The 17th annual General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, designed to be “the national operating Assembly of the Jewish community organizations,” will be held January 14-17, at Philadelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, it was announced today by Stanley C. Myers of Miami, C.J.F.W.F. president.
Jewish communal leaders from all parts of the United States and Canada will convene at the four-day gathering to discuss all major aspects of Jewish affairs and take joint action to meet 1949 local, overseas and Israel needs. The General Assembly, composed of delegates selected on a population basis by each of the 265 member agencies, is the governing and policy making body of the C.J.F.W.F.
Bernard Pepinsky of Cincinnati, program chairman, declared that the General Assembly will be a “working and action” meeting where delegates would not only “listen and learn,” but take an “active part in formulation programs of action” for the coming year. The Assembly, he said, will open with a report by the Committee on National-Local Relationships on its negotiations with national agencies. The report will deal with the question of the extent of community partnership in setting policies and administration of the 1949 U.J.A., progress in eliminating duplication in European migration work, coordinating refugee service in America, and the extent to which the National Community Relations Advisory Council has been successful in eliminating duplication among civic-protective agencies.
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