The Denver Jewish news., 1924-07-10
Excerpts From National Confe-
renee Jewish Social Service
National Jewish Phanhropes of America Supported in
Future Thru National Chest. Twenty-Five Million
Dollars Spent BY Jews of America Last Year For
Charitable EndeavOrs.

National JEWISH philnnthropics Of
America will be- supported IN the future
through q gignmic national chest
raised throughout the country by local
FcdcrntionS of Jewish Charities, on the
basis of budgets presented by each or.
ganiznton. Preliminary plans and in
vestigntions for this undertaking ar,
now under way RS n result of the res.
olution passed by the National Confer
cnce Of Jewish Social Service held In
Toronto Samuel \. Goldsmith. dl-
rector Of the Bureau of Jewish Social
Research, will have charge Of the pre-.
liminary Investigation. tending To cStnb-
lish service that will secure authori.
tative data ON the national organlza.
tionS in America. and foreign organl.
atzions making appeals in this coun.
try.
The Bureau, working with n commit
tee of prominent laymcn and social
workers. will study the needs of all
philnnthropic agencies affiliated with
the Conference. and plan budget
which will be- raised locally according
To n standardized program.
approximately twenty-five million
dollars was spent by the Jews Of
America Inst year for philanthropic and
charitable endcavor. according TO the
report that Mr. Goldsmith presented To
the Conference. OF this sum, Mr.
Goldsmith said. S12,25O.O0O was raised
for local charitable organizations, two
and one-quarter millions of which was
used for the financing Of national work,
and another twelve million dollars was
spent for f0regn constructive relief
work
Restriction Immigration Bill.
The entire scope Of Jewish social
service work in America will be ma
terlally changed by the restriction I'M
migration Bill which goes into effect
beginning July 1st, the speakers at the
sessions declared. They pointed out
that the problem confronting the social
worker in this country will he greatly
changed when there are no longer
thousands of Yiddish speaking aliens
whose economic and social adjustment
to American life have formerly been
the basis for the greater part of the
cndeavOrs of Jewish social workers.
The future problem of Jewish social
service will he. according to papers
presented at the Conference, that OF
keeping up the Jewish religion and cul-
turc in this country. Philanthropical-
ly speaking the Jews will no lcnser bo
a separate problem; he will he an
American of Jewish extraction. re.
ionists.
Charactcrizing the Immigration Bill
recently passed by the American Con
grcSs as revolutionary act, Rabbi
Barnett X. Brckner in an address open
ing the Conference, predicted the
passing away of the Jew and Jewish
communal life in America as its re-
suit.
In his opinion DIR. Brickner said that
the cessation of immigration is perma.
nent and will result in the elimination
of the problem of the immigrant Jew.
whose adjustment to American life was
up to now the main problem of Jewish
social workers. In the next twenty-five
years. if the Jew enjoys the same
economic privileges as he does today In
America there will he no poor Jews
and the ghettos will disappear, he said.
and with the ghettcs will 90 the Yiddish
language and Jewish ceremOnialism.
Jewish life will cease to be secular and
will only differ from other races in
religious culture. he added. This will
reduce the work of the Jewish social
worker to a minimum. and the charity
Jews Will have to find a new market
for their philanthropy, concluded the
speaker.
Family welfare, child welfare lmmi,
grafton and health We're the problems
discussed at the first days sessions of
the Conference.
The task Of the Jewish social worker
seems to be TO solve the problems of
the nervous wife. the tubercular tailor
the tlippant inpper, rather than of the
murderer, drug addict or drunkard. de
clnred DIR. / NJ. Rubinow OF the Wei
fare Federation of Philadelphia nt Mon,
days session. DIR. Rubnow discussed
racial fnctOrS which condition family
case work with Jewish families, before
an audience of five hundred Socinl work.
crs from all parts of America and Can.
ada