Friday, March 30, 1945
Good Will in Schools
31iller High School Program
Arranged by VITalter Farber
Imporfarrf Effort to Create Inter-Cultural Understanding
Among Students of All Faiths Includes Passover
and Hanukah Assemblies and Exhibits
The comparatively high inci-
dence of racial bigotry and the
recent increase of anti-Semitic,
anti-Negro and anti-foreign out-
breaks have been alarming. Yet
there is a ray of hope in the
situation which on the surface
may seem very desperate. There
has been a discernible .tendency
on the part of church groups
and particularly on the part of
educational institutions to foster
inter-racial a n d inter-cultural
activities.
The results in many cases
have been very encouraging.
In Detroit, there have been
manifestations._ of success along
these lines in some of the 'high
schools. •
Walter Farber, principal of
the Brrai Moshe Sunday School
and a teacher in the Miller High
SChoal is chairman of the inter-
cuituril committee at the school.
He has instituted a program of
action in the hope that it will
lead to more- satisfactory rela-
tionships b e.tween different
gr &ups .
Passover Display
thawing the Passover season of
57# he arranged a joint dis-
play showing and explaining
thy' various ceremonial objects
employed in the observance of
the holiday in conjunction with
a similar exhibit of Easter ob-
jects.
The same tap of display was
held during the Ffanukah-Christ-
mas period.
The school's music department
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THE JEWISH NEWS
cooperates in this endeavor by
the teaching of traditional melo-
dies.
Mr. Farber, who taught the
wards and tunes to the ,members
of the music department, tells
of hearing the strains of t h e
Hebrew songs and of thinking
that he was in a Hebrew School
or a Jewish Parochial School.
He has even taught non-Jews
to dance the Hora.
The English department, too,
has cooperated by having pupils
write essays on the inter-cul-
turai theme.
Goodwill Assemblies
Goodwill assemblies are ar-
ranged, radio- skits are presented
and the library has devoted a
complete shelf to books, pam-
phlets, essays and other mate-
rials on- the subject.
Whenever - any distinguished
person of the usually discrimi-
nated against races is in town,
he is invited to appear at the
school. Likewise other schools
whose student body are coin-
posed primarily of a certain ra-
cial or nationality group are
encouraged _ to exchange visits
with Miller High School. wherein
they .become .farniliar with each
other's customs.' -
The inter-cults) committee
publishes a teacher's bulletin
on inter-cultural activities which
summarizes the fun
. ctions which
are being planned and. carried
out and keeps the teachers postT
ed on what is expected of them
in this field.
-
adolescents and 53 children who
arrived aboard . the Portuguese
liner Guine. They were distri-
buted as follows-:
(a) r37 were absorbed by Ker-
en Hayesod settlements.
(b) 53 were taken in by Miz-
rachi. institutions.
(e) 27 were admitted to .chil-
.
Maay Young Inranigranis. dren'a villages.. •
(d) - 21 went into other Ortho
Enter Palestine's Keren
dox religious institution&
Se) 16 were admitted to -girl?
Flayesocl Settlements
training farms established by the
NEW YORK—The. absorption Jewish Agency with Keren. Haye-
of - a large proportion of the re-T sod funds. - •
fugee children brought. into Pal-
(f)- Of the remaining 2.5, eight
estine. in recent months was made were taken in by relatives and
possible because of United Pales- four went to Agudath Israel
tine Appeal funds, it was pointed groups. No final. placement. had
out by Dr. James G. Heller, na- been made of the other thirteen
at the time the report was issued.
tional chairman of th;. UPA.
While the U.P.A. agencies, pro-
• Quoting figures issued by the
JewisliiAgency's Youth and . vide the basic: opportunitSr for
Child Aliyah Bureau at Jeru the absorption of the Youth. Ali-
•salern,..rir. Heller cited as an ex -- y-ah children, Hadassah raises the
ample the distribution of 2791 funds in America for their main-
young -refugees, ranging in age, tenance.
from six- to seventeen,. • who ar-
rived in Eretz Israel in the early Pons. Sings Gershwin's
part of November. Most of them,
he said, have gone into settle- Selections in Germany
merits established by the Keren
NEW YORK (JPS)—Lily Pons,
Hayesod 'on Keren Kayemeth
land. The Keren Hayesod and Metropolitan Opera star, singing
the Keren Kayemeth share in to a-n. audience of 2,500 G. I.s
the proceeds of the United Pales- crowded into a building only a
tine Appeal.
few weeks ago used by German
The 279 children and adoles- troop - for entertainment, "rubbed
cents covered in the report in- it in - for the Nazis by including
cluded a transport of 83 youths, in her:repertoire music of George
15 to 17 years- of ,age--inerribers G-ershwin as well as classics by
of youth training movement in other Jewish composers, the New
Romania: another group of 112, York Times reports.
of whom - 57 were from 15, to 17 • Mis4 Pons said, "It is a pleas-
years of age- and 55 , from 6. to 14. . ure to sing in Germany—this
A third group consisted • of 31- part 'of Germany.".
UPA Funds Aid
Absorption of
Refugee Youths
.
Passover
Greetings
Passover Observed
Discover
in Red Cross Club
At Australian Camp
. _
Red Cross service to members
of our armed forces is of the
most flexible nature. A report
recently received in 'a letter of
thanks from a captain of the
Medical Corps, who was serving
in Australia at the time, illus-
trates this flexibility. Although
the incident referred to in the
letter occurred during the Pass-
over of 1944, it is particularly
timely at this period of the year.
The letter follows:
"I am writing you to express
the sincere thanks an behalf of
50 soldiers of Hebrew faith and
myself for what the American
Red Cross has done for us. We
are located at a camp somewhere
in Australia where there are
no Jewish families within a
radius of several hundred miles.
• "The Passover holiday came
uPon us and we had no place
to Observe it in proper tradi-
tional' manner. The American
Red Cross of a neighboring town,
through the wholehearted and
sincere cooperation of its field
director, Orvill B. Snow, came
to our aid. They placed at our
disposal • the facilities. of their
club building for the observ-
ance of our holiday. In conse-
quence we observed. the Pass-
over feast on April 7, 1944, in
prOper traditional manner.
"Your field director Mr. Snow
gave us such wholehearted . as:-
sistance, motivated by such a
sincere desire to serve, that to
a great measure the success of
our festivities is due to his ef-
forts and help.
"The enthusiasm of this mem-
orable night linger for a
long time in our happy mem-
ories, and the future reminis-
cences will be an ever present
source of inspiration for our
American ideals and profound
respect and admiration for the
American Red Cross.
. Samuel. Schwartz,
Captain, Medical Corps."
More Maimonides Res onsa
NEW YORK—Dr. Alexander Marx, Librarian of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, has announced the discovery of
five previously unknown responsa of Maimonides in the Seminary's
collection. The discovery was made by Morris Litzki while working
on the Cairo Genizah fragments in the Seminary's collection. The
resppnsa were written by Maimonides to R. Pinhas ben Meshullam
Dayyan of Alexandria.
Pope Condemns Nazi I
Racial Doctrines in
An Address in Rome
ROME (JTA) The Nazi racial
doctrines were condemned this
week by Pope Pius xff_ in an
address in Rome.
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be misled by the disciples of vio-
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