A conference which will attempt to enlist the support of all sections of New York Jewry in its campaign to settle German Jewish children in Palestine will be held by the Council of Jewish Organizations on Palestine Sunday afternoon at 2 P. M. at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Judge Benjamin E. Greenspan, president of the council, said yesterday that the conference will mark the first meeting of the Committee of Two Hundred with delegates from the foremost Jewish fraternal, religious and communal organizations elected recently to deal with relief for German Jewry through settlement in Palestine. The speakers will be Judge Greenspan, Morris Margulies, vice-president of the council, and Samuel Goldstein, secretary. The activities of the council are affiliated with the $2,000,000 National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish refugees in Palestine. $40,000, which is estimated to maintain 500 children in Palestine, is the council’s goal.
“In Palestine,” Judge Greenspan declared, “the children can find the opportunities denied them in Germany for a free and untrammeled existence. The program that the Jewish Agency has adopted offers the Jewish children of Germany a new life of wholesomeness and achievement as builders of the Jewish Homeland to whose progress they can make contributions of great value.”
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