A series of resolutions calling for the strengthening of the future of the Canadian Jewish community through enlarging the scope and deepening the quality of Hebrew education was adopted here at the close of the biennial conference of the Canadian Association for Hebrew Education and Culture. The sessions were attended by community leaders. Hebrew school principals and board chairmen from six of the principal Jewish communities in Western Canada.
One of the resolutions called for expanding the plan, inaugurated in Western Canada six years ago, of recruiting Israeli teachers for the schools in this region. The conference decided to develop “complete discipline, ” and avoid “teacher raiding,” in Hebrew schools in Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
Rabbi Aaron Horowitz of Montreal, the Association’s national executive director, called upon the Canadian Zionist Organization to set up a special fund for formal Hebrew education, to be administered by the association. The conference adopted the plan and named Leo Rudolph, of Edmonton, and J.M. Putter, of Winnipeg, to serve on a national negotiation committee for this purpose.
The sessions were held at the Calgary Hebrew School, which formally dedicated a new wing as part of the celebration of the school’s 50th anniversary. A special honor guest at the conference was Charles Waterman, veteran leader of the Hebrew school movement, who was hailed as “the moving force” behind the construction of the school’s new wing.
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