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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, June 25, 1943.

Battl e or Life Continues on All Fronts

American Jewry Aids
In Quest for Freedom

The war has increased Jewish responsibilities to refugees
and to the men in uniform who are fighting the battle for
freedom on all fronts. Refugees and estranged exiles from
Nazi-controlled lands are being cared for by the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine.
The Jewish Welfare Board provides for the recreational
and spiritual needs of our servicemen. In Detroit, these
great causes receive their support through the Allied Jewish
Campaign and the USO, which are included in the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit.

Large-Scale Rescue of Children
Supported by United Jewish Appeal

J. D. C. Helps Rescue the Children

The Joint Distribution Committee helps rescue children like these by settling
them in the U. S., in South American countries and in Palestine. The Youth Aliyah
program of Hadassah and the Jewish Agency for Palestine is being aided materially
by the J. D.

C.
J. W B. Arranges Overseas Worship

The National Jewish Welfare
Board, in co-operation with the
Army and Navy Departments,
arranges religious services for
Jewish soldiers in the country's
armed forces at many overseas
points, including England, Aus-
tralia, Trinidad, Panama, North
Ireland, New Caledonia, Puerto
Rico, Iceland, Hawaii, and Cuba.

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Major General . Charles Bonesteel,
minder of American forces in Iceland,.
speaks to the Jewish men during services
conducted at the Northern base by Chap-
lain Julius. Leibert. Rabbi Philip Goodman
(right), of the National Jewish Welfafe
Board, conducted services for Jewish men
stationed at Bermuda. Rabbi Goodman also
held Holy Day services aboard a refugee
ship which put in at Bermuda: The Episco-
pal Bishop of Bermuda greeted the men
during ser vices.

Liberation Enlarges U. J. A. Needs

The major task of the United
Jewish Appeal is. to provide
adequate- funds to enable the
Joint Distribution Committee,
United Palestine Appeal and
National Refugee Service to
carry on large-scale rescue
operations for thousands of
refugee children. • The photo
above shows a group of Polish-
Jewish children cared for by
U. J. A. somewhere in Russia.
The photo on the left shows a
young Jewish girl happily set-
tled in Palestine.

E.T.A. Helps Refugees Help War Effort

Among the skilled ref7
ugees rescued by the
United Jewish Appeal is
this diamond cutter who
is shown training a
worker in Cuba in cut-
ting diamonds for Amer-
ican war factories.

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The notable triumph of the Allied armies in Tunisia
liberated these young Jews and tens of thousands of others
from Nazi oppression. Photo shows them removing hated
Yellow Badge from their clothing as British soldiers look
on In the great victorious push that drove the Nazis from
North Africa were 5,000 Jewish soldiers from Palestine who
had fought their way bravely from El Alamein to Tunis
with the British Eighth Army. Rehabilitated refugees from
Palestine, from the United States and from North Africa
•who had been helped by the agencies of the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine, fought
as members of the British, American and French forces in
the successful North African campaign. With the liberation
of this area, the Joint Distribution Committee has dis-
patched special representatives to expedite relief for many
of the 300,000 Jews in North Africa. Forward march of
Allied armies ha ,, also enlarged responsibilities of the
United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service.

In Palestine, the Uni-
ted Palestine Appeal has
established 4 0 0 n e w
plants producing war
goods, including light
tanks for the Allies.

In the United States,
the National Refugee
Service has. been retrain-
ing thousands of neW-
comers to enable them
to fill vital jobs in war
industries that are short
of manpower.

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