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Campaign Chairman Zuckerman Appeals to Community:
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; Worth ffelping? During the Great Drire
By PAUL ZUCKERMAN
Chairman, 1962 Allied Jewish Campaign
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The beginning of each Allied Jewish Campaign is an exciting and
at the same time frightening •experience.
Each year, since 1926, the members of Detroit's Jewish com-
munity have joined together to tell each other and their fellow Jews
throughout the world that they feel a continuing obligation to their
▪ co-religionists in need. When we open the campaign on March 20,
it will be the thirty-sixth time Detroit's Jewish citizens have been
asked. "Is every Jew everywhere worth helping?" and have voted YES
, With their dollars.
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The part of campaigning that is most unsettling is that each
4; campaign starts fresh. We have no guarantee that everyone who con-
- tributeel the year before will renew his contribution. In fact there
is no guarantee that anyone who contributed the year before will
, renew his contribution. Contributing to the Allied Jewish Campaign
is a purely voluntary act. We could not and would not have it other-
wise. In each of the past five years, 26,000 men, women, and children
have stepped forward and said, "I want to contribute, include me."
Even more remarkable, each, year more than three thousand men and
women step forward to become campaign workers. Upon the shoulders
of the campaign workers rests the success of each year's campaign.
Each of the workers makes his or her own gift first and then solicits
the gifts of others.
I am convinced that the Jewish people have survived to this
day because they were willing to help each other. I have been told
that the tradition of helping each other was particularly strong in
Eastern Europe a century ago when the poor helped the hungry
and the hungry helped the destitute.
Ours is not a doorbell ringing campaign for funds where anyone
who gives a few coins becomes a philanthropist. Each of our workers
solicits business and professional associates, friends, or neighbors on
an assigned basis. Each of our workers is supplied with descriptive
literature about the work of the campaign's fifty local, national and
overseas beneficiaries. He is asked to spend as much time with each
contributor as it takes to carefully answer the contributor's questions.
Any question the worker is unable to answer is referred to the work-
er's section chairman, division chairman, or to a campaign officer. Any
criticism of the campaign, the Jewish Welfare Federation, or a Federa-
tion member agency, is received courteously and investigated
thoroughly.
I have spoken to newcomers to Israel and know that there are
Jews living in lands so hostile that their very lives are in constant
danger. I have seen Jews in Israel who, in spite of excruciating toil,
are not able to produce enough crops in barren soil to make them-
selves self-sufficient. Tools and seeds, which we must provide, would
make the difference between a charity case and a self-sufficient
farmer. Jewish children in Israel receive free education only through
grade school. I would like to help hasten the day when the new
generation of the "People of the Book" receive an adequate education.
Right here in Detroit our campaign dollars maintain the work
of our 14 Jewish Welfare Federation member agencies. These are the
agencies that make us proud that we belong to a people that takes
care of its own. My mother is one of the 6,000 "older adults" who
participate regularly in Jewish Community Center golden age
programs.
I look forward to greeting the many friends I have made in my
fifteen years as an Allied Jewish Campaign worker at the Official
Opening of the 1962 Allied Jewish Campaign, Tuesday, March 20.
at the Jewish Community Center.
f 1 0111 mussily Ineitetl to Official Opening of
4.111lietil Jewish Caltnpaign, Tues. Evening
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An Israeli government official open the Jewish Welfare Fed-
will be Detroit's guest at the enson, co-chairman; and pre-
ho participates daily in the eration's 36th annual drive. The r
campaign opening. Gila can de- campaign chairman Sol Eisen- ' "We expect the 1962 Allied
Jewish Campaign to be the most
nio,t agonizing decisions that a Jewish Agency is a major con- scribe the work of the United berg and A.
government agency could be stituent agency of the United Jewish Appeal by giving her have been hard Alfred Taubman successful in years. We will do
at year
work in since
forced to make. will be featured Jewish Appeal. More than 60 life's hiStory. At the age of the first of the
the our part to continue the work
speaker at the official opening per cent of funds raised in the three she was found abandoned preparatory and big gifts stages of our services here at home,
of the Allied Jewish Campaign,
and to support the work of the
Allied Jewish Campaign are al- on the main street of Kracow. of the campaign.
United Jewish Appeal so it can
H p m Tuesday. at the Jewish located to the United Jewish Poland, the sole survivor, by
"We expect the official open- continue to bring people like
Center.
Appeal, which has responsibil- some miracle, of a nameless ing of the 1962 Allied
Jewish
Aryeh T.. Pincus, treasurer of ity for Jews emigrating from Jewish family. She was "adopt- Campaign
to be a truly _mem- Miss Golan to Israel where they
can live in freedom and dig-
tile Jewish Agency for Israel, countries overseas and their ed" by a Catholic Polish family orable occasion."
Fisher
said. nity."
Inc. will he in Detroit to help settlement, care and rehabilita- who hid her from the Nazis.
tion in Israel.
After the war the United Jew-
Pincus immigrated to Israel ish Appeal took six-year-old Gila
Gershenson Appointed
from his native South Africa to Israel:
Drive's Co-Chairman
in 1948. Between periods in the
Max M. Fisher, president of
charles 11. Gershenson, presi- private practice of law in Jerus- the Jewish Welfare Federa-
nr,rmr! n4st rrypn .
dent Of the Jewish Community alem, he used his genius in the tion, has invited the entire
community to the opening
center. and treasurer of the field of finance in a variety of
and reception for Campaign
Jewish Family and Children's Israel government posts.
Service. has been named co-
Miss Gila Golan—Miss Israel officers which will follow the
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UJA National Cabinet
Five prominent Detroit com-
munal leaders will be among
the 83 members of the 1962
National Campaign Cabinet of
the United Jewish Appeal, it
has been announced by Melvin
Dubinsky, of St. Louis, who will
again serve as cabinet chairman.
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
raises UJA funds in Detroit.
New members are: Rabbi
Hebrew Corner
Nun Returns Home
In the year of 1960 the French
"Mother" Mary Terez appeared be-
fore the head of the French Order
and asked for permission to . visit
the holy city of Jerusalem.
One day there appeared in the
office of the Ministry of Interior
in Jerusalem a French nun that
asked to find the address of a
citizen by the name of Ginter Mar-
cus. The clerks that were surprised
to hear this request from the nun.
did their best to find the wanted
person for her. They told her that
Litereelr.eIst Clnid Nes Zion on
take
on thigath:
French nun embraced ionngher arms
Morris Adler, chairman of the
UJA Rabbinical Advisory Coun-
cif and Phillip Stollman, vice the Israeli
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ClIARI.Es II. GERSIIENSON chairman of the Allied Jewish er of the nun.
In the year of 1934. shortly after
Campaign and a member- of the the
Nazis came into power, the
Gersherison
was big gifts Board of the Jewish Agency for brother and sister were separated.
Ginter turned towards the Land of
chairman of t he 19(11 Campaign. Israel, Inc.
Israel while Gerda went to France.
lie is a member of the Board Reappointed were: Louis When the war was over, Ginter
of Governor ,: of the Jewish Wel- Berry, member of the advisory knew that all the members of his
family were killed. only his sister
fare Federation and of the De. ' council of the Allied Jewish Gerda was saved. He searched for
her
in all of France, but was not
troit Service Group, year-round Campaign and .a former cam- successful,
because Gerda was saved
organization of Allied Jewish Paign chairman; Abe Kasle, for- through a monastery and .in course
of time changed her religion, be-
Campaign workers in the trades ; mer campaign chairman, and came a nun and reached the rank
a n d . professions. Gershenson. Zuckerman, 1962 campaign of "Holy Mother," a high title in
the Church.
and his wife. Doris, who is an chairman.
After the excitement of the meet-
officer in the Women's Division
ing between the brother and sister,
Other
prominent
UJA
leaders
of the Campaign. have been from Detroit are Joseph Holtz- Gerda decided to return to France
to part from her friends, the nuns,
members of United Jewish Ap- man, a UJA honorary national the Church and the Order. She took
peal Survey Missions to Israel.' chairman,' and Max M. FiSher, oft her black dress and returned
to the Nes Mona settlement. there
where they have seen first hand president of the Jewish Welfare she lives with her brother and the
the effectiveness of the work Federation of Detroit and a rest of her folk the Jews.
Translation of Hebrew Column.
campaign dollars accomplish. UJA national chairman.
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith
Jerusalem.
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