The United Jewish Appeal moved this week into the final month of its 1956 campaign with the announcement that it will hold its annual National Conference in New York at the end of next month to set the stage for its next year’s nationwide drive.
Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1945 to 1951 and Deputy Leader of the Labor Opposition in Parliament from 1951 until last year, will be among the outstanding personalities on the world scene who will address the UJA’s two-day sessions. Along with Mr. Morrison, other noted figures who will address the Conference include General Yigael Yadin, former Commanding General of Israel’s Defense Forces and Israel’s leading scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The 1957 drive will be the UJA’s 19th yearly effort. In the light of the grave crisis affecting the people of Israel and Jewish populations in Moslem lands, it is expected that the delegates may call upon American Jews for a campaign of even greater vigor than in 1956. More than 1,000 leaders of Jewish communities throughout the United States are scheduled to attend.
The Conference will sum up the results of the UJA’s 1956 effort and set financial objectives for the 1957 drive. Prior to voting on the goals, the sessions will consider the rescue, resettlement, rehabilitation and welfare work which the UJA constituent agencies have scheduled in behalf of hundreds of thousands of distressed and dependent Jewish men, women and children in more than a score of countries. The constituent agencies are the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and New York Association for New Americans.
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