THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

VOL. 1—NO. 28

2114 Penobscot Bldg.

RA. 7956

of Jewish Events

Detroit, Michigan, October 2, 1942

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War Time Message
To Jews of Detroit

A Call for United Service in Behalf of Our Allies,
Our Armed Forces and Our Neighbors

By ABRAHAM SRERE

President, Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit

The greatest campaign in the history of Detroit is

3. DETROIT COMMUNITY FUND, which maintains

about to be launched—and the Jews of Detroit have an

all-time services of eighty Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and

important stake in its success.

The War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, with a goal

of $5,800,000, will conduct a unified fund-raising drive,

non-sectarian agencies in Detroit for the sick, the orphaned,

the aged poor and dependent and neglected children.

from October 26 to November 12, for eleven major cen-
traLagencies, each -of...them 41 -combination of a number

4. UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS (USO), which
serves the soldiers, sailors and marines of our armed forces

of services in itself.

on leave.

The Allied Jewish Campaign - , instead of waging its

As Detroiters, as Jews, as Americans, all of these

usual campaign next May, as in past years, will be a part

great causes command our intensified support. The War

of the War Chest. This means that we shall continue our

responsibility for the United Jewish Appeal (Joint Distri-

bution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and National

Refugee Service); HAS, Hebrew University, ORT, Univer-

sity in Exile, Jewish Home for Aged and all the other Allied

Jewish Campaign causes—local, regional, national and

overseas, with this modification: that the pledges for 1943
will be added to our pledges for all the other causes cam-

paigning together this fall through the War Chest.

Chest will be a most outstanding illustration of humani-

tarian solidarity and the will to work together for a common

cause in time of stress.

As solicitors we shall work shoulder to shoulder for

our Allies, our men in service and our own neighbors of

all faiths.

As contributors, we shall be prepared to add up our

It means that when we pledge to the War Chest we

1942 pledges to all of these causes—Allied Jewish Cam-

shall take into account our past giving and the future needs
of:

paign, USO, Community Fund, and the various war relief

I. ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN, including the United
Jowish Appeal and the other of our fifty-five causes at
home and abroad that we have always maintained as our
special Jewish obligation.

appeals—and increase our pledge for 1943 in keeping

with the greater war-time need.

In the weeks ahead, each of us will ask himself: What

is my special responsibility as a Jew for 1943? What is

my general responsibility as a citizen? What is my humani-

2. The major, foreign relief appeals to help our

tarian duty to all of the causes in the War Chest, GEN-

btothers-in-art s across the seas and their civilian families:

ERAL as well as Jewish? The response to these three

BRITISH WAR RELIEF SOCIETY
GREEK WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION
MAPLE LEAF FUND
POLISH-AMERICAN COUNCIL
QUEEN WILHELMINA FUND
RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF, INC.
UNITED CHINA RELIEF
WAR PRISONERS' AID

questions will be the measure of our participation in this

project which aims to concentrate our manpower and our

material resources with one mighty outpouring of com-

munal strength and organized social generosity.

Stand by for the War Chest. Be ready to work. . Be

ready to give. Civilian, humanitarian Detroit has a war-

time task of war-time proportions to meet.

