The United Jewish Appeal urgently requires an additional $35,000,000 before the end of the year, Morris W Berinstein, its general chairman, said today, announcing the opening of a nation-wide cash drive.
Melvin Dubinsky, of St. Louis, and a committee of 50 will direct the drive which will wind up on December 12 with presentations at the UJA national conference in New York. Communities are being urged, Mr. Berinstein said, to have at least half their quotas ready by November 2 for presentation to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem by the UJA study mission.
The $35,000,000 nation-wide UJA cash goal is sought to maintain programs affecting some 600,000 men, woman and children in Israel and 25 other countries. Almost 400,000 of this number are immigrants of recent years to Israel, where some 30,000 immigrants of the past few months need initial absorption help and where more than 350,000 immigrants of previous years need decent housing, farm settlement aid and continuance of programs of help for the aged, handicapped, chronically ill and youth.
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