The Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago will distribute approximately $4, 000, 000 this year to help Israel finance immigration programs and to meet the costs of care for Jewish needs in other countries, it was announced at the JNF’s annual dinner meeting at the Morrison Hotel. Four hundred local Jewish leaders heard Governor Albert H. Chandler of Kentucky, describe his recent visit to Israel and urge continued philanthropic support of the immigration program.
The Jewish Welfare Fund here obtains its funds from the annual Combined Jewish Appeal Campaign, which so far this year has raised $6, 000, 000. The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago receives a share of the CJA contributions to help maintain 12 medical and social welfare agencies affiliated with it. The major beneficiary of the Jewish WelfareFund allocation this year was the national United Jewish Appeal which will receive $3.180, 000 in 1957.
The local board of Jewish education will receive $381, 000 from the Jewish Welfare Fund this year. Various overseas and national institutions and organizations are to be granted $329,000. Thirteen new members of the board of directors of the Jewish Welfare Fund were installed at the meeting.
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