The 39th annual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee will be held December 10, in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here, it was announced today by Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman. Several hundred leaders of Jewish communities throughout the country will help to formulate plans for large-scale relief, recovery and rehabilitation programs in 1954 in behalf of needy Jews in Europe, Israel, North Africa and elsewhere.
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