James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the New York Allied Jewish Campaign, announced yesterday that May 27th had been decided upon as the opening date of its drive to raise $2,500,000 toward the $6,000,000 which is being raised nationally for the 1930 budgets of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Instead of a banquet with which it has become customary to being fundraising efforts in this city, Mr. Rosenberg said yesterday, the Administrative Committee of the New York Allied Jewish Campaign has decided to open the drive with a town-meeting at Town Hall in which hundreds of leading Jewish men and women who have volunteered their services, will participate. The town-meeting, Mr. Rosenberg said, will be addressed by speakers of outstanding national importance whose names will shortly be announced.
Organization of the New York campaign, Mr. Rosenberg said yesterday, is proceeding at a rapid rate, and a number of functions are to be held this week, the most important of which is a tea at the home of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Wednesday afternoon. In addition to Mrs. Warburg, the hostesses at this tea, to which a limited number of women prominent in New York’s social and philanthropic life have been invited, will be the members of the advisory committee of the Women’s Division of the campaign. The speakers at Wednesday’s tea will be Mr. Felix M. Warburg and Mrs. Henry Moskowitz.
On Tuesday evening the Downtown section of the drive will be organized at a meeting at the Broadway Central Hotel, with Jonah J. Goldstein as the speaker. The same evening residents of Flatbush will have a meeting at the Capital Club, which will be addressed by Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Another function under the auspices of the Women’s Division is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, at the Biltmore. This will be a tea to the presidents of Jewish women’s organizations of Greater New York. It will be presided over by Mrs. David Goldfarb, president of the Federation of Jewish Women’s organizations of Greater New York. That evening there will be a conference of heads of organizations of the Borough Park section, at the Hebrew Academy. Morris Rothenberg will be the speaker.
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