The soaring birthrate since the end of World War II has resulted in a significant rise in the number of children, with particular meaning for the Jewish educational, community center and child welfare services, Sanford Solender, director of the Jewish Center Division of the National Jewish Welfare Board, today told the 54th annual meeting here of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service.
Isaiah Minkoff, executive director of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, emphasized the community relationship matters that bear close attention in the light of current national trends. “The goals and the programs of Jewish community relations are causes as well as effects of broad social trends,” he declared. “Increasingly the temper and quality of national policies and even international relations are influenced by the aggregate of the attitudes that are developed in the local communities.”
George W. Rabinoff, assistant director of the National Social Welfare Assembly, declared that “community isolation is a hazard that must be guarded against “by Jewish community service agencies. Jewish communal services have effected general community developments just as they have been affected by them,” Mr. Rabinoff added. “That tendency must be encouraged despite intensified professionalization both sides.”
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