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Community Currents
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 4, 1950

By Albert Hutler, Executive Director, United Jewish Fund

Community Relations Council — Much of the material used by the San Diego Community Relations Council comes from national agencies employing professional workers. You may be interested to know that about 350 Jewish professional workers are engaged specifically in the field of combating anti-Semitism in this country. The Community Relations Council in San Diego is working very closely with the Civic Unity Council of Community Welfare Council and with the California Federation for civic unity. It has gone on record as backing the FEPC for the State of California.

Wohl Leaves for Another Job—San Diego loses an excellent group worker with the resignation of Irwin Wohl, who is taking a new job in Los Angeles. The young people of our community, who saw in Mr. Wohl a first glimmer of hope for a program to fit their needs, are sorry to see him go.  They are convinces, as I am, that the Center Program must be continued.

Servicemen's Program Planned — Korean developments will impose new obligations not only on the National Jewish Welfare Board, but on the Jewish Community of San Diego.  A new national organization brought to life in 1950 to take the palce of the USO, came to life in San Diego under the name of the "Associated Services to the armed Forces (ASAF). Organized by the Jewish Welfare Board, the National Catholic Community Service and the National YMCA to finance USO type programs, ASAF will become active in San Diego in the very near future. In collaboration with the Jewish Welfare Board, Victor Schulman, President of the United Jewish Fund, appointed Henry Weinberger as chairman with Rose Neumann and Maxwell Kaufman as the Jewish members of the local committee to help in the formulating of local plans.

Community Chest Calling for Workers — The Community Chest is planning its campaign well in advance of the October opening date. Workers are being called for. It is the duty and the responsibility of every good citizen of the community to participate in the Chest Campaign. A community worth living in ought to be a community worth giving in. Ruth Newman has been selected as the chairman representing the Jewish Welfare Society, a Community Chest Agency, and will soon call on members of the Jewish community to work in the Chest Campaign.

Israel Campaigns — Highest priority task in Israel, according to a report just released, should be to settle immigrants on the land.  All other projects in Israel sponsored by American Agencies, should divert part of their funds to the settlement of immigrants on the land, states the report. The program of priorities would be much simpler to handle if we had a central Israeli Philanthropic Fund. This recommendation of the Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds is in the hands of the World's Zionist Congress, which will meet in Jerusalem in December. If Welfare Funds individually were not called upon to make decisions which determine programs in Israel, but rather one single authority in Israel make such allocation on the basis of relative needs, it would be a great and obvious improvement. Top Israeli leaders and UJA leaders want such a fund and budget.