Member of Qualified Jewish Teachers in U.S. Insufficient for Needs, Parley Hears

There are only enough qualified Jewish teachers in his country to provide religious instruction for a small minority of America’s Jewish youth, Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum, registrar of the rabbinic department of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, declared at the opening session of a two-day Eastern regional conference of the Leadership Training Fellowship which is being Bald here at the Seminary.

The Fellowship, of which Henry R. Goldberg is director, is an organization of song people between the ages of 13 and 18 who are preparing themselves for careers of service to American Jewry. Delegates to the conference represent 18 communities in five east coast states, as well as several Canadian communities. A special delegation from Chicago reprints the Midwest region of the Fellowship. Only 45 qualify instructors will be graduated this year by all the Jewish teachers’ seminaries in this country, Rabbi Mandelbaum said, and hundreds of Jewish communities throughout the country will be vainly seeking their services.