Various aspects of the post-war approach to the problem of combatting anti-Semitism in the United States will be discussed by more than 1,000 Jewish communal leaders from all parts of the country at a three-day conference of the Joint Defense Appeal which opens here tomorrow evening at Coronado Hotel. Principal speakers at the conference are Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, and Henry Monsky, president of the B’nai B’rith.
The conference will also decide on the budgetary needs of the Joint Defense Appeal which is the fund-raising body for the American Jewish Committee and the Anti Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith. The 1946 national quota of the J.D.A. was $5,000,000. Referring to the goal for 1947 which the conference is to set, Donald Oberdorfer, national JDA chairman, today declared that every effort will be made to awaken American Jewry to the need of supporting the pro-democratic program of the two protective agencies. “As we stand on the eve of this important assembly, it is my fervent hope that every person attending the conference will be made aware of the necessity to build a dike against the tides of anti-Semitism which in other countries have wrecked Jewish life.”
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