Philip Bernstein, associate director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, emphasized here that the American Jewish community is an integral part of the American democratic process. At the same time, he stressed that the structure of the “American Jewish communal life is uniquely American.”
Speaking before 90 scholarship winners, who are attending the Brandeis Camp Institute, and who represent virtually every section of the country, Mr. Bernstein imparted a comprehensive review of the fund-raising machinery on behalf of local and overseas needs of the Jewish people. In noting that the American Jewish community organization is distinctly American, Mr. Bernstein also declared that the community organization “is voluntary because it stems from an actual need, not merely a theory.”
The students, many of whom are college and university undergraduates, are participating in an intensive four-week institute devoted to various phases of Jewish history, as well as music, art, dance and group work. The principal objective of the Brandeis Camp Institute, sponsored by the Brandeis Youth Foundation, is to prepare Jewish youth for leadership in the American Jewish community. Dr. Shlomo Bardin, national director of the Brandeis Youth Foundation, is scheduled to deliver a series of lectures toward the end of the month on the “History of Jewish Colonization in Israel.”
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