Commissions will be sent to Europe and Palestine by the rabbinical faculty and alumni of the Jewish Theological Seminary, it was revealed today in a statement issued by the faculty, proposing a broad program for the expansion of Jewish religious life in Europe and the establishment of closer cooperation between Jewish scholars of America and the Holy Land.
“We regard the survival and development of Judaism as vital and indispensable for the preservation and progress of world civilization,” the statement says. It also emphasizes that it is the sacred religious duty of every Jew to support free Jewish immigration into Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish homeland there.
The statement urges the establishment throughout the United States of preparatory schools to give young men and women the opportunity to prepare themselves for advanced Jewish studies offered by the Jewish Theological Seminary. It also emphasizes that “no parent has done his duty if he fails to give his child the religious education needed to meet life’s moral and spiritual problems.” Secular learning in the arts, sciences and industrial skills, is not enough for a good and happy life, the statement says.
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