Hungarian Minister of Education Praises New Jewish Schools Opened in Budapest

The Minister of Education and Public Worship, Dr. Karafiath, attended this week the opening of the new grammar school and the girls secondary school of the Budapest Jewish Community, and delivered an address in which he said that it was a source of pride and satisfaction to him to be present at this dedication of the first two secondary schools of the Jews of Hungary. He greatly appreciated the cultural work that was being done by the Jewish religious community, he declared.

The Lord-Mayor of Budapest, Dr. Ripka, Chief Rabbi Dr. Hevesi, the President of the Budapest Jewish Community and of the Hungarian Jewish Chancellory, Court Councillor Samuel Stern, and Dr. Samuel Gluecksthal, Vice-President of the Budapest, Jewish Community, also spoke.

The denominational schools are part of the united educational system of the State, Dr. Gluecksthal, who is the head of the educational work of the Community, said, only they stress the ethical and religious note. The fact that the secondary schools of the Jewish religious community are an integral part of the Hungarian educational system is to be traced back to the fact that Hungarian Jewry is an organis part of the body of Hungarian citizens, he went on. The establishment of the religious secondary schools of the Jewish Community had been held back for a time because of the upheavals which Hungarian Jewry and Hungary as a whole had experienced, but now that the schools were in existence it was their hope that based on Jewish ethics and Hungarian national sentiment they would train generations to come as Jews and Hungarians.