Outlines Seven Point Program; Indicates Need for Educational Opportunity and Economic Protection, Training in Citizenship
A charter for Jewish children, similar to the children’s charter of the White House Conference several years ago, was advocated here today by Dr. Alexander Dushkin, of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Chicago, at a joint general session of National Conference of Jewish Social Service, National Association of Jewish Center Executives and National Council for Jewish Education at the Hotel St. Charles.
Discussing the “Essentials of a Community Program for Jewish Children,” Dr. Dushkin exposed the fallacy of thinking of community child care merely from the standpoint of the economically maladjusted child.
He outlined a seven-point program in the phraseology of the general children’s charter. Among the points he indicated were:
Educational oppotunity, health and social welfare, physical security, economic protection social equality; citizenship training; religious and cultural training; social and recreational facilities; parental care for orphans and needy; vocational guidance and help in securing employment; a “dignified, well-ordered and purposive Jewish community into which he might grow with security and with pride.”
Discussing the financial aspects of Jewish education, Ben Rosen, educational director of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia, stressed the responsibility the Federation, as the vital community agency, must assume in the establishment and support of central bureaus of Jewish education. Mr. Rosen declared that the support of individual schools is a burden which must be assumed in the main by the parents of students and by the local neighborhood.
Other speakers at the sessions today, the second day of the joint convention, included Harry L. Lurie, Virginia C. Frank, Sadye Adelson, Harold Silver, Beatrice Altkrug, Samuel S. Solender, Harry Greenstein, Hyman P. Gumnit, Emil Frankel, Diana Kurzband, Lotte Marcuse, Helen Baum, Mrs. Edith B. Bercovich, Maurice Bernstein, Mrs. Sylvia E. Byskind, Rose Brisken, Mrs. E#########hel Sopelan, Norman Dockman, Feige Kagan, Clara Miller, Dr. Gerald Pearson, Selma H. Weiss, Benjamin L. Winfield, Leonard W. Mayo, Viola Oschrin, Michael Sharlitt, Lionel J. Simmonds, William Hirsch, Frances Gottdiener, Mrs. Alexander J. Marcuse, Leo Dopkin, Harry L. Glucksman, Philip Geliebter, Jacob S. Golub, Mrs. Mary G. Schonberg, John Slawson, Maurice Taylor, Emilie Levin, Violet Kittner, Helen Taussig, Ruth C. Eisenberg and Louis Kraft.
SYMPOSIUM TOMORROW
Extracts from speeches delivered at the joint sessions will be found elsewhere in the Jewish Daily Bulletin.
Sessions tomorrow will include discussions during the day and a joint symposium in the evening. A business session of the National Council for Jewish Education will be held in the afternoon and the National Association of Jewish Center Executives will hold its business session in the morning.
Speakers at the various sessions tomorrow will include: Charles F. Wilinsky, Michael M. Davis, Blanche Renard, Mrs. Alice M. Brennan, I.M. Rubinow, Abraham Epstein, Francis Bardwell, Mrs. William G. Lewis, Ernest P. Boas, Maurice Bernstein, Clara Berkowitz, Elias L. Trotskey, Aaron D. Faber, Leela L. Gainsburg, Maurice Stollerman, Rose Chenitz, Lionel J. Simmonds, Arthur A. Fleisher, Dr. Frederick Zeman, Ludwig B. Bernstein, Charles Rosenbloom, Harry L. Glucksman, Aaron Robison Rabbi William Fineshriber, Emanuel Gamoran, Samson Benderly, George W. Rabinoff, Joseph A. Schlossberg and Ben M. Selekman.
The joint convention will be terminated Wednesday.
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