Discussion of plans for the extension of Jewish Centre, Y. M. H. A. and Y. W. H. A. work, which included incidentally a condemnation by Dr. David Snedden of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, of the junior high school system of vocational guidance, occupied the attention of the convention of the Metropolitan League of Jewish Community Association Sunday afternoon at the Federation Building.
Dr. Samson Benderly, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education, urged that the Jewish Centres and similar organizations undertake the task of training youths to be “creative American Jews” who would not base their faith entirely upon tradition. These “American Jews,” he said, should create the basis for Judaism under modern American conditions. He declared that in New York City the physical equipment of the community centres had now been developed to a point where its further development was not as important as the development of the right type of leadership in the centres.
Rabbi D. de Sola Pool of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue urged that both Reform and Orthodox Jewish congregations work out some means of giving young men and women an opportunity to be more active in the work of the synagogue.
Sol M. Stroock, president of the league, and the other officers were reelected.
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