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THE EARLIEST JEWISH
RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS
IN AMERICA
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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
1■ IMM.1 ■ 11r.
CHARLES H. SHAPIRO
URGES "BACK TO THE
SYNAGOG" MOVEMENT
quest of $900 from Myer Polonies
"'Bring the Synagogw: back to its
the instruction of the children of the
Congregation, both in Hebrew and in place. as center of Jewish communal
secular subjects, such as English, life, to the Passover message which
today
sent out by Charles II.
it
Arithmetic, Writing, etc., w 3S
to the Hutto. It Shapiro, chairman of the "Back to
it as as
a rule
the Synagogue" Movement which has
was a recognized part of the liazan's
been launched by the Union of Ortho-
duty to conduct such a school for
dox Hebrew Congregations of Amer•
which he was usually' not allowed any
ica.
Mr. Shapiro appealed to the
extra salary. But he was permitted
Jewish men and women of America
to charge a fee for the tuition, since
to renew their faith and interest ill
mention is made more than once of
Orthodox Jewry, reviewed the
his being obliged to teach poor chil-
achievements of Orthodoxy in Amer-
dren gratis. It is not clear why- it ica. Mr. Shapiro outlined the part
became necessary in the second half Which
the Jcw has played in the
of the eighteenth century to appoint building . of America, and urged that
someone other than the Ilazan as the they keep tip their traditions of loyal-
teacher. But the records show that
to their faith and their country.
there were intervals when no teacher 1% „
'' We hope that this "Back to the
available for the children.
Synagogue” movement will strengthen
The character of this school proves
the faith and give renewed vigor to
from yet another angle how local
traditional Judaism in America," Mr.
was the growth of the Reform move-
Shapiro said.
ment in Judaism. In his History of
"From the earliest days, the ortho-
the Reform Movement, Dr. Philip-on
maintains that the road to the Re- dox Jew has played a conspicuous
part
in the history of America. The
form movement lay through the
of modern tetol,ne ∎ , that be- .first Jewish settlers in New England
well as in the ther colo n ic;, were
gar to be foimiled among the Jews in
the closing decades of the eighteenth irthodox Jews. It was on orthodox
iew
who as early as 16o3 uas per-
eviller;. Ile states that education
among Jews had come to be restrict - tinted to sojourn for only forty-
ight
Hours at Hartford iii the Con-
ed to purely Hebrew instruction, and
that children reared in a school that ,ecticut colony. In the Eighteenth
;entury, Mo r decai Marks, a prosper-
taught eth i cs and secular subjects as
well as religious branches of knowl- ms merchant in Southern New Eng-
land gave much of his fortune to
edge, could not help but become dis-
Christian charities, there being fete
affected with the religious views of
Jews in the colonies at the time.
Own- parents. This may be true of
"The number of Jews in America
l;ermany. at the end of the eighteenth
century. But it is far from being, an at the time of the Revolutionary aVai
accurate statement of conditions in was about 3,000, just about enough
inthersal Jewry at that period. In to fill a good sized synagogue. Yet
I Sep It arctic communities, secular Ilaym Solomon advanced $600,000 to
knowledge was never taboo. nor did the new Government and, and was
it encourage or even necessitate Re- pointed out at the time, did as much
form. During all its two and a half ill the realm of nuance for the success
centuries of existence, the congrega- of American arms, as Washington
ton Shearith Israel in New York has had done on the field of-battle.
"Orthodox Jewish boys contributed
remained an orthodox congregation,
while standing at all times for the so largely to the Lost Battalion Willi..e
combination of general education and achievements brought much glory to
Hebrew knowledge. The school of American arms.
the Congregation, combining Hebrew
"\\'e arc now on the threshold of
and secular education, was regarded a new phase of Jewish endeavor, to
as a natural and traditional Jewish preserve Orthodox Judaism, upon
institution, decades before David which rests the future welfare of our
Eiiedlander, as a daring reform, faith in America. •
founded the Jewish Free School in
"Let us join on this Passover in
Berlin, in I778—a school which Philip- one vigorous effort to bring the syna-
son loosely calls "the first school gogue back to its pristine glory. Let
that taught secular branches to Jew- it again become the center of the
ish children."
responsibility, renew our faith and
Great have been the changes in our spiritual ardor and thus quicken
New York City since the time, less our conscience in the realization that
than two hundred yeati ago, when a good Jew is a better American.
the teacher was paid eight shillings
a quarter and a load of wood for
heating purposes, for each child in-
structed, But the essential nature of
the religious school as a Hebrew
school has not changed. It will he
noticed that in every case, ability to
teach Hebrew is the first qualification
demanded of the teacher. W'e gain
the impression that the foundation of
limo-m.1ton was Jewish,and that the
I. aching of English, Spanish, Read-
Me, Writing and Arithmetic, was
correlated with this religious educa-
tion. The locale of the school in
the Ilebra building of the Synagogue
or in the Hazan's house or the Rabbi's
house, further identified all education
with the Synagogue. Such a school
was a Jewish parochial school in the
best sense of the term and one that,
front the earliest days, bears vivid
testimony to the realization by the
Jews of America of the importance
of religious education as the means of
conserving the Jewish people and its
traditions.
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SCHOOL INNOVATIONS
IN PALESTINE NOVEL
MOVE IN EDUCATION
WOOD
Jerusalem.—Century-old Beersheba
has just inaugurated a new education-
al departure in its government shcool,
which is expected to achieve far-
reaching results in Palestine.
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THE Al- MILD
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WORKSHOPS AS CLASSROOMS.
Town artisans and mechanics have
been given quarters in the school
and while they ply their daily trades,
the school children work with them
and not only receive a practical vo-
cational education, but at the same
time they are engaged in productive
enterprises.
Education has made tremendous
forward strides in Palestine, stimu-
lated by Zionist school activities, ac-
cording to the report. Another inno-
vation in the Beelicheba school is
the addition of a boarding school
where 30 Bedouin children can he
accommodated, .which, according to
the report. will help to sol•e the diffi-
cult riroblem of transforming the
nomad of the desert into a settled
cultivator.
Beersheba now represents a general
aspect of neatness and prosperity.
which is very gratifying, the report
concludes, in summing the changes
wrought in the ancient town, due to
the English and Zionist administra-
tion,
SCHOOL FOR MECHANICAL
DRAFTSMEN.
A school for mechanical draftsmen
has been established in Jerusalem,
under the direction of the Zionist
Commission in Palestine, open to any
Palestinian young man and woman.
American engineers doing sanitary
work with the American Zionist Med-
ical Unit, established the school with
their own personal funds, in order
that the school might get an early
start, the report stated. It is now
supported by Zionist funds.
"The object of the school is to
train intelligent young men-and wo-
men, so that they can assist in the
technical work, required in carrying
through the reconstruction program
planned for Palestine by the Zionist
organization." the report declared.-
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