One thousand adults are attending special B’nai B’rith seminars this summer, studying Jewish life, history and tradition, it was announced here today by Dr. William Wexler, president of B’nai B’rith. Twelve such seminars, he said, are being conducted under the guidance of noted scholars at secluded encampments around the country from Salado. Texas to Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania to Wild Acres, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
At the latter camp, he said, 87 men and women — including attorneys and physicians, accountants and housewives — completed this weekend a concentrated five-day course, led by Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionism; Rabbi Jack Benporat, an official of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; and Dr. David Sidorsky, of Columbia University.
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