An urgent appeal to the Jews of metropolitan Washington to help Israel absorb the large number of Jewish immigrants who have arrived there in recent months was issued here by an emergency conference of 16 Greater Washington Jewish organizations. The parley called for “maximum support” of the 1959 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.
Chief Justice Simon E.Sobeloff of the Third Federal District Court of Appeals, who presided, urged “a total responses at personal, individual commitment on the part of every Jew in America. ” He described Israel’s record of the past ten years as a record of human ingathering we Jews can t>e proud of as long as the human experience endures.”
Philip M. Klutznick, president of B’nai B’rith, called on Washington Jewry to “speed the vital aid the thousands of Israel newcomers need–by mustering here in this community every resource possible in behalf of the UJA’s campaign. ” He characterized 1959 as “Israel’s year of economic crisis” and appealed for an “accelerated tempo of giving to UJA if America Jewry is to meet its emergency obligations abroad and maintain the expansion of its own community institutions.”
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