Subscribing two-thirds of its quota at the opening of its campaign, the Far Rockaway committee of the United Palestine Appeal announced that $40,000 had been raised at the dinner tendered to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, at the Far Rockaway Jewish Center Sunday night. The sum pledged by the 400 guests exceeds by $15,000 the total raised in 1927 in Far Rockaway.
Dr. Weizmann, Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, national president of Hadassah; Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Rabbi Norman Salit, and John L. Leibowitz, chairman of the Far Rockaway campaign, were the speakers. Charles P. Kramer presided.
Leading contributions were made by Edward Friedman, $5,000; Far Rockaway Hadassah, $4,000; Benjamin Titman, $2,000; Michael Salit, $1,500; John L. Leibowitz, $1,500; Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, A. Leventhal, Samuel Friedman, A. Butinsky and Leo Lauterstein, $1,000 each.
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