Demanding a Better Education for Our Children Shouldn’t Be This Difficult, But it Is
Education sits at the center of our culture wars, and young minority students are the biggest casualties.
Education sits at the center of our culture wars, and young minority students are the biggest casualties.
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\’s first state-of-the-city speech is likely to put bone and muscle on his school takeover pitch which, up till now, nearly a year into his term, has been theoretical and short on specifics. If Villaraigosa delivers what people all over town have been waiting for, a slew of interest groups will know where they stand and will begin to respond accordingly.
This will be Camp JCA Shalom\’s first summer away from home. For the first time in its 54-year history, the Malibu camp is independent, having broken away from the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA) in January.
Life after the centers crisis hasn\’t been easy for The Shalom Institute: Camp and Conference Center, and now officials are learning how to raise the bulk of the camp\’s $2.3 million budget.
\”Everything is great but we need support,\” said Bill Kaplan, executive director of the Shalom Institute, which runs Camp JCA Shalom.
Financial wizard Michael Steinhardt is blunt in assessing the future of North American Jewry.
The next generation is \”mostly Jewish ignoramuses,\” Steinhardt said. \”We haven\’t convinced the general Jewish population of the value of a Jewish education.\”