The United Jewish Appeal today opened a nationwide emergency campaign to raise $35,000,000 in cash in the next three months. Edward M.M. Warburg, general chairman of the U.J.A., announced that more than 1,500 local community campaigns would participate in the special drive, which was decided upon following reports of the critical shortage of hard currency in Israel.
Mr. Warburg said that Jack D. Weiler, of New York, a national U.J.A. leader and a chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, would serve as chairman of the campaign, and would be aided by a 160-member National Cash Cabinet composed of Jewish community leaders in nearly every state in the Union.
Some 1,000 volunteer workers for the U.J.A. of Greater New York will attend the 13th anniversary dinner of the agency this Thursday evening at the Hotel Astor. Since the first campaign in 1939, the agency has raised $300,000,000 from over one million New Yorkers of all faiths.
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