Five prominent academicians and community service experts have been named to serve as an advisory panel to the newly created Institute of Jewish Life, a division of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced today by Irving Blum, chairman of the Institute. The Institute of Jewish Life, with headquarters in Wellesley, Mass., was conceived to foster and develop innovative programs and demonstration projects designed to enhance the quality of Jewish life in the US. It was formally established at the CJFWF General Assembly in Pittsburgh last Nov, and became fully operational May 15.
The members of the advisory panel who will work closely with Blum and with the Institute’s director, Prof. Leon A. Jick of Brandeis University, are Dr. Walter Ackerman, of Los Angeles, dean and professor of education at Hebrew Teachers College, University of Judaism; Dr. Leonard Fein, of Waltham, Mass., director of the Benjamin S. Hornstein Program at Brandeis U.; Dr. Herzl Spiro, of New Brunswick, N.J., professor of psychology and community medicine at the Rutgers Mental Health Center; Sidney Z. Vincent, executive director of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland; and Irwin Shaw, executive director of the Jewish Community Center in Detroit.
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