LI THE EARLIEST JEWISH RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS IN AMERICA (Continued From Page 5.1 H. & B. MARKS 212-216 Michigan Ave. "Distinctiveness of VorintaitAip ••••—• BE clothes that come from my shops possess beside ex( lusiveness of style, "Gesilis also the distinction in workmanship that well dressed young men desire, J. LIEBER Men's Tailor 209 !Tway Market Bldg. CHERR\ 2236. • Season's Greetings SPECIAL EASTER LILY PLANTS $1.50 and up EASTER CORSAGES $1.50 and $2.00 Other Seasonable Plants Delivery on Call BARSCH, The Florist Cad. 1151 Liggett Bldg. Established 1865 P. Blake's Sons WILLIAM F. BLAKE PAGE SEVEN 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. • WEEKLY USED CAR BULLETIN Remember ----a used car is only as good as the firm you do business with USED CARS THOMAS J. DOYLE 732 Woodward Avenue Glendale 7117 MEMBER D. A. D. A. LEONARD 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. Funeral Directors 54 Peterboro Tel.—Glendale 644 9.G.DUAI THE Al- MILD HAVANA CIGAR 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.- At Peoria, 111., William B. Woollier :was elected president of the Associ,i- lion of Commerce. Mr. Woolner i- a very prominent business man and a large factor in its upbuilding. Make Him Business Manager of the U. S. A. He Can Handle the Job rrnIS is no time for experiments. 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