Senator Herbert H. Lehman will be honored by the United Jewish Appeal at a national testimonial dinner on January 21 in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, it was announced today by William Rosenwald, general chairman of the UJA. He will be cited for his “nearly half a century of leadership in freedom’s cause, his championship of the downtrodden and oppressed in all lands, and his outspoken and vigorous support of Israel’s independence.”
The testimonial to the Senator will also mark the opening of the UJA’s 1956 nationwide campaign, which Mr. Rosenwald said “will be uniquely different from the nationwide drives of previous years.” He pointed out that the 1956 campaign will go forward with a two-fold goal as against a single goal in other years, explaining that in the new year the UJA will: 1) Seek the raising of a multi-million dollar Special Fund for the exclusive financing in Israel of current emergency immigration from North Africa; and 2) Seek a total of $105,283,000 in its regular campaign to finance the still larger migration, resettlement welfare and rehabilitation programs of its constituent agencies.
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