The neglect of Jewish learning in the United States was deplored tonight by Mark Eisner, chairman of the Board of Higher Education, addressing the annual dinner of the Yeshivah Torah Vodaath of Brooklyn, held at the Broadway Central Hotel.
“Even though Jews have been living in this country for nearly 300 years and the Jewish community has been growing in numbers all these years, we have, as yet, failed to produce a generation of scholars comparable to the erudition in Jewish learning that has been developed in the large and small communities wherever Jews lived,” Mr. Eisner said.
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