58 Friday, September 14, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FRONT LINES your advertising dollars • do better in... The separation principle: THE JEWISH NEWS bringing it home BY M. J. ROSENBERG Special to The Jewish News For some of us, the mixing of "church and state" has a very per- sonal aspect. I remember — as a child growing up in the late 1950s — the discomfort I felt when our public school class recited_ the Lord's Prayer. I remember mouth- ing the words (I wouldn't sing them) to a hymn we sang every morning called "Fairest Lord Jesus." It was a pretty song. But the three Jewish kids in a Kings- ton, N.Y. classroom just couldn't sing "Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer." Today it all seems rather re- markable. How could they have inflicted that kind of discomfort on children? How could they make us feel so estranged from our Call Us Today! 424-8833 proudly presents Rosenberg writes for "Near East Report," a publication of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee "THE PERFECT EVENING" LOBSTER, WINEand ROSES . ...Maine lobster dinner, including house salad prepared tableside, vegetable dujour and potato ...Enjoy a sampling of wine from Jacques private reserves and a complimentary glass of your choice classmates, so odd and vulnera- ble? But they did. And they did it innocently. The teachers and school administrators just didn't know any better. With less than a dozen Jewish children in school, they felt no special sensitivity toward the tiny _non-Christian minority in their midst. That all ended when the Sup- reme Court ruled that organized prayer in public school was un- constitutional. Jewish kids (and others) would not have to stand — hearts pounding in their chests — while their outsider status was proclaimed to the world. After a while, school Christmas trees were removed as well. Before long, even Christmas vacation be- came "winter recess" and Easter "spring recess." I can't imagine that anyone was harmed when organized prayer was removed from the schools. The religious Christian could pray at home, as the religious Jew OL11) PARTHENON RESTAURANT ...Complimentary rose MYKONOS $ 1 2 95 0-Ntsin. SUPPER