A course in Hebrew which has already been incorporated in the curriculum of the Thomas Jefferson High School, will also be introduced as an elective subject in the Abraham Lincoln High School, which has recently been built in the heart of a growing Jewish community of Brooklyn. This report was made Monday at a luncheon of the Ivriah, the Women’s Division of the Jewish Education Association at the Biltmore Hotel, which more than 800 women attended.
Harold G. Campbell, associate superintendent of schools and acting superintendent in the absence of Dr. William J. O’Shea, stated that the course will be introduced “just as an experiment.” Mrs. Joseph Leblang was honorary chairman of the meeting and James Waterman Wise, executive secretary of Avukah, the American Student Zionist Federation, was among those who addressed the Ivriah.
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