Recognizing the “crucial importance” of United Jewish Appeal-supported programs in the rescue, resettlement and rehabilitation of distressed Jews overseas, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has adopted a resolution urging its member bodies to “assist nationally in the meaningful observance” of the 25th anniversary of the UJA during 1963, it was announced today by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the Conference.
The American Jewish community, through the UJA, has demonstrated its “abiding commitments to values which are the very essence of the Jewish faith, ” the resolution declared. “Accordingly American Jews gave vast sums of money to rescue thousands of Jews in Hitler-dominated Europe, sustained the life and hope of tens of thousands in ghettoes, concentration camps and hideouts, provided more than three million Jews in many lands with the basic necessities of life, and as the crowning achievement, transplanted more than one and a half million Jews to Israel and other democratic lands.”
This record of accomplishment, the resolution read, is a “tribute to American Jewry, especially to the men and women throughout the country who by their example inspired their communities to achieve records of giving unsurpassed in the history of private philanthropy. Above all, what has been achieved is a tribute to the people of Israel who at great personal sacrifice kept open their doors to fellow Jews in search of freedom and matched the efforts of American Jewry in absorbing newcomers.”
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