Of the 240,000 Jewish children of school age in New York City only 61,000 or about 25 percent are attending a Jewish school, it was revealed here yesterday at the First Greater New York Assembly on Jewish Education
The Assembly, held under the auspices of the Jewish Education Committee of New York in cooperation with 60 communal organizations, was attended by more than 2,500 delegates. The gathering voted to establish the Assembly on an annual basis, and approved the continuance of a survey of Jewish education in New York City currently in progress under the aegis of the J.E.C. with the support of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
Justice Maximilian Moss, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, addressing the delegates, stressed the fact that the Jewish community owes each child within its ranks a Jewish education. “It is our two-fold responsibility to create enough Jewish education facilities to care for every Jewish child, and to instill within him the knowledge and the character traits which Judaism can offer and which we can contribute to American democracy,” he declared.
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