The board of the Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago voted at a special meeting to send $1,000,000 to Israel to help meet the welfare crisis there stemming from mobilization of manpower and resources.
David Silbert, president, said that $500,000 was being borrowed from the fund’s endowment funds and the remainder from current contributions to the fund’s share of the Combined Jewish Appeal campaign for $6,750,000. The million dollar contribution is in addition to the $500,000 which the JWF previously sent to the United Jewish Appeal.
Harry K. Cole, president of the Combined Jewish Appeal, and Rabbi Ralph Simon, CJA general chairman, called an emergency meeting of Chicago Jewish leaders and heads of all Jewish organizations in Chicago to a meeting tomorrow noon to make plans for a CJA emergency rescue fund campaign.
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