Cash gifts totalling $535,000 were contributed today to the nationwide 1955 United Jewish Appeal by 1,000 Jewish leaders representing 30 communities in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and West Virginia.
The contributions made at a UJA luncheon conference launching the 1955 UJA Tri-State drive came after pleas by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Giora Josephthal, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, and Mayor Da vid Lawrence of Pittsburgh, that American Jews increase their UJA support to assure Israel’s continued reception of masses of penniless refugees from Tunisia and Morocco.
Mrs. Roosevelt, just returned from a nine-day visit to Israel, and whose address here was the first since her arrival, told the UJA conferees that Israel would be in no position to keep its gates open to refugees and in no position to consolidate and strengthen its amazing progress, were it not for the help being mastered by the United Jewish Appeal.
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