The imperative necessity of continuing and intensifying Jewish Education despite the economic depression, will be the keynote of the Educational Conference, which has been called by the United Synagogue of America for Sunday, December 4, at the Jewish Theological Seminary, at 2 P. M.
An announcement issued by Rabbi Alter F. Landesman, of Brooklyn, chairman of the Educational Committee of the United Synagogue, states that the conference will be concerned primarily with plans for intensifying Jewish education at all costs, and despite every barrier the question of Jewish education will be considered from every angle with theoretical aspects as well as the practical side of Jewish education, being discussed.
Among the principal speakers will be Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Dr. Israe S. Chipkin, of the Jewish Education Association; Israel Eisenberg, principal of the East Midwood Jewish Center; S. Leff, of Brooklyn, and Abraham Rappaport of Jamaica, L. I.
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