Valued Above Rubies: Women and Men of Valor Win MOMENT'S Community Service Awards PART I
Valued Above Rubies Women and Men of Valor Win MOMENT'S Community Service Awards PART | Thanks to a multitude of community heroines and heroes, Jewish culture is thriving in grassroots...
...For those who still could not afford it, Bernstein found assistance from Jewish and non-Jewish contributors and agencies...
...Once they are placed with clients, the companions are required to fill out weekly two-page reports...
...The Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, which opened ten years ago, enables women of all Jewish denominations and levels of learning to study biblical and rabbinic texts intensively and at an advanced level, full time or part time...
...At 93, Baron is still writing books...
...Treas., A1PAC...
...The school also offers a six-week Summer Institute for short-term, intensive study...
...For the U.S...
...Each has followed his or her Jewish principles to create a better, more beautiful, safer, more peaceful and caring world...
...The judges for this category were Maurice Cohen, Treas., Brandeis Urtw...
...Born in Galicia in 1895, Baron had aready committed most of Solomon Graetz's History of the Jews to memory by his early teens...
...The group also helps Jewish educators to network by providing a curriculum bank and job bank...
...He presently serves on the boards of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, the Washington chapter of the American Technion University, American Friends of Hebrew University, the B'nai B'rith Museum, and the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Washington...
...Bernstein has been invited to present her idea to five gerontological and social work associations, and her unique program of extending the independence of the frail has been a model for other communities...
...In this way administrative costs were reduced and the program became affordable to lower-middle-income elderly...
...He is also on the UJA Federation Board of Directors Campaign Cabinet and executive committee...
...More non-Jews than Jews participated, and church groups were in on the planning and donated money to the effort...
...The judges for this category were Abraham H. Foxman, KaCl...
...This quote from the Jerusalem Talmud (Hagigah 1:7) sums up the philosophy of Fradle Pomerantz Freid-enreich, whose 18 years of work with the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) ended recently when she moved to Israel...
...They are care-givers and fundraisers...
...They attended a public seder and ecumenical worship services...
...Volunteers and part-time staff enhance the quality of life for residents...
...While the work may be painful and difficult at times, I have had the opportunity to do work that is deeply empowering, life-affirming and worthy beyond any question or doubt...
...His classes stress that the Jewish family and the Jewish people can prosper only when each of us helps to reaffirm and renew our tradition...
...They make shabbos for Jews with AIDS and create homes for the handicapped...
...Muskegon experienced its share of anti-Semitism in the past...
...to renew and clarify my own deepest commitments and to see reconciliation in families and communities, healing wounds inflicted by homophobia and confusion...
...Twenty years ago, [education] was not a serious Federation issue for budgeting or planning...
...In this issue of MOMENT we introduce the winners of the Volunteer Service, Social Service, Scholarship and Education awards...
...Wisse's books, articles, translations, editorial works and lectures, including the books, A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two American Yiddish Poets (Harvard, 1988), and The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (University of Chicago, 1971) have established her expertise in Yiddish literature...
...Today more than 75 clients are cared for by 45 home companions...
...Many American Jews still believe that the AIDS epidemic "is a problem for the goyim and one that doesn't really affect our own congregation or our own children...
...Through her work, Yiddish is now appreciated for its literary creativity and for its aesthetic value...
...Before working at JESNA, Freidenreich was a teacher and principal for several Jewish day schools and afternoon schools...
...Eight group homes and 18 apartments are spread throughout residential Washington, D.C., suburbs...
...It means making sure that no one with AIDS is isolated from the Jewish community, and that every resource possible is available for victims and their families when they need it most," says Rose...
...It is an honor to take care of the handicapped," says Cohen...
...In most cases they are quite capable but the parents, who want so badly to provide for them, don't let them do things for themselves...
...its vital role in our culture is no longer overlooked...
...Kaufman said they never let money concerns stand in their way, and they almost always found the funding they needed...
...His latest work is The Contemporary Relevance of History (Columbia, 1986...
...All of the homes have daytime programs for the residents, who participate in cooking and cleaning in their own homes...
...But Kaufman, who initiated and chaired the centennial celebration, invited Perl-man—and he accepted...
...Dir., ADL...
...One of Cohen's sons lives in a group home, and another is part of an apartment program—a more independent living opportunity with part-time supervision...
...Wisse teaches in the department of Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal and has served as president of the Association of Jewish Studies...
...We can no longer teach about the Israel of the prayerbook, travel posters, archaeology, planting trees and the Haganah," said CAJE board of directors chairperson Betsy Dolgin Katz...
...What could be more enriching than a Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Israel...
...Reflected in their approach was CAJE's idea that Jewish education involves all aspects of a person—the spiritual, creative and intellectual...
...The homes observe Jewish culture and tradition, although they are non-sectarian...
...He is best known for Social and Religious History of the Jews (Columbia, 1957), an 18-volume work that covers Jewish history only up to 1650 and his three-volume The Jewish Community (Jewish Publication Society, 1942...
...For two days of the conference, participants were svhisked to all corners of Israel to study, first hand, the many ways Jewish education is an integral part of everyday life in Israel...
...Building coalitions within the Jewish community is not an easy task, Rose says...
...Mostly, the companions keep the clients company, playing cards and board games, watching television or just talking with them...
...The educators, who came from all over the world, shared the common challenge of seeking ways to explain the occupation in ways that can enlarge and develop informed opinions on the ongoing debate...
...Board...
...from "Teaching Sephardic Values in the Diaspora" to "Hypertext, Talmud and Halacha" (the use of computer programs to help sort out the interwoven topics in the Talmud...
...ifii The judges for this category were Rabbi Maunce Corson, Pres., The Wexner Foundation...
...Cohen now travels to other cities as a consultant, helpingjewish communities set up group homes and apartment programs for the handicapped and the aged...
...They wrote largely for each other and a small, diminishing audience of Yiddish loyalists...
...One group went to the West Bank and studied political, moral and economic consequences wrought by the Jewish settlements...
...A geriatric worker for more than 30 years, she thought of the idea, developed a training program, wrote a training manual, screened the applicants and spearheaded the effort to get funding to launch the project...
...Volunteer Service Friends told her she was a dreamer when Sylvia Kaufman suggested booking Itzhak Perlman to come to Muskegon, Michigan (population 41,000) as part of the commemoration of the Jewish centennial in the town...
...Valued Above Rubies Women and Men of Valor Win MOMENT'S Community Service Awards PART | Thanks to a multitude of community heroines and heroes, Jewish culture is thriving in grassroots America...
...In 1987, Silber started a program for gifted high school students...
...Although he sued and won the right to remain, Jews did not join the club again until the 1950s...
...and Bernard S. White, Nat'I...
...With the goal of cultivating future Jewish educators, classes emphasize how one should study Jewish texts...
...Some of the Israeli guides were not only teaching about the intifada, but spoke movingly of their recent experiences policing the Arab uprising...
...They are community organizers and national organizations...
...Major Yiddish writers are major writers, says Ruth R. Wisse...
...synagogue programs...
...the celebration inspired a book on the history of Jews in Muskegon...
...Baron's scholarship appeals to Jews of all denominations because he finds value in many kinds of Jewish communities, personalities and ideas...
...After she coauthorcd a widely acclaimed book about integrated curricula in day schools, others followed her lead and developed plans such as the study of the book of Job with the contemporary play J.B...
...Drisha teaches traditional texts using innovative methods...
...Judges learned of individuals who worked to save their community's synagogue from being destroyed and read the course plans of educators who found creative ways to teach about the Holocaust...
...The centennial celebration has educated the community and raised awareness about Judaism...
...Thejudges for this category were Louis Feldman, Chair, Classics Dept., Teshwa Univ...
...Not to do so will increase a dangerously widening gap between Israel and the Diaspora...
...Wisse was instrumental in changing the status of Yiddish in academia...
...Through his ground-breaking work, Baron, and then his students and their students, made Jewish history an integral part of the history curriculum of numerous universities...
...Until relatively recent times, concern with Yiddish literature was confined to a small group of writers detached from the mainstream literary world...
...Kaufman was the one who first proposed that the town's only synagogue do something to commemorate the first Jewish Shabbat service in Muskegon, which had been held in 1888 in the home of Polish-born Henry Rubinsky, a scrap metal dealer...
...Defense Department...
...The teachers of Bible and Mishnah...
...In 1937, a prominent Jewish businessman was expelled from the Muskegon Country Club for being Jewish...
...Even today, civic meetings will end with the words, "in Jesus' name," thoughtlessly excluding the Jews in the room...
...AIDS, since there was no one else available to do it...
...It is an alternative to the state-run programs, which generally have long waiting lists...
...As for the remaining three days of the conference, during just one morning one could attend two or three of the 80 overlapping sessions, ranging from "Not Only for Little Old Men: A Page of Talmud" to "In the Beginning: A Jewish Lamaze Experience...
...Kaufman's efforts resulted not only in organizing Muskegon's Centennial Celebration, but in creating planning guides so that other Jewish communities can benefit from Muskegon's experience...
...Part of the service is simply protection for someone who is alone...
...they have always interacted with their neighbors, stresses Baron...
...While serving on the board of the Jewish Social Service Agency, he was active on the Committee for the Handicapped and became a major fundraiser for group homes...
...He was attracted to the idea of group homes because they foster independence and self-sufficiency in, as he calls them, "handi-capable" individuals...
...The fact is that approximately 10 percent of people with AIDS in the Bay Area—heterosexuals, homosexuals, Israelis and Americans—are Jewish...
...The program is successful in that it provides reasonably priced care for clients and employs largely unemployable elderly in the community, offering supervision and advice to them...
...Through honest and open inquiry Rabbi Silber challenges us to become thinking Jews and to pass on our insights to others," says a Drisha student...
...Although families who have had to watch their children die are stricken, often in shock, the Jewish community is there for them, through Rose's AIDS Project, as an extended family to offer support during a time of pain...
...Kaufman supplied the school system with educational material about the Holocaust and about Jewish practices, and the town's museum hosted Jewish art exhibits...
...By 1930 he was a full professor of Jewish history, literature and institutions at Columbia University, where he taught until 1963...
...Long-range care offered by group homes can allay much of this worry...
...His first work, published in German, Die Judenfrage auf dem Wiener Congress, appeared in 1920, and his other works include Die Politische Theorie Ferdinand Lassalles (1923), Modern Nationalism and Religion (1947) and The Russian Jew Under Tsars and Soviets (1964...
...and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Associate, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership...
...When Cohen isn't out getting funding for the homes, he is volunteering his time at one...
...Started in the early 1960s in Highland Park, Illinois, the mechinah now is a staple of many U.S...
...The family usually feels cut off, in a strange place, knowing no one...
...Louise Bernstein's creation, the Jewish Home Companion Service, has been a welcome alternative for the elderly in the Stamford, Connecticut area...
...He is a past board member of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Zionists of America and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs...
...Jewish theater companies nominated their directors...
...Members of the 20-person planning committee dreamed up program ideas and found ways to make them happen...
...Non-observant women find relevant to their lives courses such as Problems in Jewish Ethics, which discusses Jewish approaches to such ethical questions as abortion, euthanasia and suicide...
...In 1927 Baron came to New York to teach history at the Jewish Institute of Religion...
...Most of the judges expressed regret at having to eliminate outstanding candidates...
...Arthur R. Grant, Programs Dir., Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...JESNA is the central agency for Jewish education in North America, offering services to help communities make educational plans, train teachers and develop volunteer leaders...
...So last summer CAJE, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, convened in Jerusalem for its Bar/Bat Mitzvah: the 13th Annual Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education...
...Each year, ten women who are considering a career in Jewish education receive a full scholarship and a S7,500 stipend for a year of full-time study at Drisha...
...Samples of Jewish crafts, slides of sculptures and paintings and sheets of calligraphy arrived in large parcels...
...Classes are held at the East Side Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan...
...The result was a teacher's guide that included sections specifically tailored for Jewish and non-Jewish chaplains and for those with and without teaching experience, a curriculum for children from kindergarten through eighth grade, and study materials for teenagers and adults...
...or a mock trial of Pharaoh that culminates a unit on the American judicial system...
...The realization of Kaufman's dream to have Perlman perform became the model for the celebration...
...AIDS is not one of Pharldalli's plagues passing over the Jews," says Andy Rose, director of the AIDS Project at San Francisco's Jewish Family and Children's Services—the country's first full-time Jewish AIDS program...
...Recently, the Jewish Theological Seminary awarded Freidenreich an honorary doctorate for her accomplishments over a 30-year career...
...Cohen has been instrumental in creating the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes (JFGH), which raises capital funds to establish group homes and supervised apartments for mildly retarded and disabled young adults in the Washington, D.C., area...
...CAJE's Conference Planning Committee has been chosen for a special MOMENT Community Service Award in education...
...Drisha instructors visit Jewish schools of all denominations and expose teachers to creative approaches to biblical and rabbinic texts...
...Freidenreich believes that American Jewish communities have become more serious about education...
...Many of these young adults would otherwise be 'children' to their families forever, which puts a tremendous strain on the parents," Cohen explains...
...Generally, Jewish education [now] receives one of the highest percentages of domestic allocations...
...At age 34, I have seen more of my peers die than I had expected to witness in my entire lifetime," says Rose...
...Baron maintains that Jewish history must be studied as part of the general history of the world...
...Almost every social institution in Muskegon got involved in the centennial celebration...
...There they visited Circassians, Druse, Moslems, Christian Arabs and Jews in their homes and spoke with government officials as they studied how minority issues arise, develop and are resolved in any society...
...In spite of negative attitudes, Rose has been able to make inroads in educating Jews about responsible sex...
...The suggestion turned into a full-time occupation for Kaufman, who took a leave of absence from her job as marketing director for a retail display firm to volunteer her time to the centennial committee...
...Jews were never completely isolated from the cultures of the lands they inhabited...
...Jewish and non-Jewish residents enjoyed at least two different Jewish cultural, political or educational events every week during the nine months...
...Scholarship When Salo Wittmayer Baron began teaching Jewish history at Columbia University in 1930, Jewish studies was taught at only two secular universities—Columbia and Harvard...
...These young adults have never really had success before in their lives," says Cohen...
...Cohen's views are shaped by his experience as father of five sons, two of whom are developmentally disabled...
...The thought of a nursing home often depresses them...
...We began to feel grateful for the opportunity to read about the achievements and dreams of these people...
...He has attracted and mobilized a core of "mitzvah helpers," as he calls them, volunteers from the Jewish community who want to get involved in a Jewish way with bikkur cholim, care for the ill...
...Our traditional curriculum is important, but we also need to face with our students the difficult, confusing reality that Israelis are facing today...
...Cohen was one of the organizers of JFGH in 1982...
...This way I can keep my mother home, thank God...
...It became clear to me that if the most gifted young women were to be persuaded to pursue careers in education, they had to be infused with a love of learning at a young age," says Silber...
...They would rather stay in their own homes, but few are able to afford home care, even part-time...
...Bernstein set up the program so that the care-givers, once trained by Jewish Family Service QFS), would be self-employed, although JFS would offer referrals and supervision...
...In just a few decades, the study of Yiddish literature has become fashionable and is now offered in the curriculums of major universities...
...They visited a photographic exhibit from the Anne Frank Center, heard Jewish performers in concert, heard klezmer music, viewed the Marc Chagall exhibit, heard lectures on the Arab-Israeli conflict and on Jewish philosophy by prominent visiting scholars, enjoyed concerts by Rinat (The National Choir of Israel) and participated in Jewish cooking classes...
...Marvin Fox, Dir., Lown School of Near East and judaic Studies, Brandeis Univ...
...For the last two years, Freidenreich was associate director of JESNA and director of its department of educational resources and services...
...We asked ourselves why had we agreed to take on another responsibility," wrote three of the judges...
...While the Jewish people has influenced the rest of the world, the rest of the world has influenced the Jewish people...
...Parents and siblings worry about who will care for the disabled one after the parents die...
...MOMENT applauds their originality and dedication and offers their stories as an inspiration to the Jewish community...
...The children of the clients are relieved of stress, and in some cases the companion program frees up a child to go back to work...
...We Jews place a high value on education, so the least we can do is educate our own community and young people— everyone who is or who is going to be sexually active—on how to protect themselves...
...Under his leadership, the first group home was opened in 1983, and in the following years more homes were added...
...But Silber still felt that there were women his institute wasn't reaching...
...It has also enhanced respect for Jews and Jewish culture...
...AIDS challenges all of us to embrace those who have been excluded, drawing on the best of Jewish tradition to respond to this crisis with knowledge and compassion," says Rose...
...and Jewish history...
...Several things marked Muskegon's celebration as atypical...
...Also popular is a Talmud class covering the eighth chapter of Sanhedrin, which deals with questions of justifiable homicide and other issues concerning the relative importance of human life...
...In the next issue we will write about the winners of the Religion, Literature and the Arts and Charitable Fundraising awards...
...Home companions help prepare meals, shop for food, provide transportation and look out for the general safety of the client...
...So he inaugurated a Teacher Enrichment Program, which is still in the pilot phase...
...Aimed at both women and men who are already in the teaching profession, the TEP is an in-service program...
...The town's church congregations were inspired to learn more about Judaism...
...military personnel and their families requested by the U.S...
...Companions even accompany clients to community activities...
...Companions train in weekly two-hour classes for ten weeks...
...Rather than seeking to praise or blame them, his goal is to understand them...
...One group looked at the landscape of Jerusalem— as a real place, as a spiritual vision, and as a metaphorical place—all the while examining texts dealing with Jerusalem...
...Kaufman is given credit for the scope and quality of the celebration...
...He also has a rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna...
...Wisse's achievement has been to thrust Yiddish literary studies out of a narrow, parochial setting and into the larger world of Western literary scholarship and criticism...
...most of the faculty are professors at nearby universities, including Yeshiva University, Touro College and New York University...
...Rose provides support for the family, meeting them at the airport, arranging housing and transportation services as well as providing grief counseling...
...The youngsters assemble twice a week for songs, games and holiday celebrations conducted almost solely in Hebrew...
...Besides holding annual conferences, CAJE cosponsors local educational conferences, publishes model teaching units and brings out "Crisis Curricula" to help teachers make the most of current events, such as the 1987 landmark march on Washington in support of Soviet Jewry...
...Another group went to a region in the Galilee with a high concentration of minorities...
...In one case Rose even learned how to perform laharah* to fulfill the last wishes of someone who died of harah is the ritual washing of a dead body cribed by Jewish law...
...A semester's curriculum is usually centered on a major halachic-theme, for example labor relations or the laws of mourning...
...Each of us was moved by the descriptions of people making extraordinarily good use of their God-given gifts to teach, empower and care for other Jews...
...Her successful experiment in integrating Jewish and secular studies in Jewish day schools is a prime example...
...She has also co-edited Selected Stories of Sholem Alechem (New Republic, 1973), The Penguin Book of Yiddish Poetry (Viking, 1987) and the first volume of the Library of Yiddish Classics, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Schocken, 1987...
...Caring for people with AIDS is a mitzvah, and safe sex is also a mitzvah," says Rose...
...Most of Drisha's students are in college or are college graduates...
...Congregations sent copies of services developed by their rabbis that brought them closer to Judaism...
...A lively picture of local Jewish activism has emerged from letters and supporting materials nominating 163 candidates for MOMENT'S Community Service Awards...
...They are 14 men and women and three organizations whose achievements fall into seven categories of contribution to the Jewish community...
...The program has been an unexpected plus in furthering black-Jewish relations...
...Funding came from the Jewish community, from various Muskegon churches, arts foundations, private and national foundations...
...Kaufman remembers that when Muskegon churches asked her for videotaped explanations of Judaism she thought it would be a simple request, but after months of searching she was unable to locate any such video, but supplied them with informational booklets instead...
...That's a good step in the right direction...
...Rose also does such things as arrange with a local synagogue to prepare and deliver special Shabbat and holiday meals for people with AIDS, and assist the ill and their families with arrangements for a Jewish burial...
...Bernstein recruits able-bodied elderly people who needed some extra income to care for the frail elderly...
...Each has done this in a Jewish way, in a way that inspired others to make a similar contribution...
...Esther Plotkin, MOMLVr Editorial Adv...
...Parents of people with AIDS in the San Fransisco area often live on the East Coast, and when their child becomes seriously ill they fly frequently to California to be there...
...Gary Rosenblatt, Editor, Baltimore Jewish Times and Detroit Jewish News...
...former students nominated scholars who had most inspired them...
...and Rabbi Benjamin Kreitman, Exec...
...Group homes are staffed full-time and residents receive counseling and training, helping them to achieve independence and lead productive lives...
...The judges studied the biographies of men and women who volunteered their time to bridging the gap between blacks and Jews, between the handicapped and the physically able, between American Jews and people of all faiths throughout the world in need of food, clothing, and shelter...
...and Melvin I Urofsky, Prof, of History, Virginia Commonwealth Univ...
...Rose is creating a Jewish model for dealing with the AIDS crisis...
...A coordinator reads these reports and evaluates each client, assessing personalities and needs...
...JESNA also serves as a clearinghouse for leaching methods and materials...
...Planners of the conference wanted to use Israel as a "living laboratory" to educate the educators who would assemble there...
...T A Tho are the true guardians of a V V city...
...It was Baron's approach to Jewish history that caused scholars in this century to broaden their view of the subject...
...SRobert Cohen understands the • peculiarly Jewish significance of donating time and effort...
...Kaufman's guides have been circulated to 500 communities by the Council of Jewish Federations...
...The enterprise has benefitted both blacks and Jews because the overwhelming majority of the companions are black, and contact between companions and clients has generally been constructive, with Bernstein available to field problems that may arise...
...Bicentennial, Freidenreich led an effort to develop and test a curriculum that examined the emergence of a nation from the viewpoints of both U.S...
...Rose accomplishes all this without any paid staff members...
...Social Service When the elderly are unable to care for themselves, their options are often limited...
...The judges were deluged with outstanding nominations...
...Education I 'he Jewish community must pre--L pare its best people to become its educational leaders, whether men or women," says Rabbi David Silber...
...Since their study was done during the intifada, the participants felt the urgency and relevance of the study of social problems...
...In addition, there are weekly seminars dealing with methodologies used to study the diverse genres of Jewish literature, as well as instructions on how to utilize research aids and bibliographical tools...
...You have . . . earned a deserved reputation as one of the most creative, imaginative practitioners and skilled administrators in the field," the citation said, noting her role as a "pathfinder" in family education and youth activity, individualized instruction and long-range planning for Jewish education...
...Freidenreich pioneered the meclunah program of Hebrew immersion for kindergartners and first-graders...
...After two years the children can go into an accelerated Hebrew program...
...Cohen, a sales representative with Steuart Petroleum Company, performs other services for the Jewish community in addition to his work with JFGH...
...At JESNA, Freidenreich developed a Jewish curriculum for U.S...
...He performed a concert of Jewish melodies to an audience of 1,800, opening the nine-month centennial celebration in September 1988...
...He studied at the University of Vienna where he received doctorates in philosophy, political science and law...
...Through Rose's innovations, the Jewish AIDS Project eclipses the usual social services provided for people with AIDS—counseling, setting up support groups, crisis intervention and financial assistance for emergency expenses...
...Yiddish literature was unknown in the academic world, and its treasures were inaccessible to those who had no knowledge of the Yiddish language or Yiddish cultural milieu...
...Since women lacked the opportunities to pursue the requisite studies for a career in education, I founded the Drisha Institute to fill the gap...
...In fact, we became exhilarated by the news of creativity, devotion and concern alive in Jewish communities near and far...
...Muskegon has only 250 Jews—about 87 Jewish families—yet this small town in Michigan that was settled by Dutch lumberjacks in the 1880s managed to attract world-class speakers such as political scientist Zvi Gitelman and philosopher and theologian Eugene Borowitz, major art exhibitions such as the works of Marc Chagall, and at least as many cultural, social and political events as other, larger American cities boasting hundreds of thousands of Jews...
...says the daughter of one client, "and she doesn't have to feel like a burden...
...They are unsung heroes and world-famous scholars...
...for example, the Camp Ramah director who had so touched the lives of young people that 17 former campers—college students, rabbinical students, psychologists, teachers—were separately inspired to write nominations describing how he was instrumental in nurturing their Jewish identities...
...Who are MOMENT'S winners...
...The five-week high school program encourages a passion for inquiry and develops tools to analyze texts...
...Rose speaks at- religious schools, confirmation classes, Bureau of Jewish Education meetings, Jewish summer camp staff meetings, Federation singles groups, congregations, and at numerous conferences for Jewish social service agency workers...
...His belief that Jewish history is not a story of endless suffering, but one of hope, pervades his work...
...But an entirely different mood set in as we began to read the 23 sets of nominations and supporting materials that had arrived in an ominously large crate...
...They are not institutionalized, but are accessible to shopping areas and public transportation...
...Baron delves beyond the s^tudy of Jewish spiritual and cultural heroes, exploring the history of ordinary Jews and emphasizing demographic, economic, political, legal and sociological developments...
...The work of the companions prevents or delays institutionalization and safeguards the clients' lives...
...V.P., United Synagogue of America...
...She surveyed military chaplains and visited Jewish personnel on 10 military bases...
...Described by one leading Jewish educator as a "superstar in the galaxy of educational professionals whose counsel is sought by Jewish institutions everywhere," Freidenreich both conceives of creative initiatives and makes them happen...
...Bernstein says that the companions, who are between the ages of 50 and 85, would earn so little income without the companion project that they themselves would be in need of social support services...
Vol. 14 • August 1989 • No. 5
