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Friday, November 30, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-four
Rabbinical Assembly flits
Religious Rites in Schools
Rabbis Oppose Introduction of Sectarian Insfruction and
Observance of Festivals; Not. a Respz,smi'Dility of
State; Can't Do Justice to All Religions
NEW YORK:—Dr. Robert Gordis, president of the Rab-
binical Assembly of America, has announced the issuance of
a statement by the Executive Council of the Assembly, op-
posing the introduction of sectarian instruction and observ-
ance of religious festivals into the public school system or
the grounds that religious education is not a responsibility
which the state or any state (,,
agency can assume or discharge have always been taught to res-
with success; that the public pect any expression of faith .
schools cannot do justice to all which is charged with so muci_
religious ideologies and still meaning for and evokes so much
achieve the main general goals reverence from their neighbors."
of education;
Religious Concepts
that such formal.
They said that Judaism could
i n struction not countenance having its own
would tend to adherents celebrating religious
identify- the concepts with which Judaism is
school system in disagreement, as the Christmas
with particular and Easter festivals.
d e n o mination-
What this crisis calls for, the
alisms; and that Executive Council continued, is
such a program a "consecration to the values of
might bring into human dignity and human rights
the education which inhere in the teachings
Dr. Gordis system all the of the Church as well as the
evils involved in union of church Synagogue, and it challenges us
and state.
to make this the supreme con-
Voluntarily Created
cern of our labors. But this is
The rabbis asserted that "an a task which we cannot—and
intensification of religious vital- dare not—delegate to an agency
ity in the American home, a of the state.
"In the spirit of American tra-
strengthening of the quality and
extent of education in the re- dition we want to keep the
ligious school, voluntarily creat- functions of state and church in
ed and maintained by Americans their distinct places. And we
of every faith—that is the goal want to do so in every area . of
to which we must direct our American life including the edu-
united efforts if American free- cational system.*
dom is to be safeguarded in
spirit as well as in law, and the FBI Agent to Address
ideals of religion are to be a
final and consecrating influence Levin Post Tuesday
in American life."
Edward J. Greenwald, special
The Executive Council felt agent of the Department of Jus-
that the alarm of our educators tice, Federal Bureau of Investiga-
over the assault on liberty and tion, will be the guest speaker at
the crisis in personal morality is the Lt. Eli Levin Post and Aux-
quite justified.
iliary 230, Jewish War Veterans
Real Danger Feared
of the U. S., Tuesday, Dec. 4, at
They . maintained also that we 8:30 p.m., at the State Depart-
face the pressing need for ment Headquarters, 8212 12th St.
strengthening the attachment to Refreshments will be served. The
human values among our citizens, public is invited.
and that proper religious educa-
tion must make an important Folk Institute Donor
contribution to this task. But
they emphasized that there is a To Hear Emma Shever
real danger to American educa-
Emma Shever, Detroit soprano,
tion in the pressure for formal
denominational religious instruc- will be the guest of the Sholem
Aleichem Folk Institute donor
tion in the schools.
luncheon, Dec. 19, at the Book
They particularly opposed the Cadillac Hotel.
public school celebration of re-
Mrs. Shever, interpreter of
ligious festivals which, however Jewish and - Hebrew • songs, will
well-meaning in intent, might present a new repertoire and will
turn out to be a coercion of be accompanied by Rebecca
conscience and a denial of re- Frohman.
ligious freedom.
One of the outstanding events
They pleaded for recognition prior to the donor lunechon will
of the fact that Jewish children be the luncheon and "pep rally"
go beyond- the frame of reference for friends and workers of the
of their faith in commemorating donor luncheon committee at
the festivals of other denomina- 12:30 Dec. 15 at the home of Mrs.
tions. "Adherents of Judaism A. M. Dinitz, 3742 Sturtevant.
WHY
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from now.
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