An educational conference for the purpose of discussing ways and means by which the standards of Jewish education may be raised has been called by the Educational Committee of the United Synagogue of America, according to an announcement issued by Rabbi Alter F. Landesman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Chairman of the Committee.
The Conference will be held on Sunday afternoon, December 4th, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York, and will be attended by presidents of congregations, chairmen of boards of education, chairmen of Sisterhoods, Rabbis and principals of Hebrew schools, in the Metropolitan Area.
Rabbi Landesman stated that the conference would not only be concerned with the question of intensifying Jewish education, but would also take under discussion the practical question of budgets in Jewish education.
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