Problems concerning Jewish participation in the mobilization of America’s armed strength will be discussed at a three-day conference of the National Finance Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board which opens here tomorrow at the Hotel Stevens. An analysis on how this mobilization will affect the work of private agencies will be given at the council by Frank L. Weil, chairman of the President’s Committee on Religion and Welfare in the armed forces.
Principal business before the Council, an objective body of Jewish community leaders and representatives of Jewish communal fund-raising agencies from all sections of the country, will be a review of the J.W.B.’s proposed budget for 1951. This appraisal will be based on factual presentations dealing with the mounting need for the J.W.B.’s religious, morale and welfare work for men and women in uniform and with increasing demands for the J.W.B.’s services to its more than 300 affiliated Jewish Community Centers in this country. The organization’s 1950 budget is $1,799,255.
The Council will hear reports on the need for expanding the J.W.B.’s armed services program in 1951, and the impact of such expansion on the proposed budget to finance JWB operations next year. The J.W.B., through its Division of Religious Activities, recruits, endorses and serves Jewish chaplains in all branches of the armed forces, and has a corps of close to 200 part-time chaplains to minister to the needs of servicemen and hospitalized veterans where no full-time chaplains are on active duty.
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