Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, president of the Zionist Organization of America, today addressed a communication to Zionist regional and district offices urging them to oppose national advisory budgeting, which will be voted on at the forthcoming General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
“The Zionist Organization of America, together with other Zionist bodies, has, since 1941 expressed opposition to the plan promoted by some of the leaders of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds which would give to a small national committee of the CJFWF responsibility for determining the budgets of national overseas agencies appealing to local welfare funds,” Dr. Silver pointed out.
The United Jewish Fund of Pittsburgh was reported today to have instructed its delegates to the General Assembly to vote to defer the national advisory budgeting plan, and failing that, to vote against the plan.
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