The Canadian Jewish Congress today proclaimed the week of May 17 as Jewish Education Week in Montreal as the start of an all-out effort to persuade more Jewish parents to provide their children with a Jewish education.
Ben Neutel, chairman of the CJC education committee, said only about half of the 18,000 Jewish children attending the Protestant-sponsored “public” schools in Greater Montreal were receiving any Jewish education. He said the appeal will be aimed at the parents of the other half.
He added that the committee will urge that all Jewish children receive systematic Jewish instruction after school hours, through the elementary grades and high school ages if possible. He mentioned that adequate facilities could be provided in communal and congregational schools to provide such after-school hours Jewish instruction.
The Golden Jubilee year of the Peretz Folk Schools was celebrated here at a dinner honoring the governors and sponsors of the schools which were founded under the motto of “The Jewish Child for the Jewish People” with emphasis on instruction in Yiddish. The first school adopted the name I. L. Peretz on the first anniversary of the noted Yiddish writer’s death. There are now 450 students attending the two branches with about 75 per cent in day school classes.
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