Resolutions to promote a program of increased Jewish education among children were adopted here today at the closing session of a two-day national conference of the English-speaking branches of the Workmen’s Circle, the 54-year-old Jewish fraternal organization which has more than 70,000 members. More than 250 delegates attended the conference.
Benjamin Gebiner, assistant general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle, told the delegates that the Jewish community in the United States, while organized to fulfill a philanthropic mission, has failed to carry out the necessary educational prerequisites to assure a future for the American Jewish community itself.
He announced that the Workmen’s Circle was launching a Jewish cultural program in the communities and accelerating existing program “to make certain that fundamental liberal and progressive ideals for which the Workmen’s Circle stands will be used as the basis for infusing in the overall American community the necessary ingredients for continued Jewish leadership.”
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