RABBI JONAH B. WISE, FUND-RAISING CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, TOLD THE 250 JEWISH LEADERS ATTENDING THE MIDDLE-ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE COMMITTEE TODAY THAT JEWS IN EUROPE WERE EXISTING IN A “NIGHTMARE OF CONSTANT FEAR.”
“I WISH I COULD TELL YOU THAT WE ARE SEEING DAYLIGHT,” SAID RABBI WISE. “THERE IS NO GLIMMER OF DAWN IN THE EASTERN HORIZON. DARKEST NIGHT STILL REIGNS OVER THE MAJOR PORTIONS OF THOSE HUMAN BEINGS WHOM WE SALUTE AS BRETHREN AND FOR WHOM WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY. THEY ARE EXISTING NOT ONLY IN DARKNESS BUT IN A NIGHTMARE OF CONSTANT FEAR.”
AID TO OPPRESSED AND IMPOVERISHED JEWISH POPULATIONS OVERSEAS AND THE PARTICIPATION OF AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN SUCH AID WAS THE TOPIC OF A ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION. OTHER ON THE PROGRAM INCLUDED ALBERT H. LIEBERMANN OF PHILADELPHIA, WHO, TOGETHER WITH JUSTICE HORACE STERN AND DR. CYRUS ADLER, SPONSORED THE GATHERING; PAUL BAERWALD, CHAIRMAN OF THE J.D.C. AND JOSEPH C. HYMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
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