Twenty teachers of Jewish religious subjects at German schools in all parts of the country, among them several newly-arrived Israelis, met for their first conference here under the joint sponsorship of the Jewish Agency and of the Central Jewish Council’s new Cultural Department.
Principal speakers were Meir Gertner of England’s Carmel College, Ephraim Haeusler of the Jewish Agency, Prof. Baruch Graubard of Munich and Dr. Marianne Pulvermann of the Central Jewish Welfare Agency in Germany. Since almost all the 900 Jewish school children in Germany were born after the war and thus attend the four lowest grades, pedagogical methods adapted to this age group were stressed in a lecture by Rabbi Simha Abir, whom the Jewish Agency brought from Israel to Berlin recently to become principal of the Jewish teachers there.
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