The newly appointed 20 member U.S. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education constitutes “a unique opportunity” to help advance learning and training of America’s youth, according to Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, the lone Jewish member of the group. “I hope the Council will be active and not a passive paper organization,” the Lubavitcher rabbi said after the Council was sworn in last week at the White House. “With good will and cooperation, it can be made to work and help improve America’s educational processes.” Shemtov is director of the American Friends of Lubavitch and regional head of the Lubavither movement in Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. His office is in Philadelphia.
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