American Jewish Adjustment Problems Topic at Social Workers’ Conference

Cross currents in American Jewish life and the adjustment of Jewish life to the American milieu will be the general topics of discussion at the next annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service to be held in Atlantic City, June 2 to 5 inclusive, it was announced by Dr. Samuel C. Kohs, executive director of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities and chairman of the Program Committee of the Conference.

Forty states and several Canadian cities will send representatives to the conference, Dr. Kohs stated, pointing out that this year’s sessions will not be confined to the technical aspects of social work. Outstanding mass influences in American life today as reflected in the field of labor and other movements also will be considered.

Due to the national interest among social workers in the findings of the Jewish Communal Survey of New York City which for the past two years has been conducting an intensive study of the resources of the New York Jewish community for philanthropic purposes, one entire session will be devoted to the reports of each committee of the survey, according to Samuel A. Goldsmith of New York, executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research and president of the Jewish Conference.

Other sessions will be devoted to the relation of the Jewish press to Jewish philanthropy, programs and views of large Jewish community movements, the Jewish Agency and its implications for American Jewish life and the relation between Jewish Agencies and general agencies in the social work field.

Representatives of Jewish community centers attending the social service conference will also attend the annual conference of the National Association of Jewish Community Center Secretaries.

In accordance with the decision of the Jewish Conference in 1927 to become affiliated with the National Conference of Social Work, delegates will proceed to San Francisco where sessions will be held.