The Educational Council of the Rabbinical Association called a meeting for Monday, December 31, at nine o'clock in the evening, at the Hebrew Theological College. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Rabbinical Association, Hebrew teachers, synagogue presidents, and prominent citizens who are interested in the problem of Jewish education. The meeting, after hearing a report by Rabbi Ephraim Epstein on the plans of the Educational Council of the Rabbinical Association, and a report by Rabbi Saul Silber on the condition of Jewish education in Chicago, resolved, as follows:

Whereas, Only ten per cent of all the Jewish children in Chicago receive a Jewish education; and

Whereas, The Jewish charities subsidize only one-half of all the Talmud Torahs of Chicago; and 2Whereas, A community organization must exist to represent Jewish education before the broad Jewish masses, and to subsidize in part a number of Talmud Torahs, including the one in the Lawndale district; therefore be it

Resolved, That an Educational Council in the city shall immediately be organized, which shall include representatives of the Rabbinical Council, the Association of Hebrew Teachers, the Zionist organization, the Mizrachi [the Orthodox group of the Zionist movement], and the pedagogical institutions. The Council is to deal systematically with all problems relating to Jewish education in Chicago, its progress, development, organization, and so on.

The meeting appointed a committee of seven to work out a program and to submit the material and plans before a large community meeting, which is scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 17, 1924.