For greater cooperation between individual Jewish societies directly or indirectly engaged in family welfare or relief work, a Co-operative Council of Jewish Family Welfare Organizations was create at a recent meeting called by Israel Himelhoch, chairman of the Jewish Unemployment Emergency Council.
Maurice Aronsson presided at the first meeting, and the following officers were elected: Mrs. Dora B. Ehrlich, chairman; Mr. Aronsson, vice-chairman; and Harold Silver, director of the Jewish Social Service Bureau, secretary.
A clearance system with head-quarters in the offices of the Jewish Unemployment Emergency Council was set up at this meeting. This clearance system will be used by each society’s relief committee chairmen to clear and register cases so that duplication and waste will be avoided and the families cared for will receive better service.
The Co-operative Council will meet monthly to check on the operation of the clearance bureau, to exchange information, and to discuss individual cases.
Among the organizations represented in the Council are the Rva Prenzlauer Maternity Aid; los Angeles Sanitarinm Auxiliary; Detroit Auxiliary. Jewish Consumptive Relief Association; Hebrew Ladies Aid Society; Home Relief Society; Zedakah Club; Sisterhood of Temple Beth El; Neugarten Sunshine Club; Council of Jewish Women; League of Jewish Women’s Organizations; and the Jewish Unermployment Emergency Council.
“The Council is not in any sense an aunaigamution or merger of the societies which have joined.” save#ties just as it has in the past. The only difference will be that their relief chairmen will save a lot of needless work and possible duplication by having centralizad information about applicants readily available.”
The Council is composed of two representatives from each society directly engaged in family welfare or relief work, and one representative from other allied organizations not directly engaged in such work but interested in the general preblem of family welfare.
Those attending the first meeting included Mrs. Ehrlich. Mr. Aronsson. Mrs. Regene Freund Cohane, Mrs. George Cohen, Mrs. Max Coven, Mrs. H. H. Greenberg, Mrs. Jacob Harvith, Mrs. Dolores Levitt, Mrs. Herman L. Lewis. Mrs. I. A. Liebson, Mrs. J. E. Newman, Mrs. Louis Roud, Mrs. Al Weisman, and Sol Winter; Miss Pauline Gollub, Mrs. Minna Faust and Mr. Silver from the Jewish Social Service. Bureau, and Kurt Peiser, executive director, Jewish Welfare Federation.
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