New York Jewish Federation Raises $66,650,000 in Three Months

The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, which is conducting a three-year building fund campaign for an aggregate of $104,365,000, has raised 64 percent of the total sum in the first three months of the drive, it was announced here today by Lawrence A. Wien, president of the Federation and Salim L. Lewis, chairman of the building fund. The building fund drive was launched last October.

Mr. Wien and Mr. Lewis said that the total raised to date is $66,850,000. Ten or more New Yorkers, including individuals and foundations, gave $1,000,000 or more each.

The largest of the gifts, $2,650,000, came from Mrs. Henry L. Moses, widow of a lawyer and investor. She earmarked $1,450,000 for the creation of the Henry and Lucy Moses Research Pavilion at Montefiore Hospital here. The late Mr. Moses had been president of Montefiore from 1936 to 1948 and chairman of the board until his death last month.

Other individual gifts of $1,000,000 or more were given by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky, Mr. and Mrs. Albert List, the Henrietta and Stuart Hirschman Foundation, the Henry Kaufmann Foundation, and the Adolph and Felicia Leon Foundation. Three other individuals and one foundation, which chose to remain anonymous, each gave $1,000,000 or mere.

While the gifts are payable over a five-year period, the Federation leaders said, “the fact that so much of the goal has already been pledged will enable us to accelerate individual project plans.” The Federation’s building plans include the construction of 10 new hospital pavilions for patient care, remodeling and modernization of other Federation hospitals, and new research institutes and residences at five major hospitals affiliated with the Federation.

The Federation is also conducting, simultaneously, a campaign for $22,500,000 for the annual maintenance costs of its 116 affiliated agencies.