The beginning of a three-month special drive aimed at focusing national and international attention on the forthcoming 85th anniversary of the Reform Judaism movement in the United States was marked here tonight at a dinner arranged by the Combined Campaign for American Reform Judaism held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. More than 1, 200 leaders of the campaign attended the affair.
The dinner also marked the culmination of a “Reform Judaism Week” proclaimed in Chicago by Mayor Daley. Principal speaker was Mayor N .than Phillips of Toronto, Canada, who is a member of a Reform temple in that city. The affair inaugurated the final quarter of the nationwide Combined Campaign for $2,619,000 and served also to launch its drive in Chicago for the raising of $240,000 toward the nationwide goal.
The 85th year of organized Reform Judaism dates from the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations on July 8, 1873. The observance of the 85th year of the Reform movement will also embrace the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which was founded shortly after the creation of the UAHC.
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