Contributions amounting to $1,155,000 from Jewish religious leaders in all parts of the country were announced here last night at a National Inaugural Dinner of the Development Fund for American Judaism which served to open its 1961 campaign.
With more than 350 nationally prominent Reform rabbis and laymen in attendance, the Inaugural Dinner also marked the opening of the Development Fund’s second year of campaign activity for the raising of $15, 000, 000 with which to underwrite afar-flung physical expansion of America’s oldest national institutions of Judaism: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Rabbi Dr. Edgar F. Magnin of Los Angeles keynoted the opening of the Fund’s 1961 effort with a call to American Jews to “strengthen the House of American Israel as a fundamental way of safeguarding the vitality of all Israel, and of free institutions everywhere. ” Irving S. Schneider of New York, executive vice-chairman of the Development Fund, reported that the $1,155, 000 announced at the Inaugural Dinner brought to nearly $5, 600, 000 the total of cash and pledges that has been contributed to the Fund since its launching 16 months ago in November, 1959.
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