THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. 1951
Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co.. 17100 West Seven Mile Road. Detroit 35. Mich..
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6. 1942, at Post Office. Detroit, Mich. under Act of March 3, 1879
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SIDNEY SHMARAK
FRANK SIMONS,
Editor and Publisher
Advertising Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-fourth day of TiShri, 5717, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Bereshit, Gen. 1:1-6:8. Prophetical portion, Is. 42:5-43:10.
Readings of the Torah for first day of Rosh Hodesh Heshvan, Friday : Num. 28:115
VOL. XXX. No. 4
September 28, 1956
Page Four
The Teacher's Place in Our Community
Dedicating the current observance of
National Education Month to the theme
"The Teacher's Place and Task - in the
American Jewish Community," the Amer-
ican Association for Jewish Education has
issued an important call to Jewish par-
ents in connection with the new term of
Jewish studies.
Signed by the heads of all national
Jewish organizations in this country, the
call to parents points out these important
facts with regard to the "critical short-
age" of teachers:
"The greatest riches the Jewish. parent can
pass on to his children are the treasures of
Jewish values and ideals.
"This year, as we plan for our children's
education, let us think of the one who will give
it—the teacher. The heart of education is the
teacher. The best textbooks and the finest
physical ability cannot substitute for good
teaching.
"There is a critical 'shortage of Competent
teachers for Jewish schools, even as there is for
public _schools. The present enrollm ent in
Jewish teachers' colleges will fill only 20% of
the need at most. The .shartage of trained
personnel for all types of schools, as well as for
informal education of youth and adults„ presents
a situation which severely threatens Jewish
creative living in America, and must be over-
come if Jewish life here-is to attain the fullness
and the richness it deserves.
"If steps were taken in every community
to accord the profession of Jewish teaching
the honored place it has traditionally held, if
Jewish teachers were offered economic security
and standards of employment on a par with
other skilled occupations, and if they were
assured the professional and personal satisfac-
tions which are as important to a dedicated
person as his earnings, many more young people
would be ready to make Jewish training their
life's career.
"This, then, is our responsibility and our
opportunity as Jewish parents: To lend our
weight—each of us—to the vital effort to recruit
and retain the teachers who are a, crucial force
in giving meaning and reality to our heritage."
Linking the Education Month theme,
on the teacher's place in our community,
with the national effort to cope with the
shortage of teachers, the American As-
sociation for Jewish Education has called
a conference to deal with the problem,
to be held in Washington Nov. 3-5.. The
Call to Parents, asking attention for this
conference, urges all American Jewish
communities to share in meeting the prob-
lem and to form citizens' committees "to
study and analyze the local personnel sit-
uation and to rally the Jewish commun-
ity behind a program designed to meet
the teacher crisis locally and nationally."
Our own community has felt the crisis,
and while serious efforts always are made
by local leaders to fill the rising needs,
the challenge reoccurs year after year and
must be tackled time and again.
In order to meet the issue properly, it
is important that the basic facts regarding
the educational status of our communities
should be known. The American Associa-
tion for Jewish Education has prepared
this chart to show the distribution of
school enrollment, based on figures made
available in 1954:
YIDDISH SCHOOLS-10,000 or 2.5%
A Pictorial Review
Enlightening. 'Journey to Israel'
Those who are interested in Israel, and especially those
who are planning a trip to the Holy Land, will find the new
volume, "Journey to Israel: A Pictorial Guide," invaluable.
Published by Monde (P.O.B. 209, White Plains, N.Y.), this
volume features Israel's high spots, in 200 photographs that
have been selected with great care and with admirable judgment.
Designed by Peter Oldenburg, the book was edited by
Ernest Aschner and Zachary Serwer, and contains a foreword
by Governor Theodore R. McKeldin, of Maryland, Who has been
in Israel twice.
Governor McKeldin, who is the president of the American-
Israel Society, commends the editors for their splendid task.
He states that the adventure of a journey to Israel "is an
experience almost incommunicable in words," that it is • "a
refreshment of the mind and of the body."
Every section of Israel is covered in this book, which is
available in a standard popularly-priced edition and in a $15
deluxe art edition.
The routine is a natural for a traveler. The photographs
The Education Association also has re-
leased this chart to show the aggregate commence with the Lydda Airport and the Haifa Harbor — thus
travelers by air as well as by the seaways. Then
budget of 28 central agencies for Jewish accommodating
the traveler — or reader — is taken to Jerusalem. The tour takes
education in 1948 and 1955:
us through the most important spots of the Holy City.
From there we travel — photographically — to the Negev,
IN MILLIONS
then to Tel Aviv, the Coastal Plain, Haifa, Acre, the Valley of
Jezreel and Nazareth, the Jordan Valley and Galilee.
$2 726363 —TOTAL—$4,797,,757
In every instance, the historic places and the new Israel-
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created sections of the land are covered in the volume of wonder-
ful photographs.
Non-Jews as well as Jews will find this volume of very
great value and interest.
The faces of the people of the new land, the streets and the
parks, the cities, villages and communal settlements, are vividly
portrayed in pictures that were taken by very able photographers.
Occasional Biblical quotations enliven the book.
Here is a volume that fills an important need and that will
serve to enlighten all who seek information about Israel by
actual presentation of a pictorial guide through the remark_able
new Land of Israel.
Goldman's 'Crucial Decade'
•1948•
FE 0E RATION
ALLOCATIONS
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OTHER
SOURCES
Possession of facts should enlighten
interested leaders on the existing situa-
tion. Knowing the need, recognizing the
crisis created by a shortage of teachers,
our aims should become clearer. We must
make it possible, through proper compen-
sation, to encourage more of our young
people to enter the Jewish teaching pro-
fession. The proper schools should be es-
tablished for such training. The teaching
profession should be treated with the
dignity it deserves.
This educational problem is, perhaps,
the most serious one in our communities.
Let us face the issue and try to solve it-
Eric F. Goldman, in his new book, "The Crucial Decade:
America, 1945-1955," (published by Knopf), presents a fairly
optimistic picture.
"In a very real sense," he writes, "the Truman and the Eisen-
hower years blend into one development. It was the Truman
administration that began codifying New Dealism in domestic
affairs—slowing down its pace, pushing its attitude only in areas
of outstanding need . . . Meanwhile the Truman years were also
bringing the departures in foreign policy. Whatever its modifica-
tions, the Eisenhower Administration continued and broadened
the codification. It not only swung to somewhere on the middle
course in foreign and domestic affairs. It brought the Republican
Party . . . into line with the long-running policies and thus
changed them from partisan to national programs."
Mr. Goldman reports an "added exhilaration" brought by
the new era. "By V-J." (victory over Japan) he states, "Jews
seeking admission to professional schools had a 10-to-15 bet-
ter chance than the applicant of 1929."
There were, however, times when "Jews were being
threatened" by a revived Ku Klux Klan.
"The book is history in the most direct sense of the word,"
the author states in his foreword. It is an enlightening analysis
that adds to understanding of the events of "a crucial decade."
Remember the Admonition .
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
Editor, Seven Arts Feature .Syndicate
To Vote: You Must Register Before Oct. 8
Not only this country, but the security
of the entire world may be affected by
the manner in which American citizens
select their representatives in Congress
and in the
White House.
The Nov. 6
Presidential
and Congres-
sional e 1 e c-
tions are vital
for the future
of all of us.
Grave domes-
tic issues are on the agenda, and while
the foreign policies Of our country are
supposedly hi-partisan, the type of men
we elect on Nov. 6 may change conditions
positively or adversely.
It is urgent, therefore, .that every citi-
zen should be prepared to cast his ballot
in the forthcoming elections. In advance
of Election Day, it is urgent that all those
who have not as yet registered should do
so at once, before they endanger their
status as citizens by losing the right to
vote
The final Registration Day in Michigan
is Oct. 8. If YOU have not yet registered,
do so NOW, before the deadline.
It is perhaps impudent of a laymani to remind rabbis of the
Talmudic admonition "Sages, guard your words." But one won-
ders whether in the light of what happened last week in New
York City, when some 2,000 religious zealots engaged in a pain-
ful demonstration against Israel, if it is not appropriate to remind
those gentlemen also of the edict "Do not disassociate yourself
from the community."
There can be disagreement but no quarreling with their
position, but there can be only condemnation and abhorrence of
a Jewish tongue that dares the hillul hashem of terming Israel
a "spiritual crematorium," thus linking it with the unmentionable
who sought the utter' destruction of Jewry. The rabbi who ut-
tered that phrase surely was aware of the fact that the word
"crematorium" has only one connotation in our day—the ashes of
our millions who were made to perish by the barbarians. By
making semantic use of the word, even if for what he believes is
a sacred cause, the rabbi defamed the millions who died and
came close to speaking •idolatry.
The Union Square demonstration was not only obnoxious, it
was an abomination of the Name.