A World Jewish Fellowship to promote exchange programs between young Jews in different countries has been established here at the initiative of rabbis and lay Jewish leaders of all sectors of American Jewry.
Rabbi Hertzel Fishman, chairman of the coordinating committee of the new group, announced the project today. He said that the program would enable young Jews of one country to spend periods of time as guests of carefully selected Jewish families in another country, “whose religious home practices do not violate those of the visiting fellow.” Through the new program, Rabbi Fishman said, “each participant will gain deeper knowledge and appreciation of Jewish life in other parts of the world, and will broaden his perspective of the general culture and life of the host country.”
The program will be launched with a pilot project next summer in which a small group of selected American boys and girls in their sophomore or junior years in high school will live with selected families in Israel. Except in unusual circumstances, Rabbi Fishman said, the host family will receive no remuneration, and the participating youngsters will cover part of their expenses. Local sponsoring groups in the host countries will defray the balance of the expenses. Applications for the 1967 summer pilot project must be submitted to the Fellowship by March 31, 1967.
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