bcontrasts his farcical Judaism with the depth shown him by
bagnostic professors, leftist movements, and radical
bcauses—which is the direct cause of the phenomenon of
bJewish participation in the extremist camp—Federation al-
blows the Jewish day school movement to remain an un-
bwanted stepchild, plagued at best by absurdly low salaries
bfor teachers and cramped buildings and, worst, by invisibil-
bity.
bThe reason is obvious. The autocrats of the Federation
bare the same assimilated Jews who make up the other Estab-
blishment groups and who frown upon Jewish education and
blong for Jewish “integration.” Once again they cannot ac-
bcept the idea of giving funds which would enable poor and
bmiddle-class Jewish families to send their children to day
bschools. They are opposed to maximum Jewish education,
bper se. It is too Jewish.
bAnd so these people—who are responsible in the first
bplace for the growth of the alienated young Jew—continue
bto guarantee the destruction of the Jewish future. Money
bfor hospitals whose clientele is predominantly not Jewish
bcan always be found—somehow, this is under the Federa-
btion charter. Money for unwed mothers, 90 percent of
bwhom are not Jewish, money to keep up community centers
bthat are breeding grounds for intermarriage, money for
bevery conceiveable institution that bears little or no re-
bsemblance to any Jewish cause or need—this is always avail-
bable.
bBut funds for Jewish education, the heart of Jewish survi-
bval, are verboten. Money to protect Jewish neighborhoods
bfrom the onslaught of crime and hoodlumism; money to
bprovide rent subsidies for elderly, poverty-stricken Jews
btrapped in destroyed and nightmarish neighborhoods, to
benable them to move out; money to provide permanent
bprotection by armed guards for vandalized and threatened
bJewish synagogues, cemeteries, and other institutions—all
bthis is unavailable. In short, on the one hand, the patrician
bhalf-assimilationists fight any government aid to Jewish
beducation, and on the other, they refuse to give it Jewish
bfunds.
bIn March 1970, JDL decided to launch a drive to make the
b