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Integration Working
In IsraehDr. Adler
< In the midst of the ongoing
controversy over the feasibi-
lity and effects of school
q integration, a positive note
^ was struck today by the
^ educator responsible for
_ much of the innovation in
^ education in Israel.
>. “Integration is working
■J here in Israel,” said Dr.
^ Chaim Adler, professor of
- Sociology and Education at
The Hebrew University of
q Jerusalem, and director of
co the National Council of
Q£ Jewish Women Research
Institute for Innovation in
® Education.
DR. CHAIM ADLER
“We have been building on
the findings of the original
Coleman Report, which our
government has actually
relied on as a basis for
national policy. And frankly,
we’re encouraged,” said Dr.
Adler.
Speaking in a telephone
interview during a Europ-
ean visit before arriving in
the United States, Dr. Adler
was surprised to hear that
people in the U.S. thought
Dr. James Coleman had
abandoned the goal of
integration.
“Dr. Coleman was recently
in Israel,” Dr. Adler said,
“where he is helping us
carry out our own education-
al and social assessment-
somethingwe refer to as the
Israeli Coleman report. And
he expressed strong support
of the Israeli government’s
recent decision to accelerate
the process of integration
here.”
Dr. Adler has collaborated
with Dr. Coleman on a
number of research projects
both in the United States
and in Israel. It was Dr.
Coleman who trained a
number of the researchers
now in key positions in
education in Israel, and who
has influenced the work
done at the NCJW Research
Institute, the center for
educational research of the
disadvantaged in Israel.
Dr. Adler conceded that
busing was also a problem
for Israel, especially in
attempting to arrive at the
percentage of disadvantaged
and middle-class children in
school that Dr. Coleman
implies is optimum for
educational achievement.
“We don’t have the middle-
class flight from the cities
that you have in the U.S.,”
continued Adler. “But with
busing or without it, we
have to keep the focus on
integration and the quality
of education. Busing is a side
issue, and we’re determined
not to get diverted in Israel,
because the success of our
integration will determine
the future success of our
whole society.”
Dr. Adler, best known for
his Youth Study, published
in 1974, is coming to the U.S.
to report to the Board of
Directors of the NCJW
Research Institute on recent
research findings and new
developments. During his
stay he will have consulta-
tions with American educa-
tors in major universities on
current Institute projects in
integration, informal educa-
tion for youth, and early
childhood education.
History of Jewish fTIusic
Detailed in 'Encyclopedia’
NEW YORK - Exhaus-
tive musicological and bio-
graphical information about
Jewish music,..its compos-
ers, and musical develop-
ments are brought together
for the first time in Cantor
Macy Nulman’s “Concise
Encyclopedia of Jewish
Music” (McGraw-Hill).
This one-volume compila-
tion introduces the reader to
Jewish music of every pe-
riod and place throughout
the ages, and brings the mu-
sical practices of Judaism
into contemporary focus. It
discusses such topics as
aiiya and hatikva which
have appeared in general en-
cyclopedias but have never
before been studied in terms
of musical history, general
information, and meaning.
The background of many
compositions and songs that
utilize the Jewish idiom and
are currently performed
throughout the world, such
as Jeremiah Symphony,
Havah Nagilah, La Juive,
and Jerusalem of Gold, is
also covered in this compre-
hensive work.
Music is discussed as it
relates to the Bible, Mish-
nah, Talmud, and Codes,
and as it is used on the
Sabbath and festivals in
the synagogue, home, and
community. Technical
terms and vocabulary
found in Jewish music are
full explained.
Featured among the 500
entries, arranged alphabeti-
cally, are articles on Jewish
musical instruments, Kol
Nidre, its liturgical back-
ground and characteristics,
Israeli music, and the prac-
tice of Psalm singing in the
Jewish culture. A chronol-
ogical listing of highlights
in the history of Jewish
music is also provided.
Director of the Cantorial
Training Institute of Yesh-
iva University, Cantor Macy
Nulman also holds a profes-
sorship in music at Brook-
lyn College.
Premier Rabin Prays at Bergen-Belsen ?
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NISSAN 57|6I
CENTRAL JEWISH COMMITTEE
BRITISH ZONE
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BONN — In a deeply moving scene , Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin is shown chanting Kaddish at
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during his visit to West Germany. Rabin’s German-born wife, Leah, stood be1
hind him fighting back tears as Rabin laid a wreath at the monument. Staring at the grassy mounds that cover mas *
graves, Rabin quietly told an aide, “It is all so green here now. It is hard to believe what went on in this place.”
On his arrival at the Hanover airport Rabin said, “Bergen-Belsen belongs to the past. It is a past we can never
forget, but I and all Israelis look forward to a more hopeful and better future.”
Report to the Commissioner
BY ROBERT E. SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
8
Rabbi Murray Saltzman of
Indianapolis, a comparative
newcomer to the panel of
commissioners appointed by
the President to serve on
the United States Civil
Rights Commission, has
encountered the rawest kind
of feeling about ethnicity in
Boston and has recoiled in
shock and near misbelief.
Sitting with fellow federal
commissioners on a national
hearing to air grievances
over Boston public school
desegregation procedures,
Rabbi Saltzman recently
heard John J. Kerrigan, a
former Chairman and cur-
rent member of the Boston
School Committee, drag into
his testimony the observa-
tion that some 15,000 Jewish
families had departed Mat-
tapan “to get away from the
schwarzes.”
Given this bowl of verbal
mishmash, Rabbi Saltzman
made a point of refusing to
take his turn at questioning
Mr. Kerrigan. His only
comment was that he
wanted no truck with this
“slurring and divisive im-
pact of his (Kerrigan’s)
inflammatory remarks.”
Surely, fair-minded ob-
servers would sympathize
with Rabbi Saltzman’s reac-
tion. And those who have
lived closely with Boston’s
shrill rebellion might want
to remind interested and
puzzled people in other parts
of the nation that Mr.
Kerrigan, with characteris-
tic indulgence in hyperbole,
was making use of much
more than slurs and incendi-
ary and inaccurate speech.
One might well have
asked Mr. Kerrigan what
has caused the tragic deteri-
oration of one of America’s
proudest and most highly
respected public school
systems. Leaving the issue
of racial fears and hostility
aside for the moment, could
there be any doubt that in
the past two or three
decades, thousands upon
thousands of Jewish families
have moved out of a great
variety of Boston neighbor-
hoods because quality edu-
cation for their children is
among their highest aspira-
tions and this was something
that Mr. Kerrigan and
like-minded school commit-
teemen could not and would
not ever supply? Might not
some have logically also
pointed out to Mr. Kerrigan
that many other families -
not Jewish - have in this
same period departed Bos-
ton for the same valid
reason^
Whatever the ultimate
findings and recommenda-
tions the U.S. Commission
On Civil Rights submit to
appropriate federal agencies
Boston appears certain to
face continuing and ever
more disturbing civil strife
over the school issue. Ra-
tional thought is in short
supply as the protesting
mothers and fear-filled fa-
thers go about preparing
their youngsters for another
year of unrest in the schools
and in the neightborhoods
where panic boils.
Boston public school
enrollment will probably be
down by nearly 10,000 if and
when schools re-open in
September. Parochial and
other non-public schools,
both in the city and its
environs, will absorb some
of the boys and girls. Plans
calling for the redistribution
of Boston’s 86,517 students
in Grades 1 through 12 are
challenged at every step.
The principal target of
opponents of Boston’s pro-
gram calling for the busing
of 21,000 white and black
children is U.S. District
Judge Arthur W. Garrity.
Possessed of the School
Committee’s own incrimina-
ting transcripts of their
meeting records detailing
their plans to sabotage
desegregation via school
district gerrymandering
Judge Garrity himself
during the summer has
questioned whether there
will be any public school
education, let alone quality
education, come Fall.
Encouraged by support
from parents in safe suburbs
sharing their views, em-
boldened by national publi-
city acquired through their
strident program, bolstered
by Dr. James Coleman’s
reversal of an earlier, strong
pro-integration stand, anti-’
integrationists in Boston1
now appear confident they
will crush all public school
busing in the city.
“Restore Our Alienated
Rights,” the leaders of this
coalition (ROAR) opposed to
busing cry. As they rumble
on with their demand for
preservation of what they
see as their civil rights, they
apparently behold nothing
inconsistent in their efforts
to try to keep newspaper
trucks from carrying news
garnered by a free press on
to the troubled streets of a
strife-zapped Boston. Little^
wonder that the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission’s Rabbi
Saltzman left Boston be-
wildered, shaken, and
stunned.
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