Over 1,000 Jewish social workers, center workers and educators arrived here today to attend the six-day 51st annual convention of the National Council of Jewish Social Welfare which opens here on Sunday.
Among the topics to be discussed by the delegates of some 200 Jewish communities throughout the country are: civil rights and civil liberties, the impact of the aged upon the community, social welfare in Israel, the role of Jewish education in the development of the American Jewish personality, new psychiatric developments in social welfare and the handling of refugees under the new displaced persons legislation. Meeting concurrently will be the annual convention of the National Association of Jewish Center Workers and the National Council for Jewish Education.
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