Dr. Moses Seidel who for the last eight years has been supervisor of the Board of Jewish Education in Baltimore, will leave here Sunday for Palestine, where he will become principal of the Teachers’ Training School for Girls at Jerusalem.
A graduate of the University of Berne, Switzerland, Dr. Seidel came to America in 1912 and for several years was connected with the Rabbinical Seminary of New York as instructor of the Bible and Hebrew. Numbering 1,200 pupils, six schools have been under his supervision here.
The school of which he will become principal in Jerusalem has more than 200 pupils and is under supervision of the Mizrachi.
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