THE JEWISH NEWS Page Twenty-four Victuve Stovtes 1 Rviegozzo- I k Friday, November 14, 1947 from the Sibte AND AS SOLOMON CONTINUED TO TAX KS PEOPLE HEAVILY-MORE REBELLIONS FLARED LIP:: AiL60 REZON, AN EXILE, '""(.7‘e dory 01C- FCr (GATHERED BANDS TO RAID ISRAEL. FROM DAMASCUS WHERE HE CAME TO RULE ---- LMJ FROM THE BOOK OF FIRST KINGS IN THE KING JAMES AND J.PS.A. VERSIONS - THE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS IN THE DOUAY VERSION.'" BY 001V CANWIZOIV ANC) moivroomg,zy muLicogp /94i3 BY M.CGAbVES /VEN JEROBOAM, A 6ERVANTOP SOLOMON!, WAS PERSUADED TO RISE AGAINST THE KING --- SOLOMON , FULL PUNISHmET WAS NOT TO COME YET- STILL IN 7 KN./ER / HE SOUGHT TO KILL JEROBOAM, r WHO .LF..D TO EGYPT/ GUT SOLOMON t-IAS Kr_AUSE SOLOMON HAS MADE ME A TURNED TO STRANGE GOVERNOR. WHY GODS, THE KINGDOM WILL SHOULD I REBEL, BE DIVIDED, AND YOU WILL AHIJAH F I HAVE REIGNED FORTY YEARS, MY X ; "1 ONE DAY HE KING OVER ISRAEL. SON REHOBOAM AND MY LIPS IS NEARLY SPENT— I 5HALL. TMN, TO RULE AS GREATLY AS YOU, FATHER YOU IT 16 WHOM L APPOINT TO SUCCEED ME -- - \\ *\\4) / 1 i. t BUT FINALLY SOLOMON DIED, AND HIS SON REHOBOAN' BECAME KING. RETURNED FROM EGYPT, JEROBOAM LEADS THE PEOPLE OF tbRAEL BEFORE RE1-10BCAM TO ASK FOR GREATER ■ L MIENCY-- 501,0MON WAS HARD ON THE PEOPLE-THEY WILL SERVE YOU IP YOU ARE KIND! 1_ 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! • 7Of 530 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL REVOLTED FROM 1 REHOBOAM- THEY MADE JEROBOAM KING -O -R ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRA E L BuT Two - JuDAH AND BENJAMIN - (YOU SHALL BE S OUR KING LET SOLOMON'. SON REIGN ONLY OVER JuDAH! 00 THE GREAT KINGDOM, OF ISRAEL. WAS DIVIDED, Be- CAusa KING SOLOMON DISOBEYED THE COMMANDMENTS OP THE LORD AND WORSHIPPED STRANGE GODS. ,1ve lZ, Yht 4t ovrcle*aif 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.