Page Twenty-two

Ex-Chaplain Founds
a Rural Day School

HE YOUNG navy chaplain the mass Seder—and carrying it
was quite obvioi . upset. through to successful accomplish-
He strode nervously from one ment was no novelty for the
end of the huge gymnasium to young chaplain. Only 33 years
the other, pausing now and then old, when he volunteered for
to peer in perplexed fashion at service, and became the first or-
the crews of carpenters who thodox Jewish chaplain in the
dotted the huge expanse of pol- history of the United States
navy, he had behind him nine
ished floor.
He watched with mounting dis- years in the Rabbinate, during
tress as crate after crate was which time he had occupied im-
hauled into place, and the car- portant pulpits,
pentry crews began ripping off
In the fall of 1946, Rabbi Gol-
the wide boards to remove the ovensky was called to his present
contents.
post with Beth El Synagogue,
Finally, he could not contain New Rochelle, New York, and
himself any longer: "What's go- embarked on a new endeavor,
ing on here?" he inquired brus- which eventually may drastic-
quely of the petty officer who ally change an important aspect
seemed to be superintending the of Jewish education in this
operation. "What's happening? country.
What . . . "
In conjunction with his Syna-
• • •
gogue, he established the Beth
JEWISH FEAST
El Nursery School,- a pioneer in
"Well, sir," the man replied, the field of progressive Jewish
"I don't really know. All I know pre-school education. From the
is that we got orders yesterday small nursery school, which was
to get 30 new tables and set them quartered in the Synagogue
up in here this morning."
premises, an idea developed
He glanced at the insignia which bore fruit this past Sep-
which identified his questioner tember with the opening of the
as a Jewish chaplain. "Isn't there Westchester Day School.
some sort of Jewish feast to-
• ,• •
night?"
LIKE
PRIVATE
SCHOOL
In such fashion did the chap-
lain, Rabbi David I. Golovensky,
PROGRESSIVE IN its educa-
find out that the Seder at which tional methods and pedagogic
he was to preside that night techniques, the school combines
would be unique in history. Not the best features of a top flight
only would the food and the progressive private school with
dishes and other eating utensils the traditional values of orthodox
be "Pesachdich," but even the Judaism.
furniture would be "Kosher Le-
A skillful blending of the best
Pesach."
The cooperative, but slightly in modern progressive secular
overzealous, authorities to whom education and the best in the
the chaplain had explained that ancient precepts of Judaism, the
the Seder would require new institution is a remarkable de-
dishes and silver, had assumed velopment in the field of Jewish
that even the tables usually used day schools, or Yesivahs.
for mess were "Chometzdich,"
Situated on a magnificent
and would have to be replaced.
water-front estate, with a campus
• • •
which slopes down to Long
SEDER FOR 1,000
Island Sound, the school's quar-
ASIDE FROM the "Peschdiche" ters include an impressive stone
tables, the Seder that was held main building, several green
that night in the gymnasium of houses, a gymnasium building, an
the Naval Air Training Com- arts And crafts building and sev-
mand installation at Pensacola,
Florida, was precedent-breaking.
A mass Seder, in which 1,000
service personnel participated, it Passover
was the first strictly Kosher
Seder ever held at a naval in- Greetings .. .
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among the rustic walks and for-
mal gardens which surround the
25-acre campus.
"In our school," said Rabbi
Golovensky, " I think we have
hit upon a formula for resolving
the problems that beset parents
who wish to give their children a
traditional Jewish education, yet
shy away from the frequently de-
pressing physical aspects of most
urban Yeshivahs.
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