A group of 125 top American Jewish community leaders from all over the country this week begin a special three-week survey of progress and continuing needs among more than 600,000 Jews overseas, it was announced today by Morris W. Borinstein, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.
Mission members, each of whom is paying his own expenses on the journey, will gather first-hand reports of conditions among nearly 400,000 immigrants of recent years to Israel and more than 200,000 Jews in need in European and Moslem countries. The Mission will assemble in Rome on October 13, for five days of meetings before proceeding to Israel.
In Rome. Mission members will hear and discuss reports on the situation existing among Jews in European and Moslem lands who are cared for by the Joint Distribution Committee, a constituent agency of the United Jewish Appeal. After the Rome meetings, the Mission will leave for Israel for a survey of needs and progress among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to that country with the aid of the UJA.
The purpose of the Mission is to bring first-hand reports to the 23rd annual national conference of the United Jewish Appeal, which meets in New York City’s Statler Hilton Hotel on December 9, 10 and 11. Mission reports will be a decisive factor in helping an estimated 1,000 conference delegates formulate UJA campaign objectives for 1961.
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