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Uia to Play Role in ‘project Renewal’

September 27, 1978
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United Israel Appeal is fully prepared to play its role in “Project Renewal” during the coming new year, Melvin Dubinsky, chairman of UIA, announced. He said that his organization, the major recipient of United Jewish Appeal funds, is completing preparations to allocate, control and monitor the contributions made to Project Renewal through the UIA from communities throughout America. The project is a $1.2 billion social plan sponsored by world Jewry to reabsorb 45,000 poor immigrant families into the main stream of Israeli society.

Dubinsky, who returned from Israel this week, met with leadership of the Jewish Agency to develop procedures. He pledged that Project Renewal funds will be totally separated from other transmissions to the Agency. Working with Akiva Lewinsky, newly elected treasurer of the Agency, the UIA will assure communities involved that the Israeli neighborhoods adopted and projects undertaken will be completed with maximum participation and reporting, he said.

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