The Jewish Welfare Board of London corrected today, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, what it called “an impression” from a report in the newspaper, that British Jewry was “an affluent society with none of the problems of the community at large. “
The newspaper recently printed a special supplement on British Jewry. The Welfare Board pointed out that it “alone” had dealt with more than 12, 000 welfare cases in 1965, “affecting nearly ten percent of the Jewish families in the Greater London area. “
The board said that most of the cases involved poor housing, lack of money and illness and that many other Jews sought help from the board because they could not manage only on pensions or on government grants. “In this respect, ” the board letter declared, “Jewish people are in no way better off than others in this country. “
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