Resolutions calling for the extension of the Jewish day school movement in South Africa and the building of new educational institutions were adopted here today at the 25th anniversary conference of the South African Board of Jewish Education. Some 200 delegates from all parts of the Union attended the deliberations.
The delegates fought down a suggestion by the Mizrachi which would have made one of the qualifications for appointment of a Jewish teacher strict observance of Jewish religious practices and which would have introduced strict religious practices for pupils in the schools. Instead, the parley reaffirmed its “middle course” policy of a “broadly national traditional Jewish education” in all schools under the board’s supervision or control.
The conference called for immediate progress in the building of a Jewish high school at Johannesburg and urged better conditions for Hebrew school teachers.
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