A five-year Jewish research and publication program to help strengthen the Jewish identity among Jews in the United States will be launched by Hadassah, it was announced here today at the opening session of Hadassah’s mid-winter conference.
The announcement was made by Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, national president of the organization, who said that Hadassah has earmarked $25,000 for this program to be carried out in cooperation with the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, which will establish a committee for the project to be headed by Dr. Judah J. Shapiro, secretary of the Foundation.
“Through this new Hadassah program of research and publication, we hope to foster a greater understanding–not only among Hadassah members but among all Jews–of Jewish life and its heritage and the need to preserve it,” Mrs. Jacobson said. “It is our intention to mobilize out standing scholars to give greater understanding of the Jewish situation and condition in American life. This will include efforts to ascertain demographic data which will give us an understanding of our numbers, age distribution, occupational involvement, group fertility rate and many other such facts.”
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