A Passover appeal for continued cooperation in the relief efforts on behalf of European Jewry has been made to nine hundred rabbis throughout the country by David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign. Expressing appreciation for their past work in this direction, Mr. Brown urged the rabbis to “lift up your voice in your congregation and outside to the end that every promise made shall be satisfied so that the life-saving and life-giving work set in motion by American Jewry may be continued unimpaired.”
In his message Mr. Brown stated:
“The approaching Passover season links all Israel into a closer brotherhood. To you as Rabbi and Teacher of American Israel, I tender my heartfelt appreciation of the cooperation which you have consistently given to the great cause of relief to our brethren overseas.
“The need in Russia, in Poland, in Roumania, in Palestine, in all the countries where the Joint Distribution Committee is helping our brothers through constructive undertakings to help themselves, where the Joint Distribution Committee lends our aid to the continuance of cultural, religious work, to the care of the orphan and the healing of the sick – all these still require the helping hand of the Jews of America.
“Great and generous as has been the response in the subscriptions totalling $20,500,000, and splendid as has been the payment in cash up to this time, almost $11,000,000, it is necessary that every pledge that has been made to the United Jewish Campaign shall be paid in full, every subscription honored.
“I call upon you, therefore, as in the past, to lift up your voice in your congregation and outside to the end that every promise made shall be satisfied so that the life-saving and life-giving work set in motion by American Jewry may continue unimpaired.”
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