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Judaism with the best that is in
America.
"We perceive a community great in
numbers, mighty in power, enjoying
I life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
uopurts Of Jewish life and in
The problem of Jewish education is normal
becoming more and more acute from many cities, among them Chicago,lpiness; true life, not mere breathing
day to day. Our future status in the Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, I slice; full liberty, not mere elbow
country depends, in a large degree, the Federations of Jewish Charities room:
real happiness, it that of pas-
e tore beasts; actively participating in
in the manner in which we cope with have undertaken, at least in part, th
s. this problem. It is up to us in the responsibility for Jewish education at the gress
civic,
and economic
of social
the country,
fully sharing pro-
and
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increasing its spiritual possessions and
J ewish community to further the soluork.
Alongside
with
this,
we
must
note
acquisitions,
doubling
its
joys,
halo-
Gon of this problem, for unless this
is done, what paid are our charities- th e greatly changed standard of com- ing its sorrows; yet deeply rooted in
what good our health centers, our hos- munal work. It would avail us little the soil of .1 udaism, clinging to its
pitals and our convalescent homes? if the community as a whole assumed past, working for its future, faithful
We need to strengthen ourselves on responsibility fur Jewish education to its aspirations, one in sentiment
without raising the standards. Not with their brit hero wherever they
the spiritual side.
. The Talmud Torahs represent an , so very long ago it was generally ac- IIN; men with straight backs and
[ integral part of the Jewish communal • cepted that anything at all was good raised heads, with lag hearts and
' organization. There has been much enough in communal work, since any- strong
, rong minds, with no conviction
concerning the thing at all was good enough for the crippled, with no emotion stifled, with
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misunderstanding
standard exists today'' snuls harmoniously developed, self
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meaning of Talmud Torah and its p
,1 function in our scheme of education. What is done: by the community as rentered and self-reliant; receiving
of the highest and resisting, not yielding like wax
I The phrase "Talmud Torah" (study of a whole ought to be
III the Torah) has two distinct meanings, standard; it ought to be better than to every impress from the outside, but
II one signifying the ideal of learning, the individual undertakings. The Mt. blending the best they possess with
ir Jewish education, the other a Sinai hospital in New York City has the best they encounter, not a horde
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of individuals, but a set of in-
' definite institution, one particular indeed progressed very far i. 1
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. type of Jewish school. As an ideal, out Jewish "hekdesh"-the hospital I dividualities, adding a new note to the
"Talmud Torah" holds a very high for the poor-if the reader still has i , richness of American life, leading a
piney in Jewish thought. Jewish edu- some recollection of what that symbol' low current into the stream of Ameri-'
i can civilization."
h been regarded by his- of disorganisation and dirt was. In
cationhas
a ems . .•
trio n s and philosophers as the very those caws where the 1w
When Jewish educators in America
Sas is of Jewish life since the Exile. munity has been aroused to the iii today speak of Talmod Torah, they
Poor families have deprived them- portance of Jewish educational work, bas' no mean institution in mind.
wives of the very necessities of life there is visible a marked improve-'
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ive their children Jewish instrue• nient in Talmud
the Talmud
Torah.
Ultimate-
I They
think of
buildings
dignified and
Torah
in America
will
i beautiful,
whose
architecture
will
yii.gl
Out
of
High
Rent
Distric
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Between Second and Elizabeth
However, in spite of the very high bear
be no greater resemblance to its 1 mark
them
as places
of think
Jewish
interest
and out
learning;
they
of
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ioned class rooms, well
place that the ideal of "Talmud pi ,,totype in eastern Europe than d well proportioned
equipped hospitals erected
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the
consistence
of
the
f
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ne
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well
ventilated,
properly
k Torah" has held in
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they think of club rooms
the Jewish people, the institution by the Jews ill America to the old lighted,
which goes by that name was in the "hekdesh" of the Ghetto.
and an auditorium when plays can
last century or SO in eastern Europle c ( Another force is at work remodeling be given, lectures delivered and Her-
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' a rather dilapidated affair. The Ta • h • program of activities in the Tai- vices held. They think of a body of
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mud Torah in Vilna, for example, was mud Torah. This thesis has been teachers, young men and women of
the "charity school" maintained by brilliantly developed in a splendid con- fine t o uring, who understand Ameri-
the community for the childrentif e tribution to the whole subieet o can life and the psychology of the I
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, . was the case all over the world in author of this book, Dr. Islets,. B. Berk- who have been moved by the Jewish
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or two ago, "charity schools,'
amidst our success-pursuing civiliza•
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Associated
Talmud
In his busk,
he discusses
the lion are devoting themselves out of
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ditions and in teaching they were far
dically affecting the course of study who, wondering and thoughtful, lis-
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in
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of
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secular education, speaks English as already here and there such buildings,
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I When the Jews from eastern Europe the vernacular and has much less time such teachers, and there are young
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began to establish Talmud Torahs for Hebrew studies. Without enter- neople who look back to their years in
in America, they simply copied the ing deeply into the change in schedule, Hebrew school as the most interesting
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The Jews early began to realize munal endeavor in, America. This is
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both on the part of the parents and the necessity of adjusting the immi- not a prophecy, it is the calculation of
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and in a great many Places necessity of Americanization as it is some of the more important charitable
still continues to be, a symbol for un- often called. The educational alliances work, as it has already done in many
sanitary quarters And poor teaching. and the Y. M. H. A:s emphasized places; as the increasing wealth of
But in the last 10 or 15 years the the teaching of English, preparation the community makes it possible to
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Talmud Torah in the larger American for citizenship, and recreational ac- meet philanthropic needs more easily,
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has begun to undergo a very tivities. Talmud Torahs, too, have the energy of the Jewish community
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profound change destined to make begun to recognize the importance of will be freed fur constructive Jewish
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institution
a true embodiment of such activities calculated to adapt the tasks looking toward improvement of
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throughout
the country men like more modern forms of the Talmud low, for the preservation of that
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Otto
Rosalsky,
Felix Warburg, activities as clubs, lectures, concerts, will be recognized that Jewish educa-
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- the late Jacob H. Schiff, speaking reading rooms and gymnasium, so that tion is worthy of the serious labor of
about Talmud Torah with no reference
that Talmud Torah center of today as the community as a whole, acting to-
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to the old ramshackle, unsanitary, in. represented in the Central Jewish In- gether. "Talmud Torah Kneged
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efficien tinstaution which used to be
called to mind by that name; but to atitute of New York. for instance, Kulom" (Talmud Torah above all)
a new Jewish educational institution combines a broad social and r•crea- will no longer be a forgotten phrase in
adapted to American conditions, mod- tional program with the Jewish edu- the Hebrew prayer book. It will be-
come the slogan of American Jewish
ern in its equipment, its teaching staff stational aim. The scope
of the work
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enlarged also to include the communal endeavor.
preserving nevertheless has been
methods,
and
the old
sins and ideal of Talmud interests of young people and adults
well as of children; in fact the
Torah, the pursuit of Jewish knowl- as
edge and spiritual life. family as a whole rather than the
of
Among the several forces at work individual has become the unit
in transforming the character of the work. A splendid analysis of the par-
Institute
of the Central Jewish
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Talmud Torah in America is a new poses
presented by Dr. !silo,. B. Berkson,
Right to Office Upheld by Votes from
conception Of what constitutes con- in
formerly its director. Says he
Opposite Party.
munal responsibility. In this ma
'The underlying idea of The Cen-
the Jewish community is 'undergoing tral Jewish Institute is Talon! Torah
a development parallel to that which as is indicated by its sub-title. The
WASHINGTON.-After a day of
?? American Municipalities have under- preservation of Jewish spiritual life stormy debate, in which party feel-
gone during the last century. Former- is the idea which gives point and pur-
ing ran high, the House, by a vote of
ly it was thought that the community pose to all the activities of the in-
210 to 198, passed a resolution de-
an a whole ought to help the individual stitution.
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claring that Sol Bloom, the Demo-
only in abnormal situations, when he
"With all its strong insistence on cratic member from the Nineteenth
was ill or incapable of supporting him- a Jewish purpose, it nevertheless New York District, was entitled to
self. Gradually it was recognized recognizes the need of adjusting to
the seat that he now holds, thus re-
that the community must make itself the conditions of American life and jecting the claim for it made by Wal-
O responsible for supplying certain nor- thought. The harmonization of Jew- ter M. Chandler, former Republican
mal needs. of every individusl. The ish purpose with American life is the
Representative from the New York
greatest step forward wns male when
district named.
O the community undertoek the work of institution's raison d' etre.
. "Insisting on an intensive course in
Mr. Bloom's tenure of office during
general education. A great theoretical
Jewish subjects for the Talmud Torah, this Congress was assured as a re-
battle had to be fought' on the ques- it nevertheless maintains that those
tion of imblic education, but there are who cannot be induced to enroll in sult of the support given him by a
coalition of Democrats, eight Pro-
very few today who do not recognize
the enormous benefit that has been the intensive work must not be en- gressive Republicans and one Farmer-
a whole by tirely neglected; they must he renehed Labor member.
conferred upop . ac ' •
Established 1910
our splendid system of public schools. through a scheme of extension e u-
Of the 43s members of the present
House, 408 voted. Had the eight Re-
0 The Jewish community likewise first cation."
The modern Talmud Torah has not
publicans
and the one Farmer-I ahor
gave its attention to the problem of
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sickness and dependency. Now that only modified its program in accord member who voted foe Mr. Bloom
efficient organizations have been with the needs of American Jewish supported Mr. Chandler, he would
created to meet these urgent needs, life, but is itself becoming an agency have had 207 votes, one more than
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Jewish communities are beginning to in the process of adjustment or of the Democratic membership, which is
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turn. their attention seriously to the
I inization.
Its very Jewish pro- composed of 206 Representatives.
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Not in many years has an election
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In recent years, serious minded men
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