Pincus, UJA Leaders on National Phone Appeal to Jewish Communities

Louis A. Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Paul Zuckerman, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will address American Jewish community leadership in a special telephone conference call tomorrow reaching some 75 cities across the country, Irving Bernstein, UJA executive vice-chairman, announced today Speaking from Washington Pincus will brief the leaders on the current trends of Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel and the urgent need for providing properly for absorption of these immigrants.

“This year, with the anticipated arrival of 70,000 new immigrants to Israel, including a large number from the Soviet Union, the immediate expansion of UJA supported programs is a matter of vital necessity, Bernstein said. Zuckerman will address the national hookup from Miami and will report to the country on the status of the current UJA fund-raising campaign. “We must insure that all newcomers to Israel will have the way of life they so desperately want and deserve,” Zuckerman said. “They willingly risk all they have to start a new life in freedom. The cost of that freedom is high. Tens of thousands of Jews have applied for exit visas in the Soviet Union, and we must do all we can to match their courage.”

Belgrade’s largest concert hall was packed for the 20th anniversary concert of the Brothers Baruch Choir, the principal Jewish choir in Yugoslavia. The composer, Slobodan Kistic, conducted and the opera prima donna, Breda Kalev, was soloist in the first part of the program which was devoted to synagogal, Hebrew and Yiddish music. The second part of the program, a performance of Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky,” was conducted by the Jewish maestro, Oscar Danon, with the participation of 70 singers of the Belgrade Opera and the Army Philharmonic Orchestra.