Seeking $50,000, 000 in cash by the year’s end to strengthen urgent refugee aid programs in Israel, Europe, North Africa and the United States, the United Jewish Appeal announced today that it has set October 23-24 as “National Report Days” and that it will mark these with an emergency national conference to be held at the Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Morris W. Berinstein, national cash chairman of the UJA, in making this announcement, said that the $50,000,000 cash effort is now in full swing and will reach its peak immediately following the September 28-29 observance of Rosh Hashanah. He noted that the 5,200 Jewish communities participating in the drive are being urged to remit “every available campaign dollar without delay and by no later than October 23-24.”
The cash chairman pointed out that communities able to arrange bank borrowings are being urged to report these funds at the earliest time, while those engaged in “door-to-door” cash collection drives will have until the two-day conference in Cincinnati to report their results.
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