Delegates from Reform congregations throughout New Jersey, as well as rabbis and prominent laymen held an all-day meeting here and formed the State Teachers’ Conference of the New Jersey Association of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The conference creates a vehicle for discussion of problems and standards of Jewish religious education.
Rabbi Solomon Foster, of Temple B’nai Jeshurun, this city, was elected president. Rabbi Abraham Holtzberg, of Trenton, was chosen vice-president; Mrs. Lawrence Silver, Jersey City, secretary, and Mrs. Joseph Lowenstein, of Paterson, treasurer. Fourteen men and women were elected to the board of directors, as representatives from Newark, Jersey City, East Orange, Plain-
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