[Magdalen] Kaddish [was Re: RIP Leonard Nimoy

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We had a reading from the Bible every day, and each child got to pick a
reading.  I didn't realize the big deal at the time, but I had a copy of
the RSV (still have it) just obtained, and read from that. It had just come
out.  We had Jewish students, but who cares?  The big deal was that when we
recited the LP, the RCC students stopped after "evil."  I still remember
Coral Snodgrass opening up her pencil box to get started with classwork as
we were all still babbling away....

The prayer had to go at some point, and the Bible reading became a moment
of silence.

Never can understand what the hoopla was about.  After all, so long as
there are pop quizzes, there will always be prayer in school.  Always.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

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> From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
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> magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: 02/03/2015 02:41:51
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Kaddish [was Re: RIP Leonard Nimoy
>
>  I remember the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer beginning the
>> school day when I was in elementary school. Now, we moved a lot, so I can't
>> say for sure that that was true at every school I attended--though I know
>> the Pledge was--but in my memory the two always occur together.
>> In high school it was the Pledge, led over the PA system from the office,
>> and a "Thought for the Day" and then the morning announcements. A friend
>> and I provided the "Thought..." And had great times selecting them. But
>> they were not sectarian at all.
>> By the time I was teaching, we had the Pledge and a moment of silence.
>>
>
> I am part of a committee looking at how to strengthen the Christian ethos
> of a C/E affiliated school which has children of a variety of faiths and
> none.
>
>
>> But there are still a lot of folks out there who think the reason our
>> country is in the mess it's in is because we took prayer out of schools!
>> All we have to is put prayer back in the schools, and.......Voila!!
>>
>
> In a number of countries living the faith they profess would be a start,
> and that means looking at the whole of what the faith teaches.
>
> Roger
>
>>
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>