United Jewish Appeal Announces $25,000,000 Quota for Its 1943 Campaign

A national quota of $25,000,000 was announced today by the United Jewish Appeal as the minimum required to meet the expanded needs of the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service in 1943.

In announcing the new quota, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairmen of the U.J.A., emphasized that 1943 will be a “year of greater opportunities and greater responsibilities” for relief, rescue and resettlement of Jews in many parts of the world. The first $9,100,000 raised will be divided among the three agencies in order to enable them to carry on their activities in the early part of the year. The balance of the funds raised will be distributed by an Allotment Committee.

J.D.C. ANNUAL REPORT PUBLISHED; SHOWS $7,257,000 SPENT IN 1942

The 1942 annual report of the Joint Distribution Committee was published today. It contains details of the organization’s appropriations of $7,257,000 last year for programs of war and emergency relief, emigration, feeding, clothing, sheltering, child and medical care, vocational training and reconstructive assistance in behalf of Jewish war victims and sufferers.

Paul Baerwald, honorary chairman of the J.D.C., declares in his introduction to the report: “Hundreds of thousands — some reports say two million — of our co-religionists have met their death under conditions of almost unimaginable cruelty and terror. They are mourned not alone by their fellow Jews but by all men of good conscience and decent instinct. Together we are united in the firm resolve to bring about the creation of a new and better world where the dignity of men and all that springs from it may be preserved.”