Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, Chairman of the Fund-Raising Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, will be the principal speaker at the dinner and mass meeting here November 6 formally opening the Cincinnati Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign for $110,000, the Cincinnati quota for the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and other agencies. While the general campaign starts November 10 and runs to November 24, a hundred workers, constituting fourteen initial gifts teams, are already active and are reporting progress. Alfred M. Cohen is general chairman of the campaign.
Dr. Wise will discuss the activities of the Joint Distribution Committee in behalf of the impoverished Jews of Eastern and Central Europe and describe the seriousness of their plight as a result of the economic crisis which is threatening the stability of the agencies of reconstruction established in the past decade with the assistance of the Jews of America. He will also describe the emergency feeding and other palliative relief measures which require support by the Joint Distribution Committee on as large a scale as during the immediate post-War period.
Contributors to the Cincinnati campaign, according to Senator Cohen, will have the privilege of earmarking their contributions for the activities of specific organizations sharing in the fund. Among the activities which they can designate are the emergency relief, child welfare, vocational training, educational cooperative loan, free loan, medical-sanitary and cultural programs of the Joint Distribution Committee and its associated organizations throughout the world.
Prior to his visit to Cincinnati, Dr. Wise conferred with leaders of the Louisville, Ky., Jewish community regarding their participation in the Joint Distribution Committee’s campaign for funds to continue its work. Rabbi Joseph Rauch, who has just celebrated his twentieth anniversary in the pulpit of Temple Adath Israel, presided at the conference and introduced Dr. Wise.
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