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© SCHOOL DAZE
Nostolgia takes hold during these opening school days while
we pick-up our young ingenues in their meticulous faces and jive
talk for a ride to school.
They’re not all ingenues because we’ve three car pools to
muster and master.
Some of them are pre-teens and eight year olds.
And then there are the little lovelies, preschoolers of four,
who have learned to take care of their bathroom needs a short
time ago but who have already developed personalities of their
own.
Tou see it so clearly. Ah, this precious youth.
. you drive up to the school and there is the principal or
assistant principal greeting each child, usually by name and you
disbarge your load and then you are on the way to the office
with the clouds of nostolgia making haunting pictures of the past
right before your eyes . . .
* Well, it was different back in Brooklyn nearly four decades
ago . . .
The automobile was still a novelty and in East New York and
Brownsville, in particular, carpools were unheard of. Surburbia
was yet to come and these were the days when Murder Incorpor-
ated was reaping its fat profits from the prohibition era and
the roaring twenties testified to what the aftermath of a World
War could harvest.
Still children went to school. But we walked. Sometimes,
while walking one would see a limp body in the street, the half
congealed pools of blood covered by newspapers torn apart by an
- unforgiving wind. Last night’s latest contribution to the murder
statistics. Or, perhaps, it was biting cold as the New York winters
seemed to be then, and your hands would freeze so that a very
touch would sting them sharply and the breath would come like
an exhaust from a motor vehicle.
» The streets were usually littered with garbage because the
school, though miles away from home, was in a 'huge tenement
district, and the cold avenues were treeless with the exception of
rigid clotheslines strung from one window to the next.
What about those first days after the summer vacation?
The return to school was like preparing for battle.
We’d go in a group, walking the four miles or so. When we
arrived we’d line up in a dungeon-like basement under huge
cards labeled with our respective classes.
Suddenly a whistle would shriek, piercing the walls of the
cold cellar. This meant absolute silence. If anyone spoke it meant
„ instant dismissal to the principal’s office. This was feared. The
brave ones who came to this battle would try to ventriloquize.
The murmuring sounds sometimes caught the patrol guards off-
ear. But. moretimes than not, they were attuned for the whisper-
ings. They would make everyone stand at attention and walk up
_ and down the lines to find the guilty noisemakers. Ah, how easily
children can be turned into stormtroopers.
If the guilty one happened to be larger than the patrol guard
a fight would ensue. This would bring real trouble!
The dreaded trip to the principal’s office!
In fact, in the vastly populated school about the only time
one saw the principal was for a reprimand. Sometimes during as-
sembly period he would come in—a tall, austere figure. A hush
would fall over the entire school body. It was the hush of fear.
This was all during tne early days of progressive education
and rapid advancement for bright children.
• Following dismissal there would always be one or two fights
going. Maybe this was the great release from tension, from the
captivity of the long bleak halls, the cold gray cellars, the austere
attitude.
Well, somehow we learned our lessons in school. Many of
+ the students who graduated and matriculated into the higher
pathways of learning have distinguished themselves in various
professional and commercial endeavors.
But, somehow, during this great year of space, suburbia and
carpooling we can’t help but return to those earlier days.
They weren’t the good old days at all.
It’s much nicer to see schools nestling between trees, with
airy playgrounds, and adequate facilities.
And it’s pleasant to watch the school principal greet the stu-
dents . . . one with a cherry hello, another with a pat on the
back, a third with a warm smile. /
t This is a better way even though some of our childern may
forget what their legs are for.
So, we have to leave this nostolgic typewriter momentarily.
We must return to the present.
If you forgive us.
You see, we’ve the afternoon carpooling to do.
# Texas Jewish Post $
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THE SOUTHWEST'S LEADING ENGLISH—JEWISH WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Texas Press Association
IN OUR SIXTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME XVI NO. 36 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 12 PAGES-2 SECTIONS-15c PER COPY
Catholic Laymen Assail Jesuit Warning To U. S. Jews
NEW YORK (JTA)—A vigor-
ous lay Catholic attack on a
Jesuit editorial warning that the
Jewish battle against religious
practices in schools could pro-
voke Catholic anti-Semitism was i gious instruction “in a local
mother of two children attend- mandated prayers, not to pray-
ing a Hicksville school, submit-
ted a protest to Commissioner
Allen, declaring that her family
was receiving an adequate reli-
the highlight of a new series of
developments last week in the
continuing church-state debate.
The Jesuit-edited “America”
house of worship.” The Commis-
sioner, in banning use of the Na-
tional Anthem as a school pray-
er, upheld her petition. He
urged American Jewry to drop, stressed, however, that any part
its support of efforts to end such °f the National Anthem could
practices, asserting that such be read, sung or recited in the
activities had evoked “disturbing
hints of heightened anti-Semitic
and clergy who repeatedly
brought suit in the courts
against religious practices in the
public schools. He praised the
“Commonweal” reply.
schools and he suggested a mo-
ment of silent meditation in
feelings” among American Cath- j schools as a guideline to school
olics. The “America” editorial .'boards.
E$sked: “When icourt victories New criticisms from Jewish
produce only a harvest of fear' sources against the “America”
and distrust, will it all have1 warning also were heard during
been worthwhile?” J the week. Rabbi Richard C.
“Commonweal,’’ the weekly i Hirsch, speaking for the Union
edited by laymen, declared that American Hebrew Congre-
if the editors of “America” had Rations one of the organiza-
seen signs of anti-Semitism aris-|tloris cited in the America edi-
ing from the legal struggle torial said Catholics ought to
which led to the U.S. Supreme i ’know that in the nineteenth
Court June 25 decision banning century it was Catholic parents
use in New York public schools
of the New York Regents offi-
cial prayer, “we find their meth-
od of combatting it very odd and
the questions they address to
the Jewish community even
odder.”
If there is any real danger of
anti-Semitism developing among
Catholics, said the “Common-
weal” reply, then Catholics
should be “told as sharply as
possible of the sin of any form
of anti-Semitism.” The “Com-
monweal” editorial also said
that the American system of
settling public disputes by law
could be wrecked if minority
groups were “made to fear” re-
sort to the courts to judge their
claims.”
At the same time, New York
State Commissioner of Educa-
tion James Allen, Jr., ruled
against use of any part of The
Star Spangled Banner as a sub-
stitute for the banned Regents
Prayer. The Hicksville, Long Is-
land, school board decided im-
mediately after the June 25 rul-
ing to substitute a little-used
stanza of the national anthemi—
which contains the line “In God
is our Trust”—for the banned
Regents Prayer.
ers in general nor to Bible-read-
ing.
That point of view was the
core of a ruling by Corporation
Counsel Chester Gray of Wash-
ington, D.C., which will permit
the Board of Education in the
nation’s capital to act against the
spirit of the June 25 decision.
The Washington ruling cleared
the way for the public schools
to reopen with their regular pro-
cedure, following the Washing-
ton school code which provides
that opening exercises shall in-
clude a salute to the flag, a read-
ing from the Bible, “without
note or comment,” and the
Lord’s Prayer.
Another development was a
statement by Dr. Ben Herbster,
president of the United Church
of Christ, scoring the editorial
“America.” He said that no min-
ority group “ought to be coerced
into striking any bargain to
secure rights guaranteed under
the Constitution” and that Chris-
tian groups should not allow any
effort made by a minority group
to secure guaranteed freedoms
hv “accentable lesral orocedures’
In Detroit, Lewis Weinstein, i ^ became '“a pointoS conflict
separating Christians! from their
brothers.”
The American Jewish Corn-
chairman of the National Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council, declared that no threats,
intentional or otherwise, should ... . .
stop American Jews, or any min- J ^ttee^ criticizes the America
ority group, “from asserting its. stan<! in word statement
values and gioing to the courts which W1^ ,af?pear m nex
for the preservation of its ?v€fk* ssueof^ the same: period-
rights.” Addressing the 68t'h an- *£al- 7° °Ur Cathoh£
nual national of the Jewish War Friends the American Jewish
Veterans, Mr. Weinstein said he Committee statement scores the
hoped the editors of “America” !view;tkat American Jews should
did not want Jewish groups “to
stop asserting their beliefs in
basic principles for reasons of
•secuirty’ or as a ‘bargain pur-
chase.’ ”
In still another development,
more than half of the 16,000
school administrators in the
United States indicated they dis-
approved of the June 25 deci-
sion. They were polled by the
Nations’ Schools, a monthly edu-
cational journal.
The poll also found that many
of the 46 percent reporting them-
selves in agreement with the
avert the alleged peril of anti-
Semitism by abandoning com-
mitments to the protection of
the First Amendment on church-
state separation as interpreted
by the Supreme Court.
The statement asserts that the
“America” editorial exaggerated
the role of the Jews in the court
struggles on churc'h-state issues
and suggests that “a singular
service would be rendered by
the editors of “America” were
they to make it clear to their
readers that anti-Semitism has
traditionally fed on this ten-
ruling expressed the belief that dency to exaggerate the influ-
Mrs. Miriam Rubinstein, a )t'he decision applied, only to ence of Jews.’
Cantor And Mrs. Silensky To Be Honored
With Open House At Ahavath Sholom Sunday
Cantor ahd Mrs. Abraham D. i Denver and Congregation Shear-
Silensky will be honored by j ith Israel, Dallas.
Congregation Ahavath Sholom,
its Ladies Auxiliary and Men’s
Club at an Open House, this
Sunday afternoon, Sept. 9, from
3 to 5 p.m., at the Synagogue,
Eighth Ave. and Myrtle.
All friends are cordially invit-
ed to attend.
A native of New York City,
Cantor Silensky is a graduate of
New York University and re-
ceived his Hebrew Education at
Talmud Torah Torat Moshe, and
Yeshiva D’Bronx.
He obtained his formal musi-
cal education at the New York
School of Music and he has stud-
ied voice with several of the
foremost voice instructors in
New York. He .las previously
served as Can or cf Temple Is-
rael of Great Njcv, Beth Hame-
drosh Hagodor Synagogue of
Morocco Leaders Protest Minister s Statement
CASABLANCA (JTA) — Dr.
Leon Benzaquen, honorary presi-
dent of the Federation of Jew-
ish Communities in Morocco,
and David Amar, president of
the Federation, sharply protest-
, BEAUMONT’S EMANU EL
TO DEDICATE RELIGIOUS
SCHOOL BUILDING FRIDAY
Temple Emanuel of Beaumont
will dedicate its new Religious
j School Building this Friday eve-
ning, September 7, at 7:30 p.m.
The one story windowless,
gray stucco structure will event-
j ually contain ten classrooms, a
chapel, a library-board room and
a Rabbi’s study. At this dedica-
tion service the classroom por-
tion of the structure will be dedi-
cated for the opening of the
Temple Emanuel Religious
School on September 9. The
structure will be called the
Clara Miller Chinski Sunday
School and Religious Education
Building. It is located on the
corner of Forrest and Calder ad-
jacent to Temple Emanuel. The
chairman of the building com-
mittee is Elliott Jacobs, the
t architect was Mr. Tom Livesav
land Herman Weber and Sons
were general contractors.
Dr. Newton J. Friedman, Rab-
bi of Temple Emanuel, will de-
liver the dedication sermon and
will conduct the service assist-
ed last week the recent state-jed by Rabbi Samuel Rosinger
ment by Allal El Fassi, presi- * and the Temple Choir. The gen-
dent of the Istiqlal party and I eral public is invited to the Dedi-
Minister of State in charge of catary Service and the open
Islamic Affairs, that the Jews'house and reception which will
Continued To Page 4 (follow.
CANTOR A. D. SILENSKY
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