Calling upon British Jewry to exert extraordinary efforts to provide religious education for Jewish children evacuated from danger areas and scattered all over the country, some in places where a Jew was never seen before, a pamphlet issued today by the Board of Deputies of British Jews reveals that more than half of Britain’s 35,000 Jewish children of school age are not receiving any religious education. It reports, however, that through the efforts of the Board of Deputies 300 Jewish schools are operating in Great Britain, staffed with 250 teachers. These schools provide educational facilities for more than 9,000 children, leaving about 18,000 children “in danger of growing up without any knowledge of Jewish spiritual values.”
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