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A little more than fifty years ago, Detroit's
Jewish community was nestled in a small area
just north- of the Detroit River.
Its boundaries were, roughly, Gratiot to the
Boulevard, Woodward to Hastings.
Today, the picture is far different. The city has
literally burst its seams with large pockets of
Jewish population from the Dexter-Davison sec-
tion clear across the entire North-West area to
the very boundaries and over into the suburbs.
The community half a century age was much
more simple, less complex. Charity was direct,
the needs very basic : feeding the hungry, clothing
the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting the
sick, burying the dead.
And yet, even with this simplicity of purpose
philanthropy was a jungle of appeals, a multi-
plicity of endeavors, and uncoordinated efforts.
A half-century later, the Detroit Jewish com-
munity can look back proudly,. knowing that we,
and other Jewish communities in the country,
pointed the way out of the jungle. In the volun-
tary association of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion we proved that united giving, the "once for
all idea; can accomplish the most for ourselves
and our neighbors.
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We are now a mature community. We are a
living community, not a static one. Our growth
has been not only in physical proportions but
in awareness of needs and in sensitivity to the
changing of those needs. We know, too, that
needs do not end - at our own doorstep or our
neighbor's but that there are vital, urgent re-
quirements for our brothers and sisters the
world over.
Since the end of World War if our collective,
single, yearly gifts through the Allied Jewish
Campaign have emptied the D. P. camps and
moved thousands of Jews to Israel, to America,
to wherever they may start a new life.
Our gifts have given the Jews of Israel the means
to sustain and rebuild life while they so desper-
ately struggle to build the country and its de-
fenses. Our gifts have created :and maintained
services locally and nationally which have met
the constant and yet ever-changing needs of
fellow Jews.
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