(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
An agreement has been entered into between the United Jewish Campaign and the United Palestine Appeal for combined campaigns in several cities in Pennsylvania on the Wilkes-Barre plan of three year quotas to be divided on a 45%-55% basis. The combined campaigns will be held in Columbia County. including Berwick, Bloomsburg, Danville, Catawissa, Carbondale, Hazleton, Freeland, Tamaqua, East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg, Lehighton and Mauch Chunk.
Similar arrangements have been made for Easton where a campaign for $10,000 for one year will be conducted. The United Jewish Campaign and the United Palestine Appeal will share equally in this sum. Easton had been assigned a quota of $5,000 for the United Palestine Appeal. The last campaign held in Easton for the Keren Hayesod in February, 1925, reached $1,300.
A combined campaign for $15,000 will also be conducted in Chester, Pa. on March 3rd. The quota is for one year, the proceeds to be divided equally between the two organizations. Archie Levy is Chairman and A. E. Lessy is Treasurer of the drive.
A quota of $5,000 for the United Palestine Appeal was accepted at a meeting of the representatives of all Jewish organizations in Vineland, N. J. The campaign will open with a banquet on Sunday, March 20th. The quota of $5,000 represents an increase of more than 300% of the amount raised last year.
M. J. Greenblatt is Chairman of the drive.
$110,000 RAISED ON SUNDAY FOR UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL
Contributions of more than $110,000 to the New York campaign of the United Palestine Appeal were made Sunday as a result of a series of dinners and meetings held in various parts of New York. Several thousand people attended the functions.
The sum of $60,000 was raised at a meeting held at Temple Petach Tikvah, Brooklyn, Sunday night. Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, chairman of the New York campaign, were the principal speakers.
Dr. Weizmann spoke earlier in the evening at a dinner of the East New York division of the United Palestine Appeal, at which contributions of $25,000 were announced. Others who spoke were J. H. Cohen, Dr. J. Feldman, Louis Horowitz and Rabbi N. Pulishkin.
The West Side Women’s Division announced contributions of more than half of its $50,000 quota at a meeting held Sunday.
The Brighton Beach Division held a meeting at the Hebrew Educational Alliance, at which contributions of approximately $1,000 were made.
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