The formal opening of the United Jewish Appeal’s 1953 nationwide campaign will take place February 15 at an extraordinary National Inaugural Conference to be held at the Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., it was announced today by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, U. J. A. executive vice-chairman.
Dr. Schwartz said that this year’s nationwide campaign must bring the largest possible sums to meet urgent immigration, settlement, welfare and rehabilitation needs totalling $144,524,250, and that the more than 600 outstanding Jewish leaders attending the conference will be faced with the responsibility for setting a standard of giving in keeping with this year’s critical needs.
The U. J. A. executive vice-chairman stressed that the greatest need is for a swift strengthening of Israel’s economy and that this reinforcement of the new state’s economic capacity is especially urgent in the light of the new emergency in Eastern Europe arising out of the mounting anti-Jewish tension in Iron Curtain countries.
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