• w N.,,so. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • Boris Smolar's 'Between You ... and Me Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1972, JTA Inc.1 - 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. 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