While there are 9,000 pupils enrolled in more than 30 Jewish schools in Brazil, they constitute only 25 percent of the Jewish children of school age, Moshe Rolnik, president of the United Zionist Organization’s Board of Jewish Education, reported here today. He said that there are 16 Jewish schools in this city, with 12 in Sao Paulo, and that 175 teachers are employed in all of the Jewish schools in this country.
Mr. Rolnik made his statement in opening “Jewish Education Month.” During the next four weeks, he said, a family-by-family series of visits will be made by volunteers to every Jewish home in the country, in an effort to increase Jewish youth enrollment in the Jewish schools.
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