The 28th annual convention of the Histadrut Ivrit, an organization which promotes Hebrew culture in the United States, concluded last night with the proclaiming of a $500,000 fund drive to finance the dissemination of Hebrew culture in this country.
The convention also adopted a resolution calling upon the Soviet Government to permit Jews in the Soviet Union to study Hebrew. Another resolution expressed thanks to the Jewish Agency for giving moral and financial support to the Histadrut Ivrit.
Addressing the convention, Dr. Emanuel Neumann, member of the Jewish Agency executive, appealed to the Jewish communities throughout the country to allocate more funds for Jewish education. He said that the Jewish federations and welfare funds in this country are “proportionally allocating far too many millions of dollars for eleemosynary institutions and ‘defense agencies’ and too little for cultural activities and Hebrew education.”
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