Save the Jewish social and welfare institutions, was the motto of a big gathering of Jewish social workers held here to-day in the headquarters of the B’nai B’rith, under the auspices of the United Jewish Committee for Upbuilding and Self-Help, comprising the O.R.T., the Toz, the Jewish Emigration Society and other Jewish Welfare Organisations.
Professor Rabbi Dr. Schorr, the Chairman of the Committee, presided, and Dr. L. Neustadt, the representative of the Joint Distribution Committee of America, presented a report showing on the basis of the figures that the campaign for funds now being conducted in America by the Joint Distribution Committee is making very slow progress, and urged that the Jews of Poland should therefore adopt a more intensive self-help policy to try to raise the funds required among Polish Jewry itself.
After Dr. Gershon Levin, the Chairman of the Toz, Mr. J. Baumberg, representative of the Polish O.R.T., and others had spoken, the meeting adopted a resolution to intensify the self-help activity among all sections of the Jewish population in order to save the important Jewish organisations affiliated to the Rescue Committee.
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