Jewish education provides the toy to the survival and growth of Jewish life in America, speakers at the annual meeting of the American Association for Jewish Education declared here today. The five-day parley is being held jointly with the annual meetings of the National Council for Jewish Education and the Hebrew Teachers Federation of America.
Dr. Samuel Dinin, executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Education in Los Angeles, told the delegates that the emergence of the state of Israel constitutes the most important single event in the annals of world Jewry during the past year. “There is no doubt,” he said, ”that the new state of Israel will exert an important influence a American Jewish life though there are differences of opinion as to the nature and the extent of the transformation which will be effected in the shape and character of American Jewish life.”
The issue of released time for religious instruction in public schools–a major controversy in American education since it was partially, but not conclusively, outlawed by the Supreme Court–will be considered by the delegates. A special session devoted to the theme of “Jewish Education in the American Scene” will review the place of Jewish education in the concept of “cultural pluralism” as against the “melting##et” theory.
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