Improvement in the situation of Moroccan Jewry was seen here today by Jules Braunschvig, vice-president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, addressing the annual meeting of the American Friends of the Alliance, at which Sen. Herbert H. Lehman was re-elected honorary president. Marcel Franco was elected president and Alan M. Stroock, chairman of the board of directors.
Mr. Braunschvig hailed the recent admission of the first Jews to the school of special legal studies in French Morocco, which will ultimately lead to their appointment as judges. He expressed the opinion that reforms recently introduced in Morocco would gradually improve the legal condition of the country’s Jewish population.
At the same time, he stressed the fact that although there were now 50,000 students in the Alliance schools, there were still thousands of Jewish children in North Africa and the Middle East deprived of an elementary education because of the lack of space in Alliance schools.
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