A warning against “writing off the youth of any Jewish community” was sounded here by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, national director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, at the concluding session yesterday of the two-day 30th annual meeting of the National Hillel Commission.
Dr. Lelyveld said that he had found in Jewish youth in the non-Communist countries a concern with Jewish problems and an “eagerness” for fellowship with Jewish youth in other parts of the world. He expressed the opinion that the same desires are held by Jewish youth in the Communist lands. He also reported that the Hillel movement had opened new Hillel buildings at the University of Florida, University of Washington and Boston University.
It was announced at the session that Rabbi Joseph H. Gumbiner, director of the Yale University Hillel Foundation, had been elected president of the National Association of Hillel Directors.
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