The United Jewish Campaign Conference, scheduled to take place in Chicago May 11 and 12, will be held in New York at the Hotel Biltmore on that date. Announcement of the change was made by David A. Brown, national chairman.
In explaining the reason for transfering the conference from Chicago to New York, Mr. Brown declared: “No national conference of the United Jewish Campaign or the Joint Distribution Committee has ever been held in New York City, and the request both from east and west that this conference be held in New York, has been almost universal.
“In addition, the leaders of New York Jewry, who for many years have travelled long distances to attend these conferences, made it clear to us that New York City was fully entiled to the honor of having this conference called in this great city, and they have promised to lay aside all other social and business engagements and give themselves entirely to the delegates who will be in attendance at the conference.
“At a special meeting of the officers of the above organizations, it was decided to heed the request of so large a number, even at some inconvenience and slight embarrassment to ourselves. Our good friends in Chicago very graciously bow to their sister city of the east and say, “You are entitled to the conference because of your marvelous participation in the present (Continued on Page 4)
“From all indications this conference will have the largest attendance of any of the conferences so far held, even exceeding the now famous conference of Philadelphia, in 1925,” Mr. Brown added.
An appeal to the Jews of America to remember during the celebration of Passover the hundreds of thousands of their co-religionists who are in want, was made by David A. Brown, National Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign.
In his Passover message, he appealed to the Jews of America to bear in mind the words of the beginning of the Passover service, “Let all who are hungry come and eat,” and he called their attention to the plight of their coreligionists who are destitute and starving in many parts of the world, notably Bessarabia, Roumania, Poland, Moldavia and Russia.
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