Plans to make aid available for the relief of distressed Jews in Germany were considered yesterday by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee following a meeting of the organization Sunday afternoon in the Temple Emanu-El community house here at which this action was voted.
The present nation-wide drive of the Joint Distribution Committee for funds with which to continue its emergency relief activities in Eastern and Central Europe will be supplemented by an effort in behalf of distressed German Jews, it was decided. Aid will be extended through the Joint Distribution Committee’s Berlin office working in close cooperation with German Jewish philanthropic organizations.
A dramatic plea for support of the Joint Distribution Committee’s program was made by notable Jewish leaders who addressed the meeting Sunday afternoon at which more than 750 were present.
In opening the meeting, James N. Rosenberg, vice-chairman of the organization, who presided at the conference, stressed the fact that the Joint Distribution Committee, like the Red Cross and similar agencies, had nothing to do with political matters and declared that the meeting would be
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