The importance of religious education was emphasized by President Roosevelt in a message received today by Edgar J. Nathan, Jr., president of the League of Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations of the Jewish Education Committee of New York.
President Roosevelt wrote to Mr. Nathan in response to an award which the League presented to him. The award is made annually to an American who is judged “to have contributed most during the year to the promotion of human brotherhood.” The League cooperates with the Jewish Education Committee for the extension and improvement of Jewish religious education in New York through the maintenance of a network of services to the Jewish schools of the City.
“I am very grateful and pleased to receive the first annual award of the League of Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations of the Jewish Education Committee,” President Roosevelt said in his message. “The value and importance of religious education is becoming more and more apparent to people all over the world. It will always be an essential factor in the promotion of human brotherhood and of cooperation between nations in the cause of peace.”
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