National Council of Federations and Welfare Funds to Meet in Cleveland

The National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, organized at a meeting in Philadelphia last May, will hold its first formal session on Sunday, October 30, at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland.

An Organization Committee of twenty-five representative leaders from communities scattered all over the country has been working on plans of the Council under the Chairmanship of William J. Shroder of Cincinnati.

The National Council has for its purpose the consideration of the common interest and problems of Jewish federations and welfare funds and towards this purpose is attempting to organize its membership to develop standards and principles of effective community organization, to promote the organization of Jewish communities for social service and to coordinate intercommunity relationships in extra local activities. Membership in the Council is open to all local Jewish federations, welfare funds or similar organizations which have for their objective centralization of planning or financing for Jewish social work.

The meeting in Cleveland will devote itself to consideration of important problems which are facing all of the Jewish federations of the country today. Solomon Lowenstein, Executive Director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City will lead a discussion on the effect of the extending activities of public welfare agencies on Jewish social work. The increasing activities of the federal, state and municipal governments and the provision of relief and other welfare services is compelling the Jewish social agencies to modify their programs and the Jewish communities will accordingly have to decide what their relationship is to be to this rapidly changing condition.

Another problem of major significance to Jewish social work, to be discussed by Samuel A. Goldsmith, Director of the Jewish Charities of Chicago, is the raising of funds for Jewish social work in view of the increasing participation of Jewish agencies in joint emergency funds and community chests.

The members of the Organization Committee of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds include the following:

Edward M. Baker, Cleveland; Edward B. Benjamin, New Orleans, La.; Ervin Bettman, St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph L. Block, Chicago, Ill.; L. J. Borinstein, Indianapolis, Ind.; Arthur Brin, Minneapolis, Minn.; A. K. Cohen, Boston, Mass.; G. A. Efroymson, Indianapolis, Ind.; Samuel Goldhamer, Cleveland, Ohio; Samuel A. Goldsmith, Chicago, Ill.; I. Irving Lipsitch, Los Angeles, Cal.; Solomon Lowenstein, New York; James Marshall, New York; Bernard Marx, St. Paul, Minn.; Louis H. Moss, Atlanta, Ga.; Alfred Oppenheimer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Kurt Peiser, Detroit, Mich.; B. F. Saltzstein, Milwaukee, Wisc.; E. J. Schanfarber, Columbus, Ohio; Walter Sondheim, Baltimore, Md.; Louis E. Kirstein, Boston, Mass.; Sol Kline, Chicago, Ill.; Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Dallas, Texas; Irvin F. Lehman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Judge Horace Stern, Philadelphia, Pa.; Eugene Warner, Buffalo, N. Y.; Henry Wineman, Detroit, Mich. and Ira Younker, New York.