United Jewish Campaign Conference Opens in Philadelphia

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Three hundred delegates representing Philadelphia and thirty communities in Eastern Pennsylvania will assemble today at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel to discuss participation in the $15,000,000 United Jewish Campaign.

The conference was called by Dr. Cyrus Adler, National Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee.

Dr. Adler will preside at the sessions. David A. Brown, National Chairman of the campaign, will deliver an address.

One of the principal problems which the conference will be called upon to decide is how the United Jewish Campaign in Philadelphia can be arranged without conflicting with the United Palestine Appeal which will be formally inaugurated in Philadelphia on May 2nd. Plans for a merger of both campaigns are anticipated.

An appeal to the Jewish community of Philadelphia to show its traditional initiative in philanthropy has been issued by Albert M. Greenfield, Chairman of the first J. D. C. Conference in this city which set the $15,000,000 Appeal into motion. “Philadelphia is the center from which American Jewish philanthropy radiates,” declares Mr. Greenfield. “The Jewish community has a record that is surpassed by no other community in the world for its generosity. The time has come when Philadelphia and its vicinity must indicate the attitude which it will take toward the relief of the suffering Jews of Europe. There must be no faltering in the answer which must be given to their appeal.”

The following communities will send delegations to today’s conference: Allentown, Bristol, Carbondale, Chester, Coatesville, Dickson City, Easter, Forest City, Harrisburg, Hazelton, Lancaster, Lebanon, Norristown, Mount Carmel, Milton, Pittston, Pottsville, Reading, Pottstown, Scranton, Shenandoah, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, York, Bethlehem.

LONG ISLAND OVERSUBSCRIBES QUOTA IN UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL

With $90,000 subscribed for the United Palestine Appeal, Long Island has extended its quota from $70,000 to $100,000.

At a meeting held in Arverne Thursday night with Dr. Schmarya Levin and Bernard Semel as guests of honor, $8,000 was raised, bringing Long Island’s total in the campaign to over $90,000.

Last year Long Island contributed $48,000 for Palestine. Abraham Cohen is the Long Island director for the United Palestine Appeal.

Dr. Mordecai Soltes presided at the Arverne meeting held in the Derech Emunah Community Center, where a committee was appointed to direct Arverne’s campaign.

RABBIS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY WILL APPEAL FOR UNITED JEWISH AND PALESTINE CAMPAIGN

Rabbis of Greater New York are being called on to give their aid to the $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of Greater New York, in a message sent to them by Mr. William Fox, chairman of the local campaign, and Rabbi Israel Goldstein, who was appointed by Mr. Fox as chairman of the committee on Rabbis. The week of Passover, which begins on Monday night, has been designated as “Appeal Week,” the Rabbis of Greater New York being requested to preach special sermons during the holidays stressing the appeal for aid of suffering Jewry in foreign lands.

Rabbis throughout the country will urge support for the United Palestine Appeal in Passover sermons, a statement from the headquarters of the United Palestine Appeal declared.

At a dinner conference of the Brooklyn campaign committee of the United Jewish Campaign at which Louis Marshall and William Fox were guests of honor, more than $200,000 was pledged toward the Brooklyn quota of $1,200,000. Morris Salzman pledged $25,000, Jacob Levy $20,000, Louis Gold $10,000 and Morris and Isaac Pechelsky $15,000.