Problems of Jewish education in the United States were analyzed here today at the opening session of the 32nd annual convention of the National Council for Jewish Education attended by educators from all parts of the country.
In his presidential address, Hillel Henkin, NCJE president, said that Jewish education had become “fashionable,” the teaching profession is making headway, the all-day Jewish school is developing momentum and that secondary education–Hebrew high schools–is increasing.
At the same time he deplored the decreasing influence of the Jewish home as a partner in Jewish education, the splinterization along group lines, the lack of experimentation and research, and the absence of over all supervision.
Mr. Henkin called upon Jewish educators for greater intensification, for leadership and for supreme devotion. The need to educate the Jewish parents in Jewish tradition and to involve them more in Jewish school responsibility was discussed at a special session.
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