Community councils are becoming an increasingly popular form of Jewish community organization, according to an article in the current issue of Notes and News, published by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. At least 46 cities either have established or are in the process of organizing councils. In 1935, there were only 17 such agencies in existence.
Events abroad and “their reverberations in America” are cited in the article as among the main reasons for the current development of community organization and the growth of the Council movement. The pressure of these conditions, it is asserted, has “increased the awareness among Jewish groups of the necessity for unity of action on issues of concern to all Jews.”
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