The overseas partners of the Jewish federation system made formal proposals to the committee that determines their allocations. In meetings Sunday and Monday in New York, the Jewish Agency for Israel, which runs immigration and absorption, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which runs relief and welfare abroad, and World ORT, a Jewish education and training group, made requests for aid in 2004 to the United Jewish Communities’ Overseas Needs Assessment and Distribution Committee.
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