Thirty group leaders from 10 cities in six countries ended deliberations today at the close of the first inter-community seminar for European Jewish Community center workers.
The 11-day seminar was organized as part of a program to develop a body of personnel for the more than 60 Jewish centers built in Europe since 1954 with the aid of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the Joint Distribution Committee. The seminar was held at the Strasbourg Jewish Center under sponsorship of the commission on centers and vacation camps of the Standing Conference on European Jewish Community Services and the JDC.
Countries represented included France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. Forty percent of the delegates were university students and the rest professionally employed Jewish personnel. The program included lectures and discussions on the goals and philosophy of the Jewish center, the role of the group leader, program planning and related subjects.
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