(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
At the meeting of the Board of Jewish Deputies, Mr. Rose reported on a letter received from a shipping company by an applicant who desired to emigrate to Canada under the Assisted-Passage Scheme. The company stated: “We have heard from the Canadian authorities that they are not able to accept you under this scheme, as reduced rates to Canada are not extended to people of Jewish faith.”
The Law and Parliamentary Committee entered into correspondence with the company, and from a reply received, it appears that the letter was written under a misapprehension. The company states dsitinctly that the settlement plan does not in any way discriminate against Jews.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR:
Sir:
In your issue of March 20, you publish what purports to be a report of a statement made by me at the dinner of the I.O.B.B. Wider Scope Campaign- “I say with full realization of my utterance, that the Hillel Foundation are doing the only effective Jewish work among our student youth.”
I did not say that. I could not have said that. I do not believe it. What I sought to make clear, and believe I succeeded in making clear was that, while the Menorah has dcalt largely, If not exelusively, with the cultural side of Jewish life, and the Avukah with the Nationalist consclousness of Jewish youth, the Hillel Foundation is seeking to touch the whole life of the Jewish students – that is to say, to serve the totality of the life of young Jews in American colleges and universities. That is rather difierent from the statement attributed to me. I believe that, if the Menorah had begun its work fifteen years later, it would have done, and as I believe ought to have done, exactly what Hillel is seeking to do, namely, to deal with young Jewish men and women in colleges and universities in all their Jewish outlooks, relationships, needs. The Menorah has done a significant work and the Menorah Journal is a most important and useful agency of the Jewish intelligentsia of America.
Faithfully yours,
Stephen S. Wise
New York, Mar. 27, 1928
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