The development of a creative Jewish life in this country is one of the major tasks facing American Jewry today, outstanding Jewish educators told the leaders of the American Association for Jewish Education and the National Council for Jewish Education at their annual meetings here.
Declaring that the “Jewish sense of security has been undermined” by the destruction of over one-third of the world’s Jewish population, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran said that as a result “Jewish cultural activities have also been undermined. It is one of the major tasks of American Jewry to bring a creative Jewish life here.”
Dr. Abraham A. Neumann, president of Dropsie College, responding to the citation ##lared that “we have within us the means to create in America Judaism that will be synthesis of all past Jewish civilizations, not transplated but created in the ##rit of America. It will be a Judaism that will spring from and be native to the ##l of America, making its contribution to the whole land.”
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