PAGE TEN r7 .1LbelltOrTfEWINIOIRONTA Problem of the Jewish College Student Wm. P. TERNES CO. By RABBI ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York; President of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers. think that the synagogue of the fu- ture which is permanently to abide, will be the synagogue in which dig- nity will be combined with tradition, enlightenment in spirit with historic reminiscence in form, and beauty of ritual with broadness of message. Thus it will be the loyalty and par- ticipation of the Jewish collegian which may bring to American Juda- ism a trained intelligence that will enhance the usefulness of its institu- tions, a sense of discipline and dig- nity that will organize its relation. ships, and a feeling for tradition and culture that will enrich and give char- acter to the synagogue. This. then, is the problem of the Jewish college student—to be Jew- ishly self-respecting, to acquire Jew- ish content and to cultivate Jewish contact, and above all to accept Jew- ish responsibilities. Speaking in terms of generations ahead, it may be said that one of the great battles of Judaism is to be fought out upon the college campus and in the uni- versity hall. The Jewish will to live is there being challenged and tested. Whatever can be done to fortify and stimulate that effort at survival is work done "l'shem Shomayim" for the glory of God. ............................................................... ......... Oriental Rugs CLEANED AND REPAIRED The problem of the Jewish colleg e taneous combustion. There was no student is the problem of ubsorbin g positive motivation. Only in recent By the Agopian process which will transform your old Ori. the positive benefits which a colleg years has there been a noticeable career has to offer without at th change in the direction of a more ental or Chenille Rug to look like new. A trial will some time falling victim to its nega positive character in Jewish college vince you. live influences—I mean negative i n circles. Gradually the bond of com- the effect upon the Jewish attitude s. mon enthusiasm has supplanted the There is the danger lest in becomin bond of common disappointment. It humanized the college student becom is in this direction that much ought de-Judaized, lest in growing broad to be done in the development of a minded he grow shallow-spirited, les t more positive attitude on the part of 2156 E. Jefferson Edgewood 3828 in acquiring the arts and cultures o the Jewish college student. other civilizations he forsake his own It is a question of cultivating first •-- ................................................................ The problem of the Jew at college i —Jewish content, and second—Jew- ...... the problem of retaining the Jewis h ish contact impulse while attaining the humani There is a type of Intellectual tenon outlook. The menace to th e among the Jewish college youth Jew at college lies in the circum whose hobby is the pursuit of the ex- Ti 7l 7171 stance that usually there is not a 11 one. They are on a mad hunt for "SATISFIED CUSTOMERS COUNT" adjustment but an absorption in which "atmosphere' as they call it. Span- the Jewish element instead of being it ish atmosphere, Russian atmosphere, adjusted is altogether swallowed up. Our 20-acre Storage Yards assure "BILL'S Custom- Japanese atmosphere—anybody and That is why the problem of the Jew anything which bears a foreign name, ers Full Coal Bins regardless at college is a problem of survival in a weird costume and exotic gestures, which the Jewish will to live is the receives acclaim. Yet, Jewish atmos- of strikes. greatest single factor. phere seems to have no appeal for Of course, I refer not to the col- them. It might be suggested to those lege where, as in the case of the City intellectual "atmosphere hunters" College of New York, there is safety that they begin their quest by culti- ..%%WaVsS"i in numbers, but rather to the 99 other vating their own element and imbib- cases where the Jew plays his usual ing the atmosphere of their own tra- "Bill's Coal Does Not Clinker" WE MAKE -- role of small minority. In those in- ditions. To many of our intelligent stitutions, the Jewish student body, youth the Jewish dance is typified by small as it may be, usually divides it- the "Kazatske" and Jewish song and self along two definitely demarcated wit are represented by the cheap American Expedition at Beth- Shan Makes Important lines. First, there is the type of stu- vaudevillian. They ought to be in- Jill dent who is "itching" to be mistaken formed that there is a Jewish art lr Discoveries. for a Gentile. To that end he trie s. which is legitimate and unique, that — ON to "jump out of his skin." His self- there is a Jewish song, a Jewish NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—One of respect is so far gone that no insult drama, a Jewish literature. The the great finds of the excavations of to the Jew arouses any resentment treasure house of Jewish culture is the University of Pennsylvania Mu- Twelfth and Fenkell Plymouth and Chase Roads in him and no achievement of the open to any who seek admission to it. seum at Beth-Shan, Palestine, has HEMLOCK 8100 EUCLID 1500 Jewish people enthuses him. Of It is a challenge and a responsibility been a large engraved stone monu- course, that type of Jewish student is for those who feel a concern for the ment erected by Rameses II, which and Gi•• Good disgusting to Jew and Gentile alike. problem of the Jewish college student contains the first information outside On the other hand, there is the type to make available these sources of the Bible about the sojourn of the Service. \II. II.. 1k of Jewish student who is keenly sensi- Jewish life and lore for the sake of Hebrews in Egypt, according to the tive, keenly aware, and keenly resent- enriching the Jewish contact of our report of Alan Rowe, field director of ful of the social and of the occasional collegians. the Palestine expedition, made public academic discrimination from. which Of greater import even than the by Dr. George Byron Gordon, direc- he suffers. It is this class which pro- question of Jewish content is the tor of the museum. vides the great bulk of the member- question of Jewish contact. It must "In spite of the plagues, the de- ship in Jewish fraternities and in be admitted that the Menorah organ- struction of Pharaoh's army in the other kinds of Jewish college organiz- izations have done much in providing Red Sea and the other stirring events ations. As one looks back upon the for the former need, but very little of the sojourn in Egypt, as described growth and development of these organized effort has been exerted to by the Hebrew chronicler, there was Jewish associations, one can see how, promote Jewish contacts among col- nothing in Egyptian literature to The Gift Store." in their origin, they served usually as lege students. Merely to intellectual- show that the Hebrew's made the a refuge for the homeless—that is ize the Jewish student Jewishly is not slightest impression on Egyptian con- for those who are not made to fee sufficient. He must also be emotion- sciousness. The monument erected 815 Hammond Building at home in the other college circles alized Jewishly. However important by Rameses at Beth-Shan, however, It was not a positive force but rathe may be the discussion and elucidation tells of his capture of certain Semites A complete line of Drugs, Cigars and Cigarettes. the feeling of common disappoin Correspondent of the content of Judaism, it is ob- and of his use of them to build cities ment which served as the commo vious that good Jew s are never made for him, confirming the account in We make deliveries of any size at any time. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY bond. Whereas there was a Jewis by means of lectures alone. Just as Exodus," the report stated. t consciousness it was usually of a kin life is antecedent to philosophy which The excavation of forts and battle- Satisfaction Guaranteed. which was impressed from without a is the discussion of its problems, jus grounds where Saul and David fought a result of discrimination suffered as language is antecedent to philology the Philistines is described. rather than expressed from within. which is the analysis of its constitu- Fortresses successively occupied by Phones: Garfield 2156 TWELFTH at HAZELWOOD Whereas there was some heat and ent elements. so the actual participa- the Egyptians, Philistines and Israel- fervor, it was usually the heat result- tion in Jewish living is antecedent to ites have been unearthed on the top ing from friction and not from spon- the discussion of its content. That of the hill of Beth-Shan near the Jor- participation is to be expressed is dan, laying bare the wall on which terms of Jewish service which is the the Philistines hung the body of most valuable channel for Jewish Saul. The interior of the wall is contact. The Jewish college student blackened by an ancient conflagra- believed to have been set about ar should be afforded opportunities for tion service to the Jewish cause. It may 1,000 B. C., as part of the revenge be the leadership of a Jewish group for the death of Saul, which was or the devotion to a Jewish syna- wreaked on the Philistine city by Da- gogue, or the enlistment in a Jewish vid after he conquered it. A quan- philanthropic endeavor, or the partici- tity of baked clay objects belonging pation in a campaign for the upbuild- to the cult of Ashtaroth have been ing of Palestine—whatever be the collected among the remnants of a particular form of the service, ther e building which apparently was the must be some expressed form of loy- temple of Ashtaroth, in which, ac- alty to the Jewish cause, some dedi- cording to I Samuel, the armor of cation of effort through which may King Saul was hung. Figures of the goddess Ashtoreth come the glow of Jewish devotion. When the problem of the Jewish were found in association with quan- tities of Egyptian objects, indicating college student will arrive at a satis- factory solution, when there will be that the temple was originally erected by the Egyptians, who held the hill a generation of Jewish students who will personify the beauty of Japheth of Beth-Shan for several centuries before it was seized by the Philis- housed in the tents of Shem. who will combine general culture with Jewish tines, who in turn were conquered by the Israelites. emotion, then there will be a new day The excavation, which being car- for American Judaism—for if there is one thing which more than any ried on by 200 workmen, is illumi- nating the rise of the goddess Ashto- other is needed in American Jewish Sl "The Fuel Without a Fault." life, it is the loyalty and she service reth, who was apparently introduced originally by the Egyptians into Pal- of the college trained man and the estine and Syria, where she was wor- college trained woman. Charles W. Muntz American Jewish life needs a great- shipped for centuries. The Greeks er measure of trained intelligence. are believed to have taken her over President Grand River and Joy Road Communal responsibilities requiring and worshipped her as Aphrodite. broad vision and accurate thinking WORRY are often forced upon laymen whose only qualification is that of good in- Do not worry about what cannot tentions. There is many a Jewish leader who would be delighted to be remedied. If you do you will hand his burden over to his college lessen your vigor to prevent other oc- Bert R. Williams trained son or daughter. There is casions for regret. If you have made vice-president 11th St. at W. Grand Blvd. many a Jewish school and institution a mistake or suffered a misfortune, craving the guidance and participa- proceed at once to make up for it in tion by those who would bring a some other way.--Alexander Lyons.1 trained understanding to the prob. lems of education and administration. 2qi Would that American Israel could ... -77- .._ 111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111111101 111111111111111111111111111111110111111111 11 11111111111111111111111111111101111 M 11111111111111111111111 commandeer the intelligence and the It loyalty of its college trained youth. ff -_ - - - - Ilarriet E. Applegate 130 Monroe Avenue It American Jewish life needs a .,... _ - secy.-treas. greater sense of dignity. We are in --.* li this country a recently settled people. ..... We have barely cast our moorings. Jewish life here is in the main with- 'M out organization and therefore with- 0_ out dignity. We are a conglomera- tion of motley groups each claiming Hamilton Blvd. at Tuxedo Ave. sovereignty, so that the unwitting ob. =— server is often compelled to recognize 0_ the one who makes the lousiest noise. We have in the past year read of at Your assurance of a regular supply least four chief rabbis in our own community in New York. The same confusion which prevails at the top of the scale exists at the bottom of the scale. A Shochet passes by the -R- title of rabbi. A "Mohel" and "Me- Jl seder Kidushin" is heralded as a reverend doctor. Every Jewish com- munity is a law unto itself. Jewish 0- - congregations play fast and loose with "=.. —. — . OUR RECORD OF ecclesiastical standards. We are with- -=-- _ -- out organization. We need a sense of discipline, a sense of dignity, a ----- sense of organization. These the col- 0— lege youth would appreciate even if ..— only from his experience on the foot- .02 ball field. He knows the necessity of , N team work and of organization. And = the college youth would undoubtedly bring these standards into Jewish life if only we could commandeer the boy- ff'- alty of our collegians. , ar..- New and Used Finally, American Judaism needs i M USED the collegian because of his apprecia- ' 0_ tion and respect for tradition and BOILERS—TANKS ceremony in the synagogue. It may seem a surprising statement, but in- - RADIATORS Door and Windows timate contact+ with Jewish collegians reveal a great sympathy for the his- toric reminiscence and beauty of 0.1 PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES LATH ritual in the synagogue. Even if the ...:-.-- NEW AND USED religious sympathy of the college Btu- .----- STRUCTURAL STEEL ROOFING PAPER dent is to be taken as nothing more E..--.. — TELEPHONE CEDAR 4950 Building Materials of All than an aesthetic appreciation, it , would even on that basis demand the ' Detroit, Michigan Kinds, Bought and Sold. presence in the synagogue of tradi- tional forms and ceremonies. It is an interesting commentary upon the movement in Judaism which hopes to hold the Jewish youth by emasculat- ing the synagogue service. I think it is time that we should recognize the futility of trying to lure the in- .. telligent youth of our people into the synagogue by empty concessions. I :0 A L 1. umsER Po A. AGOPIAN EM M EM TEM MOTTEM A HOLIDAY GREETINGS PROVE THAT JEWS LIVED IN EGYPT Two Big Yards First Mortgage Loans Brown's Cut Rate Drug Store Detroit Land Contract Company — RESIDENCES, APARTMENTS AND BUSINESS PROPERTY d Ammommasmnmmau M'ESTE EEI ➢ NMEMEM M M EMIE MY6MKSE-EIMM-E-0-A'n, it-'1,"4; • ''VeeOritiALIT--- Jtl SI Jr Season's Greetings CHANUKAH GREETINGS To the Entire Community Charles W. Muntz EAST SIDE COAL CO. 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