Jewish Community Needs $2,200,000 This Year for Domestic, Overseas Programs

The Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Jewish ##lief Agencies will require $2,215,770 in 1947 to finance domestic and overseas pro-##ams, it was reported today at the Seventh Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish ##gress, meeting here with 400 delegates in attendance. The report revealed that ## 1945-46 the Congress spent $2,659,000, of which $1,533,000 went for overseas re##ef.Immigration, rescue and relief activities were discussed at today’s meeting by ##ul Hayes, executive director of the Congress; Dr. David Petergorsky, executive director of the American Jewish Congress; Philip Bernstein of the Council of Jewish ederations and Welfare Fund, Dr. Nathan Reich, research director of the Joint Distribution Committee, and several others. Mr. Hayes reported that the Congress was negotiating with the Canadian Government for the admission of Jewish immigrants who would find employment in industry here.

Samuel Bronfman, president of the Congress, told the delegates at the opening session last night, that the organization is simultaneously active on the social welfare as well as rescue and relief fronts, and had helped to safeguard the civil, political and religious rights of Jews in Canada. Discussing the Palestine issue, Mr. Bronfman expressed the hope that “the U.N. inquiry commission will, at last, achieve the just solution which has eluded its predecessors.”