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Freedom is a wonderful thing ...
but the desert gets cold at night
The longest journey human beings ever took is
over for most of the Jewish Displaced Persons.
They started from a point in darkness.
Terror, oppression and death were their baggage.
And now they have arrived at the freedom sta-
tion—the new state of Israel.
Now they are free.
Pause and feel the word in your throat. It bursts
with joy. It is sunlight after darkness. Warmth after
cold. A healing hand on-a scarred back.
But freedom is not bread. Freedom is not shelter.
Freedom is not medicine. Freedom is not a plow,
a lathe, a brick. Freedom cannot •nchill the wind
Freedom muss be fed with- the materials that
build life, materials that only we can supply:,
Shoes for their feet. Lumber for their -houses.
Medical help so that they may use their new strength
to build the land they have come to live in freely.
Schools, so that torn minds may be healed and put
' back to work for'a better life.
All that takes money. Money that can come only
from you—from all of us—here in America.
You helped them live through the misefy of DP
Camps You helped transportthem to their prom-
ised land.
Wpn't yvi help them now to become free ; kW
that bites into bones when it is night on the Negev.
supporting citizens of their own free land?
Receives Its Funds from the
600 OWEN BUILDING
250 WEST LAFAYETTE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
1 Closing of DP Camps in Germany and
Austria.
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Bring 250,000 Jewish refugees into Israel.
Make possible a housing program to speed
the absorption of the newcomers in Israel.
4 Provide for the rehabilitation of hundreds
of thousands of Jews in Europe and North
Africa.
5 Aid Jewish refugees who enter the U. S. to
integrate themselves into the community.
For the Greatest Homecoming in History
in Detroit, the United Jewish Appeal
ALLIED
JEWISH CAMPAIGN
Just Five of the Many Things
Your Money Will Accomplish in 1949
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
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must raise $
250,0001000 , • in
1949
For the resettlement and rehabilitation programs of
Joint Distribution Committee; United Palestine Appeal and United Service for New Americans
Henry Morgenthau Jr., General
Chairman
6—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 6, 19.49