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Thuisday, June 8, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THE

Once a Year — for All

Once a year the Jewish community of Detroit manifests
its strength, its solidarity, its acceptance of responsibility
through the Allied Jewish Campaign.
We raise money in this drive for 55 local, national
and overseas causes helping to build a better world for
Jews, a healthier community at home.
Because the need overseas is so urgent, because its
dramatic appeal is obvious, much of the emphasis is placed
on the United Jewish Appeal—just as the share of
Campaign allocations go to this one cause.
But 54 other services also are part of the Campaign
picture and are equally essential to our community.

What Your Contribution Does
in Detroit

Most of us are familiar with the Detroit Jewish Welfare
Federation agencies supported by the Campaign:

For the Old Folks

We know that the aged men and women in our community
can look forward to passing their declining days in the
cheerful, considerate atmosphere of the Jewish -Home for
Aged . Nursing facilities are provided for the chronically
ill and the sick who do not require hospitalization. There
is a daily recreation and occupational therapy program for
residents. They have their own synagogue and a whole-
some, varied social life.

A Place in the World of Work

At the other end of the age scale, young people just out
of school—as well as over 40's and recently arrived refu-
gees—are helped to find the right job by the Jewish Vo-
ational Service. In a tightening job market, with dis-
crimination sometimes a factor, this service is increasingly
important.

The Newcomers in Our Midst

Resettlement Service is the agency which looks after the
economic and social adjustment of new Americans in
Detroit. Through relief, where necessary through guid-
ance on housing, education, social outlets and naturaliza-
tion, it smooths the transition to American life.

A Temporary Haven

The House of Shelter, organized 51 years ago as a refuge
for transients and homeless men, now serves primarily as
a temporary housing facility for refugees.

In Defense Cf Our Rights

A community relations program through the Jewish Com-
munity Council, smooths frictions within our community
by fostering cooperation. It works on many fronts to
achieve mutual understanding with the non-Jewish popu-
lation, and to build informed, favorable public opinion.
It is on guard against any encroachment of the civil, politi-
cal, religious or economic rights of the Jewish people.

A Program of Education

Our investment in the Jewish education of Detroit chil-
dren through the Allied Jewish Campaign is large and
well diversified. The United Hebrew Schools, a member
agency of the Jewish Welfare Federation, comprise seven
conveniently located afternoon schools. Instruction in-
cludes kindergarten, a seven-year elementary course, four

year high school and the recently added Midrasha, college
for adult studies.
Allocations also are made to three Yiddish element-
ary—Workmen's Circle and the Jewish Folk Schools and
Sholem Aleichem Institute—to the United Jewish High
School and to the afternoon school of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, which provides a Hebrew education with tra-
ditional religious emphasis.

Informal Education and
Recreation

The recreational and cultural facilities of the Jewish Com-
munity Center are brought to young people and old folks
in the neighborhoods where they live by the three Center
extension services—the Dexter-Davison Branch Center,
the 12th Street Council Center, the Northwest extension
program.
The main Jewish Community Center receives its
support from the Community Chest. North End Clinic is
another instance of Community Chest-Allied Jewish Cam-
paign co-operation. The Chest provides the normal opera-
tion budget; the Campaign supplies funds for those pa-
tients—refugees, in most cases—who require hospitaliza-
tion. Other Jewish Welfare Federation agencies which
the Chest supports are Fresh Air Society, Hebrew Free
Loan Association and Jewish Social Service Bureau. Capi-
tal funds for these, when necessary, are provided by the
Allied Jewish Campaign.

On the National Scene

In common with other communities throughout the nation
Detroit shares in the benefits and maintenance of 24 na-
tional and regional Jewish services whose work enhances
the security, the dignity and meaning of Jewish life in
America.

YOUR MONEY'S WORTH IN YOUR

How Allied Jewish Campaign Fu

TOTAL IN PLEDGES

$5,2a2,608

1. Local Services and Operating Costs $791,925

HEALTH AND WELFARE

$ 1,980
Camp Chelsea
4,442
House of Shelter
Jewish Community Center
57,943
Extensions
Twelfth
Street...15,62G
a.
25,967
b. Dexter
16,350
C. Northwest
Jewish Community Center—
4,038
Land Contract
94,428
Jewish Home for Aged
Jewish Vocational Service 38,383
Jewish Welfare Federation 113,979
North End Clinic — Hospi-
2,700
talization Fund
275,527
Resettlement Service
1,000
Scholarship Fund—CSA
1,000 595,420
Student Training

EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL

Jewish Folk Schools (Far-
8,020
band)
Sholem Aleichem Institute
7,290
(Jewish People's School).
111,313
United Hebrew Schools
United Jewish High School 6,871
6,000
Workmen's Circle School
22,750 162,244
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah

COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Jewish Community Counci

2. Local—Capital Funds

3. Overseas and Israel

United Jewish Appeal
(United Palestine Appea
(Joint Distribution Com
United Servie'e for New
American Committee for
mann Institute of Sciet

American Friends o f
University

American Technion Sociel

American Fund for Israel
Hebrew Sheltering a n d
Aid Society

Institute on Overseas Stu

Reserved for National Pre

4. National and Regional Sc
COMMUNPA RELATIONS
American Jewish Congres

Jewish Labor Committee

Joint Defense Appeal ...
Nat'l Community Relation
Council ..............

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