The Dominionwide United Palestine Appeal for 1930 will open in Montreal on April 27, under the personal direction of A. J. Freiman, president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, was the announcement made yesterday at the headquarters of the organization in this city. The campaign will be under the supervision of a Joint Campaign Committee to consist of all members of the Zionist National Council, as well as all officers of the Montreal lodges of the Zionist Order Habonim. It will open with a dinner tendered by the Habonim in honor of Mr. Freiman and will close next Sunday with a banquet, when prominent speakers will address the assembled Zionist workers.
The eagerness of Canadian Jewry to back the Zionist ideal of establishing a Jewish National Home in Palestine is demonstrated by the fact that despite the financially-critical times prevailing at present, all those who have not been able to pay up their pledges made in previous months, have given promissory notes to cover the amounts pledged. These notes alone amount to over $15,000.
Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik, executive director of the organization, reported that the campaign will start in Toronto on May 4, and is scheduled to take place in Winnipeg on May 13. It will be carried through all the Jewish centers in Canada during the months of May and June.
In the report, it was further shown that the income of the organization for the first three months of 1930 amounted to $37,160.46, as compared with the sum of $34635.11 for the same period in 1929. This does not include the $15,000 in notes mentioned above.
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