In a dramatic response to an urgent appeal from the United Jewish Appeal for cash for Jewish needs in Israel and overseas, major federated communities throughout the United States accepted the challenge and remitted $10 million to the UJA during the last two days of March, according to Bernard Bornine, UJA national cash chairman. This enabled the UJA to send the Jewish Agency a total of $36 million through March 31, specifically for the absorption of Ethiopian Jews. Overall, cash collections for the first quarter of 1985 came to $115 million, a 28 percent increase over the $90 million collected last year.
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