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Show Rose (1/20/81 ) page 4 you saw it in the synagogue bulletin, or whatever the paper was that she wrote that got written up in. We . ,·, , ~ that as far as we had the power. We did P.verything to keep Jewish people from .- goi ng into the school, of course, ~ we stuck our nose in to the tent the other religious involvements in this community were getting the whole damn Then facing me with, well, "we have your Jews coming into the school explaining your holidays". See, this was alwa~s the answer. Mr. K If t~e Jews ca~e into the school to explain their holidays, then the rest was o.k. Mr. R They had the right to do what they want to in the schools. We had no fuss about it. Of course, my answer was always the same, "they do that because we don't have any teeth!' We only have our own moral persuasion in our community, we can't stop anybody from going, and that's where we sat with it. Mr. K Now, I don't understand. What is the perspective you took toward the PTA, or did you have to say something in reference to the play or to the whole issue then? Mr. R Well, we stopped the play. The nlay was never put on, but even then there was a follow up. You know, there are an a~ul lot of teachers in this community with good will, good will as we see it, in other words, they go along with our side of it. But our other proble~ was when this thing was over, the teacher goes back to the class and says, .. well, you know, there's always somebody who it for the rest of us, and there won't be a play". And this is the kind of thing that we had to come back with. That's what we were back 1n the schools with, not so much the play when they |
