1966 Allied Jewish Campaign Starts Wednesday;
$4,300,000 Objective Goal for Opening Night;
Hope to Raise $6,000,000 Total for 57 Causes
The 1966 Allied Jewish Campaign will open formally next Wednesday
evening, at a public rally at Temple Israel, and an invitation has been
extended to the entire community to participate in the launching of Detroit's
great fund-raising effort.
With Avraham Harman, Israel's ambassador to the United States, as
guest speaker, the participants in Wednesday's program will include the
co-chairmen of the drive, Sol Eisenberg and Irwin Green; the president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation, Hyman Safran; William Avrunin, executive
director of the Federation, and Rabbis Leon Fram and M. Robert Syme,
who will give the opening and closing prayers.
A dinner for key workers will precede the public meeting.
Eisenberg and Green renewed confidence that this year's drive will
reach the $6,000,000 mark, thus making it the best fund-raising effort in
Detroit's Jewish philanthropic history.
The goal set for the amount to be reached at Wednesday's meeting is
$4,300,000 — nearly $3,500,000 already having been accounted for in
advance gifts.
On the 1965 campaign opening night, April 5, the total reported
was $4,140,424.
Included in the Allied Jewish Campaign are 57 local, national and
overseas agencies, and the major support for Israel comes from the Allied
Jewish Campaign.
Chief among the beneficiaries is the United Jewish Appeal which sup-
Young and old, men,
ports the Jewish Agency for Israel and its beneficiaries, including the Joint
Distribution Committee, ORT, New York Association for New Americans.
Their programs include development actions in Israel, rescue and relief
work, migration, resettlement, rehabilitation and vocational training through-
out the world.
Emphasis is placed on educational efforts — locally through the United
Hebrew Schools and its numerous affiliates and nationally in behalf of
the American Academy for Jewish Research, American Association for
Jewish Education, American Jewish Historical Society, Congress for Jewish
Culture, Dropsie College and Histadruth Ivrith.
Included in the local program of activities provided for in the budgetary
allocations are Sinai Hospital, Tamarack Hills Authority, JewiSh ComMunity
Center, Community Workshop, Fresh Air Society, Jewish Community
Council, Hebrew Free Loan Association, House of Shelter, Jewish Home
for the Aged, Jewish Family and Children's Service and Bellefaire, Jewish
Vocational Service and Resettlement Service.
Overseas beneficiaries in addition to the UJA include United Hias
Service, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Hebrew University-Technion
Joint Maintenance Appeal and Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Other national beneficiaries in addition to the cultural movements listed
above are American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-
Defamition League of Bnai Brith, Bnai Brith National Youth Service
Appeal, Conference on Jewish Social Studies and Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds.
women and children
from many lands who are being provided
haven in Israel—permanent homes for whom
are assured in Israel with funds from the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign — are the beneficiaries
of the current Detroit fund-raising effort.
The accompanying photos portray many
aspects of the work of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee. They show the
welcome that is being given to newcomers in
Israel when they arrive there with the aid of
the United Jewish Appeal, of which JDC is
one of the chief functioning agencies.
They show also the extent of JDC activities
in many lands where the agency labors to pro-
vide assistance to the impoverished Jewish
communities.
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The top photo on the left shows two
youngsters in Morocco studying the Bible in
the Ozar Hatorah school in Casablanca. It is
one of the 90 schools of the three educational
systems sponsored by JDC for 13,200 children.
The other two systems are those of Alliance
Israelite Universelle and Lubavitch Hassidim.
The bottom photo on the left shows how
aid is provided for youngsters with UJA and
JDC funds in the mother-child clinics operated
by OSE, the Jewish health organization.
The bottom photo center was taken in
Iran. It shows a large open yard to play in, an
old tire, some seesaws, swings and a slide
which turn a kindergarten into a fantasy world
for youngsters provided for with UJA funds.
It is one of five kindergartens supervised by
JDC, accommodating 1,400 Jewish children.
In addition to providing toys and playground
equipment, the JDC program includes feeding,
medical care and clothing distribution.
These are just a few of the services pro-
vided by the Allied Jewish Campaign, whose
funds are so vital to Jewish survival and whose
philanthropic appeal now goes forth to the
Detroit Jewish community.
48—Friday, March 18, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS