A program of Jewish education “co-extensive with the whole life span of the Jewish man and woman of today” was urged by Dr. Israel M. Goldman, director of the National Academy for Adult Jewish studies, at a conference on adult Jewish education under the academy’s auspices yesterday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, attended by about 300 persons. Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin pointed out that the Jewish child is given simplified versions of the great moral and religious lessons of history, but because of lack of continuity in his training carries his immature conceptions into adult life, while the adult Jew must relearn the lessons of his elementary years in the light of his mature understanding. Dr. Mordecai Kaplan said a program of adult Jewish studies should be mainly concerned with making Judaism relevant and vital to the present realities of American Jewish life. Prof. Harry A. Overstreet also spoke.
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