Conference of Jewish Community Center Secretaries Elects Officers

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Tobias Ruth of Rochester, executive director of the Jewish Young Men’s Association there. was elected president of the National Conference of Jewish Community Center Secretaries in session here.

Other officers chosen were Solomon Blubm of Cleveland, first vice president: Gilbert Harris of St. Louis, second vice president; Rose Sugarman of Columbus, third vice president and Samuel Kaufman of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., secretary treasurer.

Jews of the United States spend $5,000,000 annually for Talmud Torahs S. Benderly, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of New York, declared at the education session of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service.

Thirty per cent of the school children receive Jewish education and ten per cent of the adolescents avail themselves of facilities of the agencies, he said. Agencies for children not yet affiliated is the great task, he pointed out, awaiting the Jewish community of America.

Only one half of one per cent of the Jewish children of school age attend Jewish day schools, he continued pointing out that American Jewry is committed to the public school system.

“The solution of the education problem does not resemble that of philanthropy,” he said. “In philanthropy five per cent are beneficiaries. In Jewish Education one hundred per cent are beneficiaries and the financial responsibility for Jewish education should rest on the parents of the children.”

Lack of sex education standards was deplored by Dr. Rachelle Yarros, associate professor at the University of Illinois in his address.