Mobilizing Jewry in Struggle for Liberation

Meaning of Passover for Community Services

By Alan E.

Schwartz, President, and William Avrunin, Executive Vice President

Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit

Passover reminds us that the struggle for freedom requires our diligent and
continuous attention. The Jewish community organized as the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion can serve us well in this struggle.

From its beginning 70 years ago as the United Jewish Charities our community
has stood and worked for the freedom of our people. It associated freedom with respect
for the integrity of the human personality, with the opportunity to achieve the full
potential of individual and group life. In the early days this meant assistance in
achieving economic self-sufficiency and help in adjustment to a new and strange
environment for an immigrant population.
There were free loans, educational encouragement, Americanization programs.
In the same tradition we developed child care and health services, support of family
stability, shelter for the wanderer, character building, wholesome recreation and a full
complex of services to minimize the obstacles to a full and free way of life.

In turn, we responded to the new problems of each era with new programs
for dealing with them. Sometimes the problems were personal, sometimes social,
effecting group life. We rallied to combat anti-Semitism and recognized its rela-
tionship to minority rights in general. We were horrified by the homelessness

Maxwell Jospey

William Avrunin

14—Friday, April 17, 1970

Rothschild Hits His Govt. on Israel,
but Denies Bias in French Officials

In 1970 the threats of oppression have their own character. The thrust of our
communal program is designed to meet them.
Our Allied Jewish Campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund must carry out its
primary task of rescue of Jews from lands of tyranny; a decent life for the newcomers
in an embattled Israel.
At the same time, we must address ourselves to the programs for freedom at
home. This means programs which will provide a full and meaningful life for the old
and a full opportunity for growth and development for the young—the limited, the
handicaped, the disturbed as well as the adjusted, the talented, the advanced. It
means adjustment services and educational opportunities. It means a decent way of
life for every individual, the strengthening of Jewish institutions and the enrichment
of Jewish life.
Freedom in our time is more than freedom from - physical oppression. Its
ramifications are as complex as the society In which we live. It continues to include
concern for our fellow human beings, generosity, painstaking organization and identity
with the Jewish community.
Passover reminds us that we must persevere in the struggle for liberation. Our
Federation can be a useful instrument in that struggle.

Passover Message: They Need Our Help

By Maxwell Jospey, Chairman
1970 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund

As we prepare our homes for the joyful Passover season, our thoughts must turn
to those Jews who still have little about which to celebrate.
In Morocco, in Tunisia and in Iraq, there are those for whom being Jewish is
a heavy burden. They need our help.
A Passover seder behind the Iron Curtain must be observed secretly with the
shades drawn.
The children of many an Israeli kibutz will play their Passover games in the
shelter of their underground bunkers where they flee to avoid enemy shelling. They
need our help.
And there are those in our own community who, because of sickness, loneliness,
age or need will find little joy in the weeks ahead. They need our help.
The future of hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world is dependent
upon our recognition of our responsibility toward them.
We must make "shana haba b'yerushalayim"—next year in Jerusalem—meaning-
ful to the thousands of Jews whose very lives depend on it. They are turning to the
Allied Jewish Campaign for help.

Alan E. Schwartz

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

of our people after the Holocaust and we helped to provide a home for them in
Israel and in Detroit as well.

Agnon Collection at H UC-JIR a Labor of Love

CINCINNATI—A collection of the lection. Marx even published

works of the late Samuel Joseph
Agnon, an outstandirig figure in
PARIS (JTA)—Baron Guy de and abject than that, and without modern Hebrew literature, is pos-
Rothschild, one of the foremost serious justification, we have -no sessed by the Hebrew Union Col-
leaders of French Jewry, de- right to level such a charge at lege library here.
This is largely due to Moses
nounced the French government's anyone."
Marx, head cataloger for over 30
policies toward Israel Monday
Baron De Rothschild is presi- years
and Agnon's brother-in-law.
night but defended French officials
dent of the Fonds Social Juife
Marx collected everything by
against charges of anti-Semitism.
Unifie, the central representative and about Agnon, works in all
He described the government's
organization of French Jowly. languages, and upon his retiring
attitude toward Israel as "lacking
He spoke at a dinner organized
understanding a n d sympathy."
by the Alliance Israelite Univer- he made available his great col-
However, he said, "We have no
sae to mark the 100th anniver-
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sary of the founding of the
of anti-Semitism. We all know that
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