Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              COMBINED JEWISH  PHILANTHROPIES
of Greater Boston, 72 Frankitn Street, Bonton, Massachusetts , Liberty 2-8080



January 12, 1966
.Mr    Robert Segal
Jewish Community Council
72 Franklin Street
Boston,   Massachusetts
Dear Bob:
The forthcoming National Conference oi Jewish Communal Service
to be held next May in Washington,   D  C   ,   will concern itself with
the impact of the Great Society on Jewish Communal Services    The
opening session,   on Saturday evening,   May 14th,   will be devoted to
a consideration of issues and opportunities facing Jewish Communal
Services--practitioners,   agencies,   the organized Jewish communities
In preparation for this,   the program committee is asking a cross-
section of practitioners to contribute statements which will,  we hope,
represent a Symposium of the best thinking in our respective fields
on the central subject of the Conference      It is planned to distribute
the statements to the general membership in advance of the opening
session      I have been asked by Maury Bernstein,   Conference President and Mannie Batshaw,   Program Chairman,   to present a synthesis
of the statements to the opening   session    Personally,  as well as on
behalf of Maury and Mannie,   I am pleased to invite you to contribute
a statement of some 1500 words to this Symposium.
Attached is an outline of questions to which we should like you to
address yourself     As stated in the outline,   we cannot expect every
one of the contributors to elaborate on all points      But we hope that
you will point up the fundamental problems and direction,    those that
you would consider most essential in terms of your own specific field
as well as your own personal appraisal
The timetable is as follows- -I would appreciate hearing from you within the next few days that you will undertake the assignment     I do hope