A resolution to intensify the efforts of several thousand Jewish landsman shaften and other small Jewish groups on behalf of the 1963 fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal was adopted here yesterday at a conference of the UJA’s Council of Jewish Organizations, More than 500 delegates representing the groups affiliated with the Council attended the conference.
During the 25 years of its existence, the Council raised among small Jewish groups in New York more than $50, 000, 000, it was reported at the conference. The delegates decided that the Council would hold its spring conference this year in Jerusalem.
Ambassador Katriel Katz, Israel’s Consul General in New York, addressing the conference, stressed the heavy contributions which the Jews in Israel are making, through special taxes and other means, in helping the absorption of immigrants from various countries. He pointed out that American Jews can help speed the emigration of Jews from countries which they must leave by increasing their contributions to the United Jewish Appeal. The conference was also addressed by Col. Joseph Nevo, military commander of Jerusalem.
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