THE JEWISH NEWS
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FROM THE BOOK OF FIRST KINGS IN THE
KING JAMES AND J.PS.A. VERSIONS - THE
THIRD BOOK OF KINGS IN THE DOUAY VERSION.'"
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WAS PERSUADED TO RISE AGAINST THE KING ---
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FULL PUNISHmET
WAS NOT TO COME
YET- STILL IN
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TO KILL JEROBOAM,
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WHO .LF..D TO EGYPT/
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MADE ME A TURNED TO STRANGE
GOVERNOR. WHY GODS, THE KINGDOM WILL
SHOULD I REBEL, BE DIVIDED, AND YOU WILL
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ONE DAY HE KING OVER
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REHOBOAN' BECAME KING. RETURNED FROM
EGYPT, JEROBOAM LEADS THE PEOPLE OF
tbRAEL BEFORE RE1-10BCAM TO ASK FOR GREATER
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501,0MON WAS HARD
ON THE PEOPLE-THEY
WILL SERVE YOU
IP YOU ARE KIND!
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THREE DAy6 LATER-DISREGARDING HIS WISE
COUNSELLORS, REHOBOAm REFUSES THE PEOPLE'S
PLEAS--
COME AGAIN IN THREE
DAYS! /
We FATHER MADE
YOUR YOKE HEAVY / BUT
I WILL MAKE IT HEAVIER!
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REHOBOAM- THEY MADE JEROBOAM KING
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JuDAH AND BENJAMIN
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LET SOLOMON'.
SON REIGN ONLY
OVER JuDAH!
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OF ISRAEL. WAS DIVIDED, Be-
CAusa KING SOLOMON DISOBEYED
THE COMMANDMENTS OP THE
LORD AND WORSHIPPED STRANGE
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11
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Offers ExodusRefugees Congress Panels Will Consider
Without Fuel
Important World, U.S. Issues
Traditional Religious Education
In New Camps
Article Three in a Series
By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE
That portion of American Jewry which is anxious to
preserve the traditional form of Jewish education in this
country will find it, in up-to-date surroundings, at the Yeshi-
vath Beth Yehudah on Dexter and Cortland.
There, from early in the morning until late at night, the
modern brick and glass walls resound, as have Palestinian
and European
Kehillot for
centuries, to the
intonation of the
age-old pray ers
and the eternal
disputations over
the intricate
meanings of the
ancient Holy
Writings.
T h e Yeshivah's
e d u cational pro-
gram is divided
into three sec-
Putting Yeshivah Training Into Practice
tions: the D a y
School, offering combined religious and secular training to boys and
girls from pre-kindergarten through high-school age; the Afternoon
Yeshivah for boys which gives religious training supplementary to
public school classes, and the Beth€
Jacob School for Girls, also a Mitzvah age are given special
part-time program.
training for that ceremony.
Close to 600 students are now
Emphasis On Worship
enrolled at the Yeshivah, 213 of
Hebrew
classes are designed to
them attending on a full-time
basis. The latter group studies give the children a thorough
academic subjects for half a day foundation in reading, writing
and religious subjects for the and translation, primarily so that
other half. All secular instruc- they may intelligently read the
tion follows public school prac- Bible and participate in services
tice, and must meet Board of of worship. Prayers are taught
from the very_beginning, and the
Education standards.
vocabulary in early Hebrew les-
The children eat lunch . at the
sons is built around the syna-
school, and bus transportation is gogue and ritual practices. The
provided where necessary. Those textbook for these classes was
Coming directly from the public developed by members of the
schools have a milk and crackers Yeshivah staff to suit this pur-
snack before beginning classes.
pose.
"The Yeshivah is different
Once this foundation is ach-
from most public or parochial
ieved, the children learn to "cla-
schools," Rabbi M. J. Wohlgel-
ven" in established orthodox
ernter, president of the insti-
tution, explains. "We offer pri- ...manner. More advanced classes
vate school service at a mini- proceed to the study of commen-
taries on the Bible and to the
mum charge, with individual
Talmudic writings.
attention, small classes and
To put their knowledge into
specialized instruction in the
practice, the children are urged
religious field."
Students in the day school are to attend Sabbath and holiday
graded according to their secular services with their parents. Mem-
standing, so that, if they should bers of the Yeshivah faculty di-
return to public school, they will rect junior congregation services
fit in with their own age group. at several synagogues scattered
Religious class grading follows through the community, to avoid
the same trend, but, where a riding on the Sabbath.
child shows special aptitude for
Community Institution
his Hebrew studies, he is given
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah has
individual attention and promoted been in existence in Detroit for
to a higher class. Boys of Bar 30 years, but did not reach
•
BREMEN, Germany. (JTA)—
More than 2,000 Exodus refugees
now housed at a camp at Emden
a r e living under extremely
crowded conditions and have
been suffering intensely from a
cold wave which has blanketed
the area for the past few days.
At present there are six to eight
persons in every room in use in
the three-storied barracks. Some
of the rooms are empty because
the British have not made prom-
ised repairs, and they are unfit
for habitation.
The situation is slightly better
at the Wilhelmshaven camp, but
here too the major building re-
pairs have not been done.
portant status as a community in-
stitution until 1936, when the
school became a member agency
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, receiving a small allocation
from the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Today, the Yeshivah's ap-
propriation covers approximate-
ly 11 per cent of its budget. Tui-
tion, lunch and transportation
sees cover 37 per cent, and the
remainder comes through syna-
gogue contributions, scholarship
fund and memorial donations,
and from the Ladies Auxiliary.
The institution has been locat-
ed at Dexter and Cortland since
1942, when it moved from its
previous . headquarters at the
Farnsworth St. Synagogue of
Congregation Mogen Abraham.
The congregation now worships
at the synagogue in the Yeshivah
building: Young Israel also has
headquarters at the building.
Emergency Expansion
Since the enrollment has more
than doubled since erection of the
building, the Yeshivah has ex-
panded in emergency fashion,
purchasing a two-story building
across Dexter. Three stores in
the building are rented out, while
the fourth has been adapted for
a gymnasium. The upper story
is used for classrooms and offices,
and also houses the Beth Midrash,
used as a synagogue and house
of study by the older boys.
A large fenced-in playground
area provides recreational space
for the children, and is of spe-
cial importance during the sum-
mer, when the Yeshivah sponsors
a day camp.
A four-hour conference of the
Detroit Section, American Jew-
ish CongreSs, to be held from 1 to
5 p. in. Sunday, Nov. 16, at the
Jewish Center, under the chair-
manship of the heads of the law
and social action committee—
Morris Gleicher and Dr. Morris
Raskin—will be subdivided into
four panels on the following ques-
tions:
I. Democratic Action for Jew-
ish Security-Progress through
social and political participa-
tion.
2. Anti-Semitism—the subtle
and obvious; how to recognize
and combat it.
3. Alli,es at home—co-opera-
tion with labor, Negro and
other minority groups.
of the school's expansion, but re-
gret that crowded conditions en-
force co-educational classes, since
that is inconsistent with the tra-
ditions of Yeshivah education.
Well-Trained Faculty
The Yeshivah's faculty includes
30 men and women, of whom
more than half were trained in
American institutions. The re-
mainder were educated in Euro-
pean or Palestinian yeshivoth or
seminaries, although many of
these also have had pedagogical
training in universities in this
country.
Members of the faculty are Rabbi
Simcha Wasserman, dean of the Yesh-
ivah; Dr. Hugo Mandelbaum, head of
the afternoon school; Rabbis Leib
Bakst, Sol Goldstein, Arthur Freedman,
Yehuda Loewy, Abraham Zentman,
Eric. Greenbaum, David Zwick, Harry
Mandelcorn, Henry N. Carlebach,
Isaac W. Jacobson, James Victor, Abe
SilVerstein, J. M. Brown, Arthur Gross
and Solomon Gruskin; laymen Hillel
L. Abrams, Samuel Milan, Manuel
Simon and George Lieber; Mesdames
Theresa Hecker, Rose Baumer, Lillian
Drochetz, Bessie KnoppoW, Esther Bos-
key, Fanny Wasserman, Helen Hess,
Shirley Sklash, Arthur Gross and
Misses Hinda Penfil, Ethel . Framovitz
and Ann Friedman.
"We do not expect all Ameri-
can Jewish children to attend a
yeshivah," Rabbi Wohlgelernter
declared. "But for those who
can, we attempt to create a har-
monious atmosph're for the child,
giving training for professional or
lay leadership in Jewish life."
Religious education which is sup-
plementary to public school class-
es may result in conflict between
public and religious school, and
hampers leisure time activities, he
said. "We feel children are health-
ier, growing up in a unified en-
vironment such as that offered
4. Palestine and a Democratic
World.
The panel discussions will in-
clude among its leaders the fol-
lowing: Rabbis Jacob E. Segal,-
Leon Fram, Sidney Akselrad and
Joshua S. Sperka; Rev. Frank
Littel, Judge Henry Sweeney,
Allan Brown and Lebron Sim-
mons.
All Jewish organizations have
been invited to send representa-
tives so that a cross-section of
varied opinion can be reached,
Summaries of the various panels
will be made so that specific and
concrete formulas can be worked
out for the purpose of further
constructive action. -
Highlighting the conference will
be an address by Byron Miller,
midwest regional director of the
American Jewish Congress, a na-
tionally prominent authority on
methods. to combat anti-Semit-
ism, who will re ,..iew recent na-
tion-wide activities of the Jewish
Congress in their fight to pro-
mote democratic principles.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, national
president of the An-:erican Jewish
Congress, in a greeting to this
conference, stated:
"It is most -heartening to observe
that the Jewish community of Detroit
has taken such an intense approach
to the desperate and endangered situa-
tion in which world Jewry now finds
itself. The end of World War II has
left our people in straits as grievous
as ever. The tide of anti-Semitism is
-rising, not abating. Anti-Semitism is
nothing more than the most danger-
ously empoisoned weapon of fascism,
,indeed more frequently than not it is
the harbinger and fore-runner of fas-
cism.. Your conference, and many
more like it, will be a most happy
sign of a new awakening of the Amer-
ican Jewish people".
An invitation is issued to the
community at large to attend this
conference.
The membership committee of
the Congress has arranged for
distribution of literature on Con-
gress work at Sunday's confer-
ence. Those desiring literature
or information regarding mem-
bership are asked to call Mrs.
Jeanette Ross, 19464 Stoepel, UN.
4-2945.
Moseley Eyes U. 3 Market
For Fascist Literature -
Oswald Moseley, fascist leader
of Great Britain, is presently
negotiating for an American pub-
lisher of his literature. Should
his efforts in this direction fail,
his plans are to export his hate•
products from England on an ex-
Yeshiva* authorities are proud oy the Yeshivah," he concluded. . tensive scale.