University of Rochester Student Appeal for World Jewry Reaches Deep into Campus

Approximately 100 students of the University of Rochester Jewish student body have shared fundamental objectives of the United Jewish Appeal Drive to increase the concern and involvement of Jewish students for other Jews in the world, it was announced today by Rabbi Joseph H. Levine, director of the university’s B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation. Under the leadership of the Hillel Foundation, primary aims of the campaign have been: to reach and involve Jewish students on all levels on campus to develop a strong Israel consciousness; to involve as many students as possible in an educational program about the needs of the Middle Fast and world Jewry including Soviet Jewry; and to involve a core group of 100 students to campaign for the United Jewish Appeal drive on campus. Rabbi Levine noted that while education is the main goal and objective of the campaign, promising results financially are also anticipated.

“We hope that the practical outcome of this education is the realization by students that the only viable means of active commitment short of aliyah is a monetary contribution,” he said. A crucial aim of the campaign is to begin the process of forming a core group of committed students on campus who in the future will continue to implement the objectives stated above. One of the goals has been realized in the active recruitment of 100 committed and dedicated student leaders on campus to serve as campaign leaders, Rabbi Levine said. These students have undergone intensive screening, orientation and educational process in which they have viewed films, spoken with students and faculty who have been to Israel, read a number of sources on the problems in the Middle East and have gained as much first hand knowledge as possible of the crucial objectives of Israel’s survival and the problems of world Jewry.