A campaign to raise $1,972,000 for the needs of the Jewish Theological Seminary and affiliated institutions during the 1949-50 year was voted here today at the third annual conference of the Seminary’s National Planning Campaign Committee. This figure is a quarter of a million dollars more than has ever teen sought before. Nearly 200 delegates from 100 congregations in the U.S. and Canada attended.
Maxwell Abbell, who was re-elected chairman of the body, declared, in his annual report, that there are signs indicating that American Jewry is “groping” toward an epochal religious and cultural re-awakening. It was also emphasized at the parley that American Jewry can “attain spiritual maturity” only by applying the same sacrificial zeal in supporting its own religious and educational institutions which it is now applying to meet the needs of the Jews of Israel and Europe.
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