Every Jewish community in the country was urged today to send “a strong and representative” delegation to the national conference of the United Jewish Appeal in a call issued here by Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA general chairman. The conference is to open on December 10 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here.
Just back from a survey of Jewish needs in Israel, which he visited with members of an extraordinary UJA Study Mission, Mr. Warburg emphasized that “the coming of another UJA nationwide campaign cannot be taken for granted. The situation in Israel and overseas is such that it requires the understanding of American Jewish leadership and the American Jewish community’s fullest responsiveness.”
He stated that he and other UJA leaders are in agreement on the “urgent necessity for greater giving as a first priority” and on the “absolutely required need for a greater mobilization of leaders, contributors and all others with the power to give.”
“In the light of acute tensions in North Africa, where close to half a million Jews live in an atmosphere of mounting uncertainty and danger, and from which a minimum of 30,000 men, women and children must be brought to Israel in the next 12 months, and of Israel’s clear need for assistance in absorbing this new mass immigration and meeting other pressing problems, American Jewish leadership must both attend the UJA conference in force, and mount a campaign effort that will assure the swift and successful saving of lives and the continued and necessary strengthening of Israel’s free people,” he stated.
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