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Torah Umesorah Launches Program to Ease Shortage of Hebrew Teachers

November 13, 1962
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A comprehensive program designed to ease the critical shortage of teachers in the nation’s Hebrew day schools was announced here last night by Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. In an address to the organization’s annual dinner, Samuel C. Feuerstein, national president, outlined details of the plan, which will utilize the facilities of rabbinical seminaries in major cities where special training centers for day school teachers will be established by Torah Umesorah in cooperation with the Jewish institutions of higher learning.

Noting that communities in many cities have been unable to open day schools because of the lack of qualified teachers, Mr. Feuerstein said that the first such teacher-training center has already been opened in Baltimore, in cooperation with the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in that city, with an enrollment of 20 students. He said other units are scheduled to be opened next year in other parts of the country.

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