The American Jewish community will have to increase its giving even to the point of sacrifice, if the Jews of Europe are to survive, it was declared by speakers at a panel discussion on European and Palestinian causes and the refugee service in the United States which was a feature of the seventh annual New England regional conference of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, held here this week with 300 delegates from 15 cities attending.
Speakers during the panel discussion included representatives of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society, American ORT Federation and National Refugee Service. Archibald Silverman of Providence was chairman and Jacob Landau, managing director of the JTA was interlocutor.
At the close of the discussion Silverman said: “We have heard the challenge. The answer rests with us. Let us go back to our communities, organize our local campaigns, work in them untiringly, and, above all, give!”
Speakers on various other subjects during the conference included H.L. Lurie, executive director of the Council; Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore, Joseph Schlossberg and Rabbi Ira Eisenstein.
Among the resolutions adopted by the conference was a pledge of “full cooperation” in the national defense program and “unremitting support of the national effort to maintain the principles and methods of democracy.” Officers elected are Herbert L. Cohen, Bridgeport, president; Bernhart Hoffman, New Haven, Milton Kahn, Boston, Harry Levine, Leominster, and Milton Sapinsley, Providence, vice-presidents, and Jacob Gross, Worcester, secretary.
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