A group of eight educators from the Conservative and Reform rabbinate departed last right for Israel where they will hold conferences with educators of the labor movement in an attempt to formulate guidelines for Jewish education in Israel and the United States.
The group was led by the chairman and the executive vice-chairman of the American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute which is sponsoring the venture, Rabbi Mordecai Waxman and Dr. Judd L. Teller. The delegation will be the guests of the Teachers Seminary of the Kibbutz Movement and the Department of Higher Education of the Histadrut.
Rabbi Waxman and Dr. Teller declared that educators in both countries “have long been aware of the dangers of alienation between the Jewish youth of the United States and Israel and their loss of the sense of Jewish peoplehood. The very survival of the Jews as a distinctive entity depends on accelerating the sense of spiritual interdependence between the younger generation of Israel and the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jews,” they asserted.
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