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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1972, JTA Inc.1
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JDC 91,000,000,000 MARK: The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, with a reputation for excellence in helping Jews
throughout the world for 60 years, is concluding the year
1972 with a record of spending a billion dollars on relief
and rehabilitation during its existence.
There were times when the organization spent less
than $1,000,000 a year on its activities, and there were
periods when its programs required the spending of about
$70,000,000 a year. In the last few years the JDC spent
about $25,000,000 a year helping some 300,000 Jews in need.
More than a third of this sum is being expended in Israel
where the JDC is aiding more than 100,000 Jews—mostly
aged and crippled—through its Malben institution.
Formed at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the
JDC was born in troubled years and has been coping with
trouble in the most troubled years in contemporary Jewish
history. Yet it can proudly point to the fact that no flaws
have been found with any phase of its work at any time;
nor with the way its programs or relief and reconstruction
were carried out ever since its establishment.
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EXPANDED LEADERSHIP: The younger elements of our
generation may know little of the humane work done by
the JDC on a large scale in various countries prior to the
outbreak of World War II. They are, however, well aware
of the glorious tasks performed by the organization after
the war in the DP camps in Europe; also of the help given
to many thousands of liberated Nazi victims in Europe to
reach Palestine despite British obtstructions; also of the
role of the JDC in rebuilding of Jewish communities de-
stroyed by the Nabs during the years of occupation.
As a result, younger men and women consider it a
great honor to be drafted into JDC leadership. The organi-
zation is now starting the year of 1973 fortified by "young
blood" and new energy.
Some of the new and younger elements in the JDC
top ranks have gone recently—at their own expense and
in separate groups—to countries where the organization
operates. They wanted to see on the spot what the ac-
complishments are. One group visited Romania; another
group went to Iran, a Moslem country where JDC main-
tains child-care, medical and education programs for about
20,000 beneficiaries; a third group proceeded to Israel to
observe the JDC work there.
The groups returned to New York full of appreciation.
What they have seen exceeded their expectations. They
are now determind to throw themselves fully into JDC
work and to bring the organization to new heights. Their
joining the top leadership is a product of the thinking and
planning by the JDC chairman, Edward Ginsberg, and
its executive vice-chairman, Samuel L. Haber of how to
bring in new dynamic forces.
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PROBLEMS FOR 1973: The new situations which JDC may
have to face in 19'73 are looming not in Europe, not in North
Africa, not even in Israel where aged Jews arriving from
the Soviet Union—some of them between 71 and 102 years
of age—are in need of JDC/Malben care. (Some 700 new-
comers from Russia have been referred to Malben insti-
tutions in the last 12 months for medical care or placement
in JDC-maintained old-age homes.)
The new problems on the horizon concern Jewish com-
munities in Latin America; especially in Argentine and
Chile.
Argentina Jewry has never asked the JDC for financial
aid. The Jewish community in Buenos Aires was always
in a position to take care of its needs. This is not the case
now. Economic difficulties are now forcing the closing down
of Jewish schools which were the pride of the community.
The situation of Argentine Jewry may become more
more difficult with the return now of its former ruler
Peron to the country. Although Peron himself has no anti-
Semitic record—he even attempted to show friendship to
Jews during his ruling years, before he was deposed—
many of his active supporters are known to be strongly
anti-Jewish.
In Chile, where there is now a leftist regime, Jewish
institutions have lost many of their principal supporters
who left the country. The Jewish communities in Argen-
tina and Chilt are thus beginning to feel the brunt of a
new situation. The extent of their needs is now being
studied by JDC.
JDC, which gets its funds from the United Jewish
Appeal, is officially known under the letters AJDC—Amer-
ican Joint Distribution Committee. These letters, in the
words of chairman Ginsberg, have now come to stand for
"American Jews Do Care." This will be the JDC slogan
for 1973.
Hanuka Torch Is Lit at Kennedy Airport
NEW YORK (JTA)—Ma- ignited earlier at Modiin, Is-
sada, the national youth rael, site of the Maccabean
movement of the Zionist Or- revolt for religious freedom
ganization of America, em- in 168 BCE—was run by a
ployed a two-foot-high cop- relay of 10 Masada youths
Per torch flown in specially over a one-mile route to the
from Israel in a ceremony airport's International Syna-
at Kennedy Airport to mark gogue and used to light the
the festival of Hanuka. candles on a Hunuka men-
The torch—a replica of one ora.
Friday, Doc. II, 1972-9
Factors That Le t1 to Naizsm
Present in U.S., Says Expert
Ilerzberg said inflation was
AMHERST, Mass (JTA)—
A Jewish lawyer who fled a destructive element that
Germany before World War wiped out the German mid-
II contended here that many dle class in the decade before
of the same factors that led the war and may wipe out
to the rise of the Nazis in the middle class in America.
the land of his birth are "In the America of 1972. as
present in America today. in the Germany of those
According to Arno Herz- years, large corporations and
berg, 65, of Union, N.J., an unions are becoming so pow-
expert on revenue legisla- erful that it may become im-
tion, those factors include possible for a democracy to
inflation, powerful industries govern them," he warned.
and powerful labor unions.
Herzberg, who was man-
ager of the Jewish Telegra-
phic Agency's Berlin office
from 1934 to '38, addressed
students at Hampshire Col-
lege who have organized a
course on the Holocaust.
He was joined by two other
former German Jews, Rudy
Blatt, a fashion designer, and
Kurt Enoch, a publishing
consultant, who reflected on
conditions in Germany dur-
ing the '20s and '30s.
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