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Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign Supports the
UJA Causes
VOLUME 15—NO. 6
of Jewish Events .
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Morge thou to e '49 Allie
Campaign at Cass ally Sunday
Exodus. 1949
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign is keyed for the all-important day—Sunday,
April 24—which has been set to mark the official opening of the drive for a goal of
$6,395,000. Major beneficiaries in the drive are the causes of the United Jewish Appeal—
'United Palestine Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and United Service for New
Americans; all the important local causes—including the United Hebrew Schools, the
Yiddish schools, the Yeshivah, Jewish Home for Aged, Jewish Center, . and other local
agencies, and two score national and overseas health and social service movements.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., chairman of the 1949 United' Jewish Appeal carn.
paigii, will speak at the opening meeting of the Detroit drive at 8:30 pan. this Sun-
day at the Cass Technical High School auditorium. He will speak in place of Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett, whose visit here was cancelled when he was suddenly called
back to Israel on Tuesday. Louis Berry general chairman of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, will preside. All Detroit Jews are invited.
Pre-campaign activities, conducted under the direction of advance gifts division
co-chairmen Max Osnos and Ben Silberstein, had a good start at the March 29 meeting, at
which the sum of $1,131,000 was subscribed. The high percentage of giving was main-
tained in all campaign divisions, increases in contributions being reported as high as 30
per cent over last year, no division thus far having achieved less than a 12 per cent in.
crease.
Homeless European Jews enroufe to Israel from the DP camps
bf Central Europe express their joy at-the opportunity to begin a new
life in the Jewish homeland. Large-scale exodus of Jews from DP
camps in 1949 is being made possible by American Jewry's support
't)f the nationwide $250,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal and by Detroit Jewry's support of the $6,395,000 Allied
'Jewish campaign.
Sunday, April 24, also will be imp ortant for the Allied Jewish Campaign as
the major solicitation day for the Women's Division which will observe it as THE
DAY on which 2,000 volunteers will solicit approximately 14,000 potential contrib-
utors. Mrs. Lewis C. Daniels and Mrs. Abraham Cooper, chairmen of women's pre.
campaign and special gifts groups, report that more than $160,000 already has been
raised.
The Junior Division also reports increases over last year. Lawrence Fleischman,
general chairman of the Juniors, stated that pledges by workers in his division have in-
creased 125 per cent over 1948 pledges, and hopes to better the $90,000 figure raised in 1943
when all pledge slips have been turned in
Mrs. Joseph Ehrlich is honorary chairman of the Women's Division. Mesdames John
C. Hopp, Max Frank and Henry Wineman head this division.
AK Chairman Berry Appeals for Action in 1949 Drive
f or
the $250,000,000 DESTINY CAMPAIGN el the.
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
or 56 OTHER LOCAL, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS CAUSES
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Office of
LOUIS DEBBY, Chairmso
April 21, 1949
Chairman,
LOUIS BERRY
1949 Allied Jewish
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Campaign
Important Campaign Dates:
Sunday, April 24—THE Day of Women's DiviSion
Sunday, April 24, 8:15 p.m.—Official opening of campaign
at Cass High School. Guest Speaker, Henry Morgen-
thau, national UJA chairman.
Wednesday, April 27, 12:30 p.m.—Report meeting of women
contributors of $100 and over, at Franklin Hills
Country Club.
Thursday, April 28, 12:30 p.m.—Report meeting of women
• contributors of $36.50 and over at Fantasia.
General solicitation report meetings: Tuesday, May 3; Mon-
day, May 9; Friday, May 13; Tuesday, May 17; Friday,
May 20, all at 12:15 p.m. luncheons at the Detroit-
Leland Hotel. • • •
Blessed Be the Memory of
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Great Tribune of American Jewry
Dear Fellow Detroiter
It is appropriate that the work of the Allied Jewish
Cam-
during the PEWSOVer
hare
he
are
celebrating
the
paign of Detroit should.
season—When Jews throughout
the we wor
year
are celebrating not only
-This
Holiday
of Freedom.
our Biblical
deliverance from. Egypt but also our people's
modern. Exodus, from the DP Camps and from the other reminderS'
of the worst tragedy in Our history.
a
- In 1949, too, we celebrate our own opportunity
to share — with
e. Homeoming
here
in
De
t r of tj
this Exodus that has become
an&
in
our
people
coming
home in, Israel, in the Molted States
a less dramatic scale, perhaps, ve are working at
Where,
home as on a . Jewiah family. We celebrate this year our - us—the
renewed
neli
with our people everyWhere. Each of
Detroit, the home builder in Israel, the
identificat
the United States-does our part, according to our
campaign in
worker
arrival
circumstance and station, to make life proud, good and usefUl..
in the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign oi
a worker
Whether
you
are
supporting it as a good citizen, you, have a share in this Home
comi in
ding.
When
this year
of buil the
time comes for its
the extent of your support, remedber that
ng and
gift demonstrate
you. are contributing to all of the causes ve have agreed
ou to
y one
are important to us as a comity
it is your beet gift.
One gift covers them
Sincerely yours,
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