The appointment of an Allotment Committee to allocate funds raised by the 1942 United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine was announced today by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, Chairman of the fund-raising committee of the Joint Distribution Committee, and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal.
In accordance with the provisions of the agreement constituting the 1942 United Jewish Appeal, the Allotment Committee is authorized to act on the distribution of all funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal above the initial sum of $9,100,000. Funds in excess of this sum are to be distributed between the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Palestine Appeal by the Allotment Committee. The National Refugee Service has received a fixed grant for the year.
Following the precedent established in previous years, membership of the 1942 Allotment Committee is composed of two representatives each of the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Palestine Appeal, and three representatives of the Jewish communities at large, selected jointly by the J.D.C. and the U.P.A. Members of the Allotment Committee are James H. Becker of Chicago and I. Edwin Goldwasser of New York, representing the Joint Distribution Committee; Charles J. Rosenbloom of Pittsburgh and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, representing the United Palestine Appeal; and Jool Gross of Newark, Louis Caplan of Pittsburgh and Edwin J. Schanfarber of Columbus, representing the communities generally.
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