South African Jewry Response to United Jewish Appeal Lauded

The response of South African Jewry to the United Israel Appeal campaign this year has been “very good,” Israel Dunsky, chairman of the Appeal, reported here today in a review of the first six weeks of the current campaign.

Mr. Dunsky pleaded for giving the Appeal a “clear field” unimpeded by the fundraising efforts of local groups. “Local fund-raising efforts have their place in the scheme of things,” he said, “but at the moment we are engaged in an enormous task involving hundreds of thousands of lives as well as the destiny and future of the whole Jewish people. This cannot wait; it deserves and should receive priority over all other causes whose significance is obviously much more limited.”