The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) adopted a budget of $46.5 million at its annual meeting here and re-elected Henry Taub, New Jersey businessman and communal leader, to a fourth one-year term as president. Donald Robinson of Pittsburgh was re-elected chairman of the Board.
JDC executive vice president, Ralph Goldman, reported that in 1984 “nearly half a million people in more than 30 countries will benefit from programs designed to assure the survival of Jews and Judaism.”
The annual meeting was held on the premises of the Jewish Museum and was attended by nearly 200 members of the Board, friends of the agency and staff. The meeting was the 69th since JDC’s establishment in 1914, and ushered in the 70th year of JDC activities around the world.
In his remarks, Taub spoke of “the need to maintain American Jewish commitment to overseas needs,” and called the 70th Anniversary of JDC “an opportunity for American Jewry and its institutions to reaffirm its responsibilities to Jews in need around the world.”
Taub said the largest portion, 55 percent of the 1984 budget, will be for relief and health services benefiting the aged. The second largest item in the budget, he added, is Jewish education which receives nearly 25 percent of the total.
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