Jewish Agency Official Chides U.S. Jews for Stinting on Jewish Education

A Jewish Agency official who was formerly Israel Consul General on the West Coast of the United States, chided American Jewry today for not doing enough for Jewish education. Michael Ravid, director of the Jewish Agency’s department of education and culture in diaspora told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that while there was ” an upsurge of Jewish identification with Israel all over the U.S.” after the Six-Day War, “strangely enough this new mood did not affect Jewish education in America.” He said there were no more Jewish children in Jewish schools now than in 1961. Ravid said his department planned to send 180 qualified Hebrew teachers to diaspora communities for the next school year.