Advertising Brochure for the Hebrew School of Columbus Ohio - 1931

1931

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TALMUD TORAH KNEGED KULOM
Hebrew Education Necessary
If Judaism is to continue as a living and throbbing force in the life of American Jewry, our boys and girls must learn the Hebrew language. The future of our reli-gion and its ideals and principles is bound up with the education in those things which will discern them' from' the young peop1e of other denominations and faiths. Why should not our boys and girls at least be familiar with the language in which the Bible—the premier literary production of the ages—was written? We have drifted too far from our ances-tral moorings and have neglected the study of the Law and Prophets; the cultivation of our own religious and spiritual heritage has been sadly neglected. American Jewry is destined to disintegrate and become en-tirely assimilated unless all efforts are put forth to attract our 'young people and to imbue them with love for the sacred liter-ary treasures handed down to us by our ancestors. Dr. Louis Ginzberg, one of the world's most noted Hebraic scholars recently said that the "Back to the Synagogue movement must be preceded by our 'Back to the Torah' movement. Religion devoid of understanding and knowledge is a hollow sham and mockery. The hope of American Israel is the daily Hebrew School. Similar opinions have been ex-pressed by Felix M .Warburg, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr. J. L. Magnes and the late Louis Marshall.
100% FOR THE HEBREW SCHOOL