Social Service Workers at Detroit Discuss Ways of Intensifying Jewish Consciousness

Radical measures for the intensification of Jewish education to meet conditions which might contribute toward spiritual listlessness on the part of young people were proposed at the sessions of the National Council on Jewish Education held here in association with the annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service and the National Association of Jewish Center Executives.

During the morning session at Temple Beth El, Dr. I. M. Rubinow, Secretary of the B’nai Brith, and head of the social workers organization, led discussions on trends affecting American Jewish life. The economic changes were outlined by Prof. Selig Perlman of the University of Wisconsin and Prof. Samuel M. Levin of the College of the City of Detroit.

The social trends which have hinged on historical happenings were taken up by Dr. John Slawson, executive director of the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York, and by Miss Dorothy Kahn who holds a similar post with the Jewish Welfare Society, Philadelphia.

How American Jews employ their leisure time was the topic of other discussions during the morning sessions. Harry L. Glucksman of New York and Edward M. Kahn of Atlanta delivered addresses on this subject.

Dr. Jacob S. Golub, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education in Cincinnati, and Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, educational director of the Commission on Jewish Education in Cincinnati, discussed the educational trends of the times and sought in them an answer to the social problems of Jewish Americans.

During the afternoon tremendous interest among the assemblage was demonstrated at Temple Beth El, where the German situation was brought up before a joint session luncheon.

Under the leadership of Dr. Philip L. Seman, general director of the Jewish People’s Institute at Chicago, the conference spent the latter part of the afternoon considering changes in Jewish Center practice under prevailing conditions.