Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek will join with the leadership of the American Jewish community at a United Jewish Appeal Reunion celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unity and the national closing of the 1977 campaign, UJA general chairman Frank R. Lautenberg announced today. The celebration, June I at the Pierre Hotel, will also bring together some of the 3000 participants in “This Year in Jerusalem”–last October’s gala Jewish happening in Israel.
The luncheon marks the culmination of a fundraising effort that began last January with a purpose of broadening the campaign base by involving an increasing number of American Jews in the work of the UJA. Most recently, an estimated 243,000 walkers in 133 communities across the country raised more than $2 million in the first UJA National Walk-A-Thon, May 15.
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