The Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal here will seek to raise the record sum of $6,061,000. The goal was adopted at a meeting of the board of trustees of The Jewish Community Federation; sponsor of the annual campaign. Official dates of the drive are April 23 to May 14.
The 1963 campaign realized $5,829,216, highest total in the 60-year history of the Federation. Arthur Dery, general chairman of the campaign, ascribed the increase in the goal mainly to the continuing large scale immigration into Israel and the backlog in absorption of earlier immigrants and the additional funds needed to help meet the increased demands for service by the Federation’s local beneficiary agencies.
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