The prime hope for the future of Jewry in the United States is national support of education for Jewish youth at all levels, Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, declared here. Addressing the annual luncheon of the Yeshiva University Women’s Organization, yesterday, he issued a call for continued support for Jewish education despite the many spiritual, moral, and secular challenges which confront the American Jewish community.
“The American community,” said Rabbi Miller, “is facing many new spiritual and moral challenges today, even among those who have not succumbed to secularism, and who profess a belief in religion. The values of the market place have in large measure influenced even the educational institutions of modern society. The still small voice is often drowned out by the shrill cry of the scholar-huckster hawking his wares with catchy slogans and spot announcements.”
The Orthodox leader, who is rabbi of the Kingsbridge Heights Jewish Center in The Bronx, charged that “the pragmatic appeal is rejected by institutions of true learning which emphasize long years of study and which attract both the mind and the heart. Yeshiva University is the prime example of such an institution. Its intensive program of religious and secular studies has proved its effectiveness, despite its requirement of stamina and sacrifice on the part of students, parents, and supporters.”
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