Major problems facing Jewish communities in the United States in 1950 will be discussed at the 18th annual General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced here today by Stanley C. Myers, president of the Council. The General Assembly is scheduled to open in Cincinnati on December 9.
Community leaders, representing 800 Jewish communities in the United States and Canada, will come to grips with these problems, Mr. Myers said in his call for the General Assembly. They will outline plans for meeting the communities’ total responsibilities, including Israel, overseas and home front needs, he stated. He emphasized the importance of collective planning and action in mobilizing American Jewry’s energies and resources for the “tremendous philanthropic task” in 1950.
“We are faced with problems of immense magnitude in surveying our world-wide responsibilities in 1950,” Mr. Myers declared. “At the Assembly we will seek to marshal community consensus into a meaningful perspective, allowing us to set all Jewish needs within a fair framework. The Assembly will be the climax of our eight Regional Conferences. The will of the communities, expressed in action taken at these conferences, will be reflected in national action on the major problems facing American Jewry in 1950.”
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