Unless the already overburdened, educational facilities for rabbis and religious school teachers is doubled in the next ten years, “the shortage of rabbinic and lay leaders will become a serious danger to the entire American Jewish community,” Joseph N. Gorson, chairman of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, declared here yesterday at the concluding session of the committee’s mid-winter meeting.
Mr. Gorson reported that “objective studies made within the last several months indicate the heavy demands being made for rabbis and teachers by new congregations springing up in the fast growing suburbs cannot possibly be coped with at this time” He called for immediate support of the Seminary’s program to raise $65,000,000 in the next decade to increase its educational facilities, enlarge its public education program in the communities and maintain its existing facilities.
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