Max Robert Schrayer, a prominent member of Chicagoan’s Jewish community, has been named general chairman for the 1964 Combined Jewish Appeal Campaign of Metropolitan Chicago. The announcement was made today by David Silbert, president of the Combined Jewish Appeal, and by Messrs. Morris B. Glasser, president of the Jewish Welfare Fund, and Joseph L. Gidwitz, president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
The Combined Jewish Appeal is a partnership between the Jewish Welfare Fund and the Jewish Federation. In 1963, the Combined Jewish Appeal will have raised over $5,750,000 for relief and refugee resettlement work overseas; for some major national Jewish organizations; for Jewish education in Chicago and suburbs; and for the partial support of Jewish Federation medical and social welfare work here in metropolitan Chicago.
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