Steps to ensure that no examinations in the schools and colleges will be scheduled on the dates of the High Holidays have been taken by the National Council of Jewish Women, a statement of Mrs. J. Victor Greenebaum of Cincinnati, National Chairman of the Council’s Committee on Education, declared.
“We have taken the special precaution this year of issuing the Council calendar of Jewish holidays early in the Spring, so that the school and college authorities might be informed, in sufficient time of the dates of the holidays. Their early occurrence this year means the possibility of conflicts, to the great distress of our children and our youth. Our officers throughout the United States and Canada have been given special instructions to make a careful study of the situation in their respective communities and to remedy it in ample time. Our educational authorities are ready to cooperate and are just as eager as we are to avaid doing violence to the religious sentiments and convictions of our young.”
Mrs. Edwin Zugsmith of Pittsburgh, National Chairman of the Council’s Committee on Religion, has appealed to the local chairmen of her committee to provide for the proper observance of the Jewish holidays in institutions in their vicinity or community that contain Jewish men and women. A special calendar has been issued by her committee for the information of heads of institutions.
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