National and local problems of American Jewish community life will be discussed at the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which opens here tomorrow at the Netherlands-Plaza Hotel with the participation of leaders of the organized Jewish communities of the United States and Canada.
The Assembly, scheduled to last three days, will seek to evolve guideposts to meet American Jewry’s 1950 responsibilities. Recommendations concerning unified and stable national fund-raising, multiple appeals and national-local relationships will be acted upon by the Assembly.
The Assembly will define the tasks facing the Jewish communities in America and Canada next year, both at home and abroad, whereby emphasis will be on combining factual analysis with clarification of community objectives, it was stressed here today. Local community needs and developments will be discussed at section meetings, with communities grouped according to population. Each section will deal with problems it considers most pressing. Subjects to be discussed at these meetings include problems of health, Jewish education and community organization structure.
The several hundred Jewish community leaders who gathered here to attend the General Assembly tonight honored Dr. Kurt Peiser, of Philadelphia, at a testimonial dinner prior to his assumption of new duties as Director of Development at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Peiser has for the past 12 years been executive vice-president of both the Allied Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia.
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