Delegates will gather from all parts of the Dominion here today to attend the first session of the second all-Canadian Jewish Congress. The pressure of current protblems facing the Jewish population here the chief of which it the recurrent wave of anti-Semitism and means of extending a helping hand to German refugees, was cited as the incentive for the meeting.
The signigficance of the meeting is indicated in the fact that the first conclave of an all-Canadian Jewish Congress was held fifteen years ago follwing Armistice when overseas brethren were clamoring for assistance. Today leader see a parallel in the plight of Jewry abroad with the situation which confronted Israel after the World War.
Within the borders of the Dominion the Nazi cancer is making itself increasingly painful. Among the French Canadians in Quebec, the German colonies in the west and the Ukranian nationalists there is evidence of anti-Semitism.
A striking feature of the current session is the presence of hitherto antagonistic groups of Jews who did not attend that 1919 conclave. They are the reform extremists and laborites.
Particularl vengeful have been the French anti-Semitic sympathizers here who aired their wrath agaist the Jews in broadside publications including “Le Patriot.” “Le Restauranteur,” “L’Action Catholic,” “Le Joural,” “Le Devoir” and “The Nationalist.”
Dr. S. Margoshes and Roger Straus, representing the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, will represent the Jews of the United States.
The inaugural session was to be opened by S. W. Jacobs, K. C. and M. P., and Lyon Cohen, president of the first Canadian Jewish Congress.
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