The Brooklyn Jewish Democracy, organization created recently to campaign against racial and reigious discrimination in political, academic, economic, philan-thropic, civic and social fields, will hold its first meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Sunday evening, March 4, it was announced yesterday. Jews from all boroughs will attend.
The movement, coming at a time when the Jewish question has been universally raised, is regarded as an effort to meet the attacks of anti-Semitic organizations “standing up.”
Designed to right abuses of the constitutional rights of Jews and others in New York City, the organization is expected to widen its scope to embrace all areas in which anti-Jewish discrimination is plactised. Samuel Leibowitz, attorney for the Scottsboro Negroes, is one of those taking part in organizing the moverment.
The Brooklyn Jewish Democracy wishes for greater participation in public affairs by Jews. It has been pointed out that the large Jewish population of Brooklyn has but one of twenty-three district leaders in the borough and that only one Jew in Brooklyn holds an important administrative post.
AIMS OF THE ORGANIZATION
The platform set forth by the Brooklyn Jewish Democracy desirs “to unite and coordinate the Jewish citizens of Brooklyn in a solid and formidable phalanx so that through united political action the following purposes may be accomplished: to foster and maintain the highest ideals, traditions, and institutions of American demicracy; to combat through educational activities and by means of the ballot all forms of discrimination practised in political, academic, economic, philanthropic, civic, and social fields against any person by reason of his race, color or creed; to cooperate with any American group or movement striving to accomplish any of the purposes above set forth.”
Among other objectives, the Brooklyn Jewish Democracy intends to help remody conditions in New York schools, where the number of Jewish district superintendents and principals is entirely disproportionate to the Jewish population of Brooklyn.
While Samuel Leibowitz, Rabbi Louis D. Gross. Abraham Sefall, Abe Stark and Harry Steinberg are active in organizing the movement in Brooklyn, other parts of the city.
Rabbi Joshua L. Goldberg is in charge of organization in Queens.
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