Fourteen hundred Jewish families in Los Angeles will have to depend on charity for matzoth and other Passover foods, it is stated by Mr. Philip Stein, the pioneer Jewish resident of Los Angeles, who has for more than ten years been in charge of the Passover food distribution for the poor.
The Mount Sinai Home for Chronic Invalids in Los Angeles is in danger of closing down, it is announced, because of the lack of funds. The creditors are pressing for money, and in several cases merchants have discontinued credit for food, and other necessities. A membership campaign has been started to raise a sum of 15,000 dollars which is needed immediately.
In Cleveland the Jewish Carpenters’ Local Union has raised a sum of 4,000 dollars at a benefit performance to provide Passover food for one hundred and fifty impoverished Jewish families in Cleveland. Among those to be aided are unemployed members of the Union and their families, and others who have been affected by the adverse economic conditions.
A report from Newark states that more than two hundred additional Jewish families have had to be provided for in Newark in 1931 than in 1930, involving an additional expenditure of about 37,000 dollars.
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