The 1977 fund-raising campaigns of the organized Jewish communities in Greater New York and around the country will enter a new, intensified phase Thursday at the New York Hilton Hotel when Israel Defense Minister Shimon Peres addresses the 1977 Leadership Dipper sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal and New York a UJA-Federation Joint Campaign.
Joining UJA general chairman Frank Lautenberg in announcing the key campaign meeting. Robert H. Arnow, general chairman of the New York Joint Campaign said today the combined leadership effort “underscores the growing understanding in the American Jewish community of the urgency of meeting the totality of Jewish need: in Israel, elsewhere overseas and in our own home communities.”
New York’s leadership, Arnow said, “came away from ‘This Year in Jerusalem.’ the UJA National Conference in October, with a deepened sense of the universality of Jewish need. Our encounters with the people of Israel revealed the human dimension of the daily struggle for dignified and productive lives under difficult conditions. We saw striking parallels between the problems confronting them and those faced by Jews in need of health, education and welfare services here in metropolitan New York.”
National reaction to the 1977 effort to meet the totality of Jewish need has paralleled New York’s response, Lautenberg said. “With more than 300 campaign meetings scheduled throughout the country during the next two months, the campaign has taken on an intensity usually reserved for wartime crises. This indicates that the American Jewish community well understands that its role in strengthening the people of Israel is an ongoing one.”
Two other major leadership events will be held at the New York Hilton during the week of the leadership dinner. The American Joint Distribution Committee will hold its annual meeting tomorrow and the United Israel Appeal will hold its annual trustee meeting Friday at which Melvin Dubinsky, UIA Board chairman, and Max Fisher, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, will speak. Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson will chair a discussion on “Russian Emigration-Responsibilities of the UIA in Israel and in the U.S.”
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