Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
JDC and SALWA SIGN AGREEMENT
FOR OVERSEAS RELIEF WORK
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NEW YORK — To increase the
effectiveness of relief and rehab-
ilitation operations being carried
on in behalf of the surviving 1,-
250,000 Jews in continental Eu-
rope, the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and the
South African Jewish War Ap-
peal have worked out an arrange-
ment which unites the two or-
ganizations as partners in their
humanitarian work. This was
made known in a recent state-
ment issued by Dr. Joseph C. Hy-
man, executive vice-chairman of
the J.D.C.
The program resulting from
discussions in Jerusalem by Leo
Feit, honorary treasurer of the
South African Jewish War Ap-
peal, and Charles Passman, direc-
tor of the Middle East program
of the J.D.C., calls for the Joint
Distribution Committee to con-
tinue the actual distribution of
relief supplies as well as the set-
ting up of long-range rehabilita-
tion and reconstruction programs.
"Because of the J.D.C.'s vast ex-
perience and extensive activities
since the first World War," the
S.A.J.W.A. stated, the complex
job of seeing the relief program
through will be left entirely to
the J.D.C.
Long recognized as the major
American agency for the relief of
needy Jews abroad, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee has initiated
an intensive program of aid for
the remaining Jews in Europe.
Aids Every European Country
J.D.C. aid programs today
reach into every country in Eu-
rope, as well as in other war-
affected areas including Shang-
hai, Manila, North Africa, South
America and elsewhere. An espe-
cially-trained stuff of nearly 30
Americans supervises, - the Com-
mittee's activities from on-the-
spot posts. One of the chief as-
pects of the J.D.C. program in
Europe is the aid being extended
to stateless and German Jews still
in camps in• Germany. The num-
ber of these Jews is estimated at
200,000. Recently SHAEF grant-
ed permission to J.D.C. to send
ten relief teams of physicians,
nurses and social workers into the
camps. The first team is already
operating in Buchenwald.
In-
The South African Jewish War
Appeal, which is the instrument-
ality through which the Jewish
community of some 100,000 in
the Union of South Africa seeks
to aid war-distressed Jews, has
been responsible for the rescue
and relief of many thousands of
Jews.
Relief Projects Established
Prior to the development of
this Partnership arrangement be-
,, tween it and the J.D.C., the South
African Jewish War Appeal es-
tablish , •d successful relief proj-
ects for Jewish refugees in North
Africa, the Isle of Mauritius and
elsewhere. In addition the S A
J•W.A• turned over substantial
amounts of money and supplies
to the J.D.C. earmarked particu-
larly for relief work in the Bai-
kans, Poland and Asiatic Russia.
The annual budget of the S.A.
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J.W.A. is $2,000,000, of which,
$1,600,000 is pledged to the
Joint Distribution Committee.
However, this does not mean that
their contribution is limited to
that figure.
In addition to raising funds for
the relief of Jews abroad, the
Jewish community of South Afri-
ca has collected large amounts
of used clothing for shipment
abroad. This stockpile of urgent-
ly-needed garments will be turn-
ed over to the J.D.C. for distribu-
tion.
A first shipment of 30,000 gar-
ments for Jews in the Balkans is
already en route to the J.D.C.
office in Istanbul.
In addition to the Union of
South Africa, the Jews in Can-
ada, Australia and South Ameri-
can communities have been con-
tributing generously to the Joint
Distribution Committee for the
relief of war-stricken Jews. In
1944 the Jewish community of
Canada turned over close to
$300,000 to the J.D.C., while
$100,000 was received from Aus-
tralian Jewry. During this same
period the Jewish communities in
South America contributed $30,-
000.
In the United States the J.D.C.
receives its income from the cam-
paign collections of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine.
Masada to Plant
io,000 Trees
NEW YORK CITY — Masada
Young Zionists of America at
their convention in New York re-
cently laid plans for the widen-
ing of the Armed Forces program
of the Young Zionists of Ameri-
ca, which at present regularly
services some 10,000 Jewish chap-
lains and servicemen with litera-
ture. The delegates also heard
reports that "Freedom Forest,"
which is to be planted in Pales-
tine in honor of American serv-
icemen, will have a "Masada
Grove" of 10,000 trees.
JDC Confused,
Says Dr. Goldstein
Page Nine
Facing the New World--
A New Year Message
By Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter
700 Jews Survived
Jap Terror in Manila
Manila (WNS) — Seven hun-
dred Jews who fled from Nazism
in Europe only to fall in the
hands of the Japanese were
found alive when this city was
recaptured by the Americans.
The Manila community, aided
by American Jewish chaplains,
has begun to function again.
• Victims of Japanese terror and
inflation, most of the Jews in
Manila are penniless. Most of the
700 Jewish refugees are holders
of visas to the United States. Be-
cause of the anti-alien feeling in
Manila they have not been able
to get work.
Pioneer Women Give
$25,000 to Aid Girls
Released by Army
The 28th Conference of the
Working Women's Council of Pal-
estine recently held at Tel Aviv
resolved to place all its women's
institutions at the service of the
thousands of demobilized PATS,
the Jewish women volunteers who
for four years performed arduous
tasks with the British armed
forces and are now being released
from the Army.
The Council, which played a
leading role in the mobilization
of 4,000 PATS, has assumed ma-
jor responsibility to help readjust
them to civilian life and reabsorb
them into the economic life of
Palestine.
The Council plans new build-
ings in its various institutions,
where girls may be housed and
trained for agriculture and trades.
Urging the PATS to identify
themselves with colonization work
both in the existing settlements
and the new colonies and collec-
tives to be established in the near
future, the Council is bending all
its efforts to the task of expand-
ing its agricultural training
farms. It is there that the girls
will be given two-year training:
courses qualifying them for ad-
mission to these settlements.
The first night of S'lichos last
Saturday coincided with the of-
ficial close of hostilities. Victory
and peace will he the keynotes
of our prayers and emotions on
Rosh Hashonnah 5606, but even
more poignantly will our
thoughts turn to the new era in
the development of mankind pro-
Phecied by the scientific discov-
ery which by its very ruthless-
ness has put an end to the war.
It is as if, on this birthday of
creation, we were to become wit-
ness to a "renewal of the work
of creation."
One of the seven benedictions
ordained by our sages for the
marriage ceremony gives thanks
to the Almighty "who formed
man in His image and estab-
lished for him, out of his very
self, an eternal and lasting
structure." It would be well to
ponder this thought in the mo-
mentous days ahead. The tre-
mendous power of atomic de-
struction that humanity has ac-
quired may in itself become a
source of blessing if diverted to
the peaceful conquest of new
economic and social horizons.
Similarly, there are untold pos-
sibilities for the solution of so-
ciety's ills in the organized pop-
ulations of democratic countries.
The release of that mobilized
power which has won the war on
both production and battlefronts
can build new homes and schools,.
fight disease and poverty, over-
come ignorance and prejudice.
The education of men and
women for these new responsi-
bilities is the task of the spir-
itual and religious forces in ci-
vilization. Israel is faced with
this duty perhaps more than at
any other time in its history.
How true ring the words of our
Holy Day devotions today: To
remove the kingdom of evil from
the earth, to establish the world
under the Kingdom of the Al-
Mighty, to make of all creatures
one bond so that they may do
Thy will with a perfect heart!
Jewish youth in America must
be trained to know its people's
heritages in the new world. The
Jewish tradition of faith in God
and the ultimate purpose of man
has a new meaning for our gen-
eration. We should learn to live
and interpret it.
WPB Approved
Orthodox Center
Construction plans for the
Young Israel Orthodox Jewish
Center were • approved last week
by the War Production Board.
Pledges and contributions from
the general community which
have been steadily flowing into
the buileing fund since the offi-
cial launching of the campaign
last May 13, are increasing con-
siderably as actual construction
nears.
The Orthodox Center will be
built on Dexter near Fullerton.
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Dondon (Palcor)—The implied
charge that the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee was confused as
to its functions in Europe was
made here by Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, President of the Zionist
Organization of America, on his
return from Germany where he
visited Frankfurt and camps near
Munich.
J.D.C. could be more useful for
the Jews in camps in Germany,
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structive projects rather than
food distribution, a function ful-
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