Ninety percent of the Jewish communities of the United States will probably hold joint campaigns for the relief and rehabilitation of Central and Eastern European Jews, it was disclosed today at a lunche on at the Hotel Commodore given by the Joint Distribution Committee to members of the Jewish, Anglo-Jewish and general press.
The statement was made by Joseph C. Hyman, secretary, in answer to a question by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency representative as to what efforts were being made to coordinate the fund-raising activities of the J.D.C. and the United Palestine Appeal. Among the larger communities that have signified their intention of holding joint drives are those of Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
James N. Rosenberg, vice-chairman, who presided at the luncheon, laid special emphasis on the fact that “the J.D.C. is the only major organization in the United States which, 1) pays for transportation of Jews from Germany to Palestine and other lands; 2) trains young Jews in Germany and in refugee centers for their new lives in new lands; 3) retrains Jews in Germany for self-support in new occupations; 4) helps provide education facilities for 60,000 German-Jewish children in Germany.”
Other speakers at the conference included Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, chairman of the national fund raising committee, Alexander Kahn, of the executive committee, who spoke on the work in Poland, and Carl J. Austrian, director of the New York J.D.C. drive for $1,500,000.
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