The Joint Distribution Committee’s annual conference — in which representatives from 19 countries in Europe and North Africa, as well as Israel, will participate — will open here on Sunday. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, a national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, heads the American delegation to the parley.
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