U.J.A. to Launch Its $95,000,000 National Campaign in New York

The United Jewish Appeal will officially launch its 1962 campaign for $95,000,000 at a National Inaugural Dinner to be held here on Sunday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; Included in this year’s campaign goal is a $35, 000, 000 Special Fund to help underwrite the stepped-up pace of Jewish immigration to Israel and other lands.

Leaders of community campaigns in various parts of the country, who have been directing the extraordinary effort to raise the funds, will be honored at the dinner; More than 300 community leaders from all sections of the country are expected to attend the affair. The featured speakers will be Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency, who arrived here today and Brigadier General Chains Herzog, former Chief of Intelligence of the Israel Defense Forces and one-time Military Commander of Jerusalem.

Six former Advisors on Jewish Affairs to the military command in the U.S one of Germany have been invited to attend the affair. The advisors, who served as liaison between the military authorities and the Jewish displaced persons, include Judge Simon Rifkind, Rabbi Philip Bernstein, Judge Louis Levinthal, Dr. William Haber, Harry Greenstein and Abraham S. Hyman.

In 1962 the UJA seeks a $35,000,000 Special Fund to meet the pressing problems of the expected heavy immigration to Israel and other lands; along with a regular campaign goal of $ 60,000,000. The total $95, 000,000 which UJA will seek will go to make possible the work of its beneficiaries; the United Israel Appeal-Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. the Joint Distribution Committee; and the New York Association for New Americans, which assists Jewish refugees to the United States. The United Hias Service, which provides for the resettlement of Jewish refugees to countries other than Israel, also will benefit from the UJA campaign.