Several proposed joint educational and communal projects of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Histadrut in Israel, among them a synagogue-community center, were announced at a news conference here today. The announcement was made by Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the association of Conservative rabbis, and Dr. Judd Teller, executive vice chairman of the American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute.
“We will recommend that the first project be the building of a synagogue in Haifa which would also serve as a Histadrut community center,” Rabbi Kelman said. “We are confident that this project will prove successful and therefore, a variety of other joint projects will be inevitable. We also hope to extend our present policy of sending members of the Rabbinical Assembly to serve in communities in Israel by assigning volunteer colleagues as instructors in teachers’ seminaries under Histadrut auspices, and by encouraging our congregations in America to appoint teachers and youth leaders from the kibbutzim and youth movements to serve in our communities. We also hope to establish the very successful “Live-in-Seminar” at Bet Berl on a permanent basis, with a counterpart in America and Jerusalem to exchange views and fashion mutually helpful relationships.”
The American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute sponsors seminars on college campuses throughout the country on questions of mutual interest to America and Israel, and conduct an institute at Arden House every winter.
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