Whence Hornstein?

Publication Date: December 1998

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Leonard Fein

Research Area: Culture and religion; Education; Social conditions

Keywords: Employment; Higher Education; Leadership

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In the mid-1960s there began a dramatic reorienting of Jewish communal priorities from defense and Israel's survival to the strengthening of Jewish identity. A new kind of professional, one trained not only as a social worker but also as a Jew, was needed to enable the fulfillment of this new mission. The Hornstein Program bucked the tradition of nonideological, non-directive social work by integrating a Jewish and professional component into its training program.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.2, Winter 1998.