The Texas Conference of Jewish Charities

Publication Date: March 1916

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): George Fox

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Social Services; Communal Organization; Management

Type: Other

Coverage: Texas

Abstract:

The author describes the plans to organize a Texas Conference of Jewish Charities to improve and coordinate social services efforts among Jewish communities, which lack the same organization as in the North. The major issues to be discussed include:

* Education on the appreciation of the work of organized charity;

* the passing on problems and the dumping of transients into the larger towns;

* the proper care of the dependent without pauperizing him; the handling of tubercular patients;

* the development of the loan fund; etc.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 6:8