THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Dec. 14, 1973-47
JDC Acclaimed for Humanitarian Service on Its 60th Anniversary
Israel Law Library
Receives Book Gift
JERUSALEM — A gift
comprising a number of
legal volumes has been do-
nated to the Hebrew Univer-
sity Law Library by Judge
Harry G. Hershenson, of
Cook County (Chicago). The
circuit court justice has pre-
sented the library with com-
plete sets of and ongoing sub-
scriptions to a number of
well-known American legal
periodicals, as well as select-
ed volumes of other titles.
Judge Hershenson initiated
the gift under the auspices
of the Chicago chapter of
American Friends of the He-
University in 1972.
By BORIS SMOLAR
JTA Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee is entering its 60th
year of existence with a rec-
ord of humanitarian achieve-
ments unique in Jewish his-
tory.
Never has any Jewish or-
ganization been so acclaimed
by Jews throughout the world
as the JDC has been during
all the years of its activities
in the fields of rescue, relief
and rehabilitation.
At the annual JDC meet-
ing, in New York, on Thurs-
day, Jewish community lead-
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V
ers from all over the United
States and Canada heard im-
pressive reports on the di-
mensions of the JDC pro-
grams. Spending more than
one-third of its total yearly
$27,000,000 budget in Israel
—primarily on its Malben
programs there—the JDC is
also giving assistance to
needy Jews in 25 other lands
overseas.
Millions of Jews have been
helped by JDC in Eastern
Europe, Western countries,
Moslem lands and all over
the globe since it started
functioning in 1914.
Today there are still about
400,000 Jews benefiting from
JDC aid. More than 100,000
of them are in Israel, more
than 150,000 beneficiaries are
in Eastern Europe, more
than 40,000 are in Moslem
countries, and the remainder
in Western Europe, South
American and other coun-
tries.
The JDC started its relief
activities in 1914 with a sum
of $61,000. A year later the
contributions jumped to
nearly $2,000,000, and two
years later the JDC expend-
ed about $4,250,000.
JDC and rescue relief
work was high during the
years of Nazism. It reached
its highest mark—$69,000,-
000—in 1947, when thou-
sands of Jewish survivors of
the Nazi regime sought their
way to Palestine as "illegal
immigrants." The following
year—when Israel was es-
tablished — the JDC spent
more than $63,000,000 in
helping the Jews who sur-
vived the Holocaust to emi-
grate to Israel, and to help
in the rebuilding of the Jew-
ish communities destroyed
by the Nazis during their oc-
cupation of European coun-
tries. It was also the JDC
which transplanted all the
Jews from Yemen to Israel
on the massive airlift ar-
ranged by Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, then head of the
JDC onerations overseas and
now a JDC vice-chairman.
Today JDC maintains vital
humanitarian programs — in
addition to its Malben pro-
gram in Israel—also in Ro-
mania, Yugoslavia, France,
North Africa, Iran and in
other lands. It provides a
broad range of health, wel-
fare and socio-medical serv-
ices for about 17,000 of the
neediest of the 100,000 Jews
left in Romania.
In France, the JDC is
today supporting financially
the absorption by the French
Jewish community of immi-
grants from Algeria, Mor-
occo and Tunisia. It provides
direct aid to 15,000 needy
Jews in Tunisia and to
20,000 needy Jews in Iran.
It helps the steadily declin-
ing Jewish population in
India — currently estimated
at about '7,000—which lives
for the most part in utter
deprivation and want, and it
reaches with financial aid
also the Jewish communities
of Argentina and Chile. It
also contributes close to
$3,000,000 to the ORT world-
wide vocational school sys-
tem in which more than
60,000 ,Jewish youths and
adults—about two-thirds of
them in Israel — have re-
ceived training this year.
Edward Ginsberg, the JDC
chairman, considers the JDC
as "the Jewish wbrld's
radar."
He is younger in years
than the JDC. For him, like
for many thousands of others
of the younger generation,
the "Joint" was a legend
during his adolescence. The
legend became very much
alive to him when he became
active in the United Jewish
Appeal which is the fund-
raising arm of the United
Israel Appeal and of the
JDC.
Samuel L. Haber, the ener-
getic executive vice-chair-
man of the JDC, also enjoys
a "first" in the JDC leader-
Only in America
ship system. He is the first
European-born to be the
highest JDC executive officer
responsible for implement-
ing the JDC policy and plan-
ning the many-sided work of
the organization.
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