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.. VE. 8-9364 Subscription $5 a year Foreign $6. 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- 5 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 /955. 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.