To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
The report of the address delivered by Dr. Leo L. Honor of Chicago at the Jewish Religious Teachers’ Conference held in Washington, November 30-December 2, which appeared in the Dec. 5th issue of The Bulletin was both inaccurate and misleading.
I cannot understand how anyone who heard his address and heard his stirring interpretation of the Exodus story in which he indicated the great ethical content which our people in the past extracted from this experience and which our teachers must convey to their students, I repeat, I cannot understand how anyone could have made the comments that were contained in the press report.
What he did say, is that the Bible stories, because they contain such profound religious teachings, ##ght not to be used merely as story material in the lower grades where their spiritual values cannot possibly be appreciated, but rather that they should be reserved for the higher grades where they can be discussed and understood adequately, and where their inspirational character can be a very important character-building influence.
Louis L. Kaplan,
Executive Director,
Board of Jewish Education.
Baltimore, Md.,
Dec. 10, 1934.
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