The Reagan Administration announces its support for the 35-year-old United Nations Convention against genocide, already approved by 96 other countries and endorsed by every President except for Eisenhower, since it was signed by President Truman in December, 1948.
Two new Jewish high schools are opened this month which brings the total number of Jewish day schools in the U.S. to 491. An additional 57 day schools in Canada will bring the total of such schools in North America to 548, according to Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.
Eighteen women make Jewish history when they enter classrooms at the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to begin studies to qualify them for ordination as the first women Conservative rabbis, an event expected to end a long-running dispute on the issue in conservative Judaism. A 19th woman enters the movement’s school in Jerusalem.
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