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May the Coming Year be filled with
Health, Contentment and Prosperity
for All.
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the ages lot II and 21. The prop-young people, In very many r ola.
lem is how to provide a Jewish ed. inanities their Jewish education is
urea ion that will assure' us that the , font neKle••d•
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active Jews. twation for all these children—the
At present only :axial two hull-. problem still remains how' may this
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deed thousand of the Jewish chit- he tlee"mPlished.
The Financial Aspect,
of elementary school age are
I ,ken
receiving some form of Jewish ell-,
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rooms after public school hours,
would amount dose to $211,000,000
and might even extazed that. In
tact, the financial problem is of
such a nature that no national or-
however well organized can hope to
obtain the fonds single-handed.
11' hat a national organization
might however be expected to do is
to set an •xaniplt by concentrating
on is giV•ll area and showing how,
it is possible to .stye the education-
al problem in a certain district.
Suet' an example, assuming that
the effort is succesful, would Cer-
tainly be followed by others.
More important though, from 111,-
point of view of wi organizAtion
like the Union of American Hebrew ,
Congregations, is the seco n d ele-
namt in the solution of the Jewish
educational problem, that of curtly-
ulum and method. recently,:
Shiny have conceived the problem
of the ti ur•iculum to be a very.
simple ma. 11'e all know it was
said that we whit to teach our chit-
(Den the !tilde, Jewish history, the
A STONE GANG IN PALESTINE
principles of religion, etc. Hence,
One of a group of Jewish pioneers building new mats between .1 what we need is text busiks cover-
group of Jewish colonies. Thousands of young men alld
ing these facts. To fulfil this need,
upon first arriving in the country from Eastern Europe, go to work the commission on Jewish educa-
crushing stones for modern roads which conn ect all ;nuts of the tion, representing both the Central
country.
t'onference of American Rabbis and
the Union of Anwrican Hebrew
,
('ongregations, has been o rganize d .
This commission has, however,
canna to realize that the problem
of the curriculum is not as simple
as it had originally 14•01 conceived.
The question is not merely to find
text books on the Bible and Oil .new-
ish histoiy, although even that has
been too long neglected in American
Jewish life. It is also what to
DR.
EMANUEL
GAMORAN
By
teach in the Bible, what to empha-
Educational Director, Department of Synagogue and School
size, w hat !lot to emphasize, what
Extension, Union of American Hebrew Congregation..
is more important, what is less inn- I
portant, and the same for Jewish
history, and for the other subjects •
RIEFLY stated, the problem of Jewish education it that enter into a well rounded Jew-
America concerns itself with the following basic fact ish curriculum.
There are more than three and a half million Jews it
The Problem of Method.
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First of all there is the financial
Remembering that the
ucation. Five hundred thousand or • aspect.
a half million are receiving no Jew. Jewish population is concentrated
ish education whatsoever. Some in the larger cities, the mere prole
of these, to be sure, nay have at- boa of providing sufficient build-
tended a Hebrew school or a Sun- nags and equipment offers financial
day school for a year or two, but ditteulty of considerable magnitude.
thty have not remained sufficiently 1 In the city of New York alone, the
long to receive any adequate Jew- , initial outlay on buildings that
ish education. The situation is • would be necessary to accommodate
evenW0e, with regard to our , all the Jewish children in class-
We Wish Al! Our Jewish Friends a Very Happy
New Year.
Season's Greetings
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Tin, Copper and Sheet Metal Works.
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Parallel to the problem of the
curriculum there is also the grub-
lent of method. Assuming that we
have worked out the finest curricu-
lum possible, that we have created
the very best text hooks, the prob. •
Ica still remains of how to trans-
'mit the material that au consider
important to our children. This
Member, Detroit Stoat Exchange
question is by no means as simple I -
as it might at first blush seem to
t he nuvire in Jewish education.
Many parents have the impression •
that once you have a certain book,
method concerns itself only with a
question of how to impart the in- ----
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formation in that book 1.11 a given
child. That, of course, is not the
case. The problem is much more Without them and their help, our
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serious. The problem is lirst, is work which must necessarily be
this nutterial of such a nature as done against great odds is in dun- TI
to help in the proper growth and ger of not yielding to its fruit. To
Llevelopment of these children? take one illustration, it is almost i
Does it consist ,ifhabits and atti- impossible to approach the proper I
tudes that are necessary fur the re-organization of our curriculum
welfare of the Jewish child? Sec- and the improvement of our meth-
ondly, assuming that the answer is ods if we will not be given more
affirmative, can the teacher no take time for the Jewish education of
care of the situation in the class, our children. 'Many of the Catho-
that his manner, the school su•- lics in this country have provided
roundings, the attitudes of the pu- their children with a parochial
pils to each other and to him shall school instruction. Many of the Jyl
help in the process of developing Protestants are conducting week-
the right habits and attitudes on day religious schools. Ily now the
the part of the child? Stated in number in this country is certain-
this way, the problem of method ta•- ly more than I An. We who have a
comea
more complicated, but tradition of intensive Jewish edu-
the solution will bring a result cation front days inimemorial are
much more worthwhile. In other the only ones that have neglected
words, it is the duty of the Itnion to take care of our young and in
uC American Hebrew Congregations the cases of many of the children t
to develop through its educational that we bring to the religious school
department new ideas and new are satisfied with the meager edu- l
methods in Jewish education based cation that can be given two houn
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a week or sixty to seventy hours a
on research and experimentation.
Assuming that we have the cur- year. Week-day religious educa-
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riculum, the desired method and tion inu.st be our slogan and com-
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core of our educational system is an intensification of Jewishness in
the
home.
The
home
can
do
a
great
still missing, if we lack trained
leadership. Trained leadership in- deal to help in the Jewish educa-
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volves first of all the training of tion of our children. If the school
teachers. A poor Leacher is enough 144 had it supplement in On
to spoil the Jewish education of any home, the lark of time would not be
child, no matter how good the cur- as serious as factor as it necesarily
riculum and how excellent the meth- is now, when many homes are de-
od proposed by others, which he void of all J,wisliness.
Furthermore, the parents, and the
does not know how to carry out.
And even more than teachers, a na- lay-leaders must recognize the pro-
tional organizat loll engaged in Jew- tensional nature of these tasks and
ish educational work must develop help in the development of a pro-
its own specialists. The numl•r of fessional attitude to Jewish edut-a-
men that have r e ceived a technical lion. They toast realize that Jew•
training in Jewish education in this ish education is nut something- in
country is exceedingly lmited, which all well-wishers may speak
There are at present calls in all with authority, but that it is a sci-
parts of the country for workers of ence in the making—the science of
this kind and unfortunately it is im- Jewish education. If they wish to
possible at present to supply the contribute to the development lit
need. The Union of American He- this great science, they can do so by
bre• Congregations should develop helping to train in each community
through its educes i011/11 department, men and women Who after years
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the training of its personnel to the ,of professional work will be in a
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The Pre.ent Program.
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cation, is attempting to solve some ther hy hewing the department of
of the abo v e problems and is ton- 'Synagogue and School Extension to
centrating on the creative side of increase and intensify its taboo,
the work. Under the auspices of Donal work.
the commission, four committees
Only in this manner, through the
are working on the preparation of Idevelopment of a professional
manuscripts, the securing of Huth- group of educators. backed by an
ors in the fields of elementary edu- intelligent group of laymen, appre- .
cation, youth education, adult and dative of the noel of sotwitilist ,
university education and teacher training, we can hops to save the
training. Manuscripts ready fur present generation for Judaism o•
the press are published by the de- America.
partment of Synagogue and Si _
Extension, a number of men are
now also engaged in pursuing
FORGETFULNESS
special courses at Teartier , ' roi-
let,,e, Columbia University in an
It is to man's good that he sin
effort to train themselves to do
specialists' work in Jewish educa- dies Torah and forgets it, for wer e
tion. It is hoped to increase the it not so, man would twcupy himself
filmilior of these men in the years to with it for two or three years. and
not pay attention to it any Simi.
come.
At the same time a strong effort (Encl. R. i'(1.1
is living made under the auspices of
the tenehers . training committee to
Whoever studies Torah and for-
stimulate the organization of Nor- gets it is like a woman who gives
Inv,' Schools and classes throughout birth to children and buries them
the country. Thirty such Normal Ilh.l
schools, including more than 400
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students, were conducted last rear.
Words of the Torah are not foi
The Department of Synagogue and gotten unless one deliberately put
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School Extension supplies the rab- them away from his mind. (Tx'atil
bis and the principals of these 76.1
schools with literature, consisting
of syllabi and suggested hooks for
A man can forget in two years.
use of the various subjects of in- if he discontinues his study, all he
struction both in Jewish content
has learned in 21) wears. I Ab. R. N -
and pedagogy. This work is being xx :,.
continued this year and it is hoped
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to increase it from year to year
If thou fornakest the Torah ens
leading to the development of tin
day,
it
will
forsake
thee for two
actual correspondence school fur
Jewish teachers from coast to coast. days. This is like two men who
iourneyed
together
and
parted, one
This work will take care of not
merely those communities in which going towards the east, one towards
the
west.
When
they
had each
many Jews are concentrated and in
which it is possible to organize traveled one mile, the distance be-
tween them was two miles. I Yer.
teacher training schools, but also
of the training of teachers in those Bet-. end./
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small communitiee in which the
Rabbi Ahuhu paid, "This is the
Jewish population is limited and fa-
For years Wechsler's Kosher Restaurant has stood for quality
%way of . 1,he Torah, that although
cilities for professional training,
and service. It in our aim to further the same ser•ice and
one study it much, still one is apt
Waiter.
more fully nerve our hosts of patrons. You can always meet
to forget it." 1 fled R. i 34.1
some of your friends here .
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who
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