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Rabbi Joseph Lookstein En Route to South America to Report on J.D.C. Program in Europe

July 11, 1945
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Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, honorary president of the Rabbinical Council of America, is en route to Buenos Aires to report to the Jewish communities of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay on the relief operations which the Joint distribution Committee is carrying on for the 1,250,000 Jews who have survived in continental Europe, it was announced here today.

Rabbi Lookstein, one of the consultants to the American delegation at the United Nations conference in San Francisco, will inform the Jewish communities he will visit of the immediate relief and reconstruction needs of the destitute Jews in Europe. He will report on the measures which the J.D.C. is taking in helping the devastated Jewish communities get back on their feet.

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