Initial gifts totalling more than $10,000 were announced yesterday by the Jewish National Fund in connection with its drive to raise a special Palestine land redemption fund of $50,000 in this city. The campaign will reach its climax January 27 at a banquet at the Hotel Astor.
Progress of the drive was related following a conference at the Jewish Center; 131 West Eighty-sixth street; of sixty communal leaders in various sections of the city, members of a committee which is cooperating with the JNF in arranging the Hotel Astor affair. Dr. Israel Goldstein presided at the meeting.
Abraham Krasne has accepted the treasurer’s post of the committee, it was also announced. Maurice Levin, president of Hearn’s, is chairman of the group.
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