A resolution calling on Jewish mass organizations in the New York area to “at least double,” last year’s contributions to the United Jewish Appeal, was adopted today by the more than 500 delegates attending the 23rd annual meeting of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
The resolution called immigration to Israel “a blessing for the young state,” but emphasized that “the new immigrants will become productive citizens only if they will be provided with permanent homes and other facilities.”
Judge J. Daniel Fink, chairman of the Council, who presided, told the delegates that $35,000,000 of UJA’s national goal of $95,000,000 will be devoted to helping the immigrants to Israel, the United States and other countries. He urged the organizations to strengthen their volunteer corps and begin an all-out effort to help the more than 600,000 persons in 27 countries throughout the world who are dependent on UJA agencies.
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