U.S. Reform Jewish Youths Hold Five-day Conference in Israel

Sixty American and British delegates, representing youth sections of the World Union of Progressive Judaism, concluded a five-day convention here today, the first get-together of Reform Jewish youth ever convened in Israel.

The convention was held in this country, according to leaders of the Reform movement, in order to acquaint Israeli youth with the implications of a “non-fundamentalist approach” to Jewish religious belief and practice. A number of Israeli youths attended the sessions, expressing themselves as interested in “ways of satisfying the need to worship within the limits of Jewish tradition, but in modern ways.”