Education for constructive living as American Jews is fast becoming the central theme in American Jewish community life, Michael A. Stavitsky of Newark, N.J., president of the American Association for Jewish Education, declared at the second annual meeting of the Asscoiation’s Board of Governors, which concluded here this week.
More than 40 Jewish community leaders from 15 cities throughout the United States attended the two-day session. They made plans to translate the increased emphasis on education into a cooperative effort of all organizations and communities to improve Jewish education, at a National Conference on Jewish Education, to be held in New York in October.
“The entire American Jewish community is moving, more rapidly than any of us are aware, from its previous emphasis on philanthropy and aid to the stricken overseas, to an active understanding of the urgency of developing and improving our educational activities as a means of insuring the future of our community life,” Mr. Stavitsky declared. “The American Association, as the only national service agency exclusively concerned with Jewish education, has the grave responsibility today of channeling this new interest into constructive, cooperative actions, so that we may all work together to build an educational system which will really meet our needs as Americans and as Jews.”
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