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Anti-poverty Workers Picket Fjp

June 11, 1974
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A demonstration was held for three hours outside the offices of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York to protest the “non-sectarian spending of Jewish money while 400,000 poor Jews in New York City suffer.” According to Elie Rosen, the head of the Association of Jewish Anti-Poverty Workers, the protest was in response to the lack of service by FJP to the elderly Jewish poor in slum areas, and the merger of the FJP and the United Jewish Appeal. The latter would result in contributions to UJA going to non-Jews in New York City, Rosen said.

The heart of the demonstration was a 24-foot float which contained 10 five-foot photographs of the Hassidic. black Jewish and elderly Jewish poor. During the course of the demonstration, money was raised from passersby.

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