THE JEWISH NEWS-25
Fridit-y, April /5, 1949
Religious Education inadequate
Rabbi Adler Declares in Article Windsor Borrows
- An appalling degree of religious -illiteracy among young,
$60,000 for Loan
To Israel Appeal
Americans is revealed in Rabbi Morris Adler's article "Re-
ligion and Public Schools: The Greater Opportunity," whicn
appears in the March-April edition of Religious Education.
Rabbi Adler analyses the current discussions on com-
To help meet emergency fin-
bining religious instruction with the public schools, declaring ancial'
needs for Israeli im-
that "the attempt to use the pub-':)
lic schools to aid religious educa-
tion grows out of a deep disillu-
sionment with the results achiev-
ed by church and synagogue
throUgh their educational pro-
grams.'
He chastizes the churches and
synagogue of America for their
failure to provide adequately for
religious education facilities, in
contrast to the large sums spent
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
on beautifying church structures
and on such functions as church
music. He emphasizes further
that insufficient prestige and eco-
nomic security have been given
to the profession of religioui edu-
cation.
Need Trained Teachers
"Had we a large group of pro-
fessional teachers in the field of
religious education equipped with
knowledge, endowed with zeal
and talented in pedagogic skills,
the indirect influence wielded
would have invaded the whole
field of education. Their thinking
and the results of their educa-_
tional efforts would - impress_
themselves upon the whole of ed-
ucational theory and would direct
the attention of all teachers_ to
emphasis overlooked or insuf-
ficiently stressed in the general
curriculum. Thus would some-
things of the'spiritual outlook and
influence flow into the main-
stream of American education
without bringing our schools into
any alliance with sectarian re-
ligious institutions," Rabbi Adler
states.
Rather than attempting to
bring actual sectarian religious
CIO Sends Delegates
On Histadrut Invitation
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — CIO
president Philip Murray -has an-
nounced acceptance of an invita-
tion from the Histadrutto send a
committee of union leaders to Is-
rael to study conditions there.
The CIO named Jacob Potofsky,
president of the Amalgarriated
Clothing Workers; Joseph Cur-
ran, .president of the National
Maritime Union, and O. A.
Knight, president of the Oil
Workers International Union.
.
training into the public schools,
he suggests-the extension of exist-
ing church and synagogue teach-
ing programs through such media
as mid-week afternoon . classes,
religious summer camps a and nur-
sery schools.
Public School Melting Pot
"The public school provides
for the children of America
despite the multiple +variety of
ethnic origin, social and economic
class, religious creed, a common
denominator of shared back-
ground, influence, memories, ex-
periences. Here in the formative
years of childhood, our young
meet and live as Americans and
as members of the human race,
rather than as Methodists, Catho-
lics, Jews, • white and • Negro,"
Rabbi Adler continues.
"We should be profoundly jeal-
ous of the inclusive character of
our public schools' and shield it
against any divisive 'sectarian'
influences. Dr. Freehof pOinted
out in the July-August 1948 issue
of Religious Education that 'all
religious instruction is bound to
be sectarian. This is psycho-
logically inevitable whatever we
deem philosophically possible.'
For even a cursory study of his-
tory will indicate that while
ideas can be seen by a church or
synagogue only through . the
lenses ground by its particular
experience, tradition • and creed.
The religious ideas that, it is
hoped, may become part of the
educational process in our pub-
lic school, can enter only by way
of a specific institution and
through personnel trained in in-
stitutional loyalty in a 'sectar-
ian' interpretation. The risk is
no less great because the inten-
ton is laudable."
tion
Rabbi Adler concludes: "Out
of the very disillusionment that
many religious educators feel, a
new resolve can spring.: It is out
of the sphere of voluntary reli-
gious associations known as
churches and synagogues that
a consecrating . Spirit of justice,
love, truth and mortality can
emerge to interpenetrate the
life of the land."
migration facilities, the Windsor
Community Council executive
has voted to borrow $60,000
from the banks for an immedi-
ate loan to the United Israel
Appeal of Canada.
Members of the Windsor com-
munity were . urged by'-Council
leaders to make rapid payments
on their 1948-49 Welfare Cam-
paign pledges, to reduce the
size of the bank loan.
The measure was voted after
Samuel Zacks, president of the
United Zionist" Council of 'Can-
ada, spoke with Windsor leaders
on the crisis in Israel, after hav-
ing heard it discussed by Moshe
Sharett ' at the United Jewish
Appeal conference in Washing-
ton.
This will be the second • time
that Windsor's Jewish commun-
ity has borrowed funds for the
United Israel Appeal. The first
loan of $50,000 already has been
repaid.
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EQUALITY CLUB will meet
Wednesday, April 20, at the home
of Yetta Tucker, 18048 North-
lawn, to begin plans for its an-
NEW YORK — Enrollment in nual donor luncheon.
the Hebrew classes of the high
schools of New York City has
reached a total of 4,000, an in-
crease of 21 per cent over last
year, according to the annual re-
port issued by the Hebrew Cul-
ture Council, an affiliate of the
Jewish Education Committee of
New York. Judah Lapson is di-
rector of the Council.
New York High School
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