Dr. Agus Offers Time Problem Faces Education, Fishman Tells Institute Banquet
By HERSCHEL P. FINK
too little. "How can we succeed new perspectives and opportu-
`New Look' at
There is a direct parallel to
The chief probleni facing in transmitting 5,000 years of nities in Jewish education. It be found in Jewish education,
Jewish Heritage Jewish education today is get- Jewish heritage in so few will come hand in hand with Fishman said. "Never before
.
Rabbi Jacob B. Agus of Bal-
timore will be the featured
speaker in the second of a
series of lectures intitled, "A
Now Look at Our Jewish Heri-
Dr. Agus
Dr. Sandmel
tage," 8:30 p.m. Monday in the
main auditorium at Temple
Beth El.
Dr. Richard C. Hertz, spiri-
tual leader of the Temple, will
preside. The lecture is open to
the public, free of charge.
A scholar of Judaism, Dr.
Agus has written many books,
considered to be "great con-
tributions to modern thinging
and philosophy." He is editor
of the magazine "Judaism" and
is in editorial consultant for
the religious articles in the
Encyclopedia Britannica in the
field of Judaism and Jewish
hiitory.
Dr. Agus' topic Monday will
be "Jewish Thought in Transi-
tion."
The third lecture in the sei,
ies will be delivered 8:30 p.m.
Oct. 30 at the .Temple by Rabbi
Jakob J. Petuchowski, associ-
ate professor of rabbinids at
the Hebrew Union College-Jew-
ish Institute
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Religion.
of
He is also a
member of
t h e visiting
faculty in phi-
losophy a n d
religion at An-
tioch College.
Dr. Pet u-
chowski is a
frequent con-
tributor to
scientific and
popular pe-
g riodicals and
the author of
several books.
His topic on
Dr. PetuchowskiOct. 30 will
be "A Contemporary View of
the jewish Classics."
Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, pro-
vost of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion, will conclude the Tem-
ple Beth El lecture series in
Nov. 6.
ting the most out of the little
time we have our children, Dr.
Joshua Fishman, dean of the
graduate school of education at
Yeshiva University said Sunday
night.
Fishman was guest speaker at
the Sholem Aleichem Institute's
annual banquet.
Speaking on "Prespects for
Jewish Education in the '60's,"
Fishman traced the problems
Jewish _educators have faced in
the past 30 years.
"The classic complaints
have included the small num-
ber of children attending—
only one in five in the past
—lack of proper facilities and
insufficient funds," Fishman
said.
"Jewish education has been a
veil of tears. But today, many
of these complaints are no
longer valid."
Fishman cited figures show-
ing that two out of three Jewish
children now receive religious
education. "Jewish schools now
reach almost all possible clien-
tele," he said.
He also pointed to vastly
improved buildings and other
facilities. "There will never
be sufficient funds, but even
budgets for Jewish education
have improved." •
The remaining problem, he
said, is that our children learn
years?" A child that studies in the growth in interest of all
a Jewish school five years is forms of education. -
considered "a rare specimen,"
"The general public is rea-
Fishman said.
lizing how crucial higher edu-
Children enter Jewish studies cation has become. Govern-
before they are emotionally ma- ment and industry are also
ture, and leave at the same concerned. Never before have
stage, he said
so many groups been inter-
"We can look to the '60's for ested in education."
Teacher of Jewish Blind to Speak
at Bnai Brith 118th Birthday Party
Bnai Brith will celebrate its
118th. birthday' 8:30 p.m. Oct.
28, in the so-
cial hall of
Bnai Moshe
Synagogue,
14390 W. Ten
Mile, Oak
Park.
Rev. Harry
J. Sutcliffe of
Brooklyn, N.
Y. will be
the guest of
Rev. Sutcliffe honor and
main speaker. He is director
of the Episcopal Guild for the
Blind, a subdivision of the
American Church Union, a mis-
sionary and educational organ-
ization.
Blind from birth, Rev. Sut-
cliffe specializes in teaching
Hebrew liturgy and Yiddish,
have so many Jewish organiza-
tions and,- prominent people
taken •so great an interest in
religious education.
"I believe we are entering a
phase of Jewish education more
concerned with high schools
and universities," he said.
Fishman predicted that
Jewish high school enroll-
inents will show the most
startling growth, followed by
colleges. He pointed to the
increasing number of secular
colleges offering courses in
Jewish education.
Fishman also foresaw possible
trends toward increased teacher
recruitment and adult re-educa-
tion.
in Braille, to the Jewish blind.
Rev. Sutcliffe is a lecturer
in Exegetical, Historical, and
Liturgical theology. He is the
author of a monograph entitled
"The Church of the East."
The Benjamin S. Pouszner Sinai Hospital Holds
Lodge of Bnai Brith in Lowell,
Mass., conferred its "Man of Visiting Chief Day
the Year Award" upon Rev.
Dr. Henry J. Tumen, professor
Sutcliffe in 1959.
and chairman of the Department
of Medicine, Graduate School of
Psychologist to Speak Medicine of the University of
Pennsylvania, will act as visiting
at Monteith Nursery
chief at Sinai Hospital today.
Dr. Kenneth Davidson, psy-
Tumen, former charman of the
cologist of Wayne State Univer- American Board of Gastroenter-
ology, will deliver the main
sity, will speak on "Children's
speech of the day on "Indica-
Fears and Discipline Problems" tions for Operation in Ulcerative
8 p.m. Thursday at Monteith Colitis" at 11 a.m. The program
Cooperative Nursery School, will begin with a clinical confer-
14710 Puritan. The public is ence at 8:30 a.m. in the main
invited.
lecture room.
Adults, Youth Invited
to Sing Hebrew Songs in
New UHS Music Course
A unique adult education
course in Jewish music appre-
ciation will be offered by the
United Hebrew Schools begin-
ning Nov. 2 in the lounge of
the Abe Kasle Building, 18977
Schaefer. Sessions will be 8:30
p.m. Thursdays. ,
Called "H a v ah Nashira!"
(Let's Sing), the course -will be
taught by Israeli exchange
teacher Zvi Kaplan,- new UHS
music director.
The first class of its kind
in the city, Havah Nashira will
focus on not only the learning
of modern and traditional He-
brew songs, but also their origin
and evolution. Knowledge of
Hebrew is not essential.
First sessions will feature
Sabbath and Hanukah melodies.
Although the entire commu-
nity is invited to participate,
parents of school children es-
pecially have been urged to at-
tend "so they may correlate
lame with school," Kaplan
said. Individuals and groups of
teenagers also may take part.
A social hour will follow
each session.
For registration, call the UHS
office, DI 1-3407.
01961 P. l'orillord Co.
Each Is In His HeartA Man
In a day before philanthropy had become
ing of the Declaration—in 1826, funds
popular in this country, Judah Tuaro of
New Orleans and Boston was a remark-
ably open-hearted man.
In a sense, his life was a tragic one. For,
denied the hand of his beloved cousin Cath-
erine, by her father, he had moved from
Boston to New Orleans as a young man
where. he devoted the rest of his life to hard
work and helping others. He never married.
And the scope of Judah Tuaro's giving
matched his generosity. Catholics, Protes-
tants, Jews . . . Churches and Synagogues
• • • Sailors' homes and Libraries . . . all
these and many more benefited from his
open-handed giving.
But perhaps Judah Tuaro's most famous
gift is also his finest memorial. It stands
on a famous. American Battleground—
Bunker Hill.
Though a memorial had been started
at Bunker Hill fifty years after the sign-
had run short and even the impassioned
oratory of Daniel Webster had failed
to raise more. At last, in 1839, Amos
Laurence—a Boston blue-blood—had
pledged $10,000 on condition that a like
amount should be raised. Soon the com-
mittee received.their additional $10,000—
from New Orleans, of all places! And the
donor asked that he remain anonymous.
But Judah Tuaro's identity did not re-
main hidden long. And on the day of the
dedication of the completed Bunker Hill
Memorial, Oliver Wendell Holmes con-
tributed these dedicatory lines:
'Amos and Judah—venerated..names,
Patriarch and Prophet press their equal
claims, Like generous coursers running
`neck in neck,' Each aids the work by
giving it a check. Christian and Jew, they
carry out one plan, For though of differ-
ent faiths, each is in his heart a man,"
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