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TO—Friday, May 19, 1967
AJCommittee Aids 'Project Equality'
to Provide Israel's Hadassah Center With $1,000,000
Of this sum, the Kennedy Me-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An of the amendment; and
Mrs.
De-1 morial Building, housing a physi-
repre-
agreement was signed Monday by nise Tourover, Washington
cians residence, received $162,000;
the Agency for International De- sentative of Hadassah.
The agreement provides Israeli the Henrietta Szold Nursing School
velopment to implement an amend-
ment to the Foreign Aid Act pro- pounds equivalent to $756,000 to addition, $287,000; family and com-
viding the Hadassah Medical Center be used for construction of build- munity health center, Kiryat Hay-
with a million dollars in Israeli ings and facilities at the Hadassah- ! ovel, $40,000. The balance, $244,-
pounds to pay for improvements Hebrew University Medical Cen- 000, was designated for operating
costs at the medical center.
ter
at the center.
The agreement was signed by
Administrator William S. Gaud
of the U.S. Agency for Internation-
al Development at his office. Pres-
ent, among others, were Mrs. Char-
lotte Jacobson, national president
of Hadassah; Sen. Claiborne Pell,
Rhode Island Democrat, a sponsor
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Nathan Perlmutter, (left), domestic affairs director of American
Jewish Conmrittee, chats with Thomas H. Gibbons Jr., director, na-
tional office, Project Equality (right) while Edward W. Briggs, the
project's regional director, looks on. The meeting took place at an all-
day training session at the AJC's Institute of Human Relations head-
quarters to discuss cooperation between the two groups. The Ameri-
can Jewish Committee will serve as a resource and consultant to
this interfaith program, which provides the methods, tools, techniques
and administrative procedures to religious institutions of all faiths
to insure equal employment in their own hiring, and to require
equal employment as a condition of sale in all general and contract
purchasing. Project Equality, with 10 regional offices throughout
the country, is a program developed and serviced by the National
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