Describing what he called the “narrowing political, economic and social horizon of the Jew throughout the world.” Rabbi Milton Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue, made a plea for support of the United Jewish Appeal which, he said, is attempting to transplant Jewish refugees to Palestine. He spoke at a reception given to representatives of twenty-three Jewish youth organizations by the Junior Division of the United Jewish Appeal at the Metropolis Club yesterday afternoon.
Rabbi Steinberg pointed out that one-half of the Jews are living under conditions which constitute a denial of freedom. “There is little help that Jews can expect from the outside,” he asserted, “we must seek our salvation by ourselves.”
Rabbi Steinberg emphasized that the plight of the Jewish children in Palestine is far more tragic than that of the adults. He said that there are 60,000 Jews between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two who are economically destitute in Germany.
After an address by Carlos L. Israels, chairman of the Junior Division of the Appeal, steps were taken to mobilize the youth of New York in the $1,200,000 drive of the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal.
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