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Thursday, September 7, 1950

DETROIT JEWISII CHRONICLE

rule next year under a recent
300,000 Jews live amid poverty, decision of the United Nations.
disease and constant discrimina-
The Jews of this area look to-
tion by their Arab neighbors,
JDC is now beginning to witness ward this day with fear in their
the results of its extensive pro- hearts, and they are pleading
gram of relief, reconstruction frantically for help to emigrate.
Although JDC has already
and resettlement of the needy
helped more than 20,000 Libyan
Jewish population.
Jews leave for the Holy Land,
With a watchful eye on the the 15,000 who have trooped into
future,
JDC
is
concentrating
By DR. JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ
Director-General, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
most of its program on the care the city of Tripoli from the hin-
o-
of children. In more than 30 terland in search of shelter, prh t
11:10W DO THEY LIVE? They don't live: they die." Two years ago, a Joint Distribution special canteens throughout Mor- tection and the JDC ship ta
4 I Committee worker in the mellah of Casablanca
occo's cities, towns and villages, will take them to Israel, call out
for special consideration.
n the condition of Jews in North Africa. Today a network
a thousands of youngsters are re-
a
r
Behind them is a past of po-
ceiving
the
kind
of
food
aimed
of JDC milk stations, clothing depots, medical dispensaries, nurseies,
summer
to at producing a strong and groms,
answer cn-
writing
a new cmps,
persecution and poverty,
to and schools, supported by United Jewish Appeal funds, is
before them is the hope of a new
healthy generation.
the question of how North Africa's Jews live.
For most of these children, beginning in Israel. For them,
JDC lunch is their only hot meal JDC maintains shelters, schools
As the New Year 5711 dawns; a people who have endured cen-
of the day; for many, it is the and clinics. Each Israel-bound
it holds the promise of life—for turies of persecution and po-
only decent meal they have ever emigrant must have a thorough
the first time in more than a groms simply because these were
health examination, with accom-
thousand years—for large num- Jews, and because they rfused
eaten.
,
This noontime nourishment— panying diagnosis and treatment -
bers among the 500,000 Jewish to abandon their faith.
before
boarding
the
JDC-char
men, women and children of
which accounts for half the
Despite their isolation from the
agency's expenditures in Moroc- tered steamer.
North Africa.
Two years ago, half of all the
This year, Jews can look for- center of Jewish life over the
co—is augmented by JDC's medi-
ward to living in dignity and de- past centuries. they have re-
cal aid program, operated by Jewish children born in the
cency and usefulness. This year, mained true to their religion and
OSE, in clinics, dispensaries and mellah of one North African city
there is promise of a future, and to the ancient traditions of the
health centers throughout the were dead before their 13th
birthday.
the stirrings of life, vigor and Hebrew people.
country.
Just as were the Jewish vic-
Todaj‘ , .it is a matter of rejoic-
activity have begun to replace
Here come mothers and mo-
tims of Nazi atrocities in Ger-
ing and pride that we Jews of
sickness, poverty and despair.
thers-to-be, for specialized care
This is the miracle of the many, just as were the thousands
for themselves and their infants, America, through the United
Jewish Appeal, have been able
mellah—a miracle made possible who fled Poland after the Kielce
for instruction in new methods
to lower this frightful mortality
through the United Jewish Ap- pogrom in 1946, these Jews of
of health and hygiene.
peal. This is the exciting achieve- North Africa are deserving of
Here JDC is fighting tubercu- rate.
Shall this fight for life go on?
ment which JDC is bringing to our help.
• •
losis and malaria, has found new
we celebrate Rosh Hashana
As
the dark and fetid ghettos, the
ways of overcoming tinea, favus 5711, let us remember that hun-
SECOND,
because
the
Jews
of
parched desert villages and the
and sores, the plaguing skin dis- dreds of thousands of our Jew-
isolated mountain settlements North Africa constitute a vast a
eases which afflict tens of thou- ish brethren in the lands of
reservoir
for
Israel.
Here
are
where the Jews of North Africa
sands of North African Jews.
somm ■ ...
North Africa who, like ourselves,
have eked out their harsh and people for whom the very word
Dtt. SCHWARTZ
Most of JDC's child-care work are greeting the New Year, look
"Israel"
means
hope
and
life
it-
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bitter lives for 20 centuries.
in North Africa centers around
children is transforming them the schoolhouse. Here JDC staff to us for' the answer.
What are the reasons behind self.
Here
are
young
Jewish
chil-
into strong and sturdy young- physicians and nurses keep a
JDC's new and expanding pro-
JORDAN WATER TO U.S.A.
grams in behalf of a group which dren—bright and eager, with tre- sters.
careful check on the health of
DEGANIA— (ZOA) — Twelve
mendous
capacities
for
good
citi-
has been cut off from the main-
JDC provided schooling and their young charges; here the hot barrels, sent from the U.S.A. by
stream of Jewish life for genera- zenship—if only we give them clothing and feeding are assuring meal each noon is served; and
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Mich-
the chance.
tions?
useful futures to youngsters
Here are young men and wo- whose lives would otherwise be here too the JDC-supported co- aux, of Washington, D.C., pastor
The answers are important,
operating agencies such as Alli- of the Negro Baptist Church of
and I believe they should be men yearning and training for painful and brief. Admittedly, ance Israelite, Otzar Hatorah and God and president of the Gospel
lives
on
the
kibbutzim
and
pio-
the needs are vast among the ORT are giving boys and girls Spreading Association of Amer-
stated.
neer settlements of Israel, people
First, JDC works in North with tremendous contributions to Jews of this whole area. But their only chance to grow into ica, were taken to the Jordan and
Africa because there is Jewish make towards the building of positive achievements are being maturity and train for useful- filled with water from the river.
chalked up daNy, stimulating and ness.
suffering here. I underline the
The water is to be used for a big
• • •
encouraging us to greater accom-
word Jewish because these are the Jewish state.
baptismal ceremony in the Grif-
I have seen the children of the plishments in terms of healthy,
THE ALLIANCE already has fith Stadium in Washington in
mellah in schools in Israel, learn- useful lives.
22,000 Jewish boys and girls
ing and training and growing
And fourth, because the help under its wing in Morocco alone, September.
strong and healthy; I have seen we are sending is so valuable—
Whether for the latest news or
number which should soon in-
young men and women from and so valued. I wish many a
the best in advertising, it always
Greetings . . .
North Africa standing guard on more Americans could visit the crease to 26,000.
,
While Moroccq absorbs the pays to read the Jewish Chronicle.
Israel's borders, useful citizens mellah of Casablanca, or the hara
round.
the
year
bulk
of
JDC
expense
and
activity
of Tunis. They would see, as I
protecting their new country.
in North Africa, similar pro-
Third, because so much can have, how much our help means. grams are in operation in other
be done in North Africa with so And they would sense, as I have, countries along the south shore
little. Modern medicines sent in the deep gratitude and apprecia-
DETROIT
by JDC are wiping out tra- tion which the Jews of these of the Mediterranean.
In Algeria, JDC has succeeded
communities feel for their fel-
choma.
WASTE PAPER
6154 BIVOUAC
The glass of milk that JDC low-Jews in the United States. in helping the community reach
COMPANY
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provides each day—along with
a self-supporting basis.
VI. 1-3475
other nourishing foods—to tens
In Tunisia, however, JDC's
THE HISTORY OF the Jews of
of thousands of undernourished North Africa is the story of a program is almost as large as in
WISHES ALL
people who have maintained Morocco. Here large nunibers of
THEIR FRIENDS
their beliefs and traditions in the Jewish population, number-
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
the face of centuries of persecu- ing close to 100,000, need food,
New
Year
Greetings
medical care and educational as-
8401 LUMPKIN
tion, disease and poverty.
ROSH HASHONAH
sistance.
As far back as 2,500 years ago,
from . . .
Sam Brady—TR. 2-4522
As in Morocco, the list of JDC
a Jewish community had estab-
GREETINGS
expenditures
in
Tunisia
is
head-
lished itself in the Moroccan city
of Kairouan, maintaining its tra- ed by a feeding program for
ditional culture and religion in children which in an average
MR. AND MRS.
the midst of primitive, illiterate month supplies more than 4,000
tribes. Before Columbus discov- youngsters with hot luncheons
JACK GOOSE and
ered America, thousands of Jews each day.
L'Shono Tova
Medical centers have been
—victims of Spanish Inquisition
DAUGHTER JUDITH
1345 DIVISION
established,
and
out-patient
clin-
—had fled to the relative safety
ics opened in Tunis (where more
and security of North Africa.
TE. 3-5840
- 2126 Ookmon Blvd.
Even today, Jews islated from than half the country's Jews
modern civilization in the re- live) as well as in Ariana, Sfax
cesses of the Atlas Mountains of and other cities.
GREETINGS
Perhaps the most desperate
Morocco live side-by-side with
37G8 CORTLAND
primitive hill tribes, yet observe situation in North Africa con-
WO. 3-0913
their religion with all the grace fronts the Jews of Libya. Now a
and dignity of the ancient He- British Protectorate, Libya
(which includes Tripolitania and
brew tradition.
5.5758
TY.
Cyrenaica)
will revert to Arab
To
bring
these
people
back
to
MILITARY
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a level of health and productive
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ness that will enable them to r--
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create a strong community where
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
they now are, or contribute to
the upbuilding of Israel, is the
purpose of JDC's North African 0
program.
In Morocco, where close to

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