A call urging the rabbis, educators and lay leaders of the Conservative movement to fully support the growth of Conservative day schools was issued here today at the North American Conference on Day School Education, sponsored by the United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education.
The religious and educational leaders attending the two-day conference, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, noted that, in the past decade, 23 Conservative day schools have been established in the United States and Canada.
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America opened the conference. The evening session was addressed by Dr. Simon Greenberg, vice-chancellor of the seminary, who stressed the importance of providing the child enrolled in a day school with a “complete” sense of Jewish identity. He said that the strength of religious faith depends upon the depth of religious knowledge.
Among the educators reading papers at the conference were Dr. Shimon Frost, principal of the Brandeis School, Lawrence, N. Y.; Dr. Milton Gold, professor of education, Hunter College, and Dr. Nathan Winter, director of the United Synagogue regional education commission for Northern New Jersey.
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