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Page Twelve Jewish Goals for Youth BY MAX F. BAER National Director, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization While continuing educational programs for adults will become increasingly abundant, the focus of the Jewish community will al ways be on the education of the children. However we may ap praise our elementary Jewish education, the really great trag edy in American Jewish life is A Most Happy and Prosperous New Year Cocker Machine & Foundry Co. Textile Machinery GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA Rosh Hashonah Greetings To Our Jewish Friends FREDERICK SHOE CO., INC. HOME OF FAMOUS FRESCO SHOES 222 PRYOR STREET, N. W. ATLANTA, GEORGIA « Greetings and Best Wishes HILL’S Motel 55 Miles Northeast of New Orleans on U. S. 11. Air Conditioned, Air-Foam Mattresses, Tiled Combination Tub and Shower Baths. Telephones. Restaurant Next Door. Complimentary Morning Coffee and Newspaper. Picayune, Mississippi TO THE JEWISH FOOD MERCHANTS: UjltT| Old Friends Are Always Helping Us to Make New Friends .... Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. HOBOKEN, N. J., U. S. A. ! Extends Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year. ■ • /mJ/rni /mu the abrupt termination of Jewish learning at age of 13 or 15. What a mockery of our long and hon ored tradition of learning when we set a youngster's sight on Bar Milzvah or Confirmation as a terminal point, beyond which he is assured of emancipation from further religious instruction! Among middle - class Jewish families a secular college educa tion is now considered as com- THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY 8 m I IP' igjjg A i V - s MAX F. BAER monplace. But a Jewish educa tion on a high school level is seldom considered. In 1954 only about eighteen thousand students of high school age were enrolled in Jewish Sunday Schools and all types of Jewish weekday schools throughout the United States. This explains the sad spectacle of in terfaith gatherings in which Jew ish youth are unable to answer the most elemental questions about their own faith. That is why so many Jewish college youth seek to escape from any kind of meaningful Jewish affili ation. That is why we see so many artists who create art by Jews rather than Jewish art. That is why among our people there are so many intellectuals who turn all of their interests and talents into secular pursuits and contribute so little to the strength ening of Jewish life or to the strengthening of their own inner spiritual resources. Those of us who are truly con cerned with Jewish education will always plead for adequate support of both formal and in formal Jewish learning activities at the college level. We shall al ways encourage a continuation of Jewish studies throughout the years of adulthood; for there are no learned Jews today only learning Jews. However, we are irresistibly impelled to the con clusion that much of this effort is futile unless and until we forge the link of Jewish education at the secondary school level. Ethel Merman tells us there was a time in this country when a young woman had to go to her doctor to find out if she could have children. Now she has to ask her landlord. HAPPY NEW YEAR MEMPHIS Cop Co., Inc. 83 - 85 So. Second Street MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE • ' gT fifty GROSSINGER’S 6ROSSINGER, M.Y. - - NEW YEAR GREETINGS PERRY CREAMERY COMPANY, INC. Perry's PRIDE Milk - Ice Cream TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year SMART PRODUCTS, INC. Belts - Buckles - Braces - Handkerchiefs Jewelry- Wallets - Novelties 217 Pryor Street, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia nmo ruu)/ SAKS FIFTH AVENUE 611 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. HAPPY NEW YEAR Northern Mississippi's Friendly Court CORIHTH HOTEL 100% Air-Conditioned Red Brick Units Tile Tub or Shower Baths Closed Garages Set back from highway on landscaped grounds - Vented heat Restaurants close by- Owner-management RECOMMENDED BY AAA & SUPERIOR COURTS Corinth, Mississippi PHONE 5566 U. S. 45 South Edge —1 Mi. S. Jet., U. S. 72 1955 ' 56 0 1/lag the Qflew Qfectr bring you health and happiness ORKIN EXTERMINATING CO„ INC New Year Greetings to All You can count on Standard Oil products for dependable quality and Standard Oil Dealers for dependable service \ *’ rr STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Kentucky Friday, September 16, 1955