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This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
Many Jews in America owe their spiritual-intellectual development to the progressive Yiddish-language periodicals that are published here. But the existing progressive Yiddish-language periodicals are…
Tunis, Rosh Ḥodesh Adar 5648When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief enters in, and the troop of…
“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
A foolish, misunderstood order by the Board of Education about cutting out “mandlen” [tonsils] from children’s throats is interpreted to mean a command to slit childrens’ throats and causes a wild…
Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
Khaye-Gite came. She is a typical grandmother. She talks to God quietly, politely. She wasn’t too keen on telling us about being a grandmother. She just told us a few things. She knows lots…
I want, at the request of the Arbeter Ring’s National Education Committee, to give a brief overview of the lectures we have arranged this season.
It is true that we haven’t had the opportunity to…