Cjfwf Assembly Completes Plans for Philadelphia Meet; Biggest Ever Held

Plans have been completed for the 31st General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, scheduled to open in Philadelphia on November 15 with the largest attendance in the history of the annual conclaves, Irving Kane of Cleveland, CJFWF president, announced here today.

More than 1,000 delegates and guests are expected for the four-day conclave at which the entire range of issues and problems of American Jewry will be considered. Particularly heavy attendance is expected from the Philadelphia area.

The Large City Budgeting Conference of the CJFWF, composed of the 23 largest organized Jewish communities outside of New York, will hold a series of meetings on November 14 and 15 to consider the 1963 budgets of cooperating national and overseas Jewish organizations which receive allocations from the fund-raising and fund-distributing federations and welfare funds of the Jewish communities.

Among speakers who will address sessions and workshops will be Dr. Eli Ginzberg, director of Columbia University’s Conservation of Human Resources Project; Dr. Isidor Lubin, Consultant for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc,; Charles H. Jordan, director-general of the Joint Distribution Committee; Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; and Louis Stern, of South Orange, N. J., incoming CJFWF president.

As the governing body of the CJFWF, the Assembly will define the prime objectives and service programs of the CJFWF for the coming year. The CJFWF is the national association of 217 federations, welfare funds and community councils which serve areas with more than 95 percent of the Jews of the United States and Canada. The 217 agencies annually raise the bulk of all Jewish philanthropic funds in the U. S. A. and Canada.