More than 2,000 Jewish leaders from all over the country will meet here on Sunday at Hotel Commodore to discuss relief plane of the Joint Distribution Committee for 1948 at the 33rd annual conference of the organization.
Representing Jewish communities from all sections of the United States, the participants will hear reports on overseas conditions and JDC’s new responsibilities in view of the United Nations decision on Palestine, by Judge Louis E. Levinthal, U.S. adviser on Jewish affairs to the American Military Governor of Germany; Herbert H. Lehman, former Governor of New York and Director-General of UNRRA, who is a JDC vice-chairman; and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of the JDC European Executive Council, who recently arrived in New York from his post in Paris.
A summary of operations in 1947 by JDC will also be presented by Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-chairman. During the year, JDC appropriated store than $75,000,000 for relief, reconstruction and resettlement activities, constituting the largest aid program ever undertaken in a twelve-month period by any wholly private welfare agency. The conference marks the completion of one-third of a century of assistance by JDC. Since its inception in November, 1914, JDC has appropriated more than $300,000,000 for life-saving and life-building aid to Jews in distressed areas throughout the world.
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