The second annual meeting of the American Association for Jewish Education yesterday adopted a resolution calling upon Jewish communities in America “to strengthen the inner defenses of Judaism and democracy by providing the necessary moral and financial support for Jewish education.”
Mark Eisner, New York, who was reelected president, declared in an address: “Jewish religious education in America confronts its most serious test. It is charged with the responsibility to conserve the Jewish spirit and learning. It must shelter the whole from the destructive forces which have been let loose and which have all but obliterated Jewish knowledge and the Jewish spirit on the European and Asiatic continents. American Jews must have, in these times of stress, the inspiration and fortification which is accorded by Jewish religious education.”
The following members of the executive committee were elected: Louis Drucker, Cleveland; Daniel Frisch, Indianapolis; Jonah J. Goldstein, New York; Joseph Kohn, Philadelphia; Ben Rosen, Philadelphia; Frank Cohen, New York; Simon Shetzer, Detroit; Michael A. Stavitzky, Newark; Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland, and Simon E. Sobeloff, Baltimore.
Speakers at the meeting included U.S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker, Dr. Harrison S. Elliott, president of the Religious Education Association; Prof. Horace M. Kallen and Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, director of the New York Jewish Education Committee.
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