More than 400 Jewish communal leaders from all parts of the United States will attend the two day annual meeting of United Service for New Americans, a major immigration and resettlement agency for Jewish survivors, which opens on Saturday evening at the Plaza Hotel here.
The resettlement leaders will assess the effect of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 on the agency’s work and plan appropriate immigration and resettlement programs for 1954 in the light of current international developments. They will also study the role of a unified international Jewish migration and resettlement agency, with particular reference to local community activities.
Agreement was reached in January to merge United Service for New American, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, and the migration functions of the Joint Distribution Committee into a unified migration agency to be known as United HIAS Service, Inc. This consolidation will be effected as soon as legal and organizational formalities are completed.
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