1,500 Delegates to Attend National U.J.A. Parley; Will Set 1963 Goals

Close to 1,500 delegates representing hundreds of organized Jewish communities throughout the 50 States will attend the 25th Annual National Conference of the United Jewish Appeal which will open here on December 7 at the Americana Hotel, it was announced today by Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the UJA.

The three-day conference, Mr. Meyerhoff noted, will serve a two-fold purpose. It will determine the UJA’s program and goals for its 1963 nationwide campaign, and inaugurate a year-long observance by America’s Jewish communities of the Appeal’s quarter of a century of activity in behalf of distressed and homeless Jews the world over.

Chief among the many reports to be submitted to the delegates will be a recommendation for a multi-million dollar Special Fund drive to supplement the Appeal’s regular 1963 campaign. The recommendation will be supported in separate reports that will be made by a representative of the UJA’s recently returned Overseas Study Mission which investigated conditions among Jewish refugees in France and Israel; and by spokesmen for the UJA’s executive committee and its 88-member National Campaign Cabinet.

The delegates will also hear reports spelling out the specific conditions and needs facing some 180, 000 Jewish refugees in France, the majority recently arrived from Algeria, and the difficulties confronting the large number of immigrants who have come into Israel recently. These reports will be made by Charles Jordan, overseas director general of the Joint Distribution Committee, and Aryeh L. Pincus of Jerusalem, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Founded in late November 1938 with January 2, 1939 as the effective date of its first nationwide drive, the United Jewish Appeal has helped to save and resettle 3,000,000 Jewish victims of war and oppression. In its 24 annual campaigns to date, it has raised a total of $1,435, 000,000 to finance the refugee aid, welfare and philanthropic programs of three organizations that have annually constituted the Appeal as their fund-raising agency.

The three constituents of the UJA are the United Israel Appeal-Jewish Agency, Inc., which allocates its share of funds from the UJA for programs of immigration and immigrant resettlement in Israel; the Joint Distribution Committee; and the New York Association for New Americans, which assists in the integration of refugee newcomers to the United States.