Plans for the 1952 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal will be mapped at the three-day National U.J.A. Conference which opens here tomorrow with more than 1,000 Jewish leaders from all parts of the country participating.
The conference will be addressed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; Israel Minister of Communications David Zvi Pinkas; Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver; Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Abba S. Eban; Dr. Nahum Goldmann, of New York, and Berl Locker, of Jerusalem, co-chairmen of the Jewish Agency for Palestine; Edward M.M. Warburg, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; John Gibson, chairman of the United States Displaced Persons Commission; and the three national chairman of the U.J.A. — Rudolf G. Sonneborn, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise and William Rosenwald.
The closing session of the Conference on Sunday will witness the presentation of checks by community leaders in connection with the U.J.A. ‘s special four-month campaign for $35,000,000 in cash, which will end on December 31st. Since the inception of this extraordinary drive on September 1st to help meet Israel’s critical shortages of food, shelter and medicines, the United Jewish Appeal has received more than $20,000,000 in cash. The conference will mark conclusion of the United Jewish Appeal’s 13th year of nationwide campaigning.
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