Jewish identity, priorities for social welfare service, and the Jewish poor, three of the major concerns of organized Jewish communities throughout North America, will be featured at sessions at the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds’ (CJF) annual Institute on Social Planning, at CJF headquarters here beginning tomorrow and ending Wednesday.
The three-day Institute, under the chairmanship of Saul Schwarz of Essex County, N.J., will be attended by social planning executives of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds serving communities throughout the United States and Canada and will focus on the social welfare problems of Jewish Federations and their constituent agencies, as well as on current programs and plans to solve them.
The opening session–Increasing Jewish Identification: Goals and Programs–will review Federation programs and the services of their agencies in terms of special contributions toward enhancing Jewish identification and participation. Other highlights of the Institute will: review the role of Jewish Federations in setting and reordering priorities for their network and agencies; discuss programs for effective service for poor Jews; and will assess developments regarding CJF’s projected Institute for Jewish Life, and reactions to CJF’s Committee on Jewish Education regarding financing of Jewish Day Schools.
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