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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pap Fir*
Education Month Brings Objectives to Fore in Religious Schools
SHEARITH ISRAEL SCHOOLS
Aim at Character Development
The Shearith Israel Synagogue
through its -Hebrew School and
Sunday School aims to develop
the character of its students so
that they may perpetuate Jewish
society by participating intelli
gently in Jewish life.
The Hebrew School was com
pletely reorganized four years ago
when Rabbi Friedman accepted
the pulpit of the Synagogue. The
traditional subjects — reading,
writing, interpretation of prayers,
laws and customs and Bible—
were retained in the curriculum,
but the manner of presentation was
revised. Instead of burdening the
child with subjects which he con
sidered a mere appendage to his
public school program, he is at the
very outset of his Hebrew' School
career introduced to Synagogue
life through model services which
are conducted by his own col
leagues in the Junior Congrega
tion every Sabbath morning; Flu
ency in reading and ability to un
derstand the prayers thus become
necessary tools in which the child
participates joyfully, especially
when these subjects are adapted
to his abilities. Likewise every
subject taught is correlated to ac
tual life so that the child may live
his subjects rather than memorize
seemingly unimportant and dull
facts.
The chain that unites the Syna
gogue with the class room is
strengthened when the students
are able not only to follow the tra
ditional services in the Synagogue
with ease, but are able to conduct
them as well. During previous
years, student frequently chanted
complete services in the main au
ditorium of the synagogue on Sab
bat*’
Commencing on Passover
of this past year, however, this
institution was extended when the
children actually took over and
conducted the entire traditional
festival service.
Since much of the training in
a Hebrew School is centered about
the Bar Mitzva, our school has de
veloped minimum Bar Mitzva re
quirements which includes the
chanting of the Musaf Service on
the day of Bar Mitzva in addition
to the knowledge of other basic
facts of the history, tradition and
language of our people.
A class for beginners will be
formed this year and will be in
structed according to the Frish-
man method as expounded by the
founder at the recent Southeast
ern Synagogue Conference in Sa
vannah.
The Sunday School and Bible
School contributes their share to
wards the overall picture of Jew
ish Life by inculcating with the
child a love for his people and
his heritage and an appreciation of
his sense of value. The child is
encouraged to participate not only
in such extracurricular activities
of the school, such as student gov
ernment. dramatics, school news
papers, recreational programs,
choral groups, festival projects and j
religious services, but is encour- \
aged to take an active part in every
constructive project developed by
the community. In this way the
child is taught to solve present day
problems in the light of past ex
periences.
To give the child a more real
istic outlook towards his studies
a series of moving pictures w ill be
shown and a number of radio pro
grams will be presented. Depart
mentalized instruction will be con
ducted in classes commencing with
the sixth and continuing through
Bible School. A new course on
Modern Problems will feature spe
cialists in their respective fields
who will act as guest lecturers.
Ail sessions of the school will
be held in the spacious James L.
Key School building. Capitol and
Ormond Street. All boys and girls
of the community, between the
ages of five and sixteen are eligi
ble to register.
The faculty for the coming year
will consist of the following mem
bers: Rabbi Hyman R. Friedman,
Jack Goldstein, Superintendent:
Miss Betty Auerbach, Sam Auer
bach, Irving Citron. Miss Frances
Fittennan, Miss Alice Goncher,
Miss Flora Hirsch, Manuel Levine,
Mrs. Perry Morris, Sol Tenenbaui.\
Sidney Rich. Miss Edythe Shartar,
Miss Luba Werbin, Miss Rose
Ster nand Israel Fitterman.
Dr. Greenberg to Discuss Teaching Values
At Monday Dinner of Education Bureau
OR VESHALOM SCHOOLS
Revising Curriculum on Modern Lines
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The Sephardic Hebrew School
under auspices of Congregation Or
Veslmlom. wishing to render a
greater service to the case of Jew
ish education and in order to serv
ice uniformly both sections of the
South side and North side, has re
vised its schedule and program aft
er consultation with the Bureau
of Jewish Education, and is in-
roducing a new curriculum. Two
dternatives days a week session
’re held in each of the sections,
heltering the pupils temporarily
n the buildings of the synagogue
:nd the Educational Center of the
\havath A c h i m Congregation,
hanks to its generous cooperation.
The new accommodations, the
evised curriculum, an intensifica-
ion of methods of teaching, will
ring to the students greater bene
fit within the time limit assigned
,o each section.
Regardless of time limitations,
new approaches have been estab
lished to reach the aims and ob
jectives of Jewish education, pro
viding the children a basic He
brew knowledge and tradition,
creating in them a Jewish con-
sciosness and Jewish dignity, a
pattern of the purity and beauty
of the ancestral heirtage, empha
sizing the Hebrew language with
its modem pronunciation from
which has emerged the cultural
renaissance in Eretz Israel. The
schools also stimulate in the child
an expressive religious life in the
synagogue, encouraging him to
participate joyfully in congrega
tional worship, injecting in him
the feeling and interest in partak-
ng of communal responsibilities.
Jewish as well as non-Jewish.
An ambitious program also il
being introduced into the Sunday
School meeting at the Ahavath
Achim Synagogue, thanks to the
hearty cooperation of the faculty.
The curriculum attempts to ex
pand the program of actities, to
enrich the methods of teaching
suggested in the Teacher’s Semi
nar series promoted by the Bureau
of Jewish Education, and to create
a new approach to the Jewish life
and school. The curriculum con
sists of Jewish history, Bible, ius-
tom and ieremonies of Sabbath
and Holidays, Jewish communal
life afld current events. In addi
tion to Rabbi Joseph I. Cohen as
superintendent of the schools, the
Sunday School staff consists of:
Solomon Benton, Miss Tamar
Tourial, Isaac Galanti, Miss Sara
Tarica,.Miss Rachel Mezrah, Leo
Benatar and Miss Marrie Rousso.
An additional teacher for a newly
created Kindergarten class will be
added to the faculty in the near
future.
WORKMEN S CIRCLE SHULE
Progressive Yiddish Education
The Workmen's Circle School,
gives the Jewish child a progres-
I sive Jewish education in the spirit
I of our prophets, attuned to mod
ern times, in the Yiddish language.
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Not Responsible
For Wife's Debts'
A young man came rushing into
i He Clarion office the other day and
» anted me to print an ad—"right
quick”—saying he won’t be respon
sible for his wife’s debts from now
on, as he’s leaving her for good im
mediately.
I allowed as how the forms were
all closed up, and it was too late to
lake his ad. He saya: “All right,
Monday then”—and we agreed on
Monday.
Of course, the forma weren’t
closed. But I had kind of an inkling
of what nt)ght happen. Then Sun
day he phones me, and says, kind of
sheepishly: “You ean forget that
ad. Me and the missus have every
thing all patched up. And we’re hav
ing a friendly glaas of beer, right
now”
From where I sit, if you give
folks time enough to think things
over, those hasty quarrels that
eome so often from misunderstand
ing wifi give way to tolerance and
common sense.
Most of our Jewish writers and
artists create in Yiddish, and the
majority of our people, the world
over, speak in Yiddish. Yiddish is
the esperanto, the universal lan
guage that makes it possible for
Jews, the globe over, to under
stand one another.
There are. of course, classes in
the Hebrew language, and in the
Bible, for the children in more
advanced grades.
The curriculum consists of: Yid
dish — Modem Literature — The
History of the Jewish People—
Holidays—Customs and Traditions
—Bible Study—Folk Songs—and
social problems, with which your
children will be confronted as they
grow up. both as citizens, and as
Jews.
This school session, a kinder
garten has been initiated with a
competent teacher in charge, who
with the teaching of songs, plays,
games, and with little stories,
gradually prepares the younger
children for the regular classes.
At the moment all efforts are
being exerted toward the realiza
tion of our ideal, to have in the
not too distant future, a regular
parochial school, where our chil
dren, from kindergarten to the
fifth grade, may be taught the
three R’s, plus all Yiddish subjects,
in the one school.
No effort has been spared to
make this school one of the finest
of its kind in the South. The com-
National Jewish Education I
Month will be observed in Atlanta !
by a Jewish Education dinner |
sponsored by the Atlanta Bureau I
of Jewish Education to be held at i
the Ahavath Achim Educational j
Center on Monday, Oct. 20, at 7
p. m.
The dinner will feature an ad- j
dress by Dr. Simon Greenberg of
New York City on the subject.
"What Do We Owe Our Children?"
The program will also include a
review of the Bureau's past year’s
activities by Louis Schwartzman.
Executive Director: installation of
officers by Edward M. Kahn, ex
ecutive secretary of the Jewish
Community Council, as follows:
Thomas Makover, General 'Chair
man; J, B. Jacobs, Hon. Vice-
Chairman; Herman Heyman, Jack
Maziar, M. J. Merlin, Vice-Chair
men; Barney Medintz, Secretary:
Frank Garson. Treasurer; blessing
before the meal by Rabbi David
Marx; grace after the meal by
Rabbi Tobias Geffen. Rabbi Har
ry H. Epstein will serve as toast
master. Those not attending the
dinner are invited to attend the
featured address at 8:15 p. m.
Dr. Simon Greenberg, gradu
ate of the College of the City of
New York, the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, the Dropsie
College, studied in Palestine in the
Hebrew University and at the
American Academy of Oriental
Research. He served as Rabbi of
the Har Zion Temple in Philadel
phia from 1925 to 1946. Today he
is provost of the Jewish Theologi
cal Seminary and associate pro
fessor of education at that insti-
petent faculty consists of Mr. L.
Rozen and his assistant. Miss Feld
man. Former teachers of the
school, Mr. Obrinski, Mr. Fine, Mr.
Bloshtein will instruct the more
advanced classes.
As usual a school bus has been
serviced to take the children to
and from school with a committee
of mothers on deck to watch for
their safety.
The school has two locations: for
the Southside, at 773 Capitol Ave
nue, and for the Northside, at In
man Park Public School.
Enroll your child in the Arbelter
Ring School for a thorough Jew
ish education!
Dlt SIMON GULLN’BLRG
Education Dinner Speaker
tution. He is author of “Living as
a Jew Today,*’ "Ideals and Values
of the Prayer Book,” “First Year
in the Hebrew School,” a series of
Hebrew texts, and many articles
appealing in the Jewish press. He
is now a member of the National
Executive Committee of the Zion
ist Organization of America and
chairman of its Educational Com
mittee Dr. Greenberg has served
as president of the Rabbinical As
sembly of America and is nation
ally known as an authority in Jew
ish education and a provocative
and dynamic speaker.
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