Two hundred and sixty-one students who attend the graduating classes of twenty congregational week-day schools and Talmud Torahs pledged themselves to continue their Jewish studies at the Second Annual Graduates’ Festival, held yesterday in the Miller Community Center of the Bnai Jeshurun Synagogue here. Speakers included Rabbi C. David Matt, spiritual leader of the West Philadelphia Jewish Community Center and Ben Rosen, director of the Associated Talmud Torahs.
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