Some 300 Jewish scientists, educators, scholars and cultural leaders, representing 35 national Jewish organizations, today adopted a resolution to create a council of these organizations to promote Hebrew culture in this country. The delegates were attending the two-day first American Conference for Hebrew Language and Culture, sponsored by the Histadruth Ivrith of America, which concluded here today.
The resolution also declared that in the light of the establishment of the Jewish state the promotion of the Hebrew language and Hebrew culture must play its rightful role on the American Jewish scene. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, in a message to the conference, said “the day is not far when the spiritual life of American Jewry will be strongly interrelated with the cultural values of Israel.”
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Eliahu Elath, in another message, declared that “Hebrew language and education are the only means for suitable and permanent brotherhood between Israel and Jews everywhere. He called upon the conference to rally American Zionists “for intensified and increasing activities on behalf of the promotion of Hebrew language and culture” which “must cement into one solid nation the thousands of immigrants who are arriving in Israel every month.”
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