Anglo-jewry’s Support for Jewish Reconstruction Work in Eastern Europe: Big Synagogue Campaign Inaug

The scope of the Joint British Committee O.R.T??Oze for the Reconstruction of East European Jewry, which was recently organised for the purpose of carrying on throughout the United Kingdom an extensive and systematic propaganda on behalf of the O.R.T. and Oze Societies and for raising funds for their work on behalf of East European Jewry (its first big public activity was the dinner addressed in London by Professor Einstein, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and other famous personages), was explained at a meeting of synagogue delegates which has been held at the house of Mr. Samuel Wallrock, the honorary treasurer of the committee, with Mr. Leon Rees, the Chairman of the Executive, presiding.

Lord Rothschild is President of the Joint British Committee and the Chief Rabbi Dr.J.H. Hortz, Rabbi Mattuck, Miss Lily Montagu, and Dr. Redcliffe Salaman, are Vice-Presidents.

The initial plan of the Joint British Committee is to link up the whole of the country by a chain of sub-committees centred on the synagogues; and to this and every synagogue and synagogue official has been approached.

Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Levey, D.S.O., a member of the Executive, spoke at length on the conditions in Eastern Europe and the urgent need for action. Mr. Neville Laski, K.C., also a member of the Executive, said that in a question of such vital importance, for Jewry one could not possible remain apathetic, if only on the grounds of common humanity. One had of necessity to be sympathetic at the spectacle of countless thousands threatened with ruin and disintegration, and the concrete form of sympathy was help.

A number of the synagogue delegates responded, and a resolution was unanimously adopted pledging full support to the activities of the Joint British Committee O.R.T.?? Oze.