“jewish Education” Magazine Ends First Year of Publication

The National Council for Jewish Education, of which Ben Rosen, Director of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia, is president, has just published the third issue of “Jewish Education,” a quarterly devoted to a review and a record of American Jewish educational experiences and opinions.

This magazine is the only current Jewish educational periodical published in English. It reflects all the new tendencies, programs and experiments in Jewish education, and offers complete news and critical analysis of the aims and methods of all Jewish educational material as it appears.

With the current issue “Jewish Education” rounds out its first year. During this period many important problems have been discussed, a large number of educational studies made, and much news in the field of Jewish education, both here and abroad, presented.

The current issue is devoted largely to reports of the fourth annual conference of the National Council for Jewish Education, with special emphasis on Jewish extension activities. In this connection there are articles on “A Community Program of Extension Education,” and another on the “Extension High School in Philadelphia.”

Of great interest in this issue is an appreciation of the life and character of Louis Marshall by Dr. S. Benderly, a life-long friend and co-worker. In this issue is also published the last official statement in regard to Jewish education, written in the form of a letter, shortly before his death, by Louis Marshall himself.

There is also an evaluation of the tendencies in Jewish education by Dr. Emanual Gamoran, Educational Director, Department of Synagogue and School Extension, in which he points out that “the greatest achievement in the last ten or fifteen years in Jewish education has been the gradual but constant growth of communal responsibility throughout the country.”

The magazine is edited by Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, in association with Dr. Jacob S. Golub, Dr. Leo L. Honor and Ben M. Ediden.