A campaign to enroll 25,000 new members in the Brooklyn Committee of the Jewish Education Association, and to increase attendance at the Jewish religious schools among the 80,000 Jewish school children in Brooklyn, was inaugurated Tuesday evening at a dinner given at the Hotel St. George. More than 1,000 were present at the dinner, including leaders of Brooklyn Jewry, officials of the Board of Education and the heads of various educational institutions in Brooklyn.
Municipal Court Justice Nathan Sweedler, head of the committee, explained that the committee will urge basic Jewish knowledge for Jewish children in the borough, stressing the language, faith and traditions of Jewish heroism. The program will be guided by the parent association founded twelve years ago.
Other speakers included: Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein, the guest of honor; President George J. Ryan of the Board of Education; Deputy Superintendent Harold G. Campbell; Dr. Eugene Colligan, president of Hunter College; Miss Adele Bildersee, dean of women at Brooklyn College, and Dr. A. Broderick Cohen, dean of the evening session at Hunter College.
The executive board, in addition to Judge Sweedler, will include Jacob H. Cohen, Philip Brenner, Dr. Charles F. Fisher, A. Krumbein, Dr. Leo M. Taron, Israel Matz and Martin Fechsler.
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