More than 6,000 Jewish communities in every section of the United States will observe the High Holy Day period from September 15th through September 24th as the “Ten Days of Remembrance” as part of an emergency nation-wide mobilization to assure the full attainment of the $170,000,000 quota of the United Jewish Appeal, it was announced today by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairman of the U.J.A.
The Synagogue Council of America, representing more than 2,400 Orthodox, Reform and Conservative rabbis, has endorsed the proposal. Taking cognizance of the critical plight of Europe’s 1,500,000 Jewish survivors and appealing for “the fullest moral and material support” to the U.J.A., the Council announced through its president, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum, that it “is joining in full endorsement and sponsorship of the observance of the Ten Days of Remembrance.”
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