The annual maintenance campaign of the Federation of Jewish Charities drew nearer to its $1,750,000 goal yesterday when an additional $124,000 reported raised the total obtained to $1,163,560.
More than 1,000 men and women workers, assembled at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel for the daily luncheon of team captains and lieutenants, heard Louis E. Levinthal, president of the Associated Talmud Torahs, declare that 19,000 Jewish children and other young people are receiving religious instruction in schools maintained by the Federation.
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