A 1947 drive for $1,560,000 in the metropolitan area toward the development of a University of Judaism at the Jewish Theological Seminary was launched here today. Sixty-one congregations and communities in this region will participate in the campaign, it was announced.
Judge Emanuel Greenberg of the New York State Court of Claims, who has been named chairman of the drive in the New York area, said at a press conference that the effort here was part of a national three-year campaign to raise $15,000,000 toward the creation of the University, which would provide facilities for study, research and training in every aspect of Jewish life. The national quota for 1947 is $5,000,000.
It is planned to develop a School of Jewish Social Work, a School of Advanced Jewish Studies, a Center of Jewish Music, Arts and Letters and other units at the University. The drive is being conducted in cooperation with the United Synagogue, national organization of Conservative Jewish congregations, and the Rabbinical Assembly, national body of the Conservative rabbinate.
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