I Organizer of U.S. Reform Judaism Backed Church-State Separation
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The United States Supreme Israelite of March 3, 1365, saw . . . by the Russian govern- tant dogmas and the teachers'
me ans,
Court's recent decision in the "the en t i r e separation of ment, whose head is at the particular prejudices." In Wise's which teachers, first of all
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as
Vitale case, a decision declar- Church and State" as having same time the absolute lord of opinion, it was "not the teach- ... things, ought to understand."
ing New York State's sponsor- "proved a blessing to both the Empire . . . and the abso- er's business to develop the
Wise was strongly against
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ship of a public school prayer— the political and religions lute head of the church." In pupil's affectional capacities, this hat he
a considered
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attempts "to
the so-called Regents' Prayer— condition of the country."
consequence, said Wise, "we is the business of the mothers." make
"wholly inconsistent with the
In an editorial of June 18, have before our eyes the hugest It was "not the teacher's busi- the public schoolhouse. . . . We
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establishment clause" of the 1891, Wise explored the propo- system of idolatry and slavery, ness to develop the pupil's re- are not ready to submit to the
First Amendment, would have sition "that liberty, justice and under which over a hundred ligious sentiments. This must spiritual guardianship of school-
been applauded by Isaac Mayer, peace are impossibilities in millions of souls suffered and be left to the family and the masters."
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Wise,
a leading personality on countries where Church and groaned.
. . Here is your church."
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the 19th-century American re- State are united." This propo- united Church and State."
What, then, was the teacher's
ligious scene. Research under- siton, he declared, was "proven That Wise was as much con- business? It was, Wise declared,
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taken at the American Jewish
cerned about Church-State sep-. "to inculcate real knowledge,
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aration in the public schools as to develop the pupils' reason-
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dicates that Wise, the organizer 1
Ararat, a novel by Stella mented in his writings. In an appreciation of love and learn-
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of American Reform Judaism,' Wilchek, published by Harper, I editorial of March 24, 1898, for i n g -
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cannot
be
done
by
ci) was second to none in cham- describes the activities of a example, he
vigorously criti-
pionship of the Constitutional! group of Austrian Jewish cited Pennsylvania, "where . .
principle of Church-State sep-i escapees from Nazism who religious services and Bible
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aration. • sought refuge in El Paramo, a readings are part of the obliga-
tip
"The government is a seer- 1 South American state, for the tory curriculum in the public
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schools."
oC far institution," Rabbi Wise ' duration of the war.
The novel's approach is un-
editorialized in The American
Cincinnati was Wise's home
Israelite of April 10, 1890; "it orthodox, different from the from 1854 until his death in
cannot and dare not legislate ; usual narrations, in that it is 1900, and he was particularly
on matters of religion and con- written in the form of a diary, watchful of Church-State devel-
F. science." Government officials, commencing with Tuesday,
Jan. opments in his home state. In
in his judgment, had "no higher , 13, 1939. and ending on Wednes- July, 1869, the Ohio State
law than the Constitution and day- July 11, 1945. leachers' Associaton convened
During these intervening at Cleveland and issued a reso-
the laws enacted by the con-
stained authorities. Nothing at years. the refugees struggled, lution "that there shall be in
all in the discharge of their aimed at survival, sought goals every school district a recogni-
public duties is left to their be - in life.
tion of that reverence and affec-
Naturally, some of the ex - tion which are due our Heav-
lit4s in God, Bible, Church or
any other authority—they may periences are far from pleasant, enly Father, and that the teach-
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resign if their public duties col - there is a mingling of happi. ings of Jesus Christ, regarding
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ness
with
despair. there are sex human duty, and the spirit of
lide with their conscience — and
this would not and could not be temptations. love which he inculcated, should
changed if all the names of the! Inevitable also is the intru - las completely as possible per-
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