The Jewish Education Association, whose object is to arouse interest in religious education, will celebrate the completion of twelve years of achievement at a dinner to be held Sunday, December 17, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
The affair also will commemorate the Chanukah festival. Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer is scheduled to deliver the main address.
Members of the sponsors’ committee include Governor Lehman, Adolph S. Ochs and Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, honorary chairman. Judge Jonah J. Goldstein is chairman of the affair. Louis P. Rocker heads the dinner committee, with Borough President Samuel Levy as honorary chairman.
In a recent report submitted to the executive committee by Bernard Semel, honorary secretary of the association, it is pointed out that about 60,400 students are registered in 469 religious schools in the city while 20,000 children are receiving private instruction. Thirty percent of the cost of educating the youngsters in religious schools is met by parents. The organization has as its chief object the financing of the educational institutions.
One of the most important features of the work done by the group was to establish a system of licensing the instructors of these institutions.
Ivriah, women’s branch of the Jewish Education Association, organized in eighteen sections throughout the city, conducts study groups and cooperates with the religious schools. It carries on religious and cultural work among mothers as well as among the children.
Israel Unterberg, merchant and philanthropist, is president of the Jewish Education Association. The vice-presidents are Judge Goldstein, Judge Rosalsky, Samuel Rottenberg and Jacob Wener. Harry H. Liebovitz is treasurer; Israel S. Chipkin is educational director, and Jacob H. Cohen is president of the J.E.A. Mortgage Service, Inc. Dr. David de Sola Pool is secretary to the board of directors. A special committee for Brooklyn is headed by Judge Nathan Sweedler.
The other members of the board are John L. Bernstein, Joseph Durst, Hon. Mark Eisner, Charles W. Endel, Nathan Fluegelman, Abraham Gevirtz, Max Goldstein, William Heller, Judge Samuel H. Hofstadter, Max W. Hollander, A. E. Kornfeld, Samuel C. Lamport, Benjamin Leibel, Laurence N. Levine, Jacob Levy, Mrs. Samuel Levy, Judge Samuel D. Levy, Bernard London, Elias Reiss, Louis P. Rocker, Murray Rothenberg, Harry Sackler, Max Schwarz, Hon. Isaac Siegel and J. M. Wachman.
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