The establishment of a Department of Culture and Education to work in cooperation with local Jewish educational and cultural groups outside of Israel, was announced today by the Jewish Agency. The new department will be headed by Dr. Hayim Greenberg, member of the American section of the Agency executive, and will have offices in New York and Jerusalem.
The New York office, under the directorship of Dr. Benjamin Halpern, former managing editor of the Jewish Frontier, will serve the needs of Jewish communities in the Western hemisphere, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippine Republic. The Jerusalem office will deal with Jewish communities in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The new department plans to assist in the development of Jewish day schools, particularly in the United States. It will also seek the establishment of chairs, at outstanding universities, in the Hebrew language and Jewish culture and the addition of modern Hebrew to the language curricula of public high schools in major cities.
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