Contributions of $8,725,583 were made during the first nine months of 1946 by 300,000 Jewish women in the U.S. toward the national United Jewish Appeal campaign for $100,000,000, it was reported today by Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of UJA’s national women’s division.
Mrs. Levy said that 195 women’s divisions have participated in the record-breaking drive to aid displaced Jews in Europe, Jewish immigrants in Palestine and Jewish refugees who reach the U.S.
William Rosenwald, national chairman of the UJA campaign, told the women’s division that President Truman’s statement favoring the admission of more displaced Jews to this country was “expressly intended to induce other countries to admit large numbers of refugees, and especially to persuade Britain to open Palestine immediately to 100,000 European Jews.” He praised the Jewish women for assisting hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors to rebuild their lives.
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