The third overseas delegation of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds will go to Europe and Israel on June 29 to undertake a comprehensive three-week appraisal of philanthropic programs, needs and problems of paramount interest to American Jewry, it was announced here today.
Led by Louis Stern of Newark, CJFWF president, and by Irving Kane of Cleveland, past president and current chairman of its Overseas Services Committee, the delegation of outstanding lay and professional community leaders will survey the work of overseas institutions and agencies in England, France and other countries of Western Europe, and in Israel. Following its return, the delegation will present its findings and recommendations to U.S. and Canadian Jewish communities, and to the General Assembly at St. Louis in November.
Serving on the delegation with Mr. Stern and Mr. Kane are: Mrs. Joseph Cohen of New Orleans, M.E. Glass of Cleveland, Lawrence E. Irell of Los Angeles, Judge Theodore Levin of Detroit; A. Louis Oresman of New York and Mrs. Oresman; Louis P. Smith of Boston, Cecil Usher of Montreal, Melvin S. Zaret of Milwaukee, Henry L. Zucker of Cleveland, Philip Bernstein and Louis D. Horwitz, both of New York. Members of the delegation are going at their own expense.
Like its predecessor missions in 1958 and 1961, the delegation will explore ways and means to help utilize American experience overseas most effectively, and strengthen the progress toward self-support. It will place emphasis on prime health, welfare and educational needs. Many of these problems are continuously being examined in the course of the Council’s ongoing budget information and consultation process with the United Jewish Appeal, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., and the Joint Distribution Committee.
In Israel, the study will include analysis of the backlog of unabsorbed immigrants, of which 200, 000 are on public assistance rolls; the continuing high rate of immigration, programs for self-support and rehabilitation, financing, debts, and assets. Other aspects of the mission study in Israel will include an assessment of youth training and integration programs, the role of American Jewish philanthropy in educating social workers, teachers, physicians and other professional workers, and an analysis of problems created by the loss in 1965 of German Material Claim funds now available to Israel organizations.
The group, moreover, will direct its attention to the implementation of other programs initiated at the recommendation of the two previous CJFWF overseas delegations. Among these is a recently completed study of philanthropic fund-raising potentials in Israel jointly sponsored by the Council and the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem.
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