JNF Agrees to Hold No Conflicting Fund-raising Dinners with UJA from Jan. I-june 15

An agreement whereby the Jewish National Fund “will not hold public, fund-raising dinners and events in the Jewish communities during the period from Jan. 1 to June 15, 1971,” so as to insure “the maximum success of the 1971 campaign on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal and its Emergency Fund,” was announced today by Jack Weller and Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, co-chairmen of the Committee on Control and Authorization of Campaigns of the Jewish Agency. The Committee on Control is composed of the leading officers of the United Jewish Appeal, the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and the Jewish Agency for Israel. The agreement provides that “in those instances where such dinners have already been scheduled, the Committee on Control and Authorization of Campaigns of the Jewish Agency-American Section will confer with the communities involved to obtain necessary clearance for these dates or to arrange alternative dates.” In its acceptance of “the highest priority of American Jewry” for the 1971 United Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund, the JNF calls it “the greatest fund-raising effort in Jewish history.” The agreement was signed by Mrs. Jacobson and Herman L. Weisman, president of the Jewish National Fund.

The agreement gives the JNF the right to conduct all of its other “regular and traditional activities (excluding community-wide fund-raising dinners and other public functions for fund-raising) but including educational and informational events such as, for example, celebrations of holidays, festivals, anniversaries, salutes to Israel, etc.” These events will be conducted as in the past “in a manner not to interfere with the 1971 campaign on behalf of the Welfare Fund–United Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund.” The JNF pledged its “full cooperation” to the UJA Emergency Fund and urged its local Jewish National Fund Councils to “maintain close contact between the local Jewish National Fund Councils and the local Welfare Funds in order to assure maximum priority to the campaign and the fullest participation therein by the Jewish National Fund personnel, volunteer workers, followers and supporters throughout the country.” This pledge by the JNF was made “on its own initiative to assist in meeting most urgent needs and fully in keeping with its status and role as a Zionist institution, described in the Resolution of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (Jewish National Fund), of the Zionist General Council of February-March 1970.”