The Jewish Agency announced today the composition of the reconstituted Committee on Control and Authorization of Campaigns. Foremost Jewish leaders have signified their agreement to join the Committee. Among these are:
On behalf of National UJA: Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman; Dewey D. Stone and Edward M.M. Warburg, honorary chairmen; Rabbi Isadore Breslau, national chairman and Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice-chairman.
On behalf of New York UJA: Monroe Goldwater, president, Jack Weiler, chairman of Trustees, and Henry C. Bernstein, executive vice-president.
Joining on behalf of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds are: Irving Kane, former president and chairman of Committee on Overseas Services; Edwin Rosenberg, treasurer, and Philip Bernstein, executive director.
For the Jewish Agency the following will serve: Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairman of the American Section, who will continue to serve as chairman of the Committee; Dr. Emanuel Neumann, member of the executive, and Isadore Hamlin, executive director, and secretary of the Committee.
The Committee, established 13 years ago, has functioned to prevent the launching in the United States of unapproved and unessential campaigns for Israel, and otherwise to maintain order in the fund-raising field to avoid interference with the United Jewish Appeal, as American Jewry’s major fund-raising effort in this country for Israel.
Each year, the Committee released to the Jewish public in the United States a list of authorized fund-raising organizations, besides the UJA. Each organization has reached an understanding with the Committee, regarding the conditions under which they may campaign in order to prevent interference with the UJA and community Welfare Funds working on behalf of the major campaign.
The Committee has been reconstituted and strengthened with top UJA leadership as a result of intensive discussions between them and the Jewish Agency leadership caused by a resurgence of multiple campaign problems in recent months. Several fund-raising efforts had been launched without the approval and proper clearance of the Committee.
The Committee also announced that a similar clearance mechanism is being established in Israel which will work closely with the New York Committee. Mr. Louis A. Pincus, treasurer of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, will coordinate the effort in Israel and cooperated with the effort of the New York Committee.
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