Close to $1,000,000 was pledged to the 1954 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York by 500 leading women contributors today. The gifts were announced at two fund-raising luncheons that followed the Women’s Division’s opening rally.
Israel’s Consul General in New York, Avraham Harman, addressing the rally, appealed for continuing support by Americans of the UJA-financed programs of immigrant absorption and agricultural development that have helped the people of Israel withstand the efforts of hostile neighbors to bring about the collapse of Israel through “economic siege and blockade.”
Meanwhile, the national UJA announced that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Edward M. M. Warburg, the UJA’s general chairman, would be the featured speakers at the UJA’s National Inaugural Conference in Miami Beach February 19-21. More than 900 community leaders will attend the parley.
The Labor Council of the UJA, made up of Labor Zionist organizations, will open its special 1954 drive March 6 with a midwestern mobilization in Chicago, according to Dr. James G. Heller, president of the Council.
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