Unity among the principal groups interested in the furtherance of Jewish education in the Chicago community has been achieved by adoption of a plan to strengthen the board of directors of the Board of Jewish Education, it was announced here today by Frank Marshall, BJE president.
The plan, which received the unanimous approval of the board of directors on July 23, was the result of a series of conferences convoked by Samuel A. Goldsmith, executive secretary of the Jewish Welfare Fund, at the invitation of the board of directors. The principal interested parties, which met with the representatives of the board of directors and drew up the plan, were the Chicago Council of the United Synagogue, the Chicago Federation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and the Chicago Rabbinical Association.
The plan for strengthening the board of directors on the widest basis, and which, at the same time assures the largest measure of support for its work, calls for membership on the board of men and women to be drawn from panels of names to be offered by the Chicago Council of the United Synagogue, the Chicago Federation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and from groups representing the Orthodox and Yiddish schools. Two members of the Chicago Rabbinical Association will continue to sit on the board as previously. The board of directors itself will nominate a substantial number of members from the community at large.
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