joined with the Israel government's tourist development corp, Atarim,
ficial part of the program was completed, the participants or-
with the word "Jude" written in yellow. These students were
or some other Jewish organiza- the second week of July and con-tion. The Centre director suggest- tinued for 10 weeks. Each course] ed that the Free University be had an adequate registration,]
«nn wfiS' °* completely in control of the stu- with an average enrolhnent of 15 wnom were non-jewisn. ^^^^^ gy ^j^^ ^^^^ ^j^^^ ^j^^ p^^. ^j^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ "Socialist!
THE REPRESENTATIVES of students should set up the cur- theory and Jewish thought" had the new group stated that this riculum, choose the faculty and the greatest enrollment; however, program and parade gave the select the place in which the the attendance in this course participants a feeling of Identifi- .classes or seminars would be con- gradually dwindled while the at-cation as Jews which few of them "<Jucted. At the second general tendance in the other three had experienced at any other meeting the Hillel director .md courses remained consistently time in their life. They also in- the Centre director, who were in- high.
dicated that they needed to know vited as resource people, assured All of the classes were loose-more about Judaism since their the participants that they would ly structured. Plans were made own sense of identity as Jews serve only when asked by the was shaky. During this conver- students of the Free University sation the idea of a Free Univer- to do so.
sity of Jewish Studies occurred After a further meeting at to the Centre director but at that which 100 students attended time he did not mention this (many of them from other cam-idea to the representatives of the puses in and aroimd L.A.) the new group.
from week to week and members of the class began to request that more outside faculty be recruited to help in the teaching of essential facts re-hited to the content of each course. Many class members
idea emerged that coordinators recognized that without more T+ «i,?«iri« u^n^,^^ ««*.«T.o«* be chosen from members of the expertise input, they were sim-
. residential and officecomplex defbe its goals and purposes. At .F?"^^, '^K'ff'"."T^ ^J^'^^
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on the Tel Aviv seashore, itwas a general meeting, it was suggest- kind of faculty might be required planning on a week to week
announced here. ed that the firouo suDoort the ^^^^^^ ^^"^^ P"^*'* unsatisfactory to
According to Davids. Perry who United Farm Workers Union by ??«ducted. Organizing the Free most of tiie students and th^
heads the investors' group, the throwing a picket Une around a University then became the ma- held meetmgs aft^r class and
project will take five-10 years to store which was sellinc California ^^°"P "^^^^ develop plans at least
' - — — ------- store wnicn was seiimg t^aiuornia ^^jjg^ .^g^j^ ^j^^ Radical Jewish *™
three, four or five, weeks in advance.
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"!"?i!^*A^-^*» ^f''^' ordy rprograln the'coordinators, ieTSley Hm^^ made on the resource people, It a jomt venture group to the State of Israel would director, the Hillel director of mainly to the Centre director with Atarim. or- ------
compieie ana will uiumaieiy re- ta^le grapes. A small minority }r^Z,„^,„ present mvestments exceeding suggested the smuggling of guns Commumty. $100 million. Perry described the j^to Israel since they felt that At the first meeting between
ye^ ifaZ^aZ-veir ^^In viewpoint was irrational. After by the student coordinators to tely the resource people ^were
o^L orL^tv considerable discussion, it was help in the organization of the able to "deliver" sufficiently
orities T^e Strof t^^^^^^ agreed that a picket Ime would Free University) and the Centre competent guest lecturers and
isaOOacret^actatth^^^ organized against the super- director, the following courses teachers to help the classes to
is a bu acre iraci ai me mouui oi ^^^.j^^^ g.g„g ^^^^ ^^^^ suggested: 1. Israel, its his- remam stimulating and excitmg.J
ried which indicated that it was tory and its contemporary prob- In effect, all of the courses were
the responsibility of Jews to lems; 2. Contemporary thought survey courses, but each had th<
support the efforts of all oppres- and Jewish tradition; 3. The value of exposmg a number of sed people to break the chains of Jewish cultural arts; 4. Socialist (Continued on Page 6) their oppression. Other signs urg- theory and Jewish thoughts; See RADICAL STUDENTS ed the store to discontinue the 5. World Jewry and the World sale of California table grapes, press.
be worthwhile. Most felt that this UCLA (who had been invited and the HHler director; fortuna-
the Yarkon River which was formerly the Tel Aviv port, now no longer in use.
Perry said the marina would contain about 800 slips and a yacht club. In addition, major hotels, office buildings, condominium apartments, shopping centres, restaurants, theatres and other facilities are contemplated.
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The question of future pro- AT THIS MEETING registra-grams still faced the group; the tion details were arranged and lack of long-range goals and pur- potential faculty was discussed, poses created considerable con- in addition the student requested fusion. Before frustration over- that space be made available to whehned the members complete- them at the Centre. Another gen-ly, the Centre director, who had eral meeting for purposes of stu-been invited to sit in, suggested dent referral was planned. A the possibility of organizing a week later aproximately 30 stu-free University of Jewish Studies, dents attended the third generial He pointed out to the members meeting; all of them registered of the group that their comments for the various classes. The co-indicated that in their contacts ordinators indicated that there with such organizations as the were other potential students who Black Student Union and the were interested in enrolling in United Mexican Association of the Free University. Although Students, it had always been five classes were offered, students taken for granted that the Jew- registered for only four of them,
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