Friday, October 1, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Hebrew Schools Will Extend
Education Month Activities

Robert Nathan:
Fantasy Weaver

;

'Rabbi Adler, Again Selected as Chairman, Calls for Jewry
to Keep High Its Morale and Continue to Expand
Our Spiritual and Cultural Resources

Rudolph Zuieback, president of the United Hebrew
Schools, and Bernard Isaacs, superintendent of the schools,
this week announced that annual Education Month will again
be observed during the month of Tishri, commencing with
Rosh Hashanah.
Activities inaugurated during Education Month will be

extended during the weeks to
follow in order to enroll greater
interest in Jewish education in
the community.
Mr. Isaacs announces that Rab-
bi Morris Adler ,.has again been
chosen to serve as chairman of
Education Month.
Adler's Statement
On this occasion, Rabbi Adler
has issued the following Educa-
tion Month statement:

The Jewish struggle for
survival is as intense and
pervasive today as it has
never been before. The ob-
jective of the enemy extends
beyond the degradation and
pauperization of our people.
He seeks nothing less than
the total annihilation of Is-
rael. This offensive against
the Jew is simultaneously an
attack upon all the central
values and principles of en-
lightened humanity. The
Jewish people is at one with
all the free peoples of the
world in seeking to defeat
the enemy and to crush his
evil purposes.
Israel's heroic efforts
through the ages were never
limited to the struggle for
survival alone. The Jew
sought not merely to pre-
serve his body, but also to
conserve his spirit, his group-
personality.
CULTURAL RESOURCES
As a minority, our people
had to exert and expend
maximal energies to protect
against corrosion and disso-
lution by the encompassing
environment, its authentic
character, and the unique
and distinct way of life which
its genius had evolved. The
goal was "1' hagdil Toral
u1'haadir" to develop and
expand its cultural resour-
ces, to release its creative
power, and to keep intact its
spiritual heritage.
This great, and in the most
significant sense primary
purpose, of Jewish living and
effort projected itself most
effectively in Israel's system
of Jewish education. Thus
its immemorial struggle for
survival was exalted into a
noble pursuit of the highest
democratic ideals which per-
mits, aye encourages a his-
toric group to make its con-
tribution through the media
of its own cultural institu-
tions. Thus was it possible
for our people to keep high
its morale and to withstand
all the forces that sought to
humble and crush it.
ALL-IMPORTANT FRONT
We shall be betraying our
ancestry and the unborn gen-
erations of our posterity, if
we neglect or abandon the
all-important front of Is-

A Happy
New Year

Mr. & Mrs.

Hyman

Altman

Directors

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rael's spiritual life even in
the midst of the present ti-
tanic military conflict. In-
deed we shall be rendering
a disservice to the ideals of
democracy to preserve which
many of our sons are bring
ing the ultimate sacrifice :»n
every battle-line of the global
war.
The call of Jewish Educa-
tion Month is a call to Is-
rael to man the ramparts of
its spirit. Every child who to-
day receives a Jewish educa-
tion represents a stake driv-
en into the future of our peo-
ple. Every child trained in
the spiritual truths of Israel's
faith is receiving also a pro-
found and inerdicable educa-
tion in the loftiest ideals of
democracy and freedom.
Jewish fathers and moth-
ers! Heed the call of the spir-
it of Israel! Enlist in the im-
mortal process of preserving
the fruitful teachings and
values of your people! Make
your son and daughter Is-
rael's true heirs!

SCHOOL'S GREETINGS
In a supplementary state in
which he extended the school's
greeting to the community on
the New Year, Mr. Zuieback de-
clairs:
"We feel that we have the
finest faculty and accomoda-
tions for lasting results in
training the Jewish youth to
become informed and useful
participants as future Jews
and Jewesses in this or any
community in which they
may find themselves.
"We urge parents and chil-
dren to avail themselves of
the opportunity we offer
them to acquire a Jewish
education."
Initial plans for Education
Month were made at a meeting
of the staff of teachers of the
United Hebrew Schools in July.
Pioneered Custom
Detroit's Hebrew schools pio-
neered in establishing the cus
tom of observing Education
Month. Now, this practice has
been introduced throughout the
country.
In connection with the current
observance, a call for the sup-
port of Jewish education and the
enrollment of children in Jewish
schools has been issued by the

His "But Gently Day" Is a
Most Unusual Blending of
Past With Present

Robert Nathan is one of the
most brilliant weavers of fan-
tastic tales in our generation.

Page Twenty-five

Detroit Hero Gets D.F.C.

Technical Sergeant Steinberg
Given Citation for Heroism

Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Stein-
berg of 3003 Clairmount Ave.
were informed that their son,
Charles Steinberg, 22 - year - old
Air Corps technical sergeant and
top turret gunner, has been
awarded the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross. The news came from
the 10th Air Force India head-
quarters.

Even so serious a theme as the
one with which he dealt in his
highly controversial novel, "The
Road of Ages," was a masterful
fantasy; and it is almost reality
T/Sgt. Steinberg has received
today, with Jews transplanted
from one country after another. the Purple Heart and - Air Medal.
He has completed 34 missions
Now comes another brilliant
Robert. Nathan tale: "But Gently and has more than 300 hours of
flying to his credit. On May 11
Day," a very charming fantasy
he was slightly wounded in com-
which has been published by Al-
bat with Jap fighters.
fred A. Knopf.

It is a very unusual theme. The
brilliant Jewish author has woven Chautauqua Society
the present with the past in this Visits 210 Colleges
story. A soldier on furlough re-
turns to his home, and instead of
CINCINNATI, (RNS)— Speak-
the present he finds the genera- ers representing the Jewish
tion of his grandparents and the - Chautauqua Society, educational
Civil War.
affiliate of the National Federa-
The Ku Klux Klan and the tion of Temple Brotherhoods,
night riders were rampant then. visited 210 colleges and universi-
Attitudes began to change. A ties in 46 states and two Cana-
cousin eloped. The Santa Fe rail- dian provinces during 1943, it
road was being built. Neverthe- was reported here.
less, conditions were not differ-
The Society was founded in
ent then from what they are to- 1893 to "disseminate knowledge
day, in the comparison of chang- of the Jewish religion by foster-
ing generations.
ing the study of its history and
"But Gently Day" is one of the literature, giving popular courses
most fascinating stories publish- of instruction, issuing publica-
tions, establishing reading circles,
ed in war time.
and holding general assemblies."

American Association for Jewish
Education of New York and was
signed by Mark Sisner, Ameri-
can Association for Jewish Edu-
cation; Rabbi S.: , inuel M. Blum-
enfield, Nation?1 Council for
Jewish Educaton; Dr. Israel
F.-fres, Histadruth Ivrith; Joshua
Bin Nun Federation of Hebrew
Teachers of America; Henry
Monsky, Bnai Brith; Mrs. David
De Sola. Pool, Hadassah;
Maurice Goldman, National
Council of Jewish Women; Dr.
Israel Goldstein, Synagogue
Council of America; Hon Louis
E. Levinthal, Zionist Organiza-
tion of America; Frank Weil,
Jewish- Welfare Board; and Sid-
ney Hollander, Council of Jew-
ish Federation and Welfare
Funds.

An interesting coincidence in-
volved Steinberg's wounding. Lt.
Gordon Wilson of Covington, Ky.,
pilot of the bomber on which he
served, said that on a mission
over Rangoon, Burma, on which
Steinberg served, the Detroit ser-
geant was blown from his turret
by an anti-aircraft shell explo-
sion.

A shell fragment grazed his
cheek, and Steinberg took off
later on a second mission, wear-
ing a cheek patch. Again he was
blown from the turret by ack-
ack. A shell fragment grazed his
cheek at the same place, remov-
ing the patch, Wilson said.

A 1938 Northern High School
graduate, Steinberg is known to
have shot down at least one Jap
plane in flames. His brother,
Lewis, enlisted last March.

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