Miriam R. Ephraim, of Pittsburgh, has been elected as the first woman president of the National Association of Jewish Center Workers, one of the three Jewish social service organizations meeting here.
Other officers include Isadore Beierfeld, Yonkers; Julian Greifer, Perth Amboy; Herman Jacobs, Detroit, and Samuel Shari, Scranton, vice-presidents; Benjamin Fox, Brooklyn, secretary, and Samuel S. Solender, New York, treasurer.
The social agency rank and file workers rather than the boards and executives are the real representatives of the community and clients, according to a paper presented to the session of the Association of Practitioners in Jewish Social Agencies, prepared by the New York committee. The paper proposed a partnership, instead of subordinate relationship, among board, executive and practitioner.
Earlier sessions were devoted primarily to technical social work. At Sabbath evening services in the Indianapolis Hebrew Temple, Harry L. Glucksman, president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, in a memorial address, paid tribute to I.M. Rubinow, George Hyman and Rabbi Aaron Robinson.
Coordination among Jewish centers, educators and practitioners was urged at a symposium at which Jacob S. Golub, of New York, presided. Samuol A. Goldsmith, of Chicago, urged establishment of a Jewish economic service in Jewish communities to combat unemployment.
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