Forty-six students will be graduated from the regular and special courses of the elementary department of the Jewish Educational Center No. 2 Sunday afternoon. They have completed a four-year program of studies which included study of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history, customs and institutions of Jewish life, Jewish current events, the Prayer Book and Jewish music.
Jewish Educational Center No. 2 is the largest constituent school maintained by the Associated Talmud Torahs. It provides daily instruction to 675 children. This center, opened in 1928, is one of the two educational centers edected by the Federation of Jewish Charities. During these past six years the school has graduated about 250. Many of them continued their studies for another four-year period in the Hebrew high school. Since 1929 graduates of the Hebrew high school have continued their studies for another four-year period at Gratz College. As result of the training which the students received before entering the college, the college was able to raise its standard of admission considerably. The center is the largest of its type in Philadelphia, and one of the largest in the East.
The chief speaker at the graduation exercises will be Rabbi B. L. Levinthal, chairman of the committee on education. Greetings in behalf of the board of the Associated Talmud Torahs will be extended by Robert M. Bernstein, chairman of the executive committee. Diplomas will be distributed by Ben Rosen, director. Dr. Joseph Levitsky, principal of the school, will preside.
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