Major Jewish Organizations Will Meet to Formulate Policies on Fighting Anti-semitism

The new National Community Relations Advisory Council which was established last month by the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds as a joint body of national and local representatives which will have the responsibility of formulating policies for dealing with problems of anti-Semitism in America, will hold its first meeting in New York, it was announced here today.

Participating in this meeting, which is scheduled to open on March 18 to last three days, will be representatives of the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Labor Committee, the B’nai B’rith and of fourteen communities which have central agencies for civic-protective work. The new body will attempt to coordinate national policies and to integrate the activities of local Jewish agencies with the programs being developed by the national organizations in the field of combatting anti-Semitism.

The announcement issued today by the council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, states that each national agency will be represented on the new organization by five persons, including two of its officers. Each community will be represented by the professional executive of its civic-protective agency and by a lay leader. “It is expected that the first meeting will undertake at once to deal with problems confronting American Jewry, devoting only a minimum of time to organizational structure and procedure, so that the new body may immediately start to serve the purpose for which it was established, ” the announcement says.

The need for a coordinated program for combatting anti-Semitism in the United States will also be a leading subject for discussion at the Conference of the Central Atlantic States Region of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds to take place March 18 and 19 in Trenton, N. J.