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years of your Papacy great and
further progress will be made
in the everlasting struggle to
unite mankind."
"We are shortly leaving the
Eternal City of Rome for the
Holy City of Jerusalem," Rabbi
Friedman continued. "As Ameri-
can Jews our hearts beat strongly
with pride as we witness the re-
building of Israel. For many,
many centuries, the sons of David
have wept by all rivers of all
Babylons for their lost Zion.
Now in this century we have
the divine opportunity to par-
ticipate in its rebirth .
"Our love for Israel is based
on love of people and faith.
Jewish people who have been
persecuted and harassed in
many lands now have the right
to a new life in freedom. This
we applaud and support as
more than one million have al-
ready exercised that right.
"The Jewish spirit also has
now a new frame within which
to flourish so that a model
society can be created so that
the ancient prophecy of Isaiah
can be fulfilled 'for out of Zion
shall go forth the law and the
word of the Lord from Jerusa-
lem.' Thus shall Israel fulfill
her destiny of being a light
unto the nations."
Rabbi Friedman concluded
with the recital of the priest-
ly benediction in Hebrew and
English. The UJA delegation
received by the Pope was led
by Joseph Meyerhoff, of Bal-
timore, general chairman of
the UJA.
The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee provides medical, child
care and social welfare pro-
grams serving one-third of the
Jewish population of Morocco
and Iran, which aggregate
1$0,000 Jewish men, women
and children, it was reported
to the opening session of the
United Jewish Appeal Study
Mission which convened here
today for a four-day session.
The reports on Morocco and
Iran were given by members
of the study mission who visit-
ed those countries before join-
ing the rest of the mission here
as well as by staff members of
the JDC. Programs in both
countries embraced in the re-
ports have been affected, the
Mission was told, by the gen-
eral movement of populations
from rural areas to urban
regions.
In Morocco, Jewish migra-
tion from the primitive hinter-
land has necessitated the re-
activation of medical programs
against trachoma and ringworm
which had been almost eradi-
cated among the Jewish urban
dwellers. However, the report
noted, due to the overall re-
duction of individual Jews in
need in Morocco, it has been
found possible in that country
to undertake services for spe-
cial groups. One of those serv-
ices consists of the establish-
ment of three homes for the
Jewish aged in Casablanca, the
first of their kind in the
country.
The report showed also that,
as part of the United Nations
"Freedom from Hunger" cam-
paign, JDC has been stepping
up its nutrition services in
Morocco, improving feeding
programs both quantitatively
and qualitatively, and training
local personnel in modern
methods of food handling.
The JDC report on Iran
showed that, since the organiza-
tion has been working in that
country 15 years, young Jews
previously aided by JDC are
now taking a more active part
in Jewish community affairs.
An example was the spontane-
ous formation, a year ago, of
a club for Jewish university
students and young profession-
als at Shiraz, now comprising
250 members, including a num-
ber of girls. This club has or-
ganized the first youth center
outside the capital of Teheran,
offering cultural and recreation-
al programs. The club has also
raised funds and built a com-
munal bath for the Shiraz Jew-
ish community, which had pre-
viously had no such facilities.
Another part of the Iranian
report showed that, for the first
time, Jewish women in Shiraz
have been given the vote, along
with their Moslem sisters. The
Jewish women now participate
in national, interdenomination-
al, women's organizations, and
are represented on the Iranian
National Women's Council. The
president of the women's coun-
cil cooperates with the JDC's
day-care program.
Meyerhoff told the study
mission members Tuesday that
"much more money will be
required in 1964" than the
UJA raised in 1963. He indi-
cated that the goal of the
1964 campaign was expected
to exceed substantially the
$60,000,000 raised in 1963 for
domestic and overseas welfare
needs.
He spoke after mission mem-
bers heard a series of reports
on the needs of Jews in France,
Italy and Eastern Europe.
One of the reports presented
Tuesday indicated that in
France, during the past year, or-
ganizations operating with sub-
ventions from the American
Joint Distribution Committee
met 80,000 requests for welfare
services of various types for
Northt African settlers. The re-
port showed that 15 months of
ter the influx of more than 10,-
000 Algerian Jews into France,
only 20 to 25 percent could be
considered as adequately housed
and employed and otherwise in-
tegrated into French society.
It was estimated that of the
other 75,000, one quarter would
succeed in adopting themselves
within the next year or two with
the help of the subsistence and
training program the JDC is sup-
porting in France. The future
of the remaining Jewish new-
comers—more than 55,000 per-
sons—hangs in the balance, at
present the critical factors being
jobs and housing which are
rarely to be found in the same
locality, the mission was told.
Reports on Italy indicated it
was becoming of increasing im-
portance as a center for trans-
migration of Jewish refugees
now leaving Eastern Europe and
North Africa to resettle in Is-
rael, France, North America,
South America and Austria. The
mission members were told that
25,000 migrants would be pass-
ing through Rome, Genoa, Tri-
este and Naples in the next
month or so enroute to coun-
tries of final destination.
The mission members at-
tended a dinner at the Pallazo
Ruspoli at which they heard re-
ports from Baron Guy de Roths-
child, head of the Fonds Juif
Social Unifie, the major French
Jewish welfare agency, and
Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice
chairman of the JDC. Rabbi
Friedman presided.
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