Representatives of Jewish organizations today delivered major addresses before the Assembly of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth which is attended by 7,000 delegates from 550 national American organizations. Practically all major Jewish groups in this country are participating in the huge parley, which was opened by President Eisenhower yesterday.
The Jewish speakers today were Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president of the American Jewish Committee; Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel, of the Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbi Julius Mark, of the Synagogue Council of America; and Mrs. Joseph Willen, vice-president of the National Council of Jewish Women. They emphasized that the urgent task faced by American education is to destroy the myth that accumulation of wealth and the achievement of comfort are the chief vocations of man.”Where the ruling passion is for things, the value of the person is inevitably downgraded,” Dr. Slawson told the Conference.
A number of Israelis are also participating in the Conference. They include Judge David Reifen of the Tel Aviv Juvenile Court; Moshe Kol, a Knesset Member; Mrs. Avraham Harman, wife of the Ambassador; Mrs. Yaacov Herzog, wife of the Embassy Minister, and others.
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