A group of Reform synagogue youth members have been tutoring 20 Negro boys and girls in elementary and high school subjects at the synagogue as a “meaningful application of the teachings of Judaism, ” it was reported today by Rabbi Barry H. Greene, associate rabbi of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.
Each Saturday morning, the Negro children, attending the fourth to twelfth grades in public schools, use the classrooms of the synagogue. The tutors, who are 15 to 18 years old, teach the Negro children arithmetic, spelling, physics, Latin, English, geography, history, algebra and reading. Rabbi Greene said the success of the program had led the New Jersey region of the National Federation of Temple Youth to start similar programs in other parts of New Jersey.
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