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Jew, and will reinterpret and transform his Judaism into terms of daily righteousness and moral conduct. Set moral instruction, therefore, has place in the Jewish religious school only in so far as it

and can be presented as a natural and integral part of of Judaism itself. The fundamental, yes, the sole task of the Jewish religious school is to teach Judaism by rightly expounding Jewish history and Jewish life, and therel)y to make of our boys and girls and men and women true Jews, knowing absolutely that when once it has made of them true Jews, it will surely have made of them moral men and women as well. constitutes

the

teaching