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A plan for your immediate response
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The people of Israel reqUire our help.
In Detroit, the campaign—both regular and spe-
be conducted for the organized Jewish com-
They are confronted with problems more serious
than at any time since the. War of Independence and
munity, as always, by the Jewish Welfare Federation
through the Allied Jewish Campaign.
the establishment of the state in 1948.
The Allied Jewish Campaign is • proceeding to
The past decade has brought renewal and recov-
ery for Jews in many kinds, the greatest reconstruction
of all coming with the rebirth and regeneration of the
land/of Israel.
Yet at this moment the position of the Jews in
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Israel is beset with danger and hundreds of thousands
of Jews in North Africa seem_to have cable almost full
circle with the threat and grim potentialities of a
decode ago.
You want to help to the GREATEST extent of
your ability. What can you do—today?
The United Jewish Appeal, which was born to
cope with emergencies stands ready for action..
Through the United Jewish' Appeal, American
Jews can act to the fullest to help turn the tide that
encroaches so ominously on Jewish hopes and Jewish
lives.
The 1956 fund-raising effort of the UJA will not
organize its forces through the Detroit Service Group,
the Women's Division, the Junior Division and the
Metropolitan Division, to reach every man and woman
--and every young man and young woman—in the
Jewish community for maximum participation in the
great task that lies before us.
Contributors are being asked to give to the Spe-
cial UJA Fund of $25,000,000 above the level of their
1955 gifts to the. regular Allied Jewish Campaign,
which, of course, also includes the UJA as the major
beneficiary and provides for all of the other on-going
essential services at home and abroad.
The Detroit Jewish community has accepted a
quota of $1,230,000 as its share of the $25,000,000
Special Fund MINIMUM goal.
This is above the $4,100,000 pledged for 1955
which will again be required in 1956 for the continuing
programs of the UJA and all other causes in the over-
all drive.
be confined just to its regular campaign.
It will also include the raising of a MINIMUM
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special fund of $25,000,000, over and above the
amount expected through the regular UJA.
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