American Jews today want a higher standard of Jewish education, according to Dr. Israel S. Chipkin, executive director of the American Association for Jewish Education, who today made public his annual report.
Summarizing the Association’s activities for 1945, Dr. Chipkin pointed out that the organization had made a “serious effort to raise the standards in Jewish education” by an accumulation and distribution of information concerning Jewish educational practices, and the publication of pamphlets and bulletins of scholarly, educational, and propaganda character. He also reported the creation of a research department, which eight months after its establishment, had already issued statistical bulletins, schedules for making community educational studies, and an over-all survey of Jewish education.
James Marshall, member of the New York City Board of Education, who recently returned from a tour of Europe, yesterday urged Jewish teachers to “go in person or give support to sending other teachers to Europe to help rebuild the spiritual and educational life of Jewish children remaining in continental Europe.” Addressing the 17th annual luncheon of Jewish Teachers Association, Marshall declared that most of the Jewish orphans “are at loose ends, completely aimless, among demoralized adults,” and warned that the morale of the children, most of whom are receiving no formal education, “may be irretrievably lost,” during the years necessary to rehabilitate and educate them.
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