A two-day emergency conference of Jewish leaders from all parts of the country to spur the collection of $50,000,000 in cash for the United Jewish Appeal has been called by the UJA leadership, it was announced today by Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice chairman. The conference will be held on June 9-10 in New York, and will be addressed by General Mordecai Makleff, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Army.
Rabbi Friedman explained that the current $50,000,000 cash collection drive “has been made imperative” by the dangerous outlook for Israel’s people which, he added, may reach its pinnacle of danger this summer.” It is the major task of the drive, he said, to bring about the conversion into cash of the tens of thousands of pledges already made to the regular campaign and the Special Survival Fund.
“Never before in the 18-year history of the United Jewish Appeal has the need for cash collections been greater than in the current crisis that confronts Israel’s people. Rabbi Friedman declared. “Nor has the United Jewish Appeal ever had to ask for as large a sum as $50,000,000 in cash collections within a period of only four weeks to meet so dangerous a situation. It is my sincerest hope that the Jews of the United States, who have been so benevolent in meeting crisis after crisis, will exert themselves to the utmost in this unprecedented emergency.” He urged all contributors who have made pledges to turn them into cash at once.
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