A revitalized program of adult Jewish education was urged here by Dr. Louis L. Kaplan, executive director of the board of Jewish education in Baltimore and dean of the Baltimore Hebrew College and Teachers’ Training School. He spoke be fore 1, 000 teachers and principals in Jewish religious schools at the 20th annual pedagogic conference sponsored by the Jewish Education Committee of New York.
The conference discussed various aspects of Jewish education in this country, especially the relation of the Jewish school to home, community and synagogue. Dr. Kaplan noted that great effort had been concentrated on elementary Jewish education without giving equal consideration to secondary and adult education. “We must foster a program of studies which will include prayer book and Bible, rabbinic literature and modern Hebrew prose and poetry,” he said. “We must not only preserve the ancient classics, but extract from them relevancies for our own life and world today.”
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