Dr. Mervin Verbit, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, N.Y., told a conference here of the National Council of Jewish Women that Jews in the diaspora should “develop a Jewish life-style and respond Jewishly to the society around us.” Addressing the concluding luncheon on the Council’s four-day gathering which brought together some 300 representatives from 27 states, Dr. Verbit asserted that the American Jewish community needs a new communal organization “within the American polity” and that its Jewish education needs “more time and intensity.” Calling on Jewry to show that “the average man can live decently without paying an undue price,” Prof. Verbit said that it has been “in modern times when we had to show people we were not different that we lost our Jewishness.”
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