Due to the unemployment situation, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (Hias), which maintains the only Jewish shelter in Greater New York for transients, unemployed and homeless, is keeping open house. Hundreds of unemployed are being fed daily and in cases where the applicants come from distant parts of the city in search of work, packages of food are given along to take home for their families.
This organization is now making preparations for the Passover holidays, and special meals will be given during the week beginning Saturday evening, April 12, and ending April 20. The extraordinary demands made upon the Society is taxing its resources to the utmost, and Abraham Herman, the president, has issued an earnest appeal for additional funds so as to meet the situation.
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