John L. Bernstein, former president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (Hias), and now chairman of its Committee on Work in Foreign Counties, left for Havana, Cuba, this week, on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Cuba, which is composed of representatives from the Emergency Committee on Jewish Refugees and the Council of Jewish Women, with a view to making a close study of conditions among Jewish immigrants in Cuba and of the activities of the Jewish Center in Havana, which is being subsidized by the Committee and Hias.
The decision to send Mr. Bernstein to Cuba was arrived at in connection with renewing the grants made by the Emergency Committee and by Hias to the immigrant aid work in Cuba.
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