Label A. Katz, president of B’nai B’rith, said today there is a “universal need” for intensified programs of Jewish education “to avert cultural shallowness” throughout the Jewish world.
Addressing the annual meeting of the B’nai B’rith International Council, Mr. Katz said the problem is “as acute” for the postwar Jewish communities of Europe, Latin America and elsewhere as it is for those in the United States.
“To some degree this conclusion is valid even for Israel,” he said. Mr. Katz called for closer “person to person relationships among the Jewish communities of the world” if we are to understand each other’s problems in realistic terms.
He told the 150 representatives of the B’nai B’rith districts from four continents that “Jewish life can no longer conduct itself with the affectionate detachment and nostalgia with which the preceding generation of American Jews accepted the Jewish communities of Europe.”
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