For the first time in the twenty-nine years of the existence of the New Jersey Conference of Social Work, New Jersey Jewry will be officially represented at an annual meeting. The 29th annual meeting will be held here December 4-6 and there will be a special Jewish section.
The feature of this Jewish section will be a dinner meeting, December 4th, at the Elizabeth Carteret Hotel, at which H. L. Lurie, director of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research and well known pedagogue and economist, will discuss the status of Jewish social service in the state of New Jersey.
Michael A. Stavitsky, of Newark, first vice-president of the New Jersey Federation of Y. M.-Y. W. H. A.’s will open the discussion. Invitations have been sent to five hundred leading citizens, both lay and professional in the state.
The fact that this will be the initial conference at which Jews will be represented as an official body has called forth favorable comment throughout the state. The underlying theme of the Jewish section is announced to be enlisting the interest of Jewish citizens in the smaller communities in better organization to take care of their own social ills. The special section is said to have come as a result of the energetic activities of the Committee of Jewish Social Workers of New Jersey, which is headed by Mrs. Leah Frank-Segal, executive director of the Conference of Jewish Charities of Newark.
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