The board of directors of the National Jewish Welfare Board voted approval at its meeting here today of an expanded program to strengthen bonds between American Jewish community centers and YM-YWHAs and Israel. The Jewish Welfare Board will work with the Jewish Agency for Israel or the Israel Foundation for Cultural Relations with World Jewry on a number of projects to attain this objective.
Among the projects approved were: enlargement of an exchange program to employ Israelis in American centers and Ys for a two-year period; employment of Israelis as camp counsellors and camp specialists here; encouragement to American teenagers to travel to Israel for service; programs to encourage more American Jews to give volunteer service to Israeli programs; and expansion of programs for training American and Israeli center workers.
Sanford Solender, executive vice-president of JWB, pointed out that “the Middle East crisis has underscored the close ties which must exist between all Jewish communities throughout the world and the important place of Israel as a source of Jewish vitality and expression in the world today.”
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