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Jawish Federations and Welfare Funds Demand Reconstitution of United Jewish Appeal

February 27, 1945
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The executive committee of the Central Atlantic Region of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, encompassing organized Jewish communities in New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., meeting in Trenton yesterday, with representatives of sixteen cities present, adopted a resolution demanding the immediate reconstitution of the United Jewish Appeal.

“In the event that such immediate reconstitution of the UJA is not accomplished,” the resolution continued, “we favour the establishment of an allocations committee representing our respective communities to distribute the funds raised in these communities directly to the organizations previously joined in the UJA.

“We unreservedly condemn the action of the agencies formerly constituting the UJA in bombarding the leaders of our communities with partisan literature which creates confusion, irritation and divisiveness and seriously harms our efforts to raise maximum funds for the causes in which we are all vitally interested, and we demand the immediate cessation of such reprehensible practices,” the resolution concluded.

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