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Chicago Jews Top ’71 in Pledges to Israel Emergency Fund

July 13, 1972
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The Jewish community here is expected to raise an estimated $19,500,000 for the regular and Israel Emergency Fund campaign this year, according to Sol S. Weiner, 1972 general chairman of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. Speaking at a closing meeting of the campaign leadership. Weiner said that pledges in hand total $15,800,000, an increase of 20 percent over the pledges in 1971. He projected that the current campaign would bring in an additional $3,700,000 by the year’s end.

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