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Page Fourteen THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Friday, April 1, 1966 Make New Start Educators Urged Scrap Misconceptions HOLIDAY GREETINGS IDEAL MUSIC COMPANY 84 Forsyth St., S.W. JA. 1-0043 Atlanta, Ga. Substantial cash savings on all name brand musical instruments. Our Very $ Best Passover *f Greetings t j Nelson i Brokerage Co. ^ | Atlanta, Ga. J J ACL Terminal, N. W J Imvmmwvtvttwv' NEW YORK (JTA)—The pre sent crisis in Jewish education re quires a willingness on the part of curriculum planners and ad ministrators to “scrap all cher ished preconceptions and start all over again,” a professor of his tory told 250 delegates to the na tional conference on Jewish Ed ucation, which concluded its four- day session here recently. Dr. Irving Greenberg, of Yesh- iva University, speaking to the fifth national conference of the American Association for Jewish Education, said that the first con sideration for the educators to de termine is what is the purpose of remaining Jewish. “If Judaism is nothing but democracy or bro therhood, why not practice these in the original form?” he asked. He suggested as an experiment, the reversal of the current prac tice by starting Jewish education at 13, or bar mitzvah age, so that the student can begin his Jewish studies when he is ma ture. “In fact,” he declared, “a good idea would be to scrap the entire bar mitzvah ceremony with its Haftorah ritual, a pro cedure which has in the past wasted thousands of man years.” ‘‘Since the synagogue has taken a central role and in effect, the religious school often wags the tail," Dr. Greenberg said, “the result is that Jewish education suffers. We must challenge the laymen who now use the syna gogue as a comfortable shelter, and adopt an idea proposed by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch— to close the synagogues for 100 years, so we will have to develop the home." “Perhaps we can be a little less radical," Prof. Green berg added, “and close the syn agogues for one year, informing the rabbis that their new func tion is to teach, resulting in forcing their erstwhile congre gants to learn and think." Recognition of the complaints of Jewish adolescents that the curricula of Jewish schools are often inferior, and their instruc tion dull, was given in the unan imous adoption by the conference of a resolution authorizing the creation of a national youth com mission, to look into the s ; tua- tion as it ex ; sts in Jewish educa tional institutions of the United States and Canada. The resolution urged the Com mission to make a survey "to diagnose the problems of Jewish youth and to suggest improve ments that must be adopted to attract and retain Jewish students in both the elementary and sec ondary school categories.” The Commission will utilize the serv ices of outstanding scholars, psychologists and sociologists as well as educators, in its stud'es, and in the drafting of recommen dations. The conference also voted the creation of a manpower commis sion to study and deal with the serious shortage of teachers which confronts Jewish schools tu r o U r»hoiit th ; s country and Can ada. Another resolution called on m°mhor aeencies of various Jew ish education, and asked for bold new financing of the Jewish school svstem which trains 600.- 000 children and employs 17.000 part-time and fulltime teachers annuallv. The association dele gates also urged the seeking of new and laree gifts for schools from foundations. Dr. Isadore Breslau of Wash ington was reelected president of the association, with Samuel H. Daroff of Philadelphia renamed as chairman of the Governing Council. Mrs. Edith Hyman of New York City was elected sec retary; Harry Meresman of New York City, treasurer; and Isador S Turover of Washington, associ ate. Atlanta, Ga. CHESHIRE BRIDGE PHARMACY 2280 Cheshire Bridge Passover Greetings 634-5161 Calloway Builder’s Supply Co. 27 WADDELL STREET, N.E. Complete line of building materials Passover Greetings JA. 5-0696 DEKALB MUSICIANS SUPPLY CO., INC. PASSOVER GREETINGS 422 E. Howard Ave. Decatur, Georgia PASSOVER GREETINGS DAN KEISIIIAN ORIENTAL RUGS 5 \vv»%vvwww\\\\\\\v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\w\vvvvv\y \ PASSOVER GREETINGS NEWTON, INC. 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