Goverment Agencies Praised for Cooperating with Jewish Relief Organizations

Revealing that since Pearl Harbor more than $1,000,000,000 had been contributed by the American people for local social services, wifare of the armed forces and overseas relief and rehabilitation, Isidore Sobeloff, president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, gave high praise last right to the cooperation of governmental and quasi-governmental agencies in the field of cverseas relief and rehabilitation work of Jewish voluntary agencies.

Mr. Sobeloff spoke at the conference of Jewish social service and welfare workers which is now taking place at the Y. M. H. A. here, attended by more than 400 representatives of Jewish welfare agencies in Greater New York. “The assistance which war Jewish agencies have received through the good offices of the War Relief Control card in the field of fund-raising has been matched in other areas, too, and we are indebted to the War Refugee Board, the UNRRA and the American Red Cross for countless instances of vital aid in the task of feeding, rescuing and re-establishing victims of the great European upheaval,” he said. “These agencies have been gracious enough to report that the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine have been tremendously helpful to them in furthering their humanitarian programs.”

Irwin Rosen, chairman of New York City Post-war Planning Commission, addressing the conference today, said that both governmental and private welfare agencies will be hard-pressed to meet the post-war needs of New York City residents. He predicted that there would be a greater concentration of community organizations in the interest of greater efficiency, and that this general trend would be for further development is the post-war period. Other principal speakers at today’s session included Kurt Feiser, Dr. John Slawson, Dr. Ira Eisenstein and Philip Bernstein.