Dr. Wechsler Re-elected President of Jewish Social Studies Group

Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, prominent neurologist and Jewish leader was re-elected president of the Conference on Jewish Social Studies which held its twenty-ninth annual meeting today. Dr. Wechsler, consulting neurologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York, is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Israel and a past president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University.

Two hundred social scientists, communal workers and educators were represented in the discussion on the “Third Generation Jew in the United States : Problems and Perspectives.” Dr. Marshall Sklare, director of the Division of Scientific Research of the American Jewish Committee, who led the roster of speakers, declared: “It is apparent that the education of the third generation will exceed that of the second. The core of the problem may reside in whether the identification-pattern of the third generation is capable of being transmitted to their children.”