The endowment fund of the United Jewish Charities of Detroit has contributed $500,000 to the Israel Emergency Fund, bringing total contributions of the Allied Jewish Campaign to the fund to more than $6,000,000.
Announcement of the gift was made by Louis Tabashnik, UJC president; Hyman Safran. Jewish Welfare Federation president, and Paul Zuckerman, chairman of the emergency fund. The UJC had previously made a cash advance of $500,000 to the emergency fund. The UJC board then decided to convert the advance into an outright gift.
As contributors continued to respond to appeals for broad community participation. William Avrunin, federation executive director, said that more than $6,500,000 had been sent to the United Jewish Appeal since May 18 for both the regular Allied Jewish Campaign and the emergency fund.
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