The $1,500,000 Greater New York campaign of the United Palestine Appeal was launched today with a luncheon in the Hotel Astor attended by 600 leaders of the fund-raising effort. The principal speakers were Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, national co-chairman of the appeal, and Nathan Straus, head of the New York campaign.
A message was read from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declaring that the work of rebuilding Palestine was “proceeding in the background of the progressive deterioration of the Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe.” He held that one of the Zionists; principal tasks was “the strengthening of our agricultural position and the transfer of the evergrowing number of new immigrants to rural pursuits.”
Rabbi Silver asserted that “in addition to fighting against Nazism our task is to build as rapidly as we can, as effectively as we can, as magnificently as we can, our Jewish homeland in Palestine.”
The campaign will have the participation of several thousand volunteer workers. Leader officers are Harold Jacobi and Maurice Levin, associate chairman, Dr. G. A. Lowenstein and Michael Schaap, vice chairmen; Arthur Lamport, treasurer; Abraham Liebovitz, associate treasurer, and Samuel Blitz, executive director.
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