Contributions of $602,601 to the New York Allied Jewish Campaign were reported yesterday at a luncheon of chairmen of trade committees and representatives of trade groups in the “drive” to raise $2,500,000 in this city toward $6,000,000 which is being sought nationally for the 1930 budgets of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
The reports were made at a luncheon at the Bankers’ Club over which Felix M. Warburg, one of the honorary chairmen of the campaign presided. Sixty nine trades, industries and professions were represented.
The largest amount reported at the luncheon was by the Bankers and Brokers group which to date has secured $440,580. The Lawyers and Judges committee reported $68,350. Next in order was the Real Estate group with subscriptions of $16,160. The Shirt industry committee reported $13,000; the Department Stores and Specialty Shops committee, $12,265; the Leaf Tobacco committee $7,500 and the Accountants Committee $4,272.
The remaining $40,474 was reported by sixty-two committees most of which have been organized during the last fortnight.
The speakers, besides Mr. Warburg were Dr. Louis I. Harris, former health commissioner of New York City, Dr. Benjamin Veit, District Superintendent of the New York Board of Education, Jonah J. Goldstein, and Harry L. Glucksman, general director of the “drive”.
Dr. Veit announced that the 6,000 Jewish men and women teachers in the New York public school system were being canvassed for subscriptions to the campaign.
It was also announced that principals and teachers of Hebrew schools and Talmud Torahs had organized a committee to canvass the 65,000 pupils of the 282 Jewish religious schools in the Greater City and their parents. The climax of the religious school drive will take place next Tuesday.
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