Fifteen hundred students representing twenty-five high schools in New York City participated in a demonstration on Thursday evening in favor of the teaching of Hebrew in the high schools of the city.
Judah Lapson, director of the League of the Jewish Youth, under whose auspices the meeting was held at the Textile High School Auditorium, was chairman.
Two hundred and fifty students are receiving instruction in the two high schools that have been teaching Hebrew in the last two years. Messages were received from Dr. Gabriel Mason and Dr. Elias Lieberman, principals of the Thomas Jefferson High School and the Abraham Lincoln High School, where Hebrew is taught.
Dr. Lieberman pointed out that one of the unexpected results from the Hebrew teaching is the growth of a better understanding between Jews and Gentiles because of the growing respect for the Jews as a cultural group.
Dr. Jacob Greenberg, director of Foreign Languages in the Junior High Schools of the city, stressed the progress of Hebrew in the schools and emphasized its importance as a living language which should be learned by more students.
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