A development of interest in the integration of religion and higher education comes from Boston University. A definite working relationship has been effected between the School of Religious Education and Social Service of the University and Temple Israel, the Reform Synagogue of Boston. Last summer Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon of Temple Israel was invited by the University authorities to introduce instruction of specifically Jewish interest. The courses offered—one in contemporary Judaism and one in the literary prophets—proved to be the beginning of a larger development. Dean Henry H. Meyer and a number of his faculty met with Dr. Albert Ehrenfried, Rabbi Harry Levi and Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon, representing the Committee on Education of Temple Israel, and an organic relationship between the University and the Temple has evolved. Dr. Ehrenfried, Chairman of the Committee of Education of Temple Israel, was appointed to the Religious Education Committee of the School.
The courses are given by instructors approved by the Committee on Education of Temple Israel, and under its supervision, and are intended to be authentically Jewish. The project has two main objectives: to afford students in all departments of the University, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, an opportunity to acquaint themselves with Jewish culture; and to develop at the School of Religious Education and Social Service a training school for Jewish religious school teachers and social workers, under proper university and synagogue auspices.
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