Edward M. M. Warburg, president of the United Jewish Appeal, was honored here by Jewish communal leaders who presented him with two checks amounting to $2,202,000 for the UJA at the annual Philadelphia Community Award Luncheon at the Warwick Hotel.
It was reported at the luncheon that the Allied Jewish Appeal of Philadelphia has raised a total of $3,512,060 so far in the 1956 campaign. The sum represents a coverage of only 68.4 percent of cards and $700,000 more than the same number had given last year. The checks were presented to Mr. Warburg by Myer Feinstein, AJA president, who said then represented two loans from local banks which Allied made at this time on the community’s credit in order to speed funds to the Special Survival Fund to resettle 45,000 Jews of North Africa in Israel this year.
Mr. Warburg was also presented with a specially inscribed Bible with a hand-illuminated dedication page in token of the community’s appreciation of his efforts in behalf of the persecuted Jews of the world. In accepting the award, Mr. Warburg declared he was “thrilled and honored” but he appealed for greater giving. “Even though Philadelphia is to be congratulated for its expanded efforts we need not only the pledge–we need the cash–and we need it now, for it is the cash which will help Israel and save the Jews of North Africa who must get out,” he said.
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