With the outbreak of the war the work of the Board of Deputies of British Jews took new directions imposed by prevailing circumstances and the paramount necessity of doing everything possible to help the country in the national emergency, states the Board’s annual report to be submitted to its meeting on April 21.
Mentioning the alteration of the constitution to permit setting up of an executive committee for duration of the war, the report reveals that the Board now consists of 388 deputies representing 107 London synagogues, 129 provincial congregations, 12 colonial congregations and 16 institutions.
The Joint Foreign Committee at the outbreak of the war directed its attention to new tasks which it was called on to assume because of the changed conditions. At the end of the year it had under consideration the draft of a program of work which it hoped would enable the committee to play its part when the time arrived for constructive proposals.
Special war tasks with which other committees are concerned include evacuation, with the provision of religious education and kosher canteens for evacuees; food rationing, defense activities and the technical “enemy aliens.”
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