A Long Island rabbi claimed here today that the four year stay of Jewish youth on American campuses poses a threat to Jewish survival. Rabbi Saul I. Teplitz, of Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, chairman of the commission on education of the United Synagogue of America (Conservative), addressed the convention of the National Women’s League of the United Synagogue.
He said that one reason why the campus environment was a “threat” was that many Jewish professors on campus who should be the advisers, if not the idols of youth, do not possess a basic grounding in Jewish heritage and its values and thus are not able to guide Jewish youth.
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