What promises to be a nation-wide effort to enlist the cooperation of Jewish women for the support of the Yeshiva College, the institution for higher Jewish learning, which comprises the first and only Jewish college in the United States, was launched at a gathering of Jewish women held his week at the Yeshiva College. A nation-wide agency is to be perfected under the name of the Yeshiva College Women’s Organization, which has as its purpose the bringing of the message of Yeshiva College to wide circles of Jewish women, particularly to those affiliated with orthodox congregations.
The cooperation of the existing Jewish women’s organizations, sisterhoods, study circles and groups, as well as the enlisting of individual women into special groups will be sought.
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