Jewish Schools in Lithuania Face Crisis

The Jewish schools in the Republic of ### are facing a crisis due to the adoption of the new community law, against which Jewish leaders protested.

The “T### maintains 103 elementary schools with 495 classes 270 teachers and 85,000 peoples 15 high schools with 145 teachers and 3,850 peoples and a teachers something with 11 instructors and 60 pupils. Until recently 40 per cent of the budget of the elementary schools was covered by fees 30 per cent by the government and the municipalities and 10 percent by the Jewish communities. Of the high schools only four were receiving a government subsidy.

Now the Jewish communities deprived by the new law of the right of self-taxation, are powerless to suppose the schools. The government and municipal subsidies will soon he stopped in accordance with the ###### of the Lithnian authorities In addition, the economic plight of the Jews cuts down the payment of fees by the parents. In 1923-24 only 82 per cent of the pupils of the elementary schools paid for their ### In 1924-25 only 70 per cent in some schools only 60 per cent, and now it is getting worse.

The Hebrew school system is the most important educational institution of Palestine Jewry. Its collapse would mean leaving thousands of children in the street. Resides the moral effect of such a catamity upon the stricken Jews of Lithnamia would be ###.