More than 2,000 key leaders of American Jewish communities from coast to coast will attend the United Jewish Appeal’s 27th annual national conference which opens its four day sessions at the New York Hilton Hotel tomorrow, Joseph Meyerhoff, UJA general chairman, announced today.
United States Chief Justice Earl Warren and Avraham Harman, Israel’s Ambassador to the U. S., head the roster of speakers. Mr. Harman is taking the place of Israel’s Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir, who was forced to cancel her appearance because of illness. Highlight of the Conference will be special programs honoring the 50th anniversary of the Joint Distribution Committee. The Conference tribute will inaugurate nationwide observances of JDC’s 50th year.
In its business agenda, the UJA Conference will set the national campaign goal for 1965, chart plans to achieve that goal, elect a new general chairman and choose other officer for the year ahead.
Selected student leaders from 26 American campuses will hold a three-day leadership institute as part of the United Jewish Appeal’s national conference. The institute is under the joint auspices of UJA and the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations. First of its kind to involve college students, it grew out of a proposal by Rabbi Benjamin M; Kahn of Washington, Hillel’s national director, that Jewish organizations “make it a deliberate policy to expose Jewish college youth to the concerns of Jewish life and the Jewish people.”
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