Under the auspices of the Joint Distribution Committee, 20 Jewish teachers will go from France shortly to Israel to enroll in a special three-month teachers’ seminar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in a project designed to meet the shortage of adequately-trained teachers in Europe’s Jewish schools and institutions, it was announced today by Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the J.D.C.
Costs of transportation and maintenance for the teachers during their period of study in Jerusalem will be borne equally by the schools which recommended them and by the Joint Distribution Committee. They will be followed by a number of additional student-teachers from other countries of western Europe, as well as North Africa, where the shortage is greatest. Diplomas will be awarded to those successfully completing the course.
Mr. Leavitt also announced that 11 Israeli teachers have been “lend-leased” to the Jewish communities of Greece, Belgium and France to meet the desperate need for Hebrew teachers in J.D.C.-supported schools. Aid to the teachers’ seminar in Jerusalem is part of J.D.C.’s overall program of helping to strengthen Europe’s Jewish communities through positive contributions to their cultural rebirth, as well as through aid for relief and economic reconstruction.
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