Max M. Fisher, general chairman of the nationwide United Jewish Appeal stated here today that early campaign results reported from nearly 100 communities showed that they had increased their 1965 results for both UJA and local Jewish needs by an average of 11 percent, as compared to 1964.
The UJA general chairman told members of the organization’s 34-man executive committee, meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, that 97 communities–exclusive of New York City — had reported $25,334,000 raised thus far, as compared with $22,698,000 raised in a similar period for 1964. The New York City opening meeting was set for later this week, he announced.
Mr. Fisher called the results thus far “most encouraging” But he warned that “with only a quarter of the campaign completed, American Jews must give more and work longer and harder” to assure that the total raised this year exceeds last year’s. “It is urgent that the needs of nearly three-quarters of a million people in Israel and throughout the world who look to UJA be answered with increased generosity and harder campaigning,” he said.
Today’s meeting also heard Louis A. Pincus, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, report that “immigration to Israel is continuing at an exceedingly high level.” The last four years saw 250,000 immigrants come into Israel, Mr. Pincus declared adding, “this was the longest sustained period of heavy immigration into Israel since the country’s first few years.”
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, of New York, UJA executive vice-chairman, was another speaker at today’s meeting which drew top American Jewish leaders from more than a dozen major communities throughout the country. In other business at the meeting, the UJA leaders set plans for sending a study mission of outstanding Jewish communal leaders to Europe and Israel, next October, to ascertain the problems which will require American Jewish aid in 1966, Other matters discussed included plans for the organization’s national annual conference in December, which will take special note of the fact that 20 years ago the Allied armies completed the liberation of Europe and freed the Jewish survivors in the Nazi death camps.
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