Isaac Wolfson, prominent English Jewish philanthropist, has donated $60,000 towards the building of an Ozar Hatorah teachers training institute in Teheran. This was announced today by Dr. Mordecai Hacohen, director general of Ozar Hatorah, who has just returned from an extensive tour in the Middle East.
Dr. Hacohen stated that the acute shortage of professionally qualified teachers and adequate accommodations in Moslem countries are the main obstacles for providing Jewish education to a great number of children who are gradually becoming estranged from Judaism. Some of them do not receive even an elementary general education. “The new building in Iran, which will be called the Isaac and Edith Wolfson Teachers Training Institute, will greatly contribute to alleviate the shortage of Jewish teachers in that country, ” he said.
Ozar Hatorah institutions in Iran were recently visited by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Wolfson, Lord Nathan and Lady Nathan, and Mrs. A. Hollsted, daughter of the late President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who expressed their admiration for the educational and social services rendered by the organization, with the help of the Joint Distribution Committee, to many thousands of Jewish children.
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