Prizes in the 20th annual city-wide Hebrew Language Contest were awarded today to 95 public junior and senior high school students at exercises today at the New York City Board of Education headquarters. The prizes included four scholarships of $100 each to be applied to fees for the 1963 Israel Summer Seminar.
More than 2,000 students, all studying Hebrew, took part in the competition, representing 62 schools. The contest is sponsored by the Hebrew Culture Council of the Jewish Education Committee of New York, in cooperation with the Junior and senior high school divisions of the Board of Education and the Hebrew Division of Hunter College.
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