The 1962 Cash Drive of the United Jewish Appeal to raise $39,500,000 by June 11 is “well past the half-way mark,” Israel D. Fink of Minneapolis, cash chairman, announced today. He reported that a total of $21,500,000 had been raised to date, and noted that the current drive was running well ahead of the 1961 cash income during a comparable period.
“Let no one interpret this happy omen to mean that we can relax,” Mr. Fink stressed. “It will require our continuing strenuous efforts to raise the full amount of $39,500,000 by the June 11 target date. Just as there is no relaxation in the immigration figures, there dare not be any relaxation of work on our part.” He pointed out that almost as many immigrants have arrived in Israel during the first four months of this year as during the entire 12 months of 1960. “If the present pace is maintained,” Mr. Fink said, “this will be the biggest immigration year in a decade.”
Key leaders in community collection campaigns throughout the country have been invited by Joseph Meyerhoff, UJA general chairman, to attend the national cash meeting to be held on Monday, June 11, at the Savoy Hilton Hotel in New York City. Mr. Meyerhoff, stressing the vital importance of the current drive to raise cash, declared that it “is only through efforts like these that we shall be able to provide the lifeblood that will keep the vast migration of Jews moving out of every troubled zone abroad toward Israel and other havens of freedom.
“This first installment of the $39,500,000 against our 1962 campaign goal will also go far in providing vital help in still another area–for the Joint Distribution Committee–which must continue to meet the urgent needs of some 300,000 Jews living in more than a score of overseas countries and which cannot be met without our help,” Mr. Meyerhoff stated. He urged every community to be fully represented at the meeting and to announce “impressive sums that can keep pace with the rising immigration figures.”
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