A “personalized” relief plan, wherein families in American and elsewhere will “adopt” families overseas by communicating with them and sending them food and clothing, has been instituted by the World Jewish Congress, the organization announced today. The Congress is compiling a list of the neediest cases.
Dr. Moshe Polakiewicz, member of the advisory council on European Jewish affairs of the Congress, departed yesterday for La Paz, Bolivia, on the first leg of a tour of South American countries. Dr. Polakiewicz, who last year visited various Central American Jewish communities, will confer with organizations affiliated with the World Jewish Congress on political, economic, and cultural problems confronting them. From Bolivia he will proceed to Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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