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Philadelphia’s Drive for $1,500,000 Quota in U. J. C. is Launched

November 22, 1926
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(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Fifteen hundred men and women, representing every shade of Jewish thought in this city attended the dinner last night at the Hotel Benjamin Franklin which inaugurated Philadelphia’s campaign for $1,500,000, its quota in the United Jewish Campaign.

The Committee, of which Morris Wolf is chairman, includes Dr. Cyrus Adler. Samuel S. Fels, Hon. Charles Edwin Fox, Mrs. Louis Gerstley, Jr., William Gerstley, Ellis A. Gimbel, Jacob Ginsburg, Hon. Benjamin M. Golder, Hon. William M. Lewis, Colonel Samuel D. Lit, Mrs. Frank A. Pfaelzer, Hon. Horace Stern and Mrs. Berthold Straus.

One thousand women have been organized into teams under the chairmanship of Mrs. Jerome H. Lourcheim, whose duty it will be to visit every Jewish home in the city to have it represented by a contribution.

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