The sum of $27,000,000 was raised by the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York during its 1963 fiscal year ending Jan. 31, Monroe Goldwater, president, announced today, following a meeting of the organization’s board of directors.
He also announced the appointment, as chairman of the 1964 campaign, of Sol W. Cantor, Sol Kittay, Albert Parker, Lawrence Schacht, and M. Peter Schweitzer. He said the UJA of Greater New York had decided to ask the New York community for much more generous support in 1964, but did not name a specific goal.
Arye Pincus, Jewish Agency treasurer, told the New York UJA directors that the plight of newcomers to Israel, whose needs the Jewish Agency had been forced to neglect for lack of funds for several years, was in sharp contrast to the situation of the immigrants for whom places were found in Israel’s expanding economy.
He stressed that 200,000 of the newcomers “live in impossibly overcrowded housing, and many have incomes below the subsistence level.” He added that, of the more than 1,000,000 immigrants brought to Israel since its founding, these are the ones for whom the Jewish Agency has not been able to provide enough aid to make them capable of participating in the modern industrial society burgeoning around them.”
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