Growing acceptance in the American Jewish community of the lasting impact upon Jewish college youth of a brief four-week stay at Southern California’s Brandeis Camp institute is reflected in Florida plans for a similar facility. They were disclosed here following a visit to Dr. Shlomo Bardin’s “laboratory of living Judaism” at Santa Susana by A.B. Wiener. chairman of the special commission on Jewish education of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
Wiener said that Miami. with a Jewish population of 200,000 will take leadership in the Florida plan, which envisions creation of a $800,000 fund through contributions of $1,000 each by 500 supporters of a Brandeis Camp Institute for Florida. Miami Jewish leaders, he noted, have long been interested in the Brandeis methodology pioneered for 31 years by Dr. Bardin and his faculty which has successfully combated alienation of Jewish youth.
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