Jewish youth in America “has not much more than a metaphysical chance to succeed in a world of unemployment, vast poverty and class antagonism,” it was declared last night by Irwin Rosen, New York employment expert, at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service.
Mr. Rosen spoke at a session on aspects of Jewish youth in America with Moses W. Beckelman of New York presiding. “There is a widening gap,” Mr. Rosen said, “between the ideal free choice of occupation and the conditions of its realization. As a result, there are fateful adds against Jews and other minority groups.”
Earlier, Harry L. Glucksman, president of the conference, called upon Jewish social work to retain its “natural and logical underlying Jewish grouping without being dogmatically chained to the past, and allow itself to be shaped by current social conditions and the needs such conditions create.”
Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, of New York, said the two major problems of Jewish social work were that “we must re-evaluate the work, adequacy, efficiency and sufficiency of our functional agencies of social service in the light of changed conditions and we must stop to examine the effect upon our work of the difficult circumstances under which Jews now exist in a number of foreign countries.”
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