The Boston Jewish community has been considerably stirred by the pending report of the Citizens’ Fact-Finding Survey Committee which will be made public Sunday evening, April 27, at a general meeting to be held at the Ohabei Shalom Temple Center on Beacon Street. For two months the survey has been in progress; experts have been scrutinizing the various social agencies of the community, analyzing and examining every phase of communal service.
This is the first instance in the history of the Boston Jewish Community when a scientific basis will be made available for Jewish social efforts. This is particularly important today because there have been significant changes in the community. New and important religious, charitable and educational institutions have been established. Centers of population have shifted; growth and expansion have been haphazard; the activities undertaken have been uncoordinated so that there has been much duplication of effort and waste of energy and funds. The Survey affords an opportunity for social stocktaking and its reports and recommendations will guide the future development of the community. It is significant that although the Survey was undertaken by the Associated Jewish Philanthropies, all those Jewish charitable organizations outside its jurisdiction were invited to join the Survey without any expense to them, so that the final picture be as complete as possible. Judge J. J. Kaplan is chairman of the Citizens’ Committee.
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