More than $750,000 in contributions to the 1960 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York were announced at a dinner held tonight in the Hotel Pierre under the sponsorship of the American Jewish Congress and in honor of Samuel Bronfman, chairman of the North American executive of the World Jewish Congress and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress.
The principle speaker, Dr. Goldmann, stressed the “urgent necessity” of using the present period to consolidate Israel’s economy and to complete the absorption of the first million immigrants who entered the new state since its creation 12 years ago.
“It is encouraging to know that American Jewish leaders increasingly recognize the long-range nature of the task,” Dr. Goldmann declared. “The building of Israel and the absorption of its immigrants is a process that will take at least the lifetime of a generation. Fund-raising techniques and policies must be based on this understanding, ” he declared.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, former president of the American Jewish Congress, presided at the dinner and presented Mr. Bronfman and Dr. Goldmann with shofars, traditional Jewish symbol of piety and freedom in recognition of “outstanding contributions in the service of the Jewish people and in the cause of human freedom.”
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