The emergence of a Jewish State, if the majority recommendations of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine are approved by the UN General Assembly, will present American Jewry with “unprecedented demands” for overseas aid, Benjamin Rosenberg, field service director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, declared yesterday at the 14th annual conference of the Council’s New England Region.
Addressing 100 delegates from 21 cities at the Hotel Barnum here, Mr. Rosenberg pointed out that what seemed like an “emergency, rescue and life-saving task” for the past several years, has grown into an equally serious responsibility for rehabilitation and up-building of the Jewish community overseas.
The conference adopted resolutions urging the U.N. General Assembly to act favorably on partition at its current session, requesting Congress to open the doors of this country to large numbers of displaced persons and calling for wider community participation in the policy making operations of the United Jewish Appeal. In connection with the last resolution, the conference endorsed a motion adopted last weekend at a conference of leaders of 30 of the largest Jewish communities in the country, which urged that the UJA executive and administrative committees, on which local communities are represented, be consulted on the 1948 national goal-setting process and on the procedure for establishing local quotas.
Regional president George W. Farber of Worcester was re-elected for another term. He is also president of the Worcester Jewish Welfare Fund. Regional vice-presidents elected by the delegates were Bernard P. Kopkind of New Haven, president of that city’s Jewish Welfare Fund; Samuel Markell of Boston, chairman of the allocations committee of Boston’s Combined Jewish Appeal; Bernard H. Trager of Bridgeport, past president of the Bridgeport Jewish Community Council; and Sidney W. Wernick, vice-president of the Jewish Federation of Portland. Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the Brockton United Jewish Appeal, was elected finance chairman, and Isaac Seligson of Boston, who is assistant director of that city’s Associated Jewish Philanthropies, was elected secretary. Milton Kahn of Boston was re-elected the New England regional representative to the national UJA executive committee.
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