The need for a widespread system of education to help combat subversive tendencies in American life and prepare Jews for “active and constructive citizenship” was stressed today by speakers at a conference of New York Hadassah at the Hotel Commodore, attended by several hundred delegates, which was part of an observance of National Hadassah Education Day by chapters in about 500 communities.
At a luncheon featuring the New York conference, Dr. Alexander Dushkin, director of the Jewish Education Committee of New York, emphasized the need for greater individual responsibility on the part of American Jews to foster a “sound and lasting program of Jewish survival which will be based upon the recognition of rights for all minorities in this and other countries.” Other speakers were Dr. Robert Gordis, Miss Marie Syrkin, Rabbi David de Sola Pool, Mrs. Pool, Dr. Henry M. Rosenthal and Dr. Horace A. Kallen.
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