Educators in Conservative Judaism voted here today to create a scholarship fund to encourage promising Hebrew high school graduates and college students to enter the Jewish teaching profession.
The 150 delegates to the convention of the Educators Assembly of the United Synagogue of America approved a Henry E. Goldberg Scholarship Fund as part of an ongoing effort to dramatize the critical shortage of Jewish teachers, and to help ease that shortage.
The educators acted after hearing a warning from Rabbi Seymour Fox, dean of Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabbi Fox said that, if Judaism was to survive “as a viable force on the American scene,” it must produce “Jewish teachers and lay leaders of the first magnitude.” Mr. Goldberg was the late educational director of the East Midwood Jewish Center and the Assembly’s first president.
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